By tayo6 on Skatehive
Sickle Cell and the Workplace On March 25, 2025, a young man living with sickle cell disease who was in crisis had to wait 21 hours to get a bed in a UK hospital, as reported by the Mirror. This is because the nurses felt that he was exaggerating his pain. On July 31, 2025, it was reported by the Kenyan Vigilante (on X) that a Kenyan woman lost six jobs because she had sickle cell disease. This is the kind of cruelty a sickle cell warrior has to deal with. In fact, it is a double-edged cruelty: the cruelty of the pain of crisis that causes absences at work and then the cruelty of the indifference or the punitive response of the workplace. Image Source Sickle cell disease is a genetic blood disorder causing red blood cells to sickle, leading to painful crises, organ damage, and other complications. I wrote about sickle cell disease in June; you can read it here: https://peakd.com/hive-178437/@tayo6/on-world-sickle-cell-day-2025. World Atlas reports that this condition is prevalent in Su