The Life of a Sickle Cell Warrior.
by Audrey Mukoro · Published August 16, 2018 · Last modified August 23, 2018
Dear Diary, am sorry to have left for so long; I have been very busy with stuffs and the foundation too. I will do my best to be up in here frequently. Sequel to my secondary school days. This is the part where my parents and friends family got to...
Audrey Sickle Cell Foundation (ASCF), was born out of the experience of Audrey Mukoro who suffers from Sickle Cell Disease. I noticed that in my community and city, the issue of sickle cell is downplayed and victims presented as the mistakes of their parents whose burden rest solely on the...
Credited to: Salma M. AlDallal Abstract Osteomyelitis is an infectious stage of bones associated with distinct clinical microbiology. In sickle cell anemia, an early detection and diagnostic accuracy of osteomyelitis would establish an immediate treatment module for preventing bone destruction and deformity. This mini-review highlights the different diagnostic...
Bone Pain Crisis is the most consistent, a characteristic in SCD. The pain results from activation of nociceptive afferent nerve endings in the ischemic bones. The affected bones include the long bones such as femur and humerus, vertebrae, pelvis, ribs, and sternum. An early appearance of bone infarction...
“My Name is Awonaike Lateefat Oluwaseyi, I will be 25 years old in October, living with sickle cell is being an adventure, from school, work, home friends but am grateful to God for the amazing people he has placed in my life even though its not been easy, when I...
By News Agency of Nigeria -June 20, 2018 The Sickle Cell Support Network, an NGO, says Nigeria records about 150,000 sickle cell births annually but 75 per cent of this number never get to see their fifth birthday. The President of the group, Dr. Deborah Onokpono, made this known in...
Barrister Enwerem Uju tells her story “My drive in raising awareness for sickle cell disorder is born out of my personal experience. It’s been a very hard battle for me from having people not believing in me. People don’t understand the pain I endure, Sickle cell Disorder comes with a...
Omiunu Precious Idowu Ihinosen, a graduate of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, is a beautiful warrior, she’s a teacher, a writer and loves to read. Born on the 9th of July two decades ago. Her Warrior Status was discovered when she was six months old, like most cases, this affected her...
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by Audrey Mukoro · Published July 8, 2018 · Last modified July 17, 2018
Evil exists because good people do nothing. Many times what many “so-called good people” do is react to evil verbally and i.e. talk and do nothing, especially in social media. Sicklers in Nigeria are marginalized, we are suppressed, oppressed and neglected because of our health status. As a warrior and...
There are several types of sickle cell disease. The most common are Sickle Cell Anemia (SS), Sickle Hemoglobin-C Disease (SC), Sickle Beta-Plus Thalassemia and Sickle Beta-Zero Thalassemia. • Sickle Cell Anemia (SS): When a child inherits one substitution beta globin genes (the sickle cell gene) from each parent, the child...
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