Often, people living with chronic long-term pain can get into a cycle of overdoing things on a good day and doing practically nothing on a bad day. Over time, the good days become less and less as the bad days become more frequent. Living with sickle cell has meant that I have had to learn how to pace myself. When I don’t, I usually suffer the consequences of not doing so and this is all because of the fact that a sickle cell crisis could flare up unexpectedly. …
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