Noted author Judy Gray Johnson's first book Living With Sickle Cell Disease: The Struggle To Survive was well received. After reviewing comments, she decided that she had a lot more to say which prompted her to write Resilience: Coping with Sickle Cell Disease. This book strengthens the resolve for those suffering from sickle cell disease in particular and anyone that may have a disability. This should be recommended reading for parents, educators, and anyone in the workplace who supervise those who may be classified as disabled. In these pages you will learn: How to effectively work with those who don't fit the mold of expectations within the family, at school, and/or the work place. How to place responsibility for individual production on all stake holders: the disabled, the parent, the supervisor. How to concentrate on what the disabled can do rather than on what they can't do. How to go beyond the American for Disability Act (ADA) and feel good about it.

Judy Gray was four when the pain first struck. As mysterious as it was excruciating, Judy's anguish confounded the local doctor, who advised her mother to apply liniment. It was not until Judy was a teenager that another doctor informed her aunt of the real cause of Judy's agony - something called sickle cell anemia. The social mores of that time, however, dictated that adults discussed nothing of substance with children. So Judy learned little about her ailment other than it could cause her to die. A frightened Judy simply put sickle cell disease out of her mind and suffered in silence as she went on with her life. Readers will follow Judy's journey through college, a teaching career, a short-lived marriage, and the raising of a daughter while enduring severe pain episodes. All the while, exhaustion was her constant companion. Living with Sickle Cell Disease: The Struggle to Survive is a story of Judy Gray Johnson's perseverance in the face of living with a little-understood chronic illness.