Nsimbi Denis is a father of two girls and one boy. He was the head of the heavy weight lifters and frequented the gym. Life was good and normal. He started getting back pains in 2015 but ignored it thinking it was gym training fatigue. The pain persisted and started intensifying leading to his addiction to painkillers.

In 2017, the pain started spreading from the back to the chest, rib cage, and joints. He went to the clinic for an MRI scan and it was discovered that his bones were being eaten away. He started hearing comments of being shorter, from his friends and neighbours at the end of 2017.
In 2018, the pain intensified, he took to stronger pain killers and he started declining in height at a very fast rate. His bones kept on getting weaker, he got a fracture in the thigh making it difficult for him to walk without support.
In 2019, he got a fracture in the thigh. The pain was unbearable and he couldn’t walk without support. He got bedridden and his wife advised him to stop going to work.

Denis’ family intervened and took him to Mulago hospital, from where he was referred to Kiruddu hospital for scans, the doctors there said they could not diagnose the disease but the observation was that the bones were wearing away. The doctors in Kiruddu hospital referred them to the Mulago Hospital bone department. At mulago Hospital, they could also not diagnosis him but they asserted that it could be a rare form of bone cancer. They stated that they couldn’t come up with the right treatment because they were not sure what the disease was.
Later, he developed more complications which the doctors couldn’t diagnose in relation to his bone disease.
They concluded that they can’t get a cure for the bone disease but can help treat the side effects that come with the disease.

He was psychologically tortured by his new normal but had to come to terms with it so as to live for he still had a wife and three children who needed him.
He keeps getting complications because there isn’t enough space for all the body organs as his bones keep compressing and reduce space occupied.

Denis was renting one room with his family but since he could no longer work, he could no longer pay the rent we found him with rent arrears. With the help of friends from USA, we were able to pay the rent arrears and avail them with the basic things that they needed for the following months.

Other Good Samaritans have been supporting Denis with food, medicine, and covering his medical bills but he still had the challenge of making his rent payments.

The Director of BKU offered to take in Denis and his family. She availed them with a double self-contained room and a single self-contained room, to accommodate the whole family. Now they don’t have to worry about rent and food.

Current need:
1. Money for travel and medical check-up in Nairobi, as suggested by the doctors in Mulago hospital.
2. Personal land and house where he can settle with his family.
3. An income-generating business.