Save Adebimpe's Mum

My mum was diagnosed of bilateral grade 3 renal parenchymal (chronic kidney) disease on the 1st of January 2017. She was admitted to Life Support Medical Centre Ikeja GRA, Lagos, Nigeria on 3rd of January 2017 after a week, we spent N800,000. 2 weeks after her discharge, she had another crisis (seizure), admitted for 4 days, we spent another N300,000. However, we were told she will live on dialysis forever.

After this second admission, family and friends went about their normal lives, I was left alone with my mum as an only child and from a broken home.

The doctors advised that she attends dialysis sessions 3 times a week, each session cost N27,000, she is meant to take an N11,000 Epogen injection to help boost her red blood cells and a N2,000 post-dialysis test to check if the electrolytes are within normal range after each session of dialysis, a total of N40,000 every session. Three times a week makes it N120,000/week and N480,000/month.

The preferred and permanent option to keep her alive aside dialysis is a kidney transplant, doctors have estimated this to 8 – 12 million Naira which is inclusive of the 1 year anti-suppresant drug to allow the body accept the new organ but unfortunately, we cannot afford this either.

Kindly assist me to keep my mum alive. I have absolutely no where else to turn to as I have spent my savings and hers, sought help everywhere possible yet nothing has changed.

Thank you.