Triza Wangari’s transplanted kidney failed in 2015. [Courtesy]
Triza Wangari from Kiambu County was diagnosed with stage five kidney failure, which is irreversible, in 2009. She had just completed secondary school when fatigue, diarrhoea and anaemia became the order of the day.
To date, she has battled the chronic kidney disease. “When you have kidney failure you lose your urine, you don’t pee,” she says. After the transplant, she started to pass urine. “My life and weight came back to normal. I had also lost my memory through a stroke,” she says.
The diagnosis was followed by dialysis, but her family thought a kidney transplant was a better option. She did the transplant in India in 2011. “My sister donated the kidney. Life was very good when I did transplant because I got my peeing back.”