As usual one foggy morning, she set out to seek wheelchairs for needy people who could not walk, but that is the day Jane Wairimu cheated death after a grisly accident that killed eight occupants in the vehicle she was traveling in.
That morning, October 30 2010 remains etched in her memory. She says the fatal accident along the Mariakani Bridge in Mombasa turned her life upside down.
Her spinal cord sustained four fractures leading to paralysis and incontinence.
A month later after a harrowing confinement in the Intensive Care Unit and hope for recovery lost, doctors declared the social worker dead and she was dispatched to the mortuary while her family embarked on burial arrangements.
However, Wairimu woke up minutes after the mortician had just shoved her body into a mortuary freezer, just in time before the mortuary attendant had turned to leave.
In what dropped a shocker among many, Wairimu had ‘resurrected’ but she had just begun another grueling stretch.
Today, she has lost coordination of her limbs, contends with excruciating emotional pain and is confined to a wheelchair now taking the position of people she so much cared for when she could walk.
In a sheaf of medical documents from a team of doctors examining her, Wairimu's spinal cord was destabilized and besides the paralysis, she lost the ability to control her bowel movement.
Doctors say she needs to undergo a spinal surgery that will see neurologists perform stem cell transplantation at Pushya medical center in India.
The corrective surgery will cost Sh3 million, an amount of money her family cannot afford.
“I was once the breadwinner, now I have to rely on my mother who is a stroke survivor and a casual laborer father for survival,” said Wairimu.
Good Samaritans can touch Wairimu`s life and help her claw back her passion for social service through Jane Wairimu Kamau Medical Fund on Pay Bill number 681990 or MPESA number 0716388855, Jane Wairimu Kamau.