There’s nothing quite like the sweet sound of ringing victory bells — especially when they’re end of treatment bells that your son is ringing. It’s a sound that says he beat leukemia, he’s moving on and he can get back to childhood. That’s how Julia felt watching her son, Julian, ring the bell a year […]
Local teen celebrates high school milestones while living with sickle cell disease
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” […]
