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AGENDA

4:30PM – Educational Presentation by Ivan Sada – “Overcoming Hemophilia with baseball. Fighting the word “NO” along the way.”

6:30PM – Optional outing to Los Angeles Angels v Seattle Mariners – first pitch at 6:38PM with Saturday Night fireworks

Thank you to Octapharma for your sponsorship!

Speaker: IVAN SADA – Baseball in His Blood
Ivan was diagnosed with severe hemophilia A at two days old, when doctors noticed that his feet were bruised and bleeding. At the time, his parents were not aware of any family history of bleeding disorders. But he did have an uncle who had died at age seven. Looking back, it seems to fit that he died from a bleed associated with a serious injury. Since Ivan’s birth, two cousins have also been diagnosed with severe hemophilia. But hemophilia is not the only thing that runs in his family. “Baseball is in my blood. I come from a long line of baseball players – father, grandfather, uncle, brother. So I always played – there was really never any question about it.” Despite his diagnosis, Ivan played baseball throughout his childhood and teen years, even playing semi–pro for two years. Today, in addition to his job as a general contractor, work as an Octapharma Patient Educator, and activities as a busy parent, he coaches teams and runs baseball clinics for youths with bleeding disorders. “I can’t get enough.”