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I have Severe Hemophilia and had a total Knee replacement!
The following article was written by our first guest blogger – David Simmons. It chronicles his decision on getting a knee replacement despite having severe Hemophilia. I had always known, following an inability to get rid of a stubborn limp after college and upon receiving several opinions from orthopedic surgeons, that I would someday require [...]
Hemophilia Fitness for the Brain!
We have started to talk a lot on sweetaffliction.com about how important it is to incorporate fitness into your daily life when living with hemophilia. Well just as important as it is to keep your body strong as a hemophiliac, it is just as important to keep your mind strong and healthy. Below is an [...]
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!
Andy’s Healthcare Reform Plan
Get Fit America! Kind of sounds like a reality TV show but if you think about it, the actual reality here is this: if everybody in this country would just start getting fit it would actually save our country millions of dollars in health care costs that are currently crippling the healthcare system. It frustrates [...]
Hemophilia Fitness routine
Fitness for Life That Also Builds Better Veins! I want to encourage you as an adult or child with hemophilia to get fit. I have always been passionate about fitness and I guess it goes back to the fact that I could not play sports when I was growing up in the 70’s. I [...]
New U2 Album Review
So I got my hands on the new U2 album “No Line On the Horizon” from a secret source three days before its official release. If you want a copy you will have to wait until March 3rd and buy one yourself! If you want to know where I got the copy you will [...]
support your local hemophilia chapter during economic hard times
Over the past year plus, I have had many conversations with our local chapter director regarding the surprising downturn in attendance at our chapter events. What makes this so confusing is that most of these events are 100% free of charge and have always been extremely well attended in years past. This decreasing attendance, to [...]