CAN SEX TRIGGER SCD CRISES? Leah’s ‘UNITED SICKLERS‘ opens a series of real and raw discussions aiming to raise awareness of sickle cell and to get people talking about it. UNITED SICKLERS is a platform for discussing the topic of sickle cell in relation to every day life, tackling controversial subjects which dare to be…
August 23, 2018 Kennedys Village Oh Heavy Day! They Poked My Baby 16 Times to Find A Vein Monday August 29, 2016 We’d just returned home from California. It was our first trip with two kids so I had A LOT to unpack. As I loaded clothes full of California sand into the washing machine,…
How A Strict Vegetarian Diet Restored My Health! SCD Warrior Lea Kilenga I was dependent on morphine, tramadol, pethidine and other opiates. The doctors recommended the removal of my ovaries, uterus and womb – all that made me a woman. Then I turned to a complete vegetarian lifestyle and my health underwent a revolution! I…
Lakiea J Bailey, 39, Executive Director, Sickle Cell Community Consortium, holds a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology as well as a doctorate in Molecular Haematology & Regenerative Medicine. The doctor who loves to read, cook and travel says even though she marries a man with sickle cell, she would rather not…
Pastor With 5 Sickle Cell Children Found Guilty Of Fraud By Abro Onyekwe ….. Sentenced To 2 Years In Prison ….. Counsel Set To Appeal ….. Civil Suit For Hearing October 10 Abel Olukayode Adewale, 58, the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) pastor renowned for fathering five children with sickle cell was today found guilty of…
Ignorance, Medical Mis-Advice and Fate Lead Pious Family Down The Sickle Cell Road US Evangelist Narseary Williams Harris and her husband, Reverend Harris never knew their genotype and its implications until it was too late … Their experience is memorialised in the book, HOW DO I GO FORWARD WITHOUT YOU? Narseary Harris, as a child,…
At the tender age of six, Gertrude Awuku was forcibly raped by a 22-year-old neighbor she had grown to trust. Now 18, she still remembers the day, and when she perceives a certain brand of perfume, she relives the moment as if it was only yesterday. A lonely dwelling-place, such as a house where all…
A Pastor’s Ordeal Of Raising 5 Children With Sickle Cell Anaemia When Pastor Abel Olukayode Adewale, 51, delivers a sermon or prays, the very walls vibrate with the boom of his voice, Pastor Adewale was a child of prophecy, his mother having been childless for many years after marriage. The Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) had…