My battle with breast cancer

In 2022, she was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer, having felt a lump in her breast in 2018. 

All along, tests showed she was cancer-free, despite the lump that kept persisting. In late 2021, she got pregnant, and when her baby came, the lump got bigger. 

She went back to the hospital and was advised to do a biopsy, which showed she had breast cancer. 

The cancer was at stage 4. 

"It was shocking to mean. I thought the next thing for me is dying and getting buried. I didn't go to the hospital because I knew I was dying," Wanjiku says. 

She stopped breastfeeding and waited for her end. She stopped everything, including not going to church. She was in denial. 

It was her church that encouraged her to go to the hospital and start chemotherapy.

"I was not in any pain all this time. When I was put on my first chemo, I started paining. I stop the chemo," she adds.

It was her church that encouraged her to continue the treatment. 

She did six chemos, which she says changed her body significantly. Doctors told her the cancer had spread from the lungs to the liver. 

After the six chemos, scans showed that the cancer had become dominant. 

Wanjiku says the cancer treatment drained her financially, and she needed well-wishers to help raise more funds for the treatment. 

"Right now I need to take my injection, and in Kenyatta hospital, there was no medicine. So I had to look for the medicine elsewhere and it's very expensive. I have not had my medicine yet because I can't afford it," she adds.

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