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01-01-2019 | Healing Arts: Materia Medica
Chronically Happy
Published in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Issue 1/2019
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Excerpt
My earliest memory of having sickle cell was in second grade. It was my first case of acute chest. I was hospitalized for a week, the longest I had ever been admitted. I remember being scared of the IVs and oxygen tubes. After returning to school, I noticed my classmates treated me differently. Some asked a lot of questions, others did not talk to me at all. I did not like the change and decided to ignore it all together. …