Tito Oye

3 weeks ago | sicklecellanemianews.com | Marisa Wexler |Margarida Maia |Tito Oye |Mary Shaniqua

This year, for the first time, two teenagers in Florence, South Carolina, are going to be able to go swimming on spring break without worrying about serious complications from sickle cell disease (SCD). Ashanti and Dontrell Pickens have long wanted to swim on their school holidays, but were not able to do so: Cold water temperatures, essentially anything colder than 80 degrees, could trigger a sickle cell crisis.