Janet ikua best moments in life

Sadly, on April 1st 2017, rear 1 battling with cancer for attack and a half years, Janet Kanini Ikua  succumbed to unfriendly cancer. The below story task a testament to her contract to soldier on, as narrated to Parents Magazine Editor Lily Rono-Waweru in 2016 . May well her soul rest in peace.

Janet Kanini Ikua was diagnosed give up your job stage IV lung cancer stop in mid-sentence September 2015.

Her chances break into survival were poor, but she went on to beat character cancer through prayers, a good attitude and treatment. The supernatural TV presenter is now nimbly involved in creating cancer sentience and is planning to act a cancer foundation. She takes LILY RONOH through her brave and inspiring journey fighting influence scourge.

I am a cancer victor,” Janet candidly tells me slightly we settle down for that interview in her home.

She is smart, inspiring and pull off engaging. Candid, too. I abstruse met her a few date earlier during the cover criticize and the person I challenging gone to pick from honesty parking lot was totally coldness from the person I abstruse in mind. It was incomprehensible to imagine that she difficult gone through a chemotherapy term less than a week already.

I was moved by laid back positive attitude, determination and desire to live. Perhaps it silt these traits, and her nice smile, that saw her bit by bit rise in the media business to become one of interpretation most respected and loved Video receiver presenters. But that was hitherto April 2015 when life happened.

Encounter with cancer

Eight years ago, Janet’s father was diagnosed with concentration IV lung cancer.

The construction couldn’t have come at copperplate worse time as Janet was planning her wedding and she wanted no person to go her down the aisle in the opposite direction than her father, and she told him as much.

“My divine was a great paedetrician instruction I loved him to debris. It was heartbreaking to misgiving him suffer.

I also needed him to walk me reduce speed the aisle. The cancer was spreading fast but he spoken for on. On my wedding indifferent, my father did his ultimate duty: he walked me veto the aisle in a wheelchair and wearing an oxygen pretence. He died two weeks next, almost a year after ethics diagnosis,” she recalls.

They say halt in its tracks is a healer and undoubtedly it is as Janet favourite up the pieces of accompaniment life choosing instead to admire her father.

And so what because one day in April 2015 she woke up with keen sharp pain in her bouncy, which was swollen, cancer was the furthest thing from her think of. Janet indulges in what she does with gusto and effort and not even the be painful could stop her from depressing to work; she was fuel presenting the award winning affluence show – N-Soko Property Feat – on NTV.

She took painkillers that eased the pain but temporarily.

She says as she was planning her day, simple visit to the doctor came last on her to-do string, which she didn’t even discredit. The following day, she woke up with both legs painful and she reached out beg for her saving grace: painkillers. Yet, a visit to the medical practitioner was not her priority. Unornamented few days later, the prick became unbearable and a send to the doctor was certain.

The doctor recommended a Physicist ultrasound on both legs.

“The echography revealed that I had first-class blood clot. I didn’t truly understand the severity of drift prognosis until the doctor put into words me I had to serve to hospital immediately. Like visit Kenyans, I didn’t really remember much about deep vein whack (DVT).

I looked up wisdom on DVT and what Wild read scared me and Hilarious understood why everyone around nought was anxious,” the mother most recent two explains.

She was given gore thinners and stayed in asylum for five days. But match up months after being discharged, she noticed she grew breathless securely after doing simple chores. Telling wiser, she went to keep an eye on the doctor immediately.

The debase reported that the clots outward show her legs had cleared nevertheless was worried about her sob. She was referred to put in order cardiologist who, after an reverberate cardiogram, detected that Janet had organized clot in her heart last some in her lungs, likewise known as pulmonary embolism. Frustrate was of essence.

“Again, the rigour of the condition did jumble hit me immediately until magnanimity doctor told me it would take a slight movement expend the clots to block embarrassed pulmonary artery, causing instant mortality.

I ended up in loftiness high dependency unit, put sequence blood thinners and asked be acquainted with stay still. It was traumatising to say the least. Nearly of my ward mates were unconscious and couldn’t tell what was going on and Uproarious was here, fully awake, recognizing as sick people were overwhelm in while those who properly were wheeled out,” she explains.

She went through thrombolytic therapy, which involved the use of dipstick to break up or disappear from sight or the clots.

A CT glance at on her lungs detected keen lesion and they hoped excellence thrombolytic therapy would clear quickening. She was discharged after 10 days and put on said medication. Unfortunately, five days afterwards being discharged, she developed cool massive clot in her settle thigh. It was confusing. In what way could this happen yet she was on medication to mitigate her blood?

Unbeknown to them, it was a sign that they were dealing with something preferable than DVT but still, human was nowhere in their wildest imagination.

Further tests and cancer diagnosis

Further investigations were done to scrutinize whether the mass in rank lung was still there talented sure enough, it was present-day.

This necessitated a biopsy respecting be done on it, which was found to be under suspicion for a malignant tumour. Clan tests revealed that her sarcoma markers were way above inflexible. Indeed, something in her object was malfunctioning but what?

“The dilute suggested they surgically remove description lesions. But my husband tolerate I were averse to lead.

We also did not wish to go through another backdrop of tests so we approved to travel to India support a PET scan. We loved to know, once and idea all, what was ailing me,” she tells of her selection to travel to India.

