 Good morning to you Karubu back to Y254 TV in case you're just getting to join us. This is why in the morning hashtag WCW and strength of a woman and end of this week's strength of a woman is something that I'm super excited about. This is not a new face actually. Usheona, those people you interview and you feel am I supposed to, una feel kama John, the baptist Khmanyana Semanga, whoever is coming I'm not even supposed to tie the shoelace, this is that case. But the woman in question today is a very strong woman, a superwoman who's gone through quite a lot and has emerged victorious. So without further ado, because she's not new, she's I na feel vizuri kwaeka kwa suspense but drum rails. Thank you so much. I was wondering what kind of an introduction do I give him? Very very that one is a superb one. So in case guys you didn't know she's Faith Mutsoli. Faith has been the face of strength of a woman for a long time. It feels so good to have you back. Thank you. So Faith Mutsoli, as you mentioned, born and raised in Takamega County, a fourth born in a family of seven. I didn't have the luxury to have, okay, I'm a mother, four triplets and first born is a girl, four years, turning four years soon. I'm a wife to a lovely husband. I didn't have the luxury to have parents. I was often at a very very tender age and my sister took over as the head of the family and I must say that she actually made sure, actually she got married with the five of us. When she was getting married, our mother died when she was in fourth year so coincidentally my dad passed on the same semi and my mother passed so she took over as the mother so she got married with the five of us and raised us. She made sure all of us at least went up to university level. Wow. She's a very very selfless woman. She's a woman with a very very big heart. Like she took loans to buy us food, to take us to school, to cater for our hospital bills and everything and not to slay. She chose not to slay. She chose not to buy the best shoes in the market. She chose like us above everything and I'm so so grateful and I'm always and I'll always appreciate her for the rest of my life on behalf of my sisters who can't be maybe on air and appreciate her. I'm so so grateful for her and so I forgot to mention but I can now I'm a cancer survivor but now let me take you back to my life when growing up. Please thank you. It's quite I'm excited. I'm so excited. So I was a very very young energetic lady or rather girl that time that I even used to play football back in school on the same leg that later on turned out to be cancerous. So I remember one day just after completing from four I was sitting outside in the house with my sister and then I mentioned to her she's called Carol so I was like Carol I feel like I should buy a car very early in life and then she was like why and then I told her I think I'll get old so fast and then she said she loves and then she's like okay go on then I tell her I feel like when I walk for a very long time even a shorter distance I have this kind of burning sensation in my legs so as that time it was just a joke then now turned out later to be something serious so at that time when I walked for long distance I would have that burning sensation so I insert my legs in cold water and I feel that much relief so I did it for like two years now the third year I feel like no I should seek medication so I start moving from one hospital to another at that time I was in campus so I start moving in kakamega there is no clinic or hospital they they didn't know me so I moved from one hospital to another actually there are so many so many misdiagnoses like I was on arthritis drugs I was on malaria drugs for so long and now I finish campus now I go to I now decide to okay before I finish campus I realize like I can now not walk before now in third year so I have to always be taking a bodato school but now remember my sister is taking care of us single handedly of course with the husband of which I give him again so much credit because it's so uh it's out of this word that you find a man who take you in with your five siblings so again I give him so much credit so uh I get like I have to go to school I don't have fair I can't tell my sister because she's catering for my school fees because I was a very hardworking student in school but now when I sat for my KCKC I realized I got a B minus and I was like oh my gosh so my sister has to again pay for private student but how I was even willing to go back to school and redo my exam but she was like I will reward your hardwork I'll pay your your school fees as a private student so I go to school as a private student now I don't want to bother her again with fair so I start selling earrings in school so that I can get fair to school oh wow yeah so I complete fourth uh fourth year now I move to Nairobi now moving to Nairobi again I can't even go anywhere for even an internship reason being okay I have fair from where I stay to town but now I cannot walk to from town to wherever I'm supposed to go and I don't have the money to that place so I start staying in the house but later on I get one two people come in help me and now I did what I could so at that time I was again in so so much pain remember I don't know what is eating me there's so much this diagnosis misdiagnosis that I didn't even know what was eating me so again in Nairobi I start moving from one hospital to another now uh I moved to Rangai uh I was hustling there so one day I feel like um I was working with my sister so I feel like a very sharp pain in my pelvic bone and uh before I realize it I feel like I can't walk anymore so I call my sister and tell her I'm stuck I can't walk so she tells me pick a border go to the house so I pick a border I go to the house again after like resting for a few minutes I realize again I still can't walk so the following morning I walk so now you you have moved to Rangai yes okay after school yes okay so uh the following morning I go to a clinic I go to see an orthopedic so I walk into an orthopedic clinic and the author tells me faith you need to do an x-ray so I go do an x-ray I come back he tells me faith you need to act with immense speed so I ask her what's the problem he tells me we need to do a CT scan