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Pardon me Kenyans, I'm no super woman

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Something happened the other day that left me with a guilt feeling. I  forgot to give my son Troy his dose of antibiotics one night. Immediately I realised it, I wallowed in a valley of self-condemnation and guilt for the next few days.

Negative thoughts flooded my mind: “What kind of a mother would forget to give their child crucial medication like antibiotics knowing fully well the importance of adherence. I must be a really nasty mother?”

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