The Ramblings of A Nigerian Mom

June 19 is the day set aside to annually raise awareness about sickle cell disorder globally, not dedicating a post to this disease would be doing myself and others that could benefit a great disservice..really. This is actually belated as I was supposed to do this on the 19th but could not for one or two reasons so here we go. I previously wrote about my struggles with the disorder in this post and a few months after that post, I lost a niece to the complications of SCD. So sad to be dealt such a cruel hand but that's life. Hardly fair all the time.

Just yesterday, the rate at which bleak and bleary news kept fleeting by left me woozed . You know, every time I checked the news, it just kept getting badder and badder ...this post is really going to be full of a couple of unconventional words without abode in the dictionary. Bomb blasts...bloody news...beheading...shooting...

Source *Long Rambling Alert* It was my penultimate semester and the day started like any other Thursday on campus for me. I joined my BFF, T to go join the other ‘Cadets’ for our early morning routine, jogging round the campus, singing and then converging at the sports complex for the last lap of our parade. (Ask me who or what we were training for)