Surgical Success Stories - #507-508

Bafete is a widow and has delivered nine children. Fortunately, all are living. She has suffered from prolapse for 10 years and is thrilled to be free of her prolapse! Thank you so very much for making this possible for her.

Ayelech is 45 and married with 8 children - wow! She first noticed her prolapse only five months ago but in that short time it had become quite severe. She is now prolapse-free and ready to start a new chapter of her life. You can tell from her picture that she already has a wonderful smile and hopefully we added to that a bit.

Surgical Success Stories - #505-506

Atome is 58. Her prolapse had been present for three years and had become quite severe. She’s widowed and lives with one of the seven children that she has given birth to. Thank you for helping her!

Mokone has also given birth to seven children but only four of them have survived. She is widowed and after one year of dealing with her prolapse, she left the hospital a new woman.

Surgical Success Stories - #503-504

Aster has eight children with her husband. Her prolapse had been bothering her for five years before coming to Soddo Christian Hospital. She is now prolapse free!

Dashikare is 60 years old and has given birth to ten children and eight of them are still alive. She lives with her husband and has been dealing with the effects of her prolapse for a decade! Today, after more than ten years of waiting - she is prolapse free. Thank you!

Surgical Success Stories - #501-502

Tarafe has a complicated story. She actually had surgery almost four years ago but unfortunately her prolapse returned. This is always a risk, no matter which surgery is done but the surgery that she had done only has a failure rate of 1-2% and she fell into that group. She needed a BIG surgery and was slow to wake up because of all the anesthetic. But, all is well. She stayed at the hospital for a few days to heal before she went home. She has five children and many grandchildren waiting on her return!

Demekech is 41 years old and came to hospital from a good distance away. She is widowed and has eight children. She also had a “big” surgery - which has the best chance of long-term success and we pray that everything will heal well this time around. Thank you for helping her!

Surgical Success Stories - #500 (Let's Celebrate!!)

🙌🌟 C E L E B R A T E 🌟🙌

We've sponsored 500 surgeries and we are CELEBRATING! You can be a part of this life-changing work! Donate $5, $50, or $500 (or whatever you can) to the Surgeries project!

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Amarech, our 500th surgery recipient, is 60 years old and has eight children, all of whom, by the grace of God, have survived. She’s widowed and has suffered for six years from her prolapse before going to see the doctors. She’s now prolapse free, resting and recovering!

Surgical Success Stories - #497-499!

Rachel has delivered seven children and five are currently living. Until today she had suffered from severe prolapse for five long years. She is very grateful not to have this condition now!

Meselech is 40 years old and has six children as a widow. She noticed her prolapse only eight months ago but it had quickly become quite significant. Fortunately, she is now prolapse free and resting in the ward.

Amarech, who is 45, has four surviving children after giving birth to seven. She’s still married and her prolapse has been present for three years. Her surgery today was quite challenging but the doctors kept patiently going through surgical step and the end-result was very satisfying. She’ll have a longer recovery than Meselech but will be a changed woman because of all of you.

Surgical Success Stories - #494-496!

Woyzare is 55 years old. She and her husband had eight children, seven of whom are still alive. She’s been struggling with her prolapse for the last year and is now prolapse free!

Sigete and her husband have seven children after having given birth to 10. She first noticed her prolapse a little over a year ago and like Woyzare she is now free from that problem.

Napeom comes from an area far away to the south. She’s widowed and has seven living children after giving birth to nine. Her prolapse had been bothering her for quite some time, at least 5 years. She’s now made the long journey back home, free from prolapse!

Surgical Success Stories - #491-493!

Lokirinor had suffered from severe prolapse for five years until now! She is married and has five children. She has had some challenging medical issues which drained the money she had brought with her. She also had quite a challenging surgery but she did well. It was wonderful for her to be able to have the surgery without her having to pay for it because of your generosity.

Shane is 50 years old and married with six children. She first noticed her prolapse about a year ago and now, thanks to your kindness and generosity, she is prolapse free.

Gete is also 50 years old and has seven children. She’s widowed and her prolapse had been bothering her for two years. A new surgical resident, Edomiyas, who is training with the doctors, performed her surgery and