This week's warrior is Jazzlind. She's a 15 year old full of spice and life, and she has candidly opened up about her experiences with sickle cell.
Ever wondered if you could be a working model in NY with sickle cell? If Akimie can do it, so can you!
Tosin explains how you can have a successful and happy life with sickle cell. Once we shift our mentality, we all can achieve all our goals and dreams.
The creator of the Heart of Gold foundation shares her inspirational journey with sickle cell below. Read on...
Meet Kandis, an intrepid and determined young lady. Even with AVN and sickle cell, she has accomplished all her dreams and strives to inspire others.
Hello everyone, It’s been a few months since I posted on here. First of all I need to apologize for the silence. I know that it may have been very frustrating to come here with no new updates. Since October, I’ve faced alot of challenges [continue reading...]
For those of you who haven't zeroed in on your purpose in life, this is a great exercise when you have the time. Often we have 'mental lists', but an actual physical list gives you something concrete, something that you can check off, and something [continue reading...]
First of all, I will update the ticker. Now it’s only been a 5 days since my last admission, bummer—what a way to start the year. But I’m not going to gripe about it, such is the lot in my life. Everyone has their burden to bear. Last year I had 3 major hospitalizations, actually, [continue reading...]
I just got my replacement bottle of Arginine in the mail today. I ran out before the replacements came and although I didn’t fall sick (which I was worried might happen), I did spend the last week being really tired and exhausted. Normally I wake up at noon, chill for a couple of hours and [continue reading...]
For weeks now I’ve had a weird sleeping pattern. Generally I work late evenings from 3pm to midnight, and this is actually my dream schedule….don’t have to wake up early in the morning or fight traffic getting to work. I peak in the evenings, after 7pm or so is when I get a radical burst [continue reading...]
What’s up fam? It’s been a week and surprisingly I’ve been well. Very well in fact. Nothing much to report…I think the L Arginine is really giving me a boost nowadays. It’s like my own personal crunk juice/spinach. Speaking of spinach, when I was younger in high school, the house mistress of my dormitory used [continue reading...]
Norion’s dad sent me a forward a few weeks ago about L-Arginine that he had gotten from a fellow scientist researching the benefits of L-Arginine and nitric oxide to cardiovascular conditions. In addition, someone had left a comment on a previous post about L-Arginine weeks ago that was around the same time. Serendipity was pointing [continue reading...]
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