After decades of watching their daughter Jasmine, 36, live with sickle cell disease, James and Cheryl Wilson have hope for a cure. The diagnosis was especially frightening because Cheryl’s sister also had sickle cell disease and later died after living into her 50s. James said sickle cell disease is an excruciating condition, with pain patients have compared to being stabbed in their bones. James hopes Jasmine can eventually use her experiences to encourage other people living with sickle cell disease. “We’d like to create some type of platform for Jasmine to reach out to other sickle cell patients,” he said.