Colonel Mustafa’s mother narrated her battle with cancer while being filled with tears.
In an interview with Mungai Eve, Mustafa’s mother started by explaining that she began having a little pain in 2021.
However, she did not think it was a threatening disease because she had a problem with Ulcers. When she went to the hospital, she was given medicine and after taking it and getting a little better, she stopped taking it.
She added that later the pain increased from January 2022 and even when she went to the hospital she was told by the doctor that sometimes she was suffering from malaria, sometimes UTI.
“I went to the hospital to be tested for cancer in Tanzania, but after being tested up to the breast, the doctor told me I don’t have cancer, I was told I’m fine, but now I asked what’s bothering me? The doctor told me that it might be the cervix that is bothering you, so I went and had an ultrasound, the results were that I was told that my kidney has fluid and that the UTI is what caused it and it also affects the kidney.
“Then I was given medicine and I used it for about a month, but the pain is still there. Returning to the hospital and undergoing an ultrasound, I was told that the kidneys have stones,” Mustafa’s mother explained while crying.
Mustafa’s mother said his sons insisted that she leave Tanzania and come to Kenya, but she refused and decided to go see a kidney doctor. The doctor gave her advice and gave her painkillers, but she was overwhelmed as her health deteriorated.
Colonel Mustafa’s mother told her sister to change the doctor because her condition was bad so her sister called her friend who helped them get the number of a doctor who is a kidney expert.
“We called the kidney doctor and he said that he is not in Tanzania, maybe we should wait after a week and I was feeling like it was ten years because the pain I had was that I didn’t sleep day or night and I was 96 kg and I lost a lot because I was not eating and I was vomiting.
“When the doctor came he sent me to go for a CT Scan and I found that my back was affected and there is a tumor that has spread to the kidney because it has eaten the kidney, eaten a little liver and eaten two blood vessels and the spine,” explained the mother.
The mother said that it was then that her sister bought her a plane ticket to Kenya for treatment.
She said that when she was taken to the hospital the doctor, after looking at the CT Scan paper, advised them to go to the Kijabe hospital.
They went to the hospital and were able to give a sample of her blood so that it could be tested. After two weeks the results came out and they were told that she has cancer but it was manageable.
Then they looked for a cancer doctor and after finding him and being tested, they found that his mother’s kidney was severely affected by cancer.
“After two weeks, the doctor tested to see if my lungs and liver could withstand the cancer drug and I was a little better, so I started treatment. That’s when I started to improve a little, thank God. In particular, the pain reduced until I could sleep, that is a very big step and I thank God Alhamdulillah,” Mama Mustafa said
