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Judy Gray was four when the pain first struck. As mysterious as it was excruciating, Judy's anguish confounded the local doctor, who advised her mother to apply liniment. It was not until Judy was a teenager that another doctor informed her aunt of the real cause of Judy's agony - something called sickle cell anemia. The social mores of that time, however, dictated that adults discussed nothing of substance with children. So Judy learned little about her ailment other than it could cause her to die. A frightened Judy simply put sickle cell disease out of her mind and suffered in silence as she went on with her life. Readers will follow Judy's journey through college, a teaching career, a short-lived marriage, and the raising of a daughter while enduring severe pain episodes. All the while, exhaustion was her constant companion. Living with Sickle Cell Disease: The Struggle to Survive is a story of Judy Gray Johnson's perseverance in the face of living with a little-understood chronic illness.

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Judy Gray Johnson has nearly 40 years of experience in public education, having taught elementary, middle, and high school in Virginia and Maryland. She holds a Master's Degree in Special Education from Virginia State University, in Petersburg, Virginia, and a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education from South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Ms. Johnson is also certified in the Commonwealth of Virginia as an Elementary and Secondary School Principal. She completed the coursework for the doctorate in Educational Administration & Supervision from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. For three years, she served as president of the Fairfax County Federation of Teachers (the second-largest teachers union in the state of Virginia, ) representing teachers and aides in the largest school district in the state of Virginia.

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