Isabelle Harrison didn't have her own cellphone in high school and was often missing recruiting calls from college coaches. She dialed up her older brother, Daniel, on a landline and the following weekend he came back home to Nashville, Tennessee, to set her up with a line on his plan.
“It’s just been hard,” Harrison told Yahoo Sports, a deep sigh indicating the weight it holds on her family. “I want to be able to promote his story and bring awareness to lupus in general to let people know how chronic of a disease it is. [It’s] very prevalent in the African American community. All of my life, I’ve experienced this and seen it with my family, so I think I was put in a position to basically be telling his story and everyone else’s story.
“I feel like I’ve never been able to drive a campaign behind it,” said Harrison, who played for the Lupus Foundation of America in each of her two AU seasons and will continue her advocacy in WNBA pregame and postgame interviews. “Now, I have. … Hopefully, this is the last year that he has to deal with not finding a donor.”Three of the 12 children born to Ida, a longtime nurse, and Dennis, a former NFL Pro Bowl defensive end, have been diagnosed with lupus.
David was also concerned and immediately took Daniel to see their father at Vanderbilt University, where he was an assistant football coach. They went to the hospital and doctors ran tests, ultimately determining it was lupus. He said he was told he probably wouldn't be able to play sports since he might not be able to walk, and was treated with Cytoxan,“Every kind of bad news you could possibly want, you hear at the age of 13,” said Daniel, who continued to play sports in high school.
“That was going great. I was living my best life,” Daniel said. “But living in this area of America there’s something called Ohio River Valley Disease.”often called Ohio River Valley Fever, is an infection caused by inhaling a fungus from the air or water and most people who contract it fight it off without an issue. Those with weakened immune systems, like Daniel, have a higher chance of complications from it.
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