One woman’s complicated journey to a hemophilia C diagnosis

One woman’s complicated journey to a hemophilia C diagnosis

Ina Fowler, 68, of Brooksville, Florida, lives with several conditions, including hemophilia C, platelet dysfunction, atrial fibrillation, and peripheral artery disease. She recently suffered a brain bleed. To learn more about Ina’s journey, I spoke with her via Zoom. When Ina was in second grade, she hemorrhaged after a tonsillectomy. “They had to go back down and sew me back up,” she told me. “I almost died.” What followed were decades of medi…