Atlanta, Ga. (CBS46) – A 6-year-old boy named Adedunmade Odedina loves to read maps, see traffic patterns, and learn about the weather forecast. Adedunmade wouldn’t let his sickle cell diagnosis come to him.
But the disease can be deadly. It affects the shape of red blood cells, which can cause pain and damage to organs in the body.
Halimat Odedina, Adedunmade’s mother, said: ‘You have to go to the emergency room when you have this terrible pain.
Halimat said she and her husband spoke to their five-year-old daughter, Aderire. From the doctors, they discovered she was a match for her brother’s bone marrow transplant, which was the only cure for her son’s illness.
The little girl decided to help her big brother and give him blood.
Halimat said: “She was not scared because she really loved her brother.
Aderire was unfazed by the entire process – which took more than four hours.
Halimat said: “Even though I told her not to go to school today, she’s probably in pain, she said, ‘No,’ she just wants to go back to school.
Aderire’s brother is currently in the hospital receiving a bone marrow transplant. He is supposed to be fine.
Halimat said: “I told her, you are doing something really big for your brother.
Adedunmade will be in the hospital for another 4-6 weeks, and then he can go home and play with his sister again.
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