April 2010 Blog Posts (4)

Scholarships for people w/ sickle cell

Doing some college searching and it occurred to me to google "sickle cell scholarship"

and i was blown away by the number there are!

here are a few just for any high school jr. & snrs



http://www.collegescholarships.org/health/sickle-cell.htm

http://www.scinfo.org/scholarship.htm…



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Added by Bukky Ade on April 16, 2010 at 7:30pm — 2 Comments

The Reason Sickle Cell Patients Have A Bad Rep

I just got home from the Sickle Cell crisis center at Grady and while I'm now 100% pain free I'm utterly drained. I got zero sleep last night there were many reasons but the main reason was the patient across from me who was a classic example of why Sickle Cell patients gets such a bad name. She came in around 1Am and was a horrible patient from the minute she came in. She came in crying loudly which honestly didn't bother me, I've shed plenty of tears over this disease and while I prefer to… Continue

Added by Nana007 on April 15, 2010 at 7:33am — 6 Comments

Should a Sickle Cell Trait Person Marry Someone with Sickle Cell?

There is a hot topic over at the UKGreat Sickle Cell forum on FB. A

gentleman posted this question: My genotype is SS and my fiance is

AS. I love this girl very much because of her character. I intend to

marry her. Should I go on? I need your candid advice.




I have very strong views about this as a sickle cell warrior. I have

seen too many people with sickle cell get relegated to a lonely corner,

dumped, and heartbroken just because of their genetic… Continue

Added by Sickle Cell Warrior on April 8, 2010 at 7:53am — 8 Comments

Location

Hi All,

I am new to this site but I love what I see already. I am so happy I found this and it's comforting to know I can reach out to others just like me living with sc.

I wanted to know if anyone lives in the Bay Area of Ca? I am asking because I would like to connect with you (I want to connect with everyone really), but I tend to have a hard time with not having people close to me in which I would like to meet up with from time to time.

I hope…

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Added by Chaznee N. Brown on April 7, 2010 at 4:45am — 2 Comments

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