Few people can imagine the sensation of having what feels like broken glass lowing through their veins, yet the nearly 100,000 Americans who suffer from sickle cell disease—including Birmingham author and entrepreneur Tina Kay Hughes—deal with this pain regularly. Hughes will host a World Sickle Cell Celebration at Omni Photo Studio downtown on June 19 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. to help raise public awareness of this overlooked illness.
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