Meet Gladys, a middle aged woman battling a brain tumor. She is a mother to four children, aged between four and 16 years. Two of her girls are in secondary school. Her husband is a casual laborer in their rural area where he is employed to pick tea from different farms. Gladys used to work together with her husband before her illness. Together with their children, the family lives in a two roomed mud built house in Kenya, where rent is met from the small earnings of her husband.
In August 2015, Gladys experienced migraines and was diagnosed with typhoid which kept re-occurring until January 2016. After being treated in different hospitals with consistent complaints of head migraines, she had an X-ray done and was diagnosed with a brain tumor in February. Gladys has not been able to work as her eyesight has partially been lost. She has to rely on her husband to do most of her house chores. She also has troubled nights when the migraines strikes.
If not treated, Gladys will continue experiencing pain and risks having total eye sight loss. The risk of the tumor increasing will be imminent as well and this might result in premature death.
For $1,205, Gladys will undergo a craniotomy and tumor resection, performed by doctors at AIC Kijabe Hospital in Kenya.
“I hope to be well to help my husband in raising our family and to be free from the pain I am experiencing,” shares Gladys.
