Christian Asonye

Untold Challenges of Sickle Cell Disease Christian Asonye

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is one of the many medical issues everyone and intending couple ought to consider from the very beginning of their relationship, as it has a very devastating effect on the family. The disease burdens can affect all aspects of the lives of individuals with SCD, which may include physiological, psychological, and social well-being and can lead to an untimely death. Sickle cell disease can be prevented if you make the right choices. The choice to seek the face of God before embarking on a relationship via prayer and fasting, the option of not having premarital sex that will emotionally attach you to an incompatible partner, the choice of staying with an incompatible partner in a relationship and not having children if you know that you cannot walk out of the relationship with a broken heart today as a better alternative to the pain and sorrow of a sickle cell child in the future.