Okay... It's just another disease to add onto the giant list of diseases. What's the point of increasing public awareness?
- Given the various symptoms, types of therapy, as well as the different limitation sickle cell patients may have, it is important for outsiders to know what is going on with the patients.
- Anything can happen no matter the time or place for sickle cell patients as far as having a crisis, or just suffering through pain. If the people around the patient do no know what is going on then there is nothing that they can really do to help that patient.
- There are many patients suffering with this disease and many people do not even know it, let alone know what the disease is.
- There have been incidents where students with sickle cell anemia were unable to go get some water and forced to due strenuous exercise in gym class.
- Both of these could have triggered the patient to have a severe sickle cell crisis.
- There was also another incident in which patients were considered lazy by teachers, when they were simply tired (which is a symptom of sickle cell anemia).
- These incidents show what can happen when the people around a sickle cell patient are UNAWARE. In these cases, if the teachers were AWARE of the condition of the students things would have mapped out differently.
- Instead of criticizing the students and prohibiting them from doing what is necessary for their health, the teachers would have encouraged them to proceed and try harder in their work.
- They probably also would have gladly allowed them to get something to drink, as well as not push them so hard in gym class.