BY SHEENA ELZIE CINCINNATI PUBLISHED 7:45 AM ET MAR. 02, 2022 MORROW, Ohio — The pandemic is bringing more attention to kids’ mental health. One teen is now trying to help through a new book she wrote. What You Need To Know Nyla Barnes, 13, authored a new self-help book to help kids cope with stress and […]
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Passing on Sickle Cell to your Children Warrior parents, can you relate to feeling like this? How do you cope? What helps you get through these feelings about passing on sickle cell? Jourdan Dunn feels as if she passed sickle cell disease on to her son, Riley Dunn. The model-turned-actress recently told The Sunday Times magazine about
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Study Finds Emergency Care is Not Ideal Most people with sickle cell disease (SCD) in the U.S. are happy with their PCPs, but less so with emergency care given at a hospital to manage severe pain, according to a survey of more than 400 teenage and adult patients. How a person expects to be treated
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Knowledge and Confidence to Tackle SCD Sickle Cell Disease is well known for the pain that it causes. What isn’t widely researched is the emotional stress that families go through due to the unpredictable episodes of pain, hospitalizations, risk of death, and more. Treatment options are few, and curative therapies like bone marrow transplants and
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What to do with AVN when you are young? See the message below! One and a half years ago I had a hip replacement and I am young (in my early 20s). I had AVN in my left hip which progressively got worse over the course of 8 years to the point where I could
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The Key to Happiness November 11, 2017 The Key to Happiness Written by: crystalmccrory32 My son has a form of sickle cell anemia that has caused him great pain and suffering throughout his life. It often impedes his physical abilities, sidelining him for important events and milestones other children seamlessly enjoy. This past year has
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Sickle Cell Disease Handbook for Patients & Families At this time, the Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses has developed a resource for sickle disease patients and their families. For one thing, The Sickle Cell Disease Handbook provides an overview for patients and their families on SCD. Each handbook allows parents to review it with their
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I’m not a warrior but I’m a warrior wife, so I’ve been on the other side of your story. I hope that this gives you hope and courage to face whatever relationship hurdles you are going through. My story is almost something out of a Nigerian movie, but this is a true story. My true
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It’s been very hard to obtain life insurance with sickle cell disease. Here are a few tips that may get your application approved.
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