Uncle Ben

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[EgoKuwait 🇰🇼 @Egokuwait]

Hi Everyone, please I need your help.

I’ve battled Keloid since I was 2 as a result of the first ear piercing which was done at birth and was done wrongly.
My parents have gone through several options given to them and it keeps reoccurring.

I’ve done several surgical removal that I can’t even keep count both in general hospitals and private hospitals and they always finish up with kenalog as usual, I did cryotherapy for 2years with a popular Bumps clinic and the pain from the procedure almost paralyzed the left part of my body as it became weaker and I couldn’t use it, still it resurfaced.

Since 2015 I’ve been in and out of the hospital over this keloid, one general hospital suggested removing the whole ear which might cause another issue as it could still grow again.

I’ve been going through excruciating pains, every single day of my life I’m in pains, I’ve been popping painkillers like who’s taking candy, I barely sleep at night
Most days I’m awake till morning, once it’s night I get scared cos the pains becomes unbearable.
Sometimes I take sleeping pills just to get through the night.
I can’t go out, I can’t even show up for my business, my parents and siblings have had to give up their finances every single year because of me. Last year November, my sister single-handedly took care of the bills for the procedure I did.

At some point the Keloid started to accumulate abscess, it becomes so much that I’ve had to go through drainage process, I did one last year as well.
And all of these have made the keloid very aggressive and it grows faster by the day, the last removal procedure I did was in April of last year, the growth you’re seeing in frame 1 is just 1year and 7months growth which is unusually fast.

Since I finished my service year I’ve been at home because I couldn’t work with this condition, I even had to let go of a few job opportunities I was recommended for with the hope of getting this done before I fully commit.

A doctor I met recommended LASUTH earlier this year and since May I’ve been trying to get booked for surgery, initially I was booked for surgery but I wasn’t told everything it entailed, my first surgery date was September 11th and it was moved later on due to the strike.

I was opportuned to secure a consultation again with the Burns and Plastic unit (BPSU) yesterday in LASUTH and the consultant put me through everything I needed for the keloid to not reoccur.
He said I needed at least 2 Radiotherapy sessions of which one has to be done exactly 24hrs after the surgical removal and then another few weeks after.
After which I have to undergo chemotherapy and then post op care which includes injections, drugs,silicone creams, and any other recommended care.

The Radiotherapy is to be done in LUTH (I was given a reference letter for it) after making enquiries in LUTH, the estimate of one radiotherapy session was given at 2.5m, and I’ll be needing 2sessions which sums up to 5m. Then the surgery for the removal of the Keloid costs 1.2m and I’ve been able to come up with that. Then after the surgery I’m to undergo chemotherapy and post op care but I have not been told how much that would cost, so I am unsure of the entire cost of that but the estimation according to what I’ve researched is about 2m.

LASUTH have given me November 19th for my next and last consultation before the removal and this simply means I have to come up with the money for everything before then.

So in total what will be needed for the successful surgery and post op care is 8.2m of which I’ve already raised 1.2m and I’m left to source for 7m before the 19th of November.

This was really really hard for me to do as I have never done this before but this is my last resort as I have exhausted all my options and I have spent more than 6months alone trying to get booked with LASUTH.

Please help me get my life back together 🙏
Any amount will go a long way🙏

0427940035
Nancy Chidinma
Wema Bank

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[Uncle Ben @BencleUn]

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[Uncle Ben @BencleUn]

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[Uncle Ben @BencleUn]

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[Uncle Ben @BencleUn]

@gretchenburner @bktbby The net impact of your existence is negative. You are a disease on the flesh of everyone that knows you. When you realize this—like they all already have—you won't even have the means to redeem yourself. Because when has a disease ever been its own cure?

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@desi0re @NinaAlexies Congratulations on this beautiful next phase of your life. Proud of you for prioritizing yourself.

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I’m sharing this because their current situation is putting them through a lot.
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If money isn’t possible, a repost can still help bring attention to their request. 🙏

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[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Good morning. Please take your time to read this. It is important. I worry for my children and yours too. I waited for a while to tell you the story about this liver.

