Pain of losing arm to Synovial sarcoma

Glory Muthoni Sang’ during the interview. [PHOTO: JENIPHER WACHIE/STANDARD]

NAIROBI: “Lord I thank you for the 26 years I had this arm, I ask for your grace to face the next chapter of my life without it.”

Glory Muthoni Sang’ made this prayer a few days before the four quarter amputation surgery that would see her loose her arm, shoulder blade and collar bone. The result of a rare form of cancer known as synovial sarcoma that presents itself as a slow-growing mass in the soft tissues around the shoulder, knee, ankle, near a joint or tendon and is occasionally found in the head and neck region, abdominal wall and lungs.