Friday, 4 December 2015

Stroke a longtime disability with no class

A 31 old mother of four is now forced to sit down in her compound and wait for her seventeen year old daughter to serve her.
Joyce Jerono who resides in Kapkut area of Baringo county sub county said got paralysed due to meningitis since 2013 to which she was in a comma for six months.
Jerono laments that the disease has paralysed her left arm and two legs rendering her unable to do daily duties to a point of  being carried on a homemade stretcher.

Her husband Joseph Komen said he takes her on a daily basis for a therapy at Kabarnet refferal hospital at a cost of sh 100 per day.
Komen said is forced to work as a casual labourer at the same time look after her hailing wife especially when children go to school.
"All family projects are stand still from the time my wife got sick even firm work is a challenge despite selling all that we had," Komen mourned.
Komen stated that he has to look for a taxi to take her to the hospital close to 3km from home which charges sh 800 per day.
The husband said friends and relatives have done all they can to assist the family and has hope that her wife shall be well soon irrespective of what they have gone through.



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