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We welcome the first generation of men with

hemophilia living into older age—and explore

the medical issues that come with it.

BY HEATHER BOERNER, FREELANCE WRITER

When Dan Liedl, who has severe There’s the arthritis in his hips, ankles, that remind him with every step
hemophilia A, wakes up in his knees and shoulders that tell him what he’s not a kid anymore. It’s a weird
Morgantown, West Virginia, the weather is going to be like that realization for a man who, in midlife,
home every morning, he feels day. There are times he has to dangle is studying to get a PhD in medical
fine. It’s only when he starts to his legs over the side of the bed and sociology.
move that he feels every minute slowly rotate them so that the pain
of his 58 years. It’s an interesting in his ankles drops from agonizing to “Some days my mind tells me I feel
experience for a man whose just sore. And of course, there is the like a teenager and my body tells
adoptive mother was told her son limp caused by the fused knee and me I’m an old man,” Liedl said in a
wouldn’t live to age 21. the neuropathy from cancer treatment deadpan.

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