It’s been 16ys now since I came to realize I was born HIV positive. Though it wasn’t that easy to find out, it come through torture and mercies.
The know how started after our village was raided with jiggers for so long that led us to trend nationwide even leading to receive donations from NGO’s and the government during that time.
We lived in the countryside very much interior around Kakamega forest in a village called itumbu. It was very remotely where no vehicle nor motorcycle were seen, the only machine that used diesel in that area was a posho mill.
We used bulls as a carrier service and bicycle for transport. As the NGOs we bringing their donations back in 2004 the village at this time experienced jiggers infection, which had gone wild.
This state led to more whites’ land in the village to help eradicate these jiggers. They really worked hard, hand in hand with health ministry to help regain our freedom. In my family we were 13 boys and 1 girl.one could imagine how that house was.
We only lived with our mother, Dad had been called for a casual job and he was residing in Baba dogo slums in the city. Our family also had other uncounted members we called them in campus micro comrades (kunguni/ Bedbugs).
They had terrorized us in our own house as if we were their unpaying tenants to them. Those days tracing a chemistry to buy some cure for them was like searching a shark in river Tana, so we just had to pambana na hali yetu with no hopes of ending their terrorism. Everyone in our house had scratched their ears in a style which one could think they were ragged ears.
It took 4yrs before a new dawn reappeared when our rescue came. When the whites reached our house to terminate the jiggers as their core aim in the village, Wolololo mama! They encountered this kungunis / bedbugs.
They really gave them hard time more so since they got light skin you can imagine a bedbug on such a skin.
They felt the pinch as African boy I had been going through all my life time since I was 13month until they couldn’t continue with their schedule and promised to come back. They inspected as and found that we were in severe pain and torture. They showed their mercies to me as the last born and took me to general hospital for check up. There they found i had no enough blood in my system and my health was very poor that I needed close attention.