1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: Okay, So, Junior, we're going to talk about sickle cell 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 1: anemia here. It's coming into the fall season and the 3 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 1: cooler months and everything. September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: and it is the best time to bring awareness to 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 1: the disease and advocate for research and for treatment. And Junior, 6 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:22,120 Speaker 1: you're considered an ambassador for the disease. You've been advocating 7 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: for a cure for years through your Cures Hope Foundation. 8 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:28,319 Speaker 1: You went down earlier this year and spoke to some 9 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 1: senators in your hometown. 10 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:32,520 Speaker 2: Tell us about sickle cell please. 11 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:36,560 Speaker 3: Well, first of all, let me just tell the Warriors 12 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 3: happy Sickle Cell Awareness Month, because you all have made it. 13 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 2: You won, you have made it. We are here, still here. 14 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 3: Oh. One thing about it, surely is that you know 15 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 3: I do this through my foundation to let everybody know 16 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 3: that it's okay to have sickle cell and still be successful. 17 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 2: You can do both. 18 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 3: Because sometimes I hear people talk about what is my 19 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:04,960 Speaker 3: life gonna be? Like, well, your life is gonna be fine. 20 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 3: You're gonna be great. You just have to understand it happens. 21 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:12,479 Speaker 3: We have this. Y'all do so much for me. It's 22 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 3: hard to go and have a crisis. A crisis is 23 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 3: really hard to do. But I show up every time 24 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:21,759 Speaker 3: I come back. Every time somebody said to me and said, 25 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 3: what do you ask God for when you were in 26 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 3: the hospital, I said, let me walk out this hospital. 27 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 2: I said it over one hundred times. 28 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 3: Sure, let me walk out. 29 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:32,399 Speaker 2: And that's what a lot of us have to deal with. 30 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 3: And Junior, yes, I advocate for a here. I'm hoping 31 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 3: for a cure, but it ain't here right now, so 32 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 3: we still have to live regardless, doesn't matter. 33 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:46,080 Speaker 1: Those Let me ask you this though, Junior, and I'm 34 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 1: sorry for interrupting you, but for those of us who 35 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: don't know what an actual crisis is, can you explain 36 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: that to us a. 37 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 3: Lot it's like being thrown off the third floor of 38 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 3: a building. Third floor, you hit the ground, you stand 39 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 3: up and get hit by a truck going thirty five. 40 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 3: That's a crisis. 41 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 2: So it's pain. You're the pain. You're talking about the pain. Now, 42 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:11,959 Speaker 2: that's just the pain, that is it. 43 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 3: But then we also get mistreated because they think we're 44 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 3: drug seekers when we go into the hospital, so we're 45 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 3: only in here for opioids, for drugs, and we're not. 46 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 3: We don't don't have that. So I'm working on the 47 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,800 Speaker 3: foundation is working on I'm working on right now building 48 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 3: a sickle cell center. Okay, that way, come in here. 49 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 3: We know why you're here. We're not going to mistreat you. Yeah, 50 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 3: because if I go to a regular hospital, we get mistreated. 51 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 1: And why why is that? Why why do they think 52 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 1: you're in there for drugs? You're saying could be black? Wow, 53 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: because this disease affects only majority people Black people. 54 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:56,359 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, minorities, So that's why we're in here. 55 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 3: They think we were in here, could be black? 56 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 2: Yeah on drug my pain, that's what you're not. That's 57 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 2: what they judging. 58 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: So for more information, they can go to here's Hope 59 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: dot org. All right, heavy Single Cell Awareness. 60 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:15,959 Speaker 2: Month, Jesse, Okay, yes, I keep fighting. You're listening to 61 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 2: the Steve Harvey Morning Show.