{"id":4170,"date":"2023-09-04T13:44:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T11:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2023-09-12T09:19:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T07:19:02","slug":"how-nasabu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/how-nasabu\/","title":{"rendered":"How Nasabu and HOREMI beat the tumour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nasabu knows from painful expe\u00adri\u00adence how it feels to be stared at. A huge tumor was engulfing her head and neck. No doctor helped her. Until HOREMI took care of the medical and human emer\u00adgency.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The growth was merci\u00adlessly getting larger. Spreading around her head, neck and ear until it grad\u00adu\u00adally changed the entire struc\u00adture of her head. A defor\u00admity that not only burdened 12-year-old Nasabu psycho\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcally, but also increas\u00adingly caused her phys\u00adical pain. And worst of all, no one knew whether the tumour might be life-threat\u00adening. Not her father, who strug\u00adgled along with her seri\u00adously ill mother far away as a farmer. And not her aunt, with whom Nasabu lived because of it. Initial visits to health facil\u00adi\u00adties also brought neither clarity nor help. So the aunt decided to take Nasabu back to her father in the hope that he would find a way out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The father and daughter went to many more doctors and clinics. Without success. They even spent three expen\u00adsive months in the Mulago National Referral Hospital \u2014 the father sold what little they had in exchange. And yet in the end they had to return home without any improve\u00adment or prospect of recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renewed hope thanks to HOREMI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s when the father started looking for help else\u00adwhere. At the begin\u00adning of 2022, he heard about HOREMI, trav\u00adelled over 80 kilo\u00adme\u00adtres to get there \u2014 and found open ears and arms with Kenneth and Naume. They alerted the circle of friends to the plight of the girl. In surgeon Davide Naggi, CEO at the CORSU hospital, they finally found someone who was willing and compe\u00adtent to take on Nasabu\u2019s problem. And at last there was a diag\u00adnosis: the growth was a \u201cbenign\u201d lymphan\u00adgioma, a rare tumour of the lymphatic vessels. But while not life-threat\u00adening it was already severely impacting the quality of life not to mention its fore\u00adsee\u00adable impact in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nasabu directly after a surgery \u2013 in the end it will be three oper\u00ada\u00adtions.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The doctors planned the neces\u00adsary plastic surgery oper\u00ada\u00adtions and calcu\u00adlated the costs. Because Nasabu\u2019s rela\u00adtives would never be able to raise the money it was agreed to be financed by the friends of HOREMI.  However, many more months of nervous waiting would pass before the treat\u00adment could finally begin. First, the oper\u00adating theatres at CORSU were reno\u00advated, then due to Nasabu\u2019s health prob\u00adlems the oper\u00ada\u00adtion had to be delayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three operations and a lot of patience<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In August 2022, Dr Naggi was finally able to begin the surgical process. In the first phase, the struc\u00adture of the head was restored. Next the large growth on the ear was removed and in a third oper\u00ada\u00adtion the remaining tumor on the neck was taken away. It took long phases of healing in between as well as lots of medica\u00adtion, good wound care and regular check-ups. With the several stays in the hospital and the many trips there, the costs added up to nearly 3,000 dollars  \u2014 not a large fortune by German stan\u00addards, but in Uganda (annual income under 1,000 dollars) very much so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result was more than worth it. Since the last wounds healed in July 2023, Nasabu is noticed only because she is so pretty. Finally, she can live her life, go to school, and later do an appren\u00adtice\u00adship. Her aunt was imme\u00addi\u00adately willing to take the now 13-year-old back to live with her family. All the best Nasabu!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The long road to recovery has been worth it. Nasabu can finally live a normal life.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Would you like to give the chil\u00addren of HOREMI a helping hand? You can donate quickly and easily here<\/a>. Thank you very much!<\/mark>
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You can find all the ways to support HOREMI on our dona\u00adtions page.<\/a><\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nasabu knows from painful expe\u00adri\u00adence how it feels to be stared at. A huge ulcer over\u00adgrew the head and neck of the 12-year-old girl. No doctor helped her. Until HOREMI took on the medical and human emer\u00adgency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":4172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horemi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4353,"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions\/4353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horemi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}