Basketball coach adapts techniques for Warrior Games
As a basketball coach, Air Force 1st Lt. Dan Taylor has used a number of techniques to help his teams play better. Speed drills, sprints and fundamentals work are routine tools he uses to help players reach their potential.
Airman Magazine: Her Body Is A Battlefield
Knowing only pain her entire life, Carol Mulumba is now free from Sickle Cell disease through a radical treatment
Carol Mulumba’s eyes are bright; the pure white contrasting dramatically with deep-brown irises. Her skin is bright and smooth and her lips are rosy. This wasn’t always so. Until a few months ago, the 8-year-old’s eyes were yellowed, her skin was pale and even her lips lacked any resemblance to the lips of a healthy child. She always appeared sick.
Before her seventh birthday, a deadly monster stalked Carol. A monster called sickle cell disease, a usually terminal illness that causes blood cells to be malformed. Shaped more like crescents than the flexible doughnuts of healthy red blood cells, they clogged her capillaries, causing hemorrhages and pain.
Upcoming stories
I have a few stories planned in the near future in addition to the final Sickle Cell story. All will be published in the Nov/Dec issue of Airman Magazine, which will be themed “Taking Care of Airmen and Their Families.” I’m leaving next week for the Great State of North Dakota where I’ll travel to [...]
Sickle Cell interview July 11, 2009 – Beating the monster
Many children believe in monsters. A blanket casting a strange shadow on the wall and the wind in the trees can make them seem more real than they are. But sometimes monsters are real and don’t creep around windows and closets. Sometimes monsters are much more sinister.
Sickle Cell, a cereal analogy
I’m working on a story about a little girl who beat sickle cell disease through a bone marrow transplant. It made me realize I really don’t know much about the disease. The little girl in the story was on oral morphine to curb the pain. Unfortunately, she needed to take other medications to curb the [...]
