approximately 1,000 people are born every day in africa with sickle cell. i have sickle cell disease. up to 90% of us die before the age of five. 0ur government do little to help us. even in our own communities, people with sickle cell are often treated like outcasts because of misconception and stigma surrounding the disease. i m putting my life on the line to fight this deadly disease. and to dispel the myths that surround it. sickle cell is not witchcraft. it s not it s not ancestral curses. it s something that we can solve. gentle guitar music plays. speaks swahili. 0h, damn! the abnormal sickle shaped red blood cells in my body affect my oxygen levels. one of the biggest problems with sickle cell is oxygen. like, if you don t have sufficient oxygen, so you can only push your body far for a good number of days before you need to really rest. now, he s telling people, this guy has sickle cell, and they don t even know i have sickle cell. i ve been raising awareness abo
today, i was able to run, but i ran for approximately 20 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.
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.