IBOGIRL LIVING

You would think that I would perpetually be in my mom's closet pulling clothes and accessories left and right on a regular basis but far from it. Don't get me wrong, my mom was the first fashionable woman I ever fell in love with and till today, she still is an epitome of style and elegance in my eyes even in her 60s.

We are all familiar with the popular quote by George Addair, "Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear". Fear is a healthy human emotion just as long as it does not interfere with any other emotion to get in the way of opportunity.

It's no secret that sickle cell has a lot of symptoms that manifest themselves due to the nature of the disease caused by the sickle shaped red blood cells. Symptoms include but are not limited to stroke, priapism, acute chest syndrome and of course painful crisis.