disease and he's missing the complete von willebrand protein.it wor in conjunction with the factor eight protein to form a clot. and joshua has no von willebrand protein and 4% factor eight protein, which is a very -- which is considered moderate hemophilia. and they have to work together. and without having one factor, the other one doesn't work. but also at the same time my husband and i received the diagnosis of mild von willebrand disease. we had no idea that we h von willebrand disease and it was quite a shot, quite a shock because we never had any symptoms of having that disease. when joshua was 16, he had his spontaneous head bleed the day before thanksgiving. it is another day in my life that i'll never forget. it started with a really bad headache that we thought were migraines because he also suffered from migraine adaches. long story short, we went to -- i took him to the er almost immediately and they did a cat scan and he was having a brain hemorrhage. he was air life flighted to the medical center because i had taken him to an outl