Last weekend, I had plans to go to brunch with a group of friends I hadn’t seen in a while.
Mary Shaniqua
Mary Shaniqua is a sickle cell patient (HbSS) living in the United Kingdom. She was diagnosed with sickle cell at 18 months old and uses "Shaniqua’s Sickle Chronicles" to narrate her experiences, to educate healthcare professionals, as well as empower and embolden other sickle cell patients. Mary Shaniqua is committed to raising awareness of sickle cell and its impact, with an aim to educate non-haematological specialist healthcare workers and the general public more widely on the life of a sickle cell patient.
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Articles by Mary Shaniqua
In my last column, I wrote about finally being discharged after a lengthy hospitalization. Once I got home,…
In my last column, I shared that I was in the hospital due to a sickle cell crisis.
It’s been several weeks since my last column, because I was unfortunately hospitalized at the beginning of February. I was…
I spent much of the fall of 2019 in the hospital due to a sickle cell crisis. It became…
Happy New Year! It’s 2022, and my New Year’s resolution is the same as always: to experience and maintain good…
I have been experiencing a lot of pain lately due to sickle cell crises. I previously wrote that my…
Winter has finally arrived here in the U.K. I really dislike the winter, in case you didn’t know. One…
Last Monday, I awoke to a flurry of comments about the results of a landmark sickle cell inquiry here…
I wrote about feeling unwell without any apparent cause in September, and then again last month. So, guess…