S1 · E5 · Nov 2025📅 Season 1 · Episode 5 · November1 hr 1 min
🎗️ 360° SCD Hub Monthly Insights · the November highlights broadcast
Monthly Insights — November: Protect the Gift
November trades the physician panel for something rawer — a father, a veteran, and the community health worker who made his sons feel like Santa Claus had walked in.
November’s Monthly Insights belongs to a family’s lived experience — and a throughline about listening to your body. Every quote below plays the exact moment from the broadcast — just tap it. (Video link is being finalized — quotes and timestamps are ready to go live the moment it’s attached.)
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The community health worker at the bedside
Mark Morales, a Phoenix community health worker who came to the Foundation through an ASU certificate program, recounted visiting hospitalized twins in crisis — and being changed by it.
And just seeing their eyes light up when I walked into the room, I was not expecting that at all.
Mark Morales · Community Health Worker, Sickle Cell Foundation of Arizona
▶ Tap-to-play readyDeep-links the broadcast the moment its video link is attachedSpoken at 13:11
Those twins belong to Cedric McKethan of Goodyear, a disabled Army veteran with sickle cell trait whose sons are treated at Phoenix Children’s. He described what the Foundation means to a family in crisis.
Having the foundation is another cushion, another buffer. Providing resources or phone calls or just being there with you so you don't feel so alone when you're going through this.
Cedric McKethan · Parent & U.S. Army veteran living with sickle cell trait
▶ Tap-to-play readyDeep-links the broadcast the moment its video link is attachedSpoken at 16:36
Know your status — trait and disease
Dr. Rob Gillio wove in his own screening story — a hidden genetic background discovered late — to hammer the universal message.
So I would encourage anyone out there, get screened for a sickle cell, as well as the other things your state has to offer.
Dr. Rob Gillio · Chief Medical Officer, The Force for Health Network
▶ Tap-to-play readyDeep-links the broadcast the moment its video link is attachedSpoken at 25:15
It landed for Moses Akpan, who pointed to the flyer that captures why silent damage is so dangerous.
There is this flyer that says the pain is loud, that the damage is silent.
Moses Akpan · Founder & President, Sickle Cell Foundation of Arizona
▶ Tap-to-play readyDeep-links the broadcast the moment its video link is attachedSpoken at 1:00:08
Protect the gift
As the circle came around, Coach Lucy Howell named the show’s tag — and the reason cold weather, dehydration, and holiday stress get so much airtime in a sickle cell show.
Every single day that you can breathe and move is a gift. You'll notice our tag is protect the gift.
▶ Tap-to-play readyDeep-links the broadcast the moment its video link is attachedSpoken at 58:14
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✏️ Editor’s note: Guest Dr. Yvette Miller was scheduled but bumped to a later episode by a tech failure. Cedric’s surname and family details are transcribed from captions and flagged for confirmation.
📄 Source: Monthly Insights — November: Protect the Gift — Monthly Insights, 360° SCD Hub / Sickle Cell Foundation of Arizona, powered by the Force for Health Network. Full broadcast. Quotes are verbatim from the broadcast captions; each plays the exact moment. Educational content; not a substitute for personalized medical advice.