Judy Gray was four when the pain first struck. As mysterious as it was
excruciating, Judy’s anguish confounded the local doctor, who advised
her mother to apply liniment. It was not until Judy... More > was a teenager that
another doctor informed her aunt of the real cause of Judy’s agony – something called sickle cell anemia. The social mores of that time, however, dictated that adults discussed nothing of substance with children.
So Judy learned little about her ailment other than it could cause her
to die. A frightened Judy simply put sickle cell disease out of her mind
and suffered in silence as she went on with her life.
Readers will follow Judy’s journey through college, a teaching career, a
short-lived marriage, and the raising of a daughter while enduring
severe pain episodes. All the while, exhaustion was her constant
companion.
Living with Sickle Cell Disease: The Struggle to Survive is a story of
Judy Gray Johnson’s perseverance in the face of living with a little-understood chronic illness.< Less
Judy Gray was four when the pain first struck. As mysterious as it was
excruciating, Judy’s anguish confounded the local doctor, who advised her mother to apply liniment. It was not until Judy... More > was a teenager that
another doctor informed her aunt of the real cause of Judy’s agony – something called sickle cell anemia. The social mores of that time, however, dictated that adults discussed nothing of substance with children.
So Judy learned little about her ailment other than it could cause her
to die. A frightened Judy simply put sickle cell disease out of her mind
and suffered in silence as she went on with her life.
Readers will follow Judy’s journey through college, a teaching career, a
short-lived marriage, and the raising of a daughter while enduring
severe pain episodes. All the while, exhaustion was her constant
companion.
Living with Sickle Cell Disease: The Struggle to Survive is a story of
Judy Gray Johnson’s perseverance in the face of living with a
little-understood chronic illness.< Less
Judy Gray was four when the pain first struck. As mysterious as it was excruciating, Judy’s anguish confounded the local doctor, who advised her mother to apply liniment. It was not until Judy... More > was a teenager that another doctor informed her aunt of the real cause of Judy’s agony – something called sickle cell anemia. The social mores of that time, however, dictated that adults discussed nothing of substance with children.
So Judy learned little about her ailment other than it could cause her to die. A frightened Judy simply put sickle cell disease out of her mind and suffered in silence as she went on with her life.
Readers will follow Judy’s journey through college, a teaching career, a short-lived marriage, and the raising of a daughter while enduring severe pain episodes. All the while, exhaustion was her constant companion.
Living with Sickle Cell Disease: The Struggle to Survive is a story of Judy Gray Johnson’s perseverance in the face of living with a little-understood chronic illness.< Less
The book advises intending couples who may be ignorant of sickle cell and its consequences on the need to do their Genotype before marriage and the choices open to them as to the pain of breaking up... More > the engagement, compared with endless life of misery and mental torture thereafter which may arise in case they marry each other and produce children with SS Gene.
Examples are given of persons who got married without knowing their Genotypes and the consequences. The book goes on to describe the aetiology and pathogenesis of sickle cell disease backing up her theory with historical discovery of the DNA and electrophoresis. She also proffers scientific explanation for the inheritance of SS, AS and AS.
Under the myth of sickle cell disease, she describes succinctly the mutilation of dead bodies to prevent reincarnation.< Less
The book advises intending couples who may be ignorant of sickle cell and its consequences on the need to do their Genotype before marriage and the choices open to them as to the pain of breaking up... More > the engagement, compared with endless life of misery and mental torture thereafter which may arise in case they marry each other and produce children with SS Gene.
Examples are given of persons who got married without knowing their Genotypes and the consequences. The book goes on to describe the aetiology and pathogenesis of sickle cell disease backing up her theory with historical discovery of the DNA and electrophoresis. She also proffers scientific explanation for the inheritance of SS, AS and AS.
Under the myth of sickle cell disease, she describes succinctly the mutilation of dead bodies to prevent reincarnation.< Less
A young female student of anatomy, Lam, on her first day in the dissection room, encounters a cadaver of a young woman which for administrative reasons is taken away. Several months later she is... More > given a head to dissect, and recognises who must have been the head's former owner. Initial interest is purely anthropological, but soon becomes forensic when the possibility of unnatural death is raised. The police do not follow this through, and Lam determines, despite threat of career ruination, she must pursue an investigation herself. Ultimately her efforts are rewarded by the forensic conclusions.< Less
Faces Of Our Children is a unique joke books with the artwork done my Glenwood Elementary School students. The book is devoted to saving lives of children who are stricken with Sickle Cell Anemia. ... More > Every sale provides full royalties to Faces Of Our Children, Inc,to help find a cure for sickle cell disease.< Less
Faces Of Our Children is a unique joke books with the artwork done my Glenwood Elementary School students. The book is devoted to saving lives of children who are stricken with Sickle Cell Anemia. ... More > Every sale provides full royalties to Faces Of Our Children, Inc,to help find a cure for sickle cell disease.< Less
This book provides an up- to- date summary of many advances in our understanding of anemia, including its causes and pathogenesis, methods of diagnosis, and the morbidity and mortality associated... More > with it. Special attention is paid to the anemia of chronic disease. Nutritional causes of anemia, especially in developing countries, are discussed. Also presented are anemias related to pregnancy, the fetus and the newborn infant. Two common infections that cause anemia in developing countries, malaria and trypanosomiasis are discussed. The genetic diseases sickle cell disease and thalassemia are reviewed as are Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria, Fanconi anemia and some anemias caused by toxins. Thus this book provides a wide coverage of anemia which should be useful to those involved in many fields of anemia from basic researchers to epidemiologists to clinical practitioners...< Less
