Love helped us conquer cancer, survivors recall

Lorna Kalekye,9, prepares breakfast at her home in Huruma on Wednedsday 14 2018. Kalekye, was in 2016 diagnosed with Esophageal cancer, a kind of cancer arising from the esophagus, and her parents have had to spend a fortune for her medication.[David Njaaga,Standard]

Johnathan Mulwa says he cannot talk about love without dwelling on oesophageal cancer — the disease that nearly robbed him of his little girl Lorna Kalekye.

“We fought it together, and she won. People told us to give up because cancer has no cure, but we vowed to try everything. This is what you do when you love someone,” he says.