Pain, Opioids, and the Sickle Cell Disease Patient As a sickle cell disease patient, I have lived with chronic severe pain and illness since early childhood. With that said, I have always been able to work with my doctors to figure out solutions when the pain is at its worst.  Before

Sickle Cell Disease Comedy Can Form Bridges or Cross Boundaries Comedy has walked a thin line between supplying appropriate and inappropriate content for as long as it has existed—likely as long as words have been spoken. At times, it has crossed boundaries to become offensive to certain audiences, sometimes the

Blood, the crimson liquid of light, colored the strongest shade that unites us as one, a portal to the physical dimension that fuels us all and yields the power that lets us breathe and run.   Blood is critical to the very existence of us all, no doubt. And yet each

Sickle Cell Disease: Fighting Unrelenting and Excruciating Pain Have you ever experienced excruciating pain so intense it feels as if shards of glass are pumping through your veins alongside your blood? Or felt like your bones were cracking just as if you had fallen from a building, crashing onto solid

Positive Spiritual Coping Yield Better Results During 2007 – 2008, a pilot study was conducted by Sian Cotton and her colleagues at Sickle Cell Research and Education Day, an annual event held in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Children’s Hospital Medical Center. The team administered a survey and conducted semi-structured interviews with adolescent-aged patients

Black History and the Healthcare System: Separate and Unequal Is it safe to say that Walter Clement Noel—the first individual to be described as having sickle cell disease—may also be considered the very first advocate for sickle cell patients? I have a deep curiosity regarding the life experiences of those

The Slave Trade Between the 16th and 19th centuries, the transatlantic slave trade is thought to have transferred over twelve million enslaved Africans to the Americas, according to various estimates. It was also likely a significant contributor to the spread of Sickle Cell Disease. During this period, the second stage of the

Have you ever pondered the history and origin of this unique cell disease and the reasons behind its development?

I have witnessed them with my own eyes, heard them with my ears, and I’m sure that they are real! How I encountered aliens in the first place is very unusual; to recall the even precisely, I would name it alien abduction at the sickle cell crisis. The night was

The Power of Poetry: Sickness Through the Eyes of the Sufferer Poetry is an extraordinarily powerful art form. It affects the writer, reader, and listeners in profound ways—both physically and psychologically. According to a study conducted by Eugene Wassiliwizky at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Department of Language and Literature, the

My bank account was running on empty and somehow, I had lost my health insurance and never realized. It was the day of my discharge; I had been in the hospital for a typical sickle cell crisis for about fourteen days. A social worker by the name of Luna came

Let me take you to the life of a sixth-grader who is engulfed by the devil; everyone was in the gym class playing soccer.   As I stood at the goal, I had no intentions to win and participated just for the sake of performance to put up a good show. The

The Power of Sickle Cell: A Metaphysical Perspective  Have you ever thought about the spiritual nature of sickle cell disease? What if I told you that people with sickle cell disease are more powerful than you think? Consider the imagery of the sickle in nature. The first thing we probably