five-year-old girl living with an inherited blood disorder called sickle cell disease. Tanwa is fun and intelligent and she narrates how sickle cell affects her. She is the middle child with four brothers and many cousins. Like every five-year-old, she wants to play and have fun but sometimes she is limited by her condition. Tanwa learned to pray to God for strength and healing and she understands that she needs to stay hydrated to help her body not go into a sickle cell crisis.

Tanwa's mother encourages her to have fun and find reasons to laugh because laughter is the best medicine.