@kayetorwa
Kayetorwa🌟When your blood🩸 is fucked up, sometimes your only relief from debilitating pain is at the bottom of a 0.9% Normal Saline bag. You lie there for hours, days, sometimes weeks, watching tiny droplets make their slow journey through a tube and into your veins… holding onto the hope that somewhere inside that bag is the solace your body has been begging for. For a sickle cell warrior, an IV bag can become more than fluid. It can become hope. It can become survival. It can become the difference between unbearable pain and finally breathing again. 1 bag, 2 bags, 3bags, 4, 5, 6, 7… 35 bags. This is the part of sickle cell people don’t always see. The waiting. The pain. The uncertainty. The quiet desperation of staring at a drip and hoping it works. September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month. This is what living with sickle cell can look like. (All this behind a face that people would look at and say, “…but you don’t even look sick.”) . #sicklecellawareness #sicklecellwarrior #septemberissicklecellawarenessmonth @Sheila Njuguna
On the profile · Sep 25, 2026