“I cannot give you children,” Nyambura told Njenga one time they had gone out. In fact, Nyambura’s kidney doctor had told her – much like her mother did – that she would never become pregnant. The whole of her right side – right eye, right hand, right leg, right side of her mouth – became numb and droopy. And the nephrologist, upon performing tests, told her she had kidney failure and needed to start dialysis. The doctor insisted that I needed to start dialysis or I do kidney transplant,” she says.

Source: Standard Digital September 28, 2020 06:00 UTC