“But I think that should be up to the kid later.” Asked why, he reflected for a moment and then continued slowly. “There’s a lot of things that I learned having sickle cell. Because I had it, I learned patience with everyone. I learned how just to be positive.” But would he like to have been born without sickle cell? Again, he pauses. “No, I don’t wish that I’d never had it,” he says. “I don’t think that I would be me if I didn’t have sickle cell.”
