CRISPR Transformed Her Life With Sickle Cell Disease

About six or seven months after receiving what she calls her “super cells,” Victoria Grey woke up to a feeling she didn’t recognize — nothing.

“The room felt extra bright that morning,” she recalls. “I sat up in bed and I felt nothing. I thought I was dead.”

What followed was a moment of fear, self-checks, and a call for her children — not because anything was wrong, but because she needed to know she was still here. That hug from her kids confirmed it.

“And that’s when I had my moment that, ‘My God, this worked. I’m better.’ This is what normal feels like.”