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Changing the Narrative for Others Living With Sickle Cell Disease

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In April 2020, I lay in a hospital bed in Atlanta, Georgia, while fighting for my life. Unlike many other patients in the hospital, I wasn’t struggling with the terrifying and then-mysterious COVID-19 virus — my terror was much more familiar.

I’ve lived with sickle cell disease (SCD) for my entire life and have come to rely on life-saving blood transfusions when my symptoms become severe.

But the pandemic caused a nationwide shortage of blood donations and doctors told me that there was no blood available to give me.

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