Unfortunately, due to time restraint and having to keep up with my health as much as possible, ning starting to charge for their services to use this site, in addition to lack of members and participation, I am shutting down The Red Lane board. I appreciate all those you contributed and even those you signed up to show support.

If you would like to stay in touch with me...please do so. My email address is ladydujour08@yahoo.com.

Thank you EVERYONE for your support and stay strong.

Love always,

Lady Chi

Chi's Recommendations for Sickle Cell Support:

SCDAA: Sickle Cell Disease Association of America

Sickle Cell Information Center

The Tigaheye Foundation based in Washington, D.C.

Sickle Cell Timeline
1910 - Herrick provides the first formal description of sickle cell anemia when he reports that the blood smear of a dental student at the Chicago College of Dental Surgery contains "pear-shaped and elongated forms."

1927 - Hahn and Gillespie associate the sickling of red blood cells with low oxygen conditions.

1940 - Sherman reports that the sickling of red blood cells in the absence of oxygen is caused by a change in the hemoglobin molecule structure.

1948 - Watson suggests that the presence of fetal hemoglobin in the red blood cells of sickle cell newborns is the reason they do not show disease symptoms.

1949 - Noted physical chemist Linus Pauling and associates publish "Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease" in Science. This paper explains how protein electrophoresis was used to show that sickle cell hemoglobin differed in structure from normal hemoglobin. This was the first time that the cause of a disease was linked to a change in protein structure.

1956 - Vernon Ingram and J.A. Hunt sequence hemoglobin and discover that the change of a single amino acid in the protein sequence is the cause of sickle cell anemia.

1978 - Flavell prepares maps of the human beta and delta globin genes .

1995 - Upon the completion of the Multicenter Study of Hydroxyurea in Sickle Cell Anemia, Charache reports that the anticancer drug hydroxyurea is the first to reduce the frequent, painful complications that characterize sickle cell disease .

Timeline References
Brief History of Sickle Cell Disease. Joint Center for Sickle Cell and Thalassemic Disorders. (February 25, 2001) and Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, OMIM (TM). Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. MIM No. 141900 (November 6, 2001) .