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Hep C Treatment Blog
Andy Matthews’ Hep C Treatment Blog Jan 10th 2012 Well, it’s almost been three months and the test results show I have cleared the virus….now, if it will only stay cleared!! I would recommend this treatment to anyone to clear hep-c. Honestly, I really don’t feel bad except for the first two days after the [...]
WRESTLING TO GET A KNEE REPLACEMENT
If you ask Charles what his favorite things in life are, he will reply without hesitation that his wife Amber, and two sons Jamey (three) and Max (four) are the lights of his life. Although Charles shares a similar passion for family with many other fathers and husbands, Charles is unique because he suffers from [...]
Our Co-Founder David gets another ankle fusion
Ankle fusion. Sounds completely medieval. In a sense it is and I have had two of them now. My first was about five years ago, and my second was done recently on my right ankle July 13, 2011. Why must one have an ankle fusion? Well if you have severe hemophilia A and were born [...]
Spinning for Stronger Veins
Spinning for Stronger Veins by Andy Matthews As a person living with hemophilia, I love anything to do with fitness and building great veins. From the time I was a small boy I always wanted to be as strong as I could. I have come across a great item that I think will really help build [...]
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 [...]
Upcoming Hemophilia Sports Broadcaster
Twenty –one year old Andrew Schnitker has always loved football and hockey; and even though he has severe factor VIII hemophilia, these sports will continue to be a huge part of his life. That’s right, because even though Andrew can’t play these sports due to two target knee joints, he has high hopes of becoming [...]
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 [...]
Welcome to sweetaffliction.com – A Hemophilia Blog
So it begins…… Sweet Affliction is our blog about Hemophilia. Shall we say – the Hemophilia lifestyle. Much of it will be autobiographical in nature focusing on our experiences living with the disease. Since we are both adults born prior to 1990, many of the stories and posts here will focus on HIV and Hepatitis [...]