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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!
sweetaffliction.com t-shirts
We will soon have sweetaffliction.com t-shirts available. Well at least for our friends and family. However, we are thinking of making these available for purchase online with a portion of the proceeds going to our local Hemophilia Foundations. We hope to have several really cool designs down the line. If you are interested in purchasing [...]
New sweet affliction logo
We just got our new sweet affliction logo and are excited to unveil it now on sweetaffliction.com. Let us know what you think about the new look! Also, we are thinking about bringing some t-shirts and other fun stuff online to sale with the new logo on them. If you have any interest in purchasing [...]
Maybe D-Will Needed A Shot of Clotting Factor!
My favorite basketball player is Deron Williams of the Utah Jazz. A couple of weeks ago Deron went down with a leg injury. Team officials described the injury as a “moderate right quad contusion with reflective swelling in the right knee” — in other words, a bruised thigh that also caused his knee to swell. Williams [...]
Hemophilia Personal Stories
Shortly, we will have a section featuring hemophilia personal stories including some from our own lives and those of others. Individuals living with Hemophilia have a wide array of incredible stories to tell – many of them dramatic and unique (like the time I accidentally stabbed myself playing with a deer hunting arrow when I [...]
Hemophilia Fitness
We will soon be adding a lot of content to our Hemophilia Fitness section. This is an extremely important subject matter for Andy and I as we both try to remain very active moving into our mid forties. We hope to give other hemophiliacs fitness tips and articles that they can draw inspiration from in [...]