16/11/2025
Trigger warning, I have been afraid to share this but several people have asked to know: Starting you off with some happier recent pics (slides 2, 3 & 4) before I explain what happened earlier in August (Slide 1, 5-20):
I was in a car accident; I still look at the car as a miracle, everyone who was in there is alive! End of August, I was going on a work trip with my colleagues to Kisumu; an hour and a half away from Kisumu, we were in Kericho when our van was hit by a lorry, those huge lorries used for building sites. My colleagues, the driver and I were bruised all over, it felt like we had been beaten up. The excruciating pain of having what I thought was a broken leg, x-rays in Kisumu showed no damage but an MRI revealed a completely torn ligament in the knee. Add to that laceration to the neck from the seat belt (better that than what could have happened if we hadn't worn our seatbelts). I had never been this injured before, nor had I ever known pain as a marathon, where your body is in pain every day, till you wish you could take your body off and sit in your spirit for a break.
September I was flown back to Nairobi while my colleagues stayed in Kisumu and completed the cohort course as their bruising healed. Our driver had a fractured leg and got to surgeries to repair it, he is now undergoing rehabilitation and recovering with his family. My leg was very swollen from the injury, we had to wait for it to go down before surgery could be performed to repair it (SHA works by the way).
Surgery was done on Oct 2nd, I was issued several meds for the healing and we did reviews every 2 weeks with the surgeons for progress and advice on what to do and not to do for healing. God-willing I am hoping to be back to work before the end of November.
Having the support and love of dear friends, from my family and community, to the DJs and everyone who helped or reached out with words of comfort and encouragement, you are all so many to count, it was a scary experience, a lot of emotions and tears, thank you for not letting me walk alone! 🫂❤️🩹
