GBHS Student Dies After Lifelong Battle with Sickle Cell Disease
Media reports say Ty’Niajah Devonshire, 15, died after showing symptoms consistent with bacterial meningitis.
Ty’Niajah Devonshire, the junior at Glen Burnie High School who died Tuesday after suddenly falling ill a day earlier, had been fighting illness her entire life, according to reports. Before her untimely death, Devonshire was in and out of hospitals much of her adolescent life, battling a sickle cell disease from childbirth. By the time she was 10, she had been hospitalized 30 times, according to a 2007 report from The Baltimore Sun. Devonshire's sister, A'Niayah, reportedly died in 2001 at age 6 after also suffering from sickle cell disease. According to Anne Arundel County Public Schools, whose officials consulted with the county's health department, the student died after showing symptoms consistent with bacterial meningitis. The …
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Taralynn Taylor
2:23 pm on Friday, December 21, 2012
Mz. V, I wholeheartedly agree with you. I feel as though we have been forgotten. Where are the sponsors? The fundraisers? When I mention sickle cell anemia to people, 9 times out of 10 their response is, "What's that??" Really? The medical community needs to do better. more ›