SICKLE CELL IN AFRICA | MEET MY FRIEND! | BLACK AMERICAN & KENYAN YOUTUBER MOMS
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- June 19th is World Sickle Cell Day! And more than 66% of the 120 million people in the world with sickle cell disease live in Africa. I interviewed my inspiring Kenyan friend about her life as a sickle cell WARRIOR!
For more on her journey, follow Lauryn on her UA-cam channel "House of a Warrior": / @houseofawarrior3918 and on her Instagram @LaurynAdoyo
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Join me as I share the experience of the African American living in Africa, along with my own in the African nation of Namibia.
Website: www.aainafrica.com
Instagram & Twitter: @aainafrica
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My very own niece - a phenomenal daughter and mother
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Thank you all SO much for watching! And THANK YOU to Lauryn for sharing your powerful story! Follow Lauryn's channel here! youtube.com/@houseofawarrior3918
And on Instagram @LaurynAdoyo 🌍♥
She's definitely an amazing woman; I pray she finds more help to cope with the disease and empower others.
I just found your channel today through searching living in Africa. I became very emotional watching this. I have sickle cell I’m 43. I’m from NY as well and moved to NC when I was 10. I have a 9 year old with the trait…and I’ve been a nurse almost 18 years. I’m currently experiencing a new lower baseline hgb and it’s been affecting my ability to work. There’s so much red tape to acquiring assistance just to help take care of my health yet, I’ve spent so many years taking care of others.
But when I think back to my childhood, watching this young lady it was the first time someone seemingly described it the same way I remembered it. Thank you both for this 🙏🏽
Thanks so much for watching and sharing your experience sis!! Sending love your way 💞
Greeting Kaylan and fellow New Yorker. I found your channel 3 years ago and you are very inspiring and influential in bringing light to various topics of life. I knew this disease plagued our people in the African American culture but didn't realize the magnitude thereof. I am going to be tested for this trait sometime in the future. On another note, listening to your experiences abroad has opened my eyes to visiting the motherland as a solo traveler. Namimbian culture has intrigued me. I hope one day to visit accordingly. Thank you for returning to bring inspiration and insight. Please don't disappear too long. Smile, take care and be well.
Thank you so much for this comment and for watching!! Same with me! I didn’t realize the magnitude! Happy that you’re going to be tested as well! Thanks so much for supporting me throughout the years 💓💓💓
Good to have you back. You are the pioneer. Very good story.
Thanks so much for watching and for the kind words!! ❤
I appreciated this video so much! I have sickle cell disease as well. I am a mom of five. I do travel often but I haven’t yet visited Africa because although l know many Africans have SCD l don’t know how it is handled or how they are cared for and that scares me. I do not travel anywhere unless l know for sure that they have good care for sicklers.
Edit: l live in South Carolina. I forgot to say that!
Thanks very much my first time to hear that, Keep well my good Kenyan friend
Wow... just wow. Our sister is a warrior
Thank you for this awareness in other part of Africa. Sickle cell is so common in Nigeria that you are required to take a test before getting married in many cases.
Hi, our only Queen!
We misses you a lot. We wish you a time of blessings for you and for your famíly.
Greetings from Angola ❤🎉😅
Waving hi to you in Angola!! Thank you!! 💗
Did you know that there is a form of sickle cell called sickle beta thalassemia disease? So they have both a blood disease and a blood disorder. Do you ever feel pain? If you do you may have this. If someone in your family has the sickle cell trait you may want to get tested for this.
Thank you so much for having me Kaylan,great interview;I loved every minute of this video ❤
THANK YOU GIRL! Love ya!! 💓
Welcome back. Thanks for the topic
Wow! What a great interview Kaylan. I learned so much about sickle cell! I had no idea that those on the continent were plagued with this disease to such a degree, Nor did I know it could be so debilitating. Your guest is a remarkable person, I will subscribe to her channel ❤
Yes! Remarkable is the perfect word!! Thank you!! ❤️
Thank You Mrs. Kaylan for posting this content today, I went ahead and also subscribed to Lauryn's House of a Warrior channel, to me this shows your beautiful heart and humanity as a person, Happy Father's Day to your Husband there.
Thank you SO much and thank you for watching!!
Our own owambo Namibian
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Am Namibian and feel very ignorant because until I came to Europe I never really knew about sickle cell or rather had heared of it but maybe because I had never heared of anyone local who had it, when I moved to Europe I met someone with it and learned more about it
Very interesting ladies.... Inspiring.... Stay well ❤❤❤
Thank you so much! Appreciate you!! ❤❤
I know in Nigeria they must test for sickle cell anaemia before a couple can be married. I notice as well the condition is very prevalent in Western Kenya where she is from.
Many of my friends have it in Nigeria
Namibian here... Love your channel!!!
Hiiii and thanks SO much!! Appreciate it! 🙌🏾
My sister i thought you weren't posting videos any longer. I love as subscribe to you other UA-cam channel and saw you hadn't posted in some time. So i thought you moved on.
Happy you are back!! Hope you and the family are wonderful in Namibia.
Thanks for sticking around! 💓 I can totally see why she thought that 😩😩😂😂 But yes I’ve been posting again this year, finally! 🙈
Hello from America! I was diagnosed with low iron anemia as a baby. As an adult I got a genetic test and lab work. The testing concluded I have the beta-thal minor gene. It is often misdiagnosed as low iron anemia. This was very informative. Great job ladies!
Thank you for sharing this! Your comment is also informative! Thank you also for watching ❤️
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Thank you for the information. In my limited understanding I thought sickle cell was confined to West Africa, and by historical extension the diaspora in the Americas and Caribbean.
I'm Jamaican, and I remember when I was very young, my cousin died from sickle cell
Thank you for sharing and for watching! ❤
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