By KAREN MBUYA MURIUKIMore by this AuthorGillian Mutinda, 31, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, also known as bone cancer, when she was 20. He gave me an ointment to rub on the shoulder and some pain killers but the pain was still the same. My doctors said that the cancer cells were lodged in such a way that they could not operate on the tumour. But I turned to alcohol to numb the feelings and emotions that came with the trauma of the cancer I had survived. I have always thought how funny it is that people would expect cancer to follow alcoholism yet it was the complete opposite for me.

Source: Daily Nation March 07, 2019 07:41 UTC