Tha Kee is a tenacious woman. She is 56-years-old and lives with her husband in Burma. The couple has a five-acre rice paddy and their work during the rainy season is what they must live on throughout the year.
Four years ago when she was lifting a heavy load, Tha Kee’s uterus prolapsed. She did not inform her family about her condition because she did not want to worry them. Since Tha Kee’s family does not have the funds for her medical treatment, when her uterus proplapses all she can do is try and push the prolapsed uterus back in again.
Currently, Tha Kee faces very serious physical pain in her back, neck, legs, and especially her abdomen. Her condition is very dangerous to her health. But she is resolute. “If I can stand, I will stand like this. If I can live like this, I will live like this,” she says.
While some of the treatment has been funded, it will take $1500 more to have Tha Kee’s uterus surgically removed. Our medical partners are certain that a hysterectomy will “ease her physical pain and enable her to live and work with her family once more without the constant threat of her condition.”
Tha Kee adds, “I will be happy, I think that I will want to say thank you to all the people who have helped me, it will be very good for me. I am not scared of anything: I want to have the operation. I am very happy that I have met this program and that I can find support for my treatment.”
Let's help Tha Kee out.