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Show CHRYSALIS PAGE 220 fun while I can. But wheels are the second great love of my life. The first was aero-dynamics. I want to fly." "Were you treated normally as a child?" "I was lucky enough to have a mother who did not overwhelm me with 'smother love.' Usually, the mother of a hemophiliac child is overprotective, and the father remains in the background, feeling guilty. I had a relatively normal childhood. I fell off my tricycle when I was three years old - no one knew then I was hemophiliac. When the hemorrhages appeared, the doctor thought the fall had bruised the bones and tried to drain the 'abscesses' - but it didn't slow me down. I lived the kind of youth that bought these - running, riding my bike, climbing trees wrecked my knees." He lifts his trousers and shows me his knees. Both have long purple scars, as long as my own. "Both of my knees were destroyed, so they removed the joints and replaced them entirely with metal and teflon." I know from my reading yesterday, that bleeding into the knee joints, into hips and ankles and elbows and shoulders - eventually destroys motion in them, destroys even cartilege and bone, so that the limb is permanently frozen. While Nate was growing up little was known about effective management of a hemoph_i-,l-i ac j,o^innt-t . TTooddaayv iitt is transfused immediately with |