Dazuan Kidd isn’t unlike other 18-year-olds who recently attended their proms and high school graduations. What makes this recent Kenmore-Garfield High School grad different is he lives with a painful genetic condition called sickle cell disease. Sickle cell disease is a red blood cell disorder that causes red blood cells to become misshapen or “sickled” […]
Kamryn continues to show sickle cell disease who’s boss.
In the fall or 2020, we introduced you to Kamryn who was hoping to celebrate her first birthday and first anniversary of no pain episodes due to her sickle cell disease. On Sickle Cell Awareness Day, we’re happy to report she was able to celebrate both! While COVID-19 kept many of us from doing ordinary things, it […]
Baby Brielle begins treatment for Langerhans cell histiocytosis
This is for my sweet baby girl, Brielle. Our world changed on April 13 when the ER doctor sat down in a chair next to me and said, “I’m going to have a long conversation with you.” You know it’s never good news when something like that happens. So, she preceded to tell me that […]
Teacher touches the lives of 2 brothers who both needed new kidneys
Brothers Jeremiah and Solomon Hubbs inherited a disease called Alport syndrome that caused their kidneys to fail. Both were on dialysis in recent years, and both would need a kidney transplant. In 2016, the Hubbs family had moved from Cleveland to Medina to be closer to Akron Children’s Hospital. At Buckeye High School, Jeremiah’s new […]
Cancer patient finds right match in former college basketball player
“You made one decision and it saved my life. Love, Deegan.” That’s the sign Amy Scott commissioned as a keepsake to present to her son’s bone marrow donor, who her family was on their way to meet for the first time. The meeting would be at the 2017 Be The Match annual council meeting in […]