so I go to Nairobi West Hospital I do a CT scan I come back he tells me we need to do an MRI so I do an MRI I come and he tells me as I told you need to act with immense speed go see a doctor so I go to Nairobi West again I book an appointment I see a doctor actually the the author tell the author the orthopedic told me I have a tumor on the pelvic bone so I'm like okay so what next he tells me for now we are not sure if it's a benign tumor or a malignant tumor so you have to go see the doctor then you see what to do so I go to Nairobi West Hospital I get admitted because now they had to exercise you you just come to the hospital yes you okay like you are feeling just pain then you fake a hospital they tell you go for x-ray go for MRI go for CT scan yes and now they're telling you they're admitting you yes now I get admitted I'm moving too fast yes I guess because I had taken so long remember I started feeling pains when some years back exactly so that is why it was now acting that rapid so I walk in they admit me not admitting actually they tell me I book a walk-in surgery so I book a walk-in surgery I go the following day but just before I'm admitted I get that phone call that faith Karo has just gotten into a rod accident and she has lost her right hand ah yes we have not gone through things so Matthew you are here you've gone for hosi your sister you told your sister you're not feeling well yes I come here and at home yes umetoka home and then now you've come to hosi now to get checked and now you're here getting checked and your sister is here having an accident yes so my sister gets into a rod accident and I'm told now faith you can't afford Nairobi West hospital so you have to go makiyom admitted now for that walk-in surgery I'm already lying on the bed for this surgery and I'm told my brother is walking and tell me faith you have to be discharged so I get discharged I have to go look for a cheaper hospital so I go to knh the following day I pay around 40 000 knh they book me again for a walk-in surgery so I walk in very early in the morning 6 a.m. I walk in walking in I stay they tell me you are patient number four five six six round there so I stay at knh for like eight nine hours six pm in the evening they come tell me faith we are sorry another time no more yes okay so they tell me faith we are sorry we are not the surgery is not happening today so you have to go back home in the whole day yes so you have to go back home and come back tomorrow so I come back tomorrow again I don't have now anyone that I can talk to around there the doctor who was whom I was seeing is not now there now I have to start the process all over again I start the process I realize I'm not going anywhere so and you already paid 40 k yes so what do I do I go to the account office I tell them just refund me my money now because I am not seeing anyway through refund me my money I go back home until today my money is still rotting at knh so I leave my money there I go home now I decide to go back to kakamega because I had again exhausted all hospitals in Nairobi like there is no opopedic clinic that I had into opting so I go back home now going back home now my brother had gotten into a road accident again my sister I mean and she was the one paying the bills now she's not being informed how everything is happening so my step brother now steps in and at Nairobi hospital we had been told the surgery will cost 72 000 but now remember I've already spent 40 000 at knh now I have 32 so I go to kakamega now when I had just started being sick very sick that is when my sister got into a road accident but now everything was prolonged to an extent that she even got she was admitted at the at the hospital for around two months but now me going back to kakamega I found her now already discharged so she told me faith that is an opopedic that I see in town and she's a very good he's a very good author so I think I can take you there because at least now she had recovered a little bit so she takes me to that opopedic clinic and I met uh is a are you known doctor doktal shula is the late doktal shula so I walk into his clinic and he tells me faith I have to put you on some medication and then I was like no no no no no I'm not doing any medicine then he goes okay so you know what you want and no doc the doctors in Nairobi recommended that I do a surgery and then he was like okay so you think you know a lot get out of my clinic so he chases me away then I go back home again with my sister then on the way because why why did I not choose to take medicine remember I've taken medicine for a very very long time and if I start again eating into the money that has now remained for the surgery I might not now have the money when the time for the surgery now comes now I tell him I'm not doing any medicine he chases me out of the clinic so I go home on the way my sister is like oh faith let's out asa idika aje and I'm like no caru mi I know I know what I want let's just go home so I go home but now a week later I realize now I'm getting weak and weak and weak and weak so my sister tells me faith you have to go back to the clinic apologies to doc just go and apologize because of the pain I was going through I say it's okay I swallow humble pie so I go so getting there immediately I get into the door the doctor is like oh so faith you're here go to the bank pay the money and then we admit you for the surgery even before I apologized see how God works yes so I walk in I go pay the money and I get admitted the follow that evening the surgery is done so the the tumor is now excised it's taken to the lab the histology comes back and they tell me faith you don't have cancer and then the doctor tells me faith go home you are healed hmm just like Jesus then I say no okay which type of tumor was it he's not going into details he tells me then I realize we are going back where we were before like we almost again yes going back into another disagreement so I tell him it's okay dog so I pick my bags with my aunt we go back home now I reach home I tell my sister I'm I'm not I I don't have cancer and we were so happy we celebrated we thank God for that but the happiness was short lived Allah lot it is eight months later again extreme extreme pain like I can't