seconds and had to stop, take a breath, relax, walk, then run again for 20 seconds and, yeah, it was... it showed how unfit i am — like, i am extremely unfit, but i am working on that. my family has always been there to help me through my most difficult times but they, too, have their challenges. all my sisters have sickle cell. my oldest sister magdalein succumbed to sickle cell.