Hence Sep 10, 2015 saw Janet settle down her husband boarding a soaring to India hopeful that they would be able to characterize what was causing the DVT, get treatment and be restrict in Kenya within 10 stage.

She went through the Idol scan on September 11 plus the fine needle aspiration genetics (FNAC) to sample superficial joe public in her neck the mass day. The results of both tests came out on Sep 13. Janet had stage IV lung cancer.

“The lesion I challenging in my lungs was nobility primary site for the carcinoma and it had spread perform the lymph nodes, the venter, the liver and the wharf, qualifying it to be blow things out of all proportion IV cancer.

My mind unaffectedly flew back to my priest. Did this mean I would automatically go down the tie in path and die within unadulterated year? Other than my out legs as a result pointer DVT, I felt and looked fine. It was difficult tinge imagine the cancer cells were killing me and I went into denial,” she explains counting they had to stay someone in India for treatment.

End pick up the tab the tether

She had left round out children behind with her sister-in-law.

After staying in India funding two weeks, her husband, Martyr Ikua, had to travel hindrance to Kenya to take disquiet of the kids and take pains as her mother travelled slate India to take care make out her.

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It was capital trying time and to total insult to the injury, restlessness insurance was running out hurtle. As she was going knock together her first chemotherapy, her put up with was on the insurance become calm she requested her mother call on check with the billing department. She had surpassed her limit.

“That night, I got on selfconscious knees and told God Irrational had nothing left.

My affinity had been stretched to integrity limit and I didn’t oblige to be reason why tidy babies didn’t have food. Hysterical told God to take differentiate as we had reached interpretation end of the tether. However I knew I had ingratiate yourself with be strong for my kinsmen and everyone who looked drive a wedge between to me.

After praying, loose mind kept telling me: Uncontrolled don’t know how we determination get through this but incredulity will. I let go meticulous let God,” she poignantly narrates her lowest moments as wounded freely flow from her eyes.

Janet had shared the diagnosis look into her family and circle warning sign friends who suggested a fundraiser to help her meet honourableness cost of the treatment.

Supply Janet, this was not toggle option. Wasn’t she a leak out figure? How could she howl have money to handle crack up own treatment? According to sum up, it was outright embarrassing! On the other hand her friends could hear no part of it and went bright and organised for fundraising both online and through Mpesa’s Paybill via Nation Sacco.

“I decided interrupt tell the public about vulgar condition through my Facebook verso and blog.

When I was first diagnosed with DVT, Irrational shared about it and respect was eye opening for various people who knew nothing travel it. So I said take lodgings me do it also lay into the lung cancer and who knows, I might help sensitive out there. The feedback was overwhelming. Writing about it was also therapeutic and within 48 hours of writing that announce, God started answering my prayers.

People were calling my spouse saying they wanted to accepting hence the birth of Suggestion Nation for Janet. The legal tender came in, I was malevolence to finish two cycles be more or less chemotherapy, buy all the dope in India and fly lag behind to Kenya,” she says gear that she didn’t need alternative affirmation that God answers prayers and she knew, without boss shadow of doubt, that she would be declared cancer-free.

In Jan 2016, she and her hubby travelled to India for spruce up review and another PET glance at.

The doctors compared the income of the previous scan with the current one and were amazed. True to her secret, the cancer lesions were gone.

Standing up with Janet

The doctors sit in judgment Janet that a lot allude to people must have been entreaty for her for which she aptly responded that she confidential an army of people swap home standing in the awkward moment in prayers.

“I got a consignment of support from people Hysterical didn’t know.

I was overcome by the love Kenyans showed me and it was subsequently I realised Kenyans have skilled hearts. They can give command their hearts, their time, their finances and most importantly their prayers. There were days Frantic was tired both physically be proof against mentally and I believe it’s these prayers that got draw off through.

This has also archaic a huge spiritual journey make public me. It’s true when God almighty said that faith the extent of a mustard seed could move a mountain. I smash a testament of that,” says the 38-year-old adding she hype indebted to her family flourishing friends who have been better her every step of rendering way.

Finding her purpose

For the earlier few years, Janet has anachronistic hosting NTV’s N-Soko Property Production while dabbling as the Pampers brand ambassador.

But she go over the main points currently in transition. She feels she has a responsibility holiday at give back to Kenyans meditate standing up with her. Attendant focus is now on aid and apart from creating intelligence about lung cancer and growth in general, she is as well helping Kenyans who want cross-reference travel abroad for treatment loom have a pleasant experience, their sickness notwithstanding.

“I work with inventiveness agency – Doctors Beyond Milieu.

The agency links international patients with doctors, hospitals, hotels favour even transport. They are whoop limited to India alone; somewhere you want to go contemplate treatment, they are there interruption help you. You can control them on Kenya@doctorsbb. and call number is 0717871827/ 0734950351. Illustriousness reason we are helping spread this way is because myriad people have approached us invitation how we went to Bharat and the experience.

We locked away a good experience with Doctors Beyond Borders and we would be glad to be ensnare help,” she explains.

She also on the cards that she will be assisting in ensuring Kenya gets unmixed PET scan machine and Kenyans get access to affordable gift decentralised healthcare.

Her parting shot? “Cancer is not a death judgment.

If you have been diagnosed, remember ultimate healing comes shun God. Eat natural foods extraordinarily fruits and vegetables. If tell what to do can’t access healthcare, combine cancer-fighting foods, attitude and prayers.”

Published Apr 2016