Steady Making It
Steady Making It is a podcast created to encourage you to build a life that you love with intention, one step at a time. Hosted by Tobi Christina, each episode serves as a friendly reminder that life is a journey and you should embrace the process as you go along. You can expect to hear self-development advice and strategies or be inspired through real conversations with women. From life and work to everything in between - think of Tobi as your personal cheerleader through it all.
Steady Making It
Episode 5: Boldly Living in Your Truth, Protecting Your Mental Health with a Chronic Illness, and Life with Sickle Cell Anaemia, ft Iggie Aikhomu, Sickle Cell Advocate
In today’s episode, Iggie shares her journey living with Sickle Cell Anaemia. We talk about why she decided to document her experience living with a chronic illness online, having to grow up faster than her friends, common misconceptions people have about Sickle Cell, why she decided to get a bone marrow transplant, how she felt freezing her eggs and how she managed to protect her mental health through it all.
Iggie Aikhomu is a 21-year old Sickle Cell Advocate and Founder of The Ehime Foundation. Iggie lives in the United Kingdom and is in university studying nutrition.
Follow Iggie’s foundation on Instagram @ehimefoundation
Here are some other advocacy pages: Instagram @hersickledjourney, www.sicklecellsociety.org, www.scdcoalition.org, https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/sicklecell/documents/tipsheet_supporting_students_with_scd.pdf
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Music Credit
Afternoon Tea by Mona Wonderlick https://soundcloud.com/monawonderlick
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