“I remember him saying, prepare yourself and your son for a life of living hell,” said Linda Hubbard. “The emergency room doctor told me that. Why would he say something like that? But, you know, fast forward to now, he was telling the truth.”

In 1982, Linda Hubbard learned of her first-born son Brandon’s diagnosis of sickle cell anemia, a genetic disease that causes sudden, debilitating pain and weakness. Eleven years later, her third child, Braxton was born with the disease also.

Linda said, “That's the worst part about it; to see your child have excruciating pain.”

“Walking through the house, crunch down, holding my stomach. cause I’m in pain in my stomach and agony, pain and don't know what to do,” said Braxton Hubbard.

Linda said, “And there's nothing really you can do about it b

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