I wanted to make sure it ended well. This is was the liver of a teenager we took out a month back. He was flown in from another State because of an unidentifiable jaundice + hepatitis that was making him sick. Hardly a few days in, he went into a coma because of liver failure and we put him on a ventilator. To help him survive, a parent donated part of the liver. This was the quickest emergency liver transplantation we ever did. Everything happened in less than 24 hours.

On the outside the liver looks pretty normal, just a bit swollen from the hepatitis (liver inflammation). But when we looked at it under the microscope, there was nothing left. Almost all the liver cells were wiped out (a finding known as massive hepatocellular necrosis) with deep inflammation.

The cause remained unknown. We call it indeterminate hepatitis - meaning, something we did not know, caused it.

You may remember post Covid-19 era. There were multiple cases of unknown hepatitis among children which either led to them dying or receiving a transplant. At the time, scientists thought it was due to another virus - Adenovirus, that had changed the way it attacked us due to Covid-19 era restrictions and immune changes. But that theory fell apart because not every kid with indeterminate hepatitis had adenovirus positive.

In the 1980s, some doctors in few hospitals across the world described a handful of single-center cases that first documented liver cell loss and inflammatory infiltrates in unexplained pediatric liver failure. And they kept seeing such cases, here and there, and forgot about it. Some died. Some lived after a liver transplant.

In 1999, with the establishment of the Pediatric Acute Liver Failure (PALF) study group allowed for systematic tracking and larger-scale retrospective and prospective analysis of immune functionand dysfunction in such kids with unknown hepatitis.

In 2022, medical scientists were armed with better technology and more impressive analysis methods. And global attention surged, in the post-Covid-19 era on outbreaks of severe acute hepatitis of unknown origin in children.
https://t.co/ktKVaLQjcQ

They figured it out. Just like we did.

A special stain and a technical advancement known as immunohistochemistry, a lab test that used antibodies to find specific proteins in a tissue sample was deployed. A special type of immune cell, supposed to defend us, was going crazy. Cytotoxic T cells act as the body's security guards to find and destroy cells infected by viruses or those that turned cancerous. There was no cancer in our teenager. And teenagers and children with this disease before him. The most likely culprit was a previous viral infection.
https://t.co/JicKah98a4

Covid-19 probably increased this. The little fcker wrecks havoc on the immune system like no other. It makes the body go wild and attack itself. It has done this before in other other organs too. It is called molecular mimicry.

When you get infected with COVID-19, your immune system creates defenses—like antibodies—to target and destroy the virus. To do this, it memorizes the physical shapes and protein sequences of the virus. However, because some building blocks of the COVID-19 spike protein mimic the shapes of our own healthy human proteins, the immune system can experience "cross-reactivity". Your newly trained antibodies end up attacking both the invading virus and your own healthy organs because they cannot tell the difference.
https://t.co/8baDr9nvJa

Large numbers of children with indeterminate hepatitis have cytotoxic T-cell mediated hepatitis. And it can only be diagnosed through a liver biopsy before the kid got really sick or after a liver transplant when the kid was going to die.

The liver that you see below, is far from normal. Deep within these tissues was a horde of cytotoxic T-cells that were picking of large areas of liver cells, pushing the child towards death.

As a doctor, I was only able to give them a diagnosis, after the liver came out and because they were convinced about this hidden killer of children, we did it in the nick of time. The teenager survived and we found what nearly killed the patient.

Any viral infection can lead to this. Not immediately, but even later on in life. It happens mostly in children, teenagers and young adults. Vaccines prevent/ reduce severity of various viral infections. Please make sure you and your children are vaccinated for age.

I hope Governments everywhere promote annual vaccinations for Covid-19 too along with the flu-shot. Because there is a strong possibility that this is the one virus that can cause this type of damage on the liver, many months after the initial infection and we may never know - becuase Covid-19 can come and go silently.

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