even wash utensils I can't even mop the house I can't even do anything now now I've just gotten married 2017 I'm pregnant now in 2018 I can't even walk around the pregnancy because there is something again inside me eating me so the the pregnancy was so so so difficult complicated extra but lucky enough I deliver of course through CS because the pelvic was extremely extremely weak now after delivering my first child maku I couldn't even carry my baby normally just like other mothers do when he was around one year when she was around one year because now she's heavy eight months there then people would be like okay have a bangim toto little do they know like my leg can't just support me so I go into so much pain one evening and then we decide my husband then before that I was like okay I'm not going to hospital anymore because I've done so much I've gone to hospital so much I've seen so many doctors so I'm not going to hospital anymore so I decide let me eat healthy and exercise so my husband was always there for me during this period like I would go through so much pain he wakes up like from 11 pm to 5 am and he's there massaging my back mass because I would wake up with a swollen breast today tomorrow a swollen leg the following day a swollen face a swollen chest like a swollen every part of the body oh wow yes and he would massage me at times I wouldn't feel like I'm bothering him so I would just like cry and then I don't know he could just hear me crying ifu poli poli and then he would be like faith why didn't you wake me up so he wakes up again massages me until 5 am wakes up goes to work he's an angel to me that is what I say because he took like care of everything remember now I'm in Nairobi I'm moving from one hospital to another he's the one paying the bills because he told me faith so I'll do everything for you so this time round my sister is not even aware yes and we are not even telling him ha that we are paying this much so uh it's each time when the pain was so much so my sister my husband tells me faith no you have to go to hospital so a friend of us refers us to doctor wabomba at knh though he had a private clinic so we go to his private clinic after several visits he tells us faith you need to do another surgery so another one yes so again I get admitted that in pisha hospital and before I get admitted I was so much concerned about the bill so I'm like doc how much could it be and he tells me ah faith no hurry you know and he used to tell me you know you're like family so he tells me it will be around 70,000 70,000 so I get admitted on the day I'm admitted remember again I'm admitted for the surgery but it's just a walking surgery so I get admitted for the surgery I walk into the hospital again I have to ask how much could it be and then they tell me 140,000 gosh and I'm like yes 240 so what I realized was doctor wabomba realized that I was in so much pain but again I was so much worried about money so he told me faith actually again he's heaven sent so when I called I was like doctor wabomba imagine it's 140 and he was like faith don't worry you pay the hospital bill and then me you pay me in installments so you have 140 for the hospital and 70 for the doctor and yes so I tell my husband before we get admitted I tell him we just have to go back home because we don't have this kind of money but now again now I call my sisters I tell them this is it so you have to chip in now they chip in I get admitted I do the surgery I did I couldn't sleep at the facility because I didn't have the money so I go home I remember that night I cried the whole night like I was in extreme extreme extreme pain and I was trying to reach doctor wabomba and his phone was off until 6 a.m. so I reach him and he tells me okay go buy this painkiller so I go buy the painkiller at least now I'm relieved and as I was seeing the doctor he told me faith we'll take the samples to at least three labs so that we actually sure of what is eating you so we take to Nairobi hospital we take to MPisha and we take to Lancet now he tells me we'll go with the majority so if two comes that you have cancer and then it's okay if two says you have cancer then we go with it if two says you don't have then we go with it so the results come and MPisha and Nairobi hospital not so sure of what is eating me they are they are like it's cancer but we don't know which type of cancer it is Lancet is very sure that I have a osteosacoma a bone cancer so the doctor tells me faith again we are not going with the majority we are going with what Lancet has said because you have all the symptoms I'm hard hit so I start telling God okay God why did you bring me on this earth and give me a child now this child is going to be as motherless as me like my child will be raised without a mother whether it's not easy to grow up without a mother growing up without a mother showed me self defense showed me how to fight for myself made me a responsible resourceful person but in one way it was tough very very tough like you don't have someone to defend you you have to fight for yourself like you hit me I hit you I can't go back home and crying whom whom am I going to tell and of course whoever you find home of course it's not your mother neither is it my sister so they'll be like when don't buy so I grew up and I have grown up to be a very very very strong woman courtesy of being an orphan so I'm like God how why why should my child again be motherless like me so I go on to my knees and tell God it's not happening anymore like my children will not be raised without a mother because when I was growing up I was telling God even before I got married like God if I have to get married and get children and my children be motherless like me they never give me kids so that time I go on my knees and tell God God I told you not to give me kids but you did and so you knew you'd give me life so give me life to take care of my kids now again let me now take you back to hospital now I go to hospital meet the doctor or bomber because now we had to determine the type of treatment so the doctor tells me faith chemotherapy doesn't work for bone cancer neither does radio work 100 percent so I have to send you to several doctors so that we don't miss you are you are just you so that