People with sickle cell disease call themselves warriors.

They battle their own bodies, and they too often must confront hospital workers who doubt their pain and a public that doesn’t understand their illness.

The fight begins at a very young age, which is something Alexis Lott knows well.

The 32-year-old marketing consultant was diagnosed with sickle cell when she was six weeks old.

She was in the ninth grade when the condition nearly caused her gall bladder to erupt.

”All of my bodily organs were infected from having a very high bilirubin level, or jaundice. I was literally glowing yellow, and my urine was the color of coffee,” said Lott, who splits her time between Columbus and Atlanta.

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