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Article: SICKLE CELL DISEASE ROBS YEARS FROM LIFE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- February 15, 1994
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Byline: DARRYL E. OWENS - Orlando Sentinel
Benjamin Wilkie stumbles and stammers a bit, searching for the right words. How to describe the pain? He motions to the floor. Sometimes the throbbing begins in his feet. Often, it's deep in his bones.
Unfortunately, Wilkie, of Orlando, Fla., must go a bit farther than his medicine cabinet for the relief he seeks. His salvation awaits him at Orlando Regional Medical Center.
There his pain-wracked body can drink an IV bag filled to the brim with morphine. Goodbye, pain.
Pain is the bottom line for Wilkie and up to 100,000 Americans who suffer from sickle cell disease, an incurable, ...