you're sure of what you want and again radiotherapy will make you barren you might not just get kids after treatment hey now you have you have you have come from a point of you didn't you had cancer you didn't have cancer yes you have come to this point where eight months your short lived your chest your your joints short lived and now you're sick and now they are not even sure which cancer and now they add the barrenness on top of it yes so I tell I now he start he start referring me to several doctors and I start moving again I remember walking into Agakan and the doctor was like faith uh the best solution we have is to amputate your leg and then I was like no I'm not losing my leg so uh I start again I go to another doctor so he refers me to Dr. Makori of Khenedge so I go to Dr. Makori and Dr. Makori was like faith you let's choose radiotherapy because as much as radiotherapy is not 100 percent but at least it works as compared to to kimo and as much as it might leave you barren at least you have one child and I remember when I was sick I I became so spiritual because I visited so many people and so many people visited me and they would tell me faith when you pray this is how to pray pray like this and I remember one night I was sleeping and I dreamt of my late mother and she came to me in in a dream and it was raining heavy and then she told me faith let's pray and when you pray pray like this it just changed my life completely so I was praying and seeking medication praying and seeking medication so I we choose radiotherapy so I start going to mpsha for 33 sessions and before I started the 33 sessions I get into onto the treatment bed and the doctor was like faith have you been told that you will not give birth anymore and then I'm like yes and then he goes I don't want you to start running up and down with papers taking us to court that you you are not aware of what would happen thereafter and then I was like doc I'm aware you just go ahead so I start the treatment and after 33 sessions I realized uh the pain was now going away one night I remember my husband was like so faith you're sleeping and I'm like yes because I couldn't sleep through the night and I usually say that these small things in life don't take them for granted because there's someone out there who sleeps on a very full stomach okay he has the food but he can't sleep through the night so I say like if you can't even get that food thank God that you can sleep through the night be grateful for the small things that happen in life so I get the treatment I finish the treatment of course they were dire dire side effects diarrhea puking like I could sit around the the facility for like one one hour after treatment so that I could just now use the washrooms at Malaysia and afterwards now I could go home and after 33 sessions I realized I have no pains anymore but now the doctor had told me faith your your periods will fluctuate completely and at times you will not even see them and during that time I had come to terms that I will never give path again so last year in April I realized I have missed a period hey to me I wasn't shocked because missing a period was it was normal to me but now why does it catch my attention it comes with nausea and some tiredness and not just being yourself like when I was when I missed that period like I was just a normal and I one evening I tell my husband that I have to if April 1st comes when I had I haven't seen my period then I'll have to do a pregnancy test so April 1st comes and I go buy a pregnancy test I come test and the test is so rapid and I tell my husband am I I'm carrying twins and he laughs often is like you don't even know if the test is positive or it's just it's false it's faulty maybe the test kit is faulty because he was also he had also come to terms that I will not give path again but now I'm like because I'm not so sure if it's a positive test or it's a faulty or it's a faulty test kit so I wait and see if I see my tummy growing so two to three months I realize the tummy is growing and I do I do first clinic and when I just got onto the bed for the scan and the doctor tells me faith do you like surprises and I'm like yes and okay can we count with you and I'm like okay what are we counting and now you know how we do it in here like in three two and one so he's like let's go one two and three and then I'm like go and then he tells me that those are the number of babies you're carrying wow yes I I've been told time is not on our side I really yeah I have so many things to ask but allow me to ask how has everything you've gone through shaped you as a woman it has made me a strong woman it has made me know how to fight for myself it has made me become a very resourceful and responsible person and I've learned to live life like I live the time I'm in like I don't worry about tomorrow like I take a day at a time because I know I'm not promised of tomorrow I'm never worried like what if cancer comes back because if I start worrying I'll start having sleepless nights and if cancer now comes it's even worse so I've learned to live the time I'm in I'm shook what are your final remarks I am just shook I don't even know what to say I'm just shook my final remarks have a YouTube channel I'm doing content with the triplets for the people who are watching me this morning but the people who are watching me this morning I do content with the triplets and my girl go there subscribe like share and I'm also doing motivation speaking right now like am I not motivating why you have made so if you feel like I've motivated you give me a call on my number so that I can come give hope to that someone who is not just seeing like there is light at the end of the tunnel give us a patting shot on that camera patting shot learn to live life the time you're in never worry about tomorrow because tomorrow is not promised thank you thank you thank you for coming thank you for sharing what I'm shocked I don't know I can't talk I'm just that was faith mostly I don't know what to call I don't know if I should say she's a motivational speaker she what stands out for me she is a very strong woman today's patting shot on strength of a woman is tenacity perseverance and living a day at a time that is a strength of a woman