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The Sickle Truth With #BoldLipsForSickleCell

With all the ice water challenges flooding our feeds, the disease awareness movement is pretty much flooded!!! But wait there has been one other movement making waves on social media and that is #BoldLipsForSickleCell!!!! Even celebrities, like T-Boz from TLC, have taken notice to this quickly spreading awareness campaign. So we caught up on the founder, Shamonica Wiggins, to get the details of what's really going on with #BoldLipsForSickleCell..... How are you connected to sickle cell disease? I'm connected to Sickle Cell because I battle it everyday. Even as a small child I had to deal with complications from this illness. How has sickle cell disease affected your life? Sickle Cell has affected my life in MANY ways but the things that stick out the most are that I have to constantly plan around my illness. I can't just hop up and do things, I always have to consider the best interest of my health, and that is directly because of Sickle Cell. Where did the idea for #BoldL...