In continuation of this week’s post on #Managing Sickle Cell Crises from home, here are some tips shared at the event. The talk series which held on Thursday 6th August 2020 by 1pm was given by Dr. Emmanuel Olumide Adeniyi the in-house medical personnel of Nirvana Initiative an NGO dedicated to educating the public about Sickle Cell Disorder. See below the link to the post.
So I was referred to this Instagram page during the week and they will be having a talk series on how Sickle cell crises can be managed at home. The date of the event is Thursday 6th August 2020. Please click on the below link to join them from their page
Now apart from all these trials I passed through, there were also very many positive situations so don’t think that majority of my life was beset by lows. However for ease of your reading, it’s better to first chronicle the battles and much later share the victories that occurred and this I will be doing very shortly. In my post today, I will be sharing some of the medications that have helped me cope over the years with sickle cell disease. Probably at a point, I would share with you a post from a consultant physician regarding using some of…
Today’s discussion is a continuation of last week’s post but from the perspective of a psychiatrist. It illustrates some of the forms depression can take and how it can be managed, prevented or treated. Kay is a 34-year-old married employed father of two. He comes from a religious family and is surrounded by supportive friends. However, whenever he is alone, he feels terrible and unworthy. He does not understand why he feels this way. He cannot explain it to himself let alone to anyone else. What he is certain of, is that he is not worthy to have the kind…
As stated earlier, I continued to nurture the different talents I had and to put them into good use. I remember vividly writing my first book/short story, it made me feel very gifted OR was it when I drew a poster to inform teens at my church about an upcoming youth program. Sometimes I wished I had kept a copy, lol. Anyhow, these talents apart from school kept me very pre-occupied. The only times I remembered I had the SS genotype was when I was ill which on most occasions was rather frequent. I think this basically stemmed from the…