IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Beau Atkinson is a bit of a comedian – he loves telling jokes, making his friends and family laugh, and pulling pranks.
Hemophilia, though, is something he takes very seriously.
When Beau was just 6 months old, his parents, Kari and Craig, started noticing unusual bruising on Beau’s body, so they took him to their local pediatrician.
“He had a bruise under his arm that was two to three inches long and about an inch thick, and it was hard as a rock,” remembers Kari. “He had pea-sized bruises on the back of his head and what looked like fingerprints under his arms from people picking him up.