Blood Diseases
Watertown Woman Raising Money for Blood Disease at Not Your Average Joe’s
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A Watertown woman and her son who suffer from a blood clotting disorder will he raising money for a walk for The New England Hemophilia Association. Heather Hoiseth has Von Willebrand’s Disease and said it is passed on from parent to child. “My late mother passed on Von Willebrand’s Disease to my brother and I, and we then passed it on to our children,” Hoiseth said. “I have 1 son and he has 3 daughters effected and 1 son without.” Von Willebrand’s Disease is caused by a decreased amount or malfunction of the protein that makes blood platelets stick together to form a clot.