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It has been quite some time since I was last here. For that, I owe you an apology. The silence, though sudden, was necessary. The past few months have been among the most difficult of my life, and navigating them while living with sickle cell disease has been, quite frankly, a minefield.
Stress is one of the major triggers for a sickle cell crisis. And yet, life doesn’t pause because you have a chronic illness. The responsibilities don’t soften. The hardships don’t politely step aside. Life still brings the good, the bad, and the downright ugly, and people like me are still expected to function through it all. That, in itself, is a reality that often feels painfully unfair.