Sickle cell “warrior” Juveiane Richards lives with the inherited disease that he knows from experience can deliver episodes of pain known as pain crisis. Often, you can find him in the company of caregiver Ashton Davis at Carpenter’s House at 35 West Brooks Rd.
Richards and Davis, a published author and college student, were chilling last week as Michael A. Jackson, an advocate providing program support for The Sickle Cell Foundation of Tennessee, started giving a tour of the house that Kenneth Carpenter and his wife, Dr. Terri Carpenter, donated to the foundation five years ago.