by Brenda van Straten | Nov 8, 2018 | Patient Stories
It all started with a toothache. Salematu was 24 when she first noticed the pain in her mouth. As a first-year nursing student, she knew she should go to the dentist, but she was struggling. She had just lost her husband unexpectedly, leaving her with two young...
by Brenda van Straten | Nov 4, 2018 | Patient Stories
Samory never imagined that neglecting a toothache would result in a facial tumor that threatened to take away his dreams and his life. Four years after the toothache began, the once healthy 25-year-old was a shell of who he once was, as his tumor grew and his...
by Brenda van Straten | Oct 15, 2018 | Patient Stories
For a barely four-foot-tall woman named Claire, social rejection was a daily reality. The focus of this negative attention was an enormous goiter hanging conspicuously from her neck like a sack of oranges. In the chaos of the street market in Pointe Noire, Congo,...
by Brenda van Straten | Sep 19, 2018 | Patient Stories
Jean Bosco is a farmer. Just north of Congo’s capital city of Brazzaville, fields bear the mark of his honest labor – hectares of cassava, gardens of blooming eggplant and tomato, and lime and mango trees providing welcoming shade from the African sun. Jean and his...
by Brenda van Straten | Aug 17, 2018 | Patient Stories
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by Brenda van Straten | Feb 15, 2018 | Patient Stories, Video
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