When she was just 16 weeks into her pregnancy, Darlene Logan - TopicsExpress



          

When she was just 16 weeks into her pregnancy, Darlene Logan learned that her son would have sickle cell disease, a painful, life-threatening condition. Instead of soft, round red blood cells, people affected by the disease have hard crescent or “sickle-shape” cells. As a result, they can experience anemia, tissue and organ damage, strokes, terrible pain and a lung disorder called pulmonary hypertension, which can lead to heart failure.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 20:53:46 +0000

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