Hemophilia_Dulaney

3/4/12 Today I had to go to the doctors because I got a bruise. I was riding my bike when I went around a sharp turn and fell. I bruised my knee which didn't hurt to bad but for some reason it kept getting bigger. My mom wanted to take me to the doctor right away because she thinks i might have something called hemophilia. It's where you can't make platelets so you just keep bleeding.

3/5/12 My mom was right! I do have hemophilia. The doctor told me all sorts of things like how exercising can actually help me to not bleed. If I start bleeding I have to get a "factor" put in to my blood to help the bleeding stop. They aren't sure whether it was my mom or my dad who i got it from because it comes on this thing called an X chromosome.

3/6/12 Today something else happened. I got a really bad nose bleed and I needed to get that factor stuff put in to my blood stream for the first time. I heard that I can get bad nose bleeds, big bruises, bleeding inside of me for no reason, and pain and stiffness from bleeding into muscles and joints.

3/7/12 There isn't much to say about how I fix what hemophilia does to me, I can only put plasma into my blood and that's it. But now even though I do have to do a lot of watching out, I can still be a normal kid, thanks to my doctors. I had that pain in my muscles and joints and my mom said I couldn't take anything with Aspirin in it. She says it will make me bleed more, I will just have to find something else.