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Treating Hemophilia at Home: Our Adventures with Peripheral Infusions

Hemophilia   Family Adoption Stories, Medical

I’m still astonished every time we do it.  I mix my son’s clotting factor three times per week, before breakfast, then I infuse lifes...

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Our New Normal: Adopting a Son with Hemophilia

Hemophilia   China   Family Adoption Stories

On an otherwise uneventful Friday in late November 2015, I opened my email to find a message about a little boy from Ann Morrison, the director of the...

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The Hemophilia Adoption Ripple Effect

Hemophilia   Family Adoption Stories, Adoption Advocacy

It's amazing how things have worked out.  In the beginning of 2009 adoptive-mom, Melissa, was in the process of adopting a daughte...

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From Hopeless in an Orphanage to Loved in a Family

Hemophilia   China   Older Child Adoption, Waiting Children, Child Welfare Advocacy

Before I met Luke, all I knew about hemophilia was what I remembered from a Russian history class in college. The Russian royal family’s so...

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A Hemophilia Adoption Story: The Journey to Our Son

Hemophilia   Family Adoption Stories, Adoption Advocacy

Seven years ago, on November 9, 2008, I had no idea that my son was turning 8 years old, half way around the world in China.  I didn’t know...

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The Soul of an Adoption Fundraiser

Hemophilia   China   Family Adoption Stories, Pre-Adoption, Adoption Funding, Grants, Finances

Almost one whole wall of the Humphreys' Elkville garage is hidden by plump, black plastic garage bags. Lots of them: They hold more than 5,175 pairs o...

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Blood Transfusions

Hemophilia, Thalassemia   Special Needs Adoption, Medical

There are three different types of cells that circulate in the bloodstream, and the majority of these cells are produced by the bone marrow, a specifi...

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A Child With Hemophilia is Waiting

Hemophilia   Bulgaria, China   Medical

When his birth parents in China realized Michael had a chronic medical condition, they probably felt helpless and desperate. Perhaps they th...

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Adopting a Child with Hemophilia

Hemophilia   Special Needs Adoption, Family Adoption Stories, Boys

I adopted my seven-year-old son Adi (“jewel” in Hebrew) from Shanghai, China. He joined my daughter “Mei Mei” (age 4) and othe...

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Host Children Seek Adoptive Families

Hemophilia   Colombia   Hosting a Child

Time still exists to meet them children who are currently in the USA staying with Host Families. The children leave for Colombia August 29. ***Colombi...

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