In separate donations mid-February 2019 from the Faithmicheal Smile Foundation and the Rotary Club of Awka Smith-town District 9142, the Association of Persons Living with SCD (APLSCD) received bus loads of food items, provisions and gift items. Faithmicheal’s CEO, Ifunanya Chinenye encouraged folks living with SCD to remain steadfast and shun acts capable of undermining…
‘Don’t ever look at sickle cell as a hindrance. You are more than capable of going to college and being successful. You just have to know yourself and pay attention to your health because you won’t be able to do that unless you’re at your best – health-wise.’
Robinson went on to state how he had used the ‘power of mind’ to bring sickle cell under heel. Quoting John Milton in Paradise Lost, he said – ‘the mind can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.’
Too good to be true, you’d say, but this is what a parent related to me after a short trip to consult a Traditional Medical Practitioner (TMP) in Southeast Nigeria