Personal Narrative: Sickle Cell Anemia

My mother always told me to watch who you sleep with i used to just laugh at her and take it as a joke until i got older and truly realized what she was trying to say. My mom and my dad both had a trait of sickle cell so in result i was produced with the full disease. However even when i was younger always known what i wanted out of life. I had the big dream of becoming a doctor ever since I was little. Its probably because i spent most of my young life in hospitals although some might hate being in them i enjoy it. I was diagnosed with Sickle Cell Anemia since birth so i've really adapted and grown up with it. I did have one other dream when i was younger though, i wanted to be a professional football player that was my dream for a long time until one day , i had to go to the doctor, and they told me that I could not play anymore

I remember this older doctor when i was in a hospital he was trying to put in an I.V. in my hand and he could not find the vein and he kept poking my vein with the needle continuously and it caused the vein in my hand to stick out more and to not look the same as the rest. I was already loopy from the previous medications they had given me but I was with my grandma that day and i thought i was going to die i looked over and told her in a sobbed type voice “he's going to kill me.” she just looked at me and laughed but at the time i was serious. I always missed a lot of school time throughout the school years because of trips to the hospital but i usually stayed on top of my work up until i got into highschool is when it became harder to not be in school and still be able to understand what was going on in school while i was