I am a 24 year old African American/ Creole Women living in Sonoma County. I was diagnosed with SCD when I was 3 years old. I live with my mother and father still because my health has been on the down turn ever since I was diagnose with RA (rheumatoid Arthritis) last fall 2010. I have 2 sister and 3 brother one of my brother has the trait and one of my sister has the trait but I was the lucky one to get SCD not just SCD but SS trait. Not SC or SA, SS the worse one, or so I have been told. I…

Hello everybody,

Sorry I have being so away. Actually I think since I got pregnant with my second child I didn't had much time to sit and share some about us. My son is already 2 years and 9 months old, and as good as it can look, we can say we had have never any problems with him. He only had swelling on his foot and hand once, when he started teething, and despite his hgb level being always lower than 6g/dl he is a hyperactive little one. Yeah, we had a little girl back on Feb.…

Hello SC Family,

Is there anyone out there who has trouble sleeping at night?  It does not matter what I take my body seems to get use to the medicine and I am up.  Any help or advice will be appreciated.

Thanks,

In a recent article by Salynn Boyles for WebMD Health News it was discovered that “after just four, 20-minute instructional sessions in mindfulness meditation, most participants in the small study experienced big reductions in pain intensity and unpleasantness of pain.”



In this study researchers recruited 18 healthy young adults who had never…