“The bleeding is making it difficult for me to go and work in my neighbor’s houses,” shares Alice. “I really hope that Watsi will help me so that I can get well and be able to care for my children.”
Say hi to Alice, a 45-year-old single mother of two from Kenya. “Her younger child is in secondary school form four and the older one is at home after completing form four,” explains our medical partner, African Mission Healthcare Foundation (AMHF). “Alice does laundry and cleans houses for neighbors to earn money to meet her family’s basic needs.”
For three years, Alice has been experiencing lower abdominal pain and heavy bleeding with clots caused by bleeding masses in her uterus, called fibroids. According to AMHF, an ultrasound scan exposed “large intramural fibroids wit the largest being 5.6 cm by 3.7 cm.” If Alice doesn’t receive treatment, the fibroids will continue to grow, affecting the surrounding body organs, and she will be at risk for anemia due to heavy bleeding.
A surgeon at AMHF has recommended a total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH), a surgery Alice is unfortunately unable to afford. We can fund a successful TAH for $790. “We expect after a TAH, Alice will be relieved from the heavy bleeding and pain. She will no longer be at risk of anemia,” describe AMHF doctors. “Alice will recover and be able to work so that she can provide for her family.”