November marks National Family Caregivers Month, honoring the nearly one in four U.S. adults who provide essential, often unpaid care — a strain particularly acute in Florida, where 4.45 million adults serve as family caregivers.

For mothers like Sabrina Darling and Ebony Stevens, who shoulder the unrelenting demands of caring for children with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), this month highlights a lifelong reality: emotional exhaustion, financial strain, and constant advocacy in a system that often misunderstands the illness.

The introduction to SCD

Sabrina Darling's sons, when they were babies, were told they wouldn't live past 21. They are now 29 and 31. (Courtesy of Sabrina Darling)

For Darling, the mother of two adult sons with SCD, the diagnosis was an abrupt and terrifying

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