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Bad Blood Documentary Trailer
Through the eyes of survivors and family members, BAD BLOOD chronicles how a “miracle” treatment for hemophilia became an agent of death for 10,000 Americans. Faced with evidence that pharmaceutical companies and government regulators knew the product was contaminated with deadly viruses, the hemophilia community launched a powerful and inspiring fight to right the system [...]
Flying High With Hemophilia
Have you ever had a dream that you just knew you had to fulfill? Something you just knew your life would not be complete without? So it was for “Brownie”, a thirty-something airline pilot living (and flying) with hemophilia. Brownie started flying at the ripe old age of ten. His first flight lesson recorded in [...]
Health Care Reform: What’s happening – how and when it will affect us
Here is our first attempt at summarizing key points from the new Health Care Reform Bill. We wanted to give you at least a timeline of things that will be happening soon and in the years to come. We would like to make it clear that we are not trying to take sides as to [...]
Sweet Kelsey Girl August 4, 2009 – February 20, 2010
Yesterday at 4:15 pm, Feb, 20, 2010, sweet baby girl Kelsey Matthews passed away peacefully with her Mom, Dad and big brother Keeton lying by her side. Though her short time on our earth was a struggle from the beginning until the end, Kelsey touched the lives of so many people in ways she will [...]
getting your flu shot? Infuse before you do!
Yeah so my doctor calls me and tells me I need to get the regular flu shot, a pneumonia shot, and the swine flu shot as soon as I am able to get in. So dutifully I made my appointment yesterday and went in this morning for the first two shots. As a precaution I [...]
The Most Wonderful Day of the Year, if You are Prepared!
With the start of school just around the corner, it is time for us parents of kids with hemophilia to begin planning our annual meeting with our child’s new teacher. Back to school can be an intimidating time if you have a child with hemophilia. It can be scary to be leaving your child, in [...]
PRAYERS FOR BABY KELSEY
Our Sweetaffliction.com co-founder Andy Matthews and his wife Patti had a big surprise on Tuesday August 4, 2008. To everyone’s surprise their new baby Kelsey decided to make her appearance at 12:20 pm. She weighed 3 pounds 12 ounces and is 15 inches long! Patti went in for a normal sonogram that morning and the [...]
Reflections on My knee replacement
Recently one of our sweetaffliction.com readers posted a comment on David Simmons’ knee replacement article. It seems our reader Greg did not have as positive an experience with his knee replacement as David Simmons did. Well unfortunately neither did I. We are not trying to persuade anyone needing a knee replacement not to get one [...]
Shout Out To C.J. Wilson
Sweet Affliction would like to send a special shout out and thank you to Texas Rangers pitcher C.J. Wilson who recently held a Guitar Hero charity event with proceeds going to a Texas Hemophilia Camp. Apparently C.J. has taken an interest in Hemophilia and is doing his part to help in the community along [...]
Sweetaffliction.com tees now available
We are proud to announce that we have a limited amount of new sweetaffliction.com t-shirts! The shirts feature our logo on the front and web address on the back. If you are interested in one please just email David or Andy and we will get one out to you!