In June 2015, Purity felt a lump on her left breast. She had been to various hospitals with no clear diagnosis until April 2016, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and a mastectomy was recommended. Purity requires this treatment but is not able to raise the amount needed for surgery.
Purity is a young mother of one child aged one and a half years old. She recently opened a small business in Nairobi to earn a living after an earlier business failure. Purity is also supported by her brothers as she is not yet stable financially to fully rely on herself. Her parents are not financially stable and so she can not rely on them.
Purity experiences pain on her left breast where she has a lump. Purity has emotional stress due to the thoughts of having cancer and the risks associated with cancer. She prefers being alone. If not treated, Purity risks having cancer spread to other parts of her body which might result to premature death.
After the treatment, risk of cancer spreading to other parts of Purity’s body and possibly causing death will be reduced. Purity will also be free to work and raise her young child.
“I want to get well, raise awareness about cancer, and raise my child,” Purity said.