As told to Marnie GoodfriendJanuary is National Blood Donor Month.I’ve had sickle cell anemia since I was in my mother’s womb. My older brother also has the condition, but it affects us each differently. Once, when we were kids, he visited me in the hospital, where I was inpatient to receive a blood transfusion, after he’d spent the day playing in the sun. I was angry that I was admitted to the hospital once every other week, while he never was. This was an early lesson for me that different people with this disease experience it differently. For example, I’m a sickle cell disease warrior who...

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