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Scarlett's Makes-A-Wish: Part 1

While talking to other bleeding disorder parents online one day, one of them mentioned that she had known someone with hemophilia that had her child's wish granted through the amazing Make a Wish Foundation.  After asking relatives and friends their opinions of whether or not this was something I should look into. . . I decided there was no harm in just filling out the form on line and to be honest with the on going controversy over whether bleeding disorders are life threatening left me feeling pretty skeptical.  Within 2 weeks, the Make a Wish Greater Bay Area office got hold of me to have a phone interview.  During this interview I gave them a lot of contact info about my husband and I as well as some info about Scarlett's bleeding disorder.  They told me the next step would be getting hold of her hematologist and getting approved that Scarlett has a life threatening illness.  After I heard from them to he honest I didn't think we would hear back from them....