Suzanne Gordon:  

25 years later - WOW! Got baptized in 1990 and have been a member of the Church of Christ since. Got married in 1992, had kids in 1994, 1995, 1999 and 2003. I was a paralegal on Long Island, then after my 2nd child, moved to ATL and have been a home manager (stay at home mom) since. Filled my days with volunteer work at church, the kids school and their sports - I'm a baseball mom, not a soccer mom. We did do a few seasons of soccer, but always did baseball. The past 2 years, I've coached cheerleading (7 & 8 yr olds) for the county - as if my knees agreed. Now that I have a girl, there's also dance. Our 2 babies (9 and 5 now) have sickle cell disease. I didn't know I carried the trait until we were planning our wedding and my future mom-in-law asked. I had to call my mom for the answer. We didn't know or hear about anything severe about the disease until we began that journey for ourselves. SICKLE CELL DISEASE... YOU HAVE NO IDEA! Unless you've been there. The ...Expand for more