Comments on: Sickle-Cell Anemia isn’t Half-bad!

By: GLEN

GLEN — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:52:00 +0000

Hi, I’m Glen, a 46 yr old sickle cell anemic. Married to a beautiful and wonderful woman who has given me
3 handsome men they are 22, 21, and 13 years of age. Sickle cell anemia is more than half BAD. I deal with
pain every day and live with it without complaint. It is more than half BAD when you go to the hostpital and
the Doctor enters the room and asks me how long have I had Sickle Cell Disease, that when I get very angry.
It does not help when the hospital think you are there to get a fix. I do every thing I’m suppose to do. I go to
my doctors appointment, I take my medicine, and eat healthy. So I do hope you see some good things. As
for me I must take Sickle Cell Anemia very serious until there is a CURE for children and Adults.!

By: Kenny

Kenny — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:56:31 +0000

This was a very informative blog. I have a friend who has sickle-cell anemia and I know of the struggles that she goes through as far as health issues are concerned. She often has been hospitalized for various reasons some more serious than others. In this post there was essential information in it that gave me a better understanding about Sickle-Cell and why people with it have the episodes that they do.

By: Thing #4: Blogosphere voices | online technology

Thing #4: Blogosphere voices | online technology — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:19:26 +0000

[...] comments and posts by students were quite striking especially site on sickle cell anemia which is actually about heterozygote advantage. The original post was entertaining and [...]

By: Thing 4:Blogging Styles | web 2.0 learning

Thing 4:Blogging Styles | web 2.0 learning — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:23:48 +0000

[...] is similar because you can convey scientific inforation, much like a text b ook (http://missbakersbiologyclass.com/blog/2010/01/25/sickle-cell-anemia-isnt-half-bad/). Even thought Stevie was conveying scientific information, it was interesting. He was able to [...]

By: Thing 4: Comments on Blog Reading | We Think in Words

Thing 4: Comments on Blog Reading | We Think in Words — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:19:37 +0000

[...] Sickle-Cell Anemia isn’t Half-bad!: This class’s Extreme Biology blog in general, and this post and its responses in particular, blow away the idea that students might be at all complacent if left to their own devices to simply blog away on academic matters. No “Nice post!” responses here–students responded to what they read by going out and doing further research on their own, prompted by their own curiosity generated by their classmate’s post. [...]

By: Thing 4: Response to Exploratory Reading and Questions | Principal 2.0

Thing 4: Response to Exploratory Reading and Questions | Principal 2.0 — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:55:44 +0000

[...] kids may be using all sorts of technology, but they may not be using it to its best advantage. Sickle-Cell Anemia isn’t Half-bad! makes a fine template for how kids might blog in order to construct and share knowledge for their [...]

By: Thing 4: Response to Exploratory Reading & Questions | Principal 2.0

Thing 4: Response to Exploratory Reading & Questions | Principal 2.0 — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:47:39 +0000

[...] examples of the best educational use of technology that I have seen are found in these blogs. Sickle-Cell Anemia Isn’t Half-bad! could be the template for how kids could blog in order to construct and share knowledge for their [...]

By: Reading the blogs of others | Just Connect

Reading the blogs of others | Just Connect — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:51:15 +0000

[...] Sickle-Cell Anemia Isn’t Half-Bad – I wanted to see how a high school biology teacher could use a blog with her class, providing provocative information in a visually interesting way, and how her students responded to her question, and what they had to know in order to explore the topic further. [...]

By: victor

victor — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:59:17 +0000

Cool post! When doing research on deseases that can benefit a human body I was unable to find much. However after thinking a bit more, I came to the conclusion that common deseases such as colds can make you less vonarble to other deseases. This is not due to the cold it’s selfe but to the reaction your body has due to the cold. One of the reactions you body has when it detects a cold is nasal congestion, which helps keep other viruses away. Altough many do not apreciate nasal congestions, it is essential when it comes to keeping your body healthy. Here is some more information on nasal congestion. http://www.entnet.org/HealthInformation/stuffyNose.cfm

By: Michael L.

Michael L. — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:27:42 +0000

I really liked this post. I didn’t know that sickle-cell anemia was mostly a disease found in Africa. I did however find a disorder that mostly effects the caucasian population, it is called cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis is a very serious and usually death causing disorder. This disorder causes the body to produce an excess amount of mucus that is very thick. The problem with this kind of mucus is that it does not flow through organs easily witch causes clogging witch is a serious problem.In the same way as sickle-cell anemia it is inherited and can be prevented by a heterozygous advantage.

http://kidshealth.org/teen/diseases_conditions/digestive/cystic_fibrosis.html
http://www.ionchannels.org/showabstract.php?pmid=1724059