September is Sickle Cell Awareness month.While the month itself is almost over, patients living with the disease face a daily fight.
On the outside, Kamarie Crawford is a normal 21-year-old student who likes sports and spending time with her friends.
She was born with the disease, which affects close to 100,000 people across the country; and she shares a diagnosis with her younger sister, Kyra. "Today, you can have sickle cell disease and be from just about anywhere," Melissa Frei-Jones M.D, medical director of South Texas Sickle Cell Center said.
“On average, we would need 500 to 600 donations a day coming through all of our donor centers and our mobile operations," Audra Taylor said, President of Blood Operations for South Texas Blood and Tissue. "That would be a state of making sure that all of our patients in the south Texas area, and specifically here in San Antonio would have the blood products that they need at the time that they need it.
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