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Mercyline was a single mother. She lived in Nairobi with her 8-year-old daughter, Anna. She worked as a laundress and was just about managing to make ends meet. The child’s father had not been seen for years. She had no other ‘well-wishers’.
For about two years, the young woman had been suffering from severe lower abdominal pain caused by a long-standing pelvic inflammatory infection (adnexitis). Mercyline required a lower abdominal laparoscopy (or laparotomy) to break up inflammation-induced adhesions and remove the suspected encapsulated collection of pus in her lower abdomen.
Unfortunately, Mercyline grew impatient during the protracted diagnostic process – two years of chronic lower abdominal pain was simply too long and too much to bear. But read what Dottie writes:
Mercy had presented with lower abdominal pain and had sought medical attention at St Mary’s Mission Hospital without success. She managed to have a scan carried out, which revealed distal tubal distension and tortuosity, with delayed spill bilaterally ”…“ In conclusion, Mercy had bilateral distal hydrosalpinges with fimbrial phimosis and pelvic adhesions.
Unfortunately, she grew impatient, could no longer bear the pain, and returned to her home village in the countryside to seek herbal treatments, where she reportedly died around November 2013.
Dottie
Nevertheless, we would like to thank all the donors who wanted to help Mercyline and, in doing so, her daughter too!