Seventeen years later, she finds herself back on the operating table. This time, not to bring new life into the world but to reclaim one that was lost nearly two decades ago and perhaps have another stab at a life that almost slipped through her fingers.

“I just want to live a normal life,” she says, slowly adjusting her stripped green hospital gown.

She walks to a window in the general ward at Kisii Teaching and Referral Levell 6 Hospital and looks outside towards the undulating hills. Her eyes are unblinking. Her gaze fixated on something only she could see.