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[quote author=~Bluetooth]Stop tripping and give us your medical opinion.WE NEED DOCTOR'S OPINION NOT RIFF-RAFFS'.[/quote]Bluetooth, one thing you should know is that most Nigerian doctors don't even research well into HBSS type of patients. please if you do not believe that SS patients suffer from malaria, do yourself a favour and visit the sickle cell centre in lagos, opposite LUTH.

queensmith: LOL- you are right I don't know where he's getting his information from. SS carriers cannot get malaria. hence the selective advantage.

i have SCD, and i have researched well into the facts, fiction and myths of SCD. Your average of mid 20s is a myth jus like abiku phenomenon. You can ask any doctor, malaria is in the top 5% killer sickness of SCD patients.

queensmith: Is that not one of the things they use to 'create awareness' of the disease back home? They say all sorts of things, they cant be tall, they all have yellow eyes, they can't kids. When I have a 5'10 model friend with SS who recently gave birth to a healthy boy.

and please if you are going to correct me replace it with the correct life expectancy. The one in my mind might not be true but the belief will be propagated as long as Nigeria fails to provide concrete medical facts.

Queensmith, there is no correct life expectancy age for an SCD patient. If a sickler understands his or her system and adhere stricktly to those medications that help him or her keep fit, then the person can well hope to live fulfilled life well into his or her 80s. Recently the sun newspaper carried a story of a woman with SCD who is into her 80s and she is still kicking and alive.

queensmith: God bless you, i was literally going to start crying if someone didn't mention this. Given the history of infant mortality, and the abiku phenomenon that someone mentioned. It only makes sense most will carry the traits. It's a selective advantage.

They should be working more on the malaria problem we have!

They need to start investing in better treatment of these patients, the prevalence isn't going away any time soon. They should be catering for them there is no need for them to be dying in their early 20s. The world has advanced beyond that point. If a country like England can provide better treatment for a disease that isn't even endogenous to it's own type of people then I don't see why Nigeria cannot.

And who says that SCD patients are prone to die in their twenties... please remove that concept from your mind. I agree that with better medical care SCD patients will live a more fulfilled life.

Nwa Teacher: SCD is mainly an African disease and Nigeria been the most populated country shows that the statistics is correct. My research work as a pharm. Chemist (Chartered) in antisickling drugs has shown that this disease can be cured with plants. I have 2 plants that can wipe SCD in African race. Oyibo man is not interested becos isn't dia sickness. I have presented a paper both on the local and international journals on this plants as antisickling drugs.

Please correct that notion. SCD is not an African disease, there are some caucausians with SCD. Yes, SCD is mostly found in people of African dissent. And again there is no known cure for SCD except bone marrow transplant. Your antisickling drugs can help correct some of the sickled blood cells, but it can not completely wipe it out.

chemberlin: We are cos of our stupidity and ignorance...that this alone can make us change our mind from getting married to some indiviuals base on who we are

i dnt really get u.. are u saying that SC should not get married b.cos of their genetic make up.
It is true that they have limited options when it comes to marriage, but if they should stick with people whose genotype are AA, there will be no fear of having SS children.

[quote author=~Bluetooth]We are number 1 in sickle cell and maybe number 1 in malaria too. . . .I thought they said people with sickle cell are immune to malaria ? Please, doctors help me out ![/quote]I am no doctor, but a carrier of SCD should as much as possible avoid malaria. Infact malaria is one the most fatal sicknesses to a sickler. the SCD patient should endeavour to take malaria preventive drugs at least once a month.

miky: hmm except for a bone marrow transplant with some serious high tech stem cell additives, there is no cure in sight!!! even developed countries are hapless,, and i doubt if just a single drug would be the answer...[b[b]] just like cancer [/b]you would go through various remedies spanning even months...

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hope you are not comparing cancer with sickle cell disease. unlike cancer, SCD is not a terminal illness. infact a carrier of SCD can have fun and fulfilling life if s/he knows how to manage the disease.
Medical science have advanced to such a stage that one can actually manage the disease with some degree of success.

acidtalk: Drunkard.

Oga barman, why u dey doubt am. person dream say im carry one hand push down house, you dey call am liar. abi you follow am for the dream.
abeg try do your work, go kia kia go get one alomo for me and nkwobi, i wan begin my own weekend.

so much HATE in Nigeria. Like I said on another thread, let us not forget the RWANDAN GENOCIDAL WAR. it started like this.
Nigeria of 2012 is far different from Nigeria of 1966. The blood that will be shed if thngs get out f hand will be better imagined. And it will have nothing to do with population of one religion/tribe against another.

Ex-Inferis, please you need to do a self re-evaluation. your post exlaining the ideology of Islam is way too deep for someone who condenscends too low to insult Jesus(Isa).

Though I do not support a military take over, but it is sad that our politicians never learn from past experiences. Why do we always adopt the strategy of cutting the nose to spite the face. If we should look back to what happened in Rwanda in the not too distant past, we will see a pattern forming in the present day Nigeria.
I dare to say that if President Jonathan does not put down this BH insurgents, he is setting up his govt. for a military take over or worst he is putting himself up for assassination.
But I still believe that the worst civilian govt is better than the best military govt(in theory).

I believe the Umana guy was a creation of IBB. or was he picked up and then eliminated by the regime of IBB, of course the money recovered from him going into private pockets. So with govt coming in into the picture, it will be easier to close the case and nothing will be heard of it again.

I have never been one to shout praises to our politicians. But Rochas Okorocha is really winning me over to his side.
For those doubting if it is possible, have you asked how it was possible for this guys foundation to run FREE SEC SCH IN SIX GEO POLITICAL ZONES of the country EVEN BEFORE HE BECAME A GOVERNOR.
With his present position as an executive Governor, he can easily draw international grants to help the funding of this project.

PLZ NEVER SAY NEVER.

What if the hubby is just refusing her the use of the car because he knows that she has not perfected her driving, and that could be a risk to her and the child's life.
Op, why not consider taking the cab option, while you pressure him to go with U on weekend driving, in a less populated area, till U perfect ur drivng.

My own Dame PEJ. Abeg free oga-madam joor

[quote author=tpia@]^^only a low IQ person will run with that type of story.[/quote]You don't need to resort to insults.I can actually see the level of your intelligence.

If my senses serve me right, nobody on the other thread said it was okay for the husband to cheat. All what I gathered was that DEATH is not the best possible punisment wish on a cheating spouse.
If I were to find myself in the scenerio you just descrbed, death will be the least of the things I will wish for a woman who bore my kids. Even if I am going to divorce her, it is still better I divorce her alive.

Like play like play they will sweep everything under the carpet. Of course na PDP family affair.
There is no way Otedola (the giver of the bribe) is going to jail in GEJ's adminstration. Farouk Lawan is going to be pressured along with other house members, and before you know it subsidy probe report and this very bribe scandal will die a very natural death.
Untill we are really tired of coruption Nigeria will keep going on in circus.

jennykadry: Op is suffering from a lost and never found womanhood problems A.k.a low or lost self esteem. Sir, some of us were not brought up to accommodate a serial cheat and even though some of you's laughed at browns post, things like that are what I am capable of doing. You cheat on me and expose me to STD and expect me to rejoice because your dry Nyash did not board a flight?

Marriage is not a do or die affair for me like that useless housewife of a OP who does nothin but spend her life on nairaland because of her joblessness due to illiteracy. You hear me sir?

Jenny, I ddnt know it was something person between you and the Op. I don't wish to get into an e-fight with anyone.
But, I hope you not seriously saying that you would prefer DEATH to be the best possible kind of punishment for a cheating husband, whom you had kids by? 'cos I wouldn't wish death to even my worst enemy.

jennykadry: ^^how sure am I? When I find out until then. . .

God forbid it, but you will agree with me that you still want him alive, even if you guys are seperated or divorced. At least, he is better off alive, for the sake of the children even though you will not wish to share your bed with him again.

No woman wants to share her man with another, also many women will not want to be widowed at a young age. Thus, what the op said has little to do with low self esteem.

jennykadry: Lol.

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Awon low self esteem oshi. a serial cheat is as good as dead to me anyways so what is your stupid point? Rejoice that my husband lied to myself and kids that he was traveling for some meeting unbeknownst to us he was sleeping with another woman in the same city. Abeg don't include me in your low self esteem crew. I danced with my father as a princess when I was a girl and even as an adult I still attend parties with him and dance with him on dance floors where I am treated like a princess, that alone boosted my Self esteem whilst growing up. I no join una mourning losers.

and how sure are you that the man you married is not already cheating on you. pls NEVER SAY NEVER. The op, is just saying that she is better off choosing the lesser of two evil. In other words even if she is going to quarrel with the man later, it is better he is alive than dead. At least you will agree with that most women will prefer to have the father of their "princess" alive even if divorced than dead.

vicoloni: I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT THE REPORT ON THE BLACK BOX OF THE CRASHED PLANE BEING FLOWN TO USA OR UK WILL NEVER BE MADE PUBLIC!

This is my thoughts exactly. If there is an iota of truth in thiss allegation ala rumour, then the FG will pay any price to make sure the truth does not see the light of day.

Please, I need to hear from PRO-GEJ supporters on NL. I have been refreshing this page for hours now. Abeg make una no fall my hand.

LeoMax: Bunkering as a word is not illegal. That is why you hear words like; illegal bunkering. Bunkering is supplying petroleum products to vessels or ship, much more like transportation of products. Get education felas

I want to go into the bunkering business when I grow up.

Blackteeth: President Obama was once said that there is a problem with America's politics. This statement is of the same class with what GEJ said. So why didnt Americans cut his head? Cos its a fact! Simple.

Saying that something is wrong with Americas politics is not the same as saying that something is wrong with the formation/creation of the American State.
GEJ, is not an ordinary citezen of Nigeria to make anyhow stateent without weiighing the consequences, if Truth be told He is Supposed to be the Last Man Standing when issues that threatens the Unity of the country comes up.
For Gods sake he is the PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA, and not the President of South-South.
He is their son but our PRESIDENT.

jamace: These numbers(08077446699 or 0810255581) are direct lines to ig -only short messages (SMS) :

Your SMS should contain the following:
-Quote the police Vehicle number /identification
-Quote the Officers name and numbers
-Time:
-State:
-Local Govt area:
-Type of illegal duty - Extortion of money,illegal road block/Check points e.t.c

shey na m go tell the police make him show me ID number. Abi na under duress wey I go begin dey cram police name & ID number?
The IG is still not ready to curb his men's excesses.

Most times Nigerian politics defies conventional reasoning. It could be PDP or ACN. RIP to the dead.

@CC, If the ladies most Naija guys meet in Nigeria are like what you describe, I doubt if so many guys will be complaining about girls being leeches. Most gals out there only contribute se.x to a relationship.
I have followed your comments on NL faithfully, and I can say your type is what a reasonable guy will be looking for. But it's hard these days to get a gal that contributes more than se.x to a r.ship these days.

please, anyone has GEJ good interest at heart should tell him to employ a speech writer. It's very embarrassing to hear a President talk like this.
The Party has supremacy over the constitution, abi... What manner of a President talks like that.

@Op, your husband is DEFINITELY CHEATING ON YOU.
Ah ah, what are you still doing there, I just confirmed it. He is cheating on you with that lady... emm emm, wait when I remember her name I will tell you.
U can pack out of the house for the mean time.

@Poster, am from Abia and I have not heard of any Abia awakening social network/page. But, all I want to say, is Thank You for making me aware of it. I will google it, and lend my voice in criticizing your Ochendo.
Watch this page , cos I will be posting quotes or opinion from the network.