28/10/2025
CEREBRAL PALSY ISN'T INHERITED⚠️⚠️
This is a very heart breaking experience 💔 💔
As an occupational therapist, i have ever gone into various hospitals including the KENYATTA NATIONAL HOSPITAL (KNH) MACHAKOS LEVEL 5 TEACHING AND REFERRAL HOSPITAL .
Now listen, i have always wanted to understand my clients not only their condition/s but also their social life at large, be it during the first assessment day or during ongoing therapy sessions when i rebook them for clinics.
Am a person of empathy not sympathy, now, while at machakos hospital, i couldn't tell why most of the care givers were mothers who used to bring in their little innocent angels to clinics, most of them looking stressed, devastated and with no hope of their children's condition. in a way week i recorded a zero case of a male/father care givers who either accompanied their spouses to the clinic.💔
Now, as days passed , my curiosity could not curiousify🤣 me any more,i decided to interview every mother who came in for their child's clinic and i sought to do this during therapy sessions.
I posed a question professionally to avoid being insensitive to them, of course most of them i knew were stressed up.
This is how i did it,,.
"mama so and so,, are you married? ,, now this is where the whole conversation could start, and i would get the whole information I wished to get.
Now see their responses.
Most of them they just first took a deep breath 😭 😭 paused and then they could start narrating.
✅✅more than 80% of these mothers were single mothers who were once happily married but their dream husbands ran away after a doctor broke the news of a condition that their son/daughter suffered from.
ACCUSATIONS FROM HUSBAND/HUSBAND'S FAMILY
Most of these now single mothers, reports and i quote,"sisi kwa familia yetu hatujawai zaa mlemavu, wewe ndio umezaa na hatuwezi weka mlemavu kwa hii nyumba" 😭😭💔 end of quote, what followed after this statement is neglects ,and lack of support.
