Painful condition can’t dampen grad’s ‘high hopes’ for the future

You wouldn’t know it to look at him, nor would you guess it based on his excellent grades, but Sam Greenway spent much of his senior year in pain he likens to “glass shards flowing through your veins.”

The recent East Grand Rapids High School graduate has sickle cell anemia, a disorder marked by misshapen, rigid red blood cells, which stick together and block the flow of oxygen to the rest of the body. This results in fatigue, inflammation, infection and extreme pain, which is the symptom Sam has struggled with the most.

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