I was born with sickle cell disease.
I had Crisis after crisis, constant pain, multiple organ damage by age 28. Doctors said I wouldn’t see 35.
During one brutal episode, I prayed like never before while hooked up to morphine. The pain vanished overnight.
Follow up tests showed my hemoglobin was normal. No sickle cells. Geneticists ran every test, markers for the disease had disappeared. I haven’t had a crisis in 4 years.
My hematologist calls me the walking miracle file.
You have to believe that there is God.
I'm not even home from today's school stress and tomorrow's lecture update is already at my doorstep. Medical school really believes in proactive suffering.
everyday it looks more likely that this man won’t win the next election, but then again i know where i am, & i know the people i share a country with