James R. Clark Memorial Sickle Cell Foundation: Sumter Office

"Sickle cell warriors must have more positive discussions about health. We should stop emphasizing what we can’t do because of our health and instead celebrate all the things we’ve done and can do despite our health."

Let’s Celebrate World Sickle Cell Day by Focusing on Our Achievements June 19 is World Sickle Cell Day, and I have been reflecting a lot on my life with sickle cell. From a young age, I was always encouraged to keep my diagnosis hush-hush. People would only know I had sickle cell if they needed to know. In my household, my diagnosis was always viewed as a setback...

JRCM Sickle Cell Foundation Office Education and Awareness Event

Living with sickle cell disease

TLC's Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins on living with sickle cell disease Singer Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins is opening up about her battle with an incurable disease and how it affected her singing career as a member of the pop group TLC. Watkins' new memoir, "A Sick Life: TLC 'n Me: Stories from On and Off the Stage," describes how she has been able to overcome the...