HELP ME!
Thuto Ratau (34) of Raserura ward in Mochudi needs urgent help with her bulging tummy that makes her look like she is pregnant.
Speaking to The Midweek Sun this week, a stressed Ratau said sometime in March 2022, she went to the clinic after realising that she was pregnant. At the clinic, she was told that she had fibroids and they needed to be removed.
She was referred to the hospital for further assessments and when she was six months pregnant, doctors advised that the fibroids will be removed during birth or after to prevent complications.
However, that did not happen and the procedure was scheduled for this month at Princess Marina Referral Hospital in Gaborone.
“I went to Marina and the story has now changed again. They told me that because I have a nagging heart problem they suspect that the surgery will be risky if they go ahead because I might never wake up again.
“I am shocked by this because I gave birth through operation, why did they not fear that I will not wake up then?
“I am being sent from pillar to post, this tummy is painful. I also wonder if they mean that I will be stuck with this condition forever if they are now talking about me dying,” Thuto wondered.
She said her tummy never went back to normal size after she gave birth.
“If you look at me, you will think that I will soon be giving birth, I noticed how the tummy did not shrink after birth and when I asked nurses what was happening, they said the size will reduce with time."
Ratau said she chose to believe the health practitioners that her tummy size would reduce, but that has not happened and she is living a very painful life.
She had to let go of her job because she was always in pain. She is now unemployed and life is unbearable. She struggles to sleep at night. She cannot lie on one side and then turn to the other with ease.
“I need help, any kind of donation or assistance, I just feel that I will not be getting the assistance I expected at the clinic. I need to see a gynaecologist or something because at the way things are going, I will be left like this,” she cried.
So excruciating is the pain that when it strikes her tummy, she feels like rolling on the floor to ease it.
Spokesperson at Marina Hospital Keemenao Sampisi said Ratau should take the advice she was given and see a cardiologist who will determine if the surgery can be done or not,
"Our cardiologist does not know her. I believe she can be assisted and if still aggrieved, she can come to our offices to have the matter resolved," Sampisi said on Tuesday.
Speaking to The Midweek Sun this week, a stressed Ratau said sometime in March 2022, she went to the clinic after realising that she was pregnant. At the clinic, she was told that she had fibroids and they needed to be removed.
She was referred to the hospital for further assessments and when she was six months pregnant, doctors advised that the fibroids will be removed during birth or after to prevent complications.
However, that did not happen and the procedure was scheduled for this month at Princess Marina Referral Hospital in Gaborone.
“I went to Marina and the story has now changed again. They told me that because I have a nagging heart problem they suspect that the surgery will be risky if they go ahead because I might never wake up again.
“I am shocked by this because I gave birth through operation, why did they not fear that I will not wake up then?
“I am being sent from pillar to post, this tummy is painful. I also wonder if they mean that I will be stuck with this condition forever if they are now talking about me dying,” Thuto wondered.
She said her tummy never went back to normal size after she gave birth.
“If you look at me, you will think that I will soon be giving birth, I noticed how the tummy did not shrink after birth and when I asked nurses what was happening, they said the size will reduce with time."
Ratau said she chose to believe the health practitioners that her tummy size would reduce, but that has not happened and she is living a very painful life.
She had to let go of her job because she was always in pain. She is now unemployed and life is unbearable. She struggles to sleep at night. She cannot lie on one side and then turn to the other with ease.
“I need help, any kind of donation or assistance, I just feel that I will not be getting the assistance I expected at the clinic. I need to see a gynaecologist or something because at the way things are going, I will be left like this,” she cried.
So excruciating is the pain that when it strikes her tummy, she feels like rolling on the floor to ease it.
Spokesperson at Marina Hospital Keemenao Sampisi said Ratau should take the advice she was given and see a cardiologist who will determine if the surgery can be done or not,
"Our cardiologist does not know her. I believe she can be assisted and if still aggrieved, she can come to our offices to have the matter resolved," Sampisi said on Tuesday.
