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| Ruth Wairimu and one of her children. [Silas Nyamweya, Standard] downloaded |
For Ruth Wairimu, happiness is an alien term. The 38-year-old-woman is only familiar with sorrow.
Wairimu suffers from condition she doesn’t understand that has seen her legs amputated later in life to save her but consigning her to a wheelchair.
Ruth Wairimu claims she was born with a strange disease that paralysed her legs. Three years after marriage doctors told her it was too late to reverse her condition; that her legs did not have enough bone mass to support them.
She was further informed that to prevent further spread of the condition to other parts of the body, her legs had to be amputated. The 2006 surgical operation lasted almost six hours.
“This experience has changed my life for worse,” she says.
In 2010, Wairimu delivered her first son, Victor Karanja who was healthy at age 14 when he began developing complications.
