Breast Cancer Month

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Hi, Gang.

Quick one. If you read the Guardian you might have ran into that section where people talk about what it feels like to…So like, How it feels like to make your first million. How it feels like to have gall stones. How it feels like to learn how to ride a bicycle. How it feels like to be a woman in Davos. How it feels like to skydive. Or peel an apple using a saber. Or dye your hair yellow.

Now I have “borrowed” that concept and for the whole of this month – Breast Cancer Month – I will be doing a series of breast-cancer related stories around how it feels like…

They aren’t light stories. Cancer isn’t light. Cancer weighs of death. And death is heavy. So for this month we might not chuckle and be silly and entertain kina sijui Peter Wesh’s cutting insights and Cliff The Tall’s gallant pronouncement of his height. In fact, Cliff The Tall should put up a picture standing next to a street sign we see how tall he is.

Si we talk tomorrow?

But before then, let’s ask ourselves how we can participate in this month to make the world slightly freer from cancer.

Kesho, then.
Inshallah.

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  30. Great stuff Biko. Also doing a photography project on that note. Let’s preach the gospel of regular medical check up to detect cancer and give hope that it is curable.
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  34. Cancer has taken an enough number of my loved ones. Just enough. If there’s anything that I can do or anyone can do to stop it or prevent I am in. Thank you for the initiative BIKO. Will keep thinking of ideas.

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  38. Yesterday i walked at karura forest to raise funds for early detection, create awareness and treatment for cancer.
    This event was organised by women for cancer

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  41. Inshalla Biko,
    As we reflect about cancer Month, I would like to mention that one of my cousins was diagnosed with blood cancer earlier this year.
    He is 39 years old.
    He was lucky to realise early and went through Chemo at Aga Khan Hospital Nairobi.
    When all the requisite Chemos were done he was advised that all that was required of him was to do further follow up Chemos for a period of three years, Unfortunately, the cancer has relapsed and now his doctors at Aga Khan have advised him to leave for India ASAP. He now requires KES 7M for a bone marrow transplant.
    If you can, kindly help highlight the plight of this young man.
    His Name is Levin Kauyuri Kingori
    He has an Harambee on the 6th of this Month at CITAM Valley Road from 1500 HRS
    His phone number is 0720 997 347
    Mpesa Pay bill No. 830744 Acc No. LEVIN
    Hope to hear from you soon.
    Kind regards,
    Murithi

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  42. This is for good cause. I hope at the end of this October we shall all be more educated and supportive of those affected by cancer. Inshallah

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  49. Inshallah it is… Tomorrow it is all about serious business, cancer has taken one too many people. Hehehe Biko, every time i walk along the street in town and i run across those street signs hanging loosely advertising sijui printing, photocopy i have to literally bend over in order to not chomoa them away. It is that serious. Now that you have dared me to take a picture, i will do that and tag you on Instagram.

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  54. Fingers crossed for a pal. a growth on the tongue he is advised to remove it . Its cancerous. He is waiting to do another operation this week -hopefully the surgery sorts it. if not next solution is chemotherapy. Prayers the surgery sorts him.

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  58. Without wishing to be pedantic, it is actually In Shaa Allah meaning God willing. Inshallah means something different completely.

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  61. My late sister wrote a book Grace under fire before breast cancer put her to sleep permanently.Biko you should read t

    hat book.

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  64. Cancer is a terrible disease. Most people die anyway no matter what doctors do. I don’t know how to think positive in its face.

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  73. This cancer series breaks our hearts, so shocking. Sensitization will do us good. Looking forward to prostrate cancer insights

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