Feston is 47 years old and a government data clerk from Malawi. He has three children who are all in school. His wife runs an online business to support her husband with household expenses.
One year ago, Feston began to experience troubling symptoms, including intense abdominal pains. He was rushed to the hospital for urgent treatment. He was diagnosed with a strangulated hernia. This led to urgent surgery, during which some part of the bowel was noted to be dead and was repaired. One week post-surgery, he was discharged. Feston became so weak, and the abdomen became distended.
Feston was rushed to our medical partner’s care center, Partners in Hope Medical Center, where doctors performed emergency surgery due to a leak and peritonitis, a serious, life-threatening inflammation of the thin tissue that lines the inner wall of the abdomen. A stoma, a surgically created opening on the surface of the body that connects an internal organ to the outside, was inserted to allow proper healing of injured areas.
Feston now needs a stoma reversal to complete his healing. Our medical partner, African Mission Healthcare, is requesting $1,244 to fund Feston’s surgery. On November 11th, he will undergo surgery, and once completed, this procedure will hopefully greatly improve his quality of life.
Feston shared, “I have been through a lot, and I am sure God has kept me for a purpose: I am already grateful for the love shown to me, whose results will be yielded post-surgery.”