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MY STORY: ‘Life is too short to waste it begging’

Ivy Keziah, the girl who picked up the pieces of her life after cancer attack that led her to her leg's amputation when she was in class four. (PHOTO DENISH OCHIENG/ STANDARD)

I am a trained journalist and worked as a news producer at Urban Radio for a year, and had a short stint as an intern at Radio Sahara. I shifted to online writing which I have practised for more than a year now.

I am also an amputee after I was found to have stage four bone cancer in 2001 while a class four pupil. The discovery cast a dark shadow on what was once a life brimming with promise, it took me a long time to rise above it.

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