

My mind went to very dark places, at times I would pray for death, I would pray to be taken away and freed of my body, it was a burden I no longer wanted to carry, it was everything that was holding me trapped. Things are getting real If youre not experiencing morning sickness, extreme fatigue or other unpleasant early pregnancy symptoms, consider yourself lucky.

I was sick and tired of being sick and tired I just wanted to give up. Throughout life I always felt like my sickle cell always eventually won and I was tired of fighting. It took me a very along time to accept my limitations, I didn’t want to accept defeat I wanted to be a “normal” 20 something, but as I got more and more depressed defeat came easy. It would bother me that I couldn’t do normal things like my peers it’s still something that bothers me till this day. and Mara and his fellow owners are sick and tired of the trash talking. I found I had no energy to do anything so I was always at home and usually in bed which effected me mentally. Being born on 24 July 1987, Mara Wilson is 35 years old as of todays date 7th. I would often feel like I’m not living, I’m existing. There was a time when I couldn’t physically hold my body weight to sit up and had to have pillows to prop me up. With my haemoglobin level being so low and constantly in hospital for sickle cell crisis my body was extremely weak.

Someone who doesn’t have sickle cell or anaemia has haemoglobin between 12-16. I found bathing, cooking, cleaning, going the shops or even on a long journey became very difficult and tiring.īefore having my exchange transfusions, my haemoglobin would rarely be higher than around 6. When you have sickle cell you can become severely anaemic which makes daily simple tasks become difficult and exhausting.
