As a NICU nurse at Akron Children’s, Rita Vitale is no stranger to caring for the tiniest, most fragile patients. However, she never expected that the same hospital would provide critical care to her 82-year-old mother, Sylvia. In 2020, during the height of the COVID pandemic, Sylvia began developing red patches on her scalp that […]
Local teen celebrates high school milestones while living with sickle cell disease
Dazuan Kidd isn’t unlike other 18-year-olds who recently attended their proms and high school graduations. What makes this recent Kenmore-Garfield High School grad different is he lives with a painful genetic condition called sickle cell disease. Sickle cell disease is a red blood cell disorder that causes red blood cells to become misshapen or “sickled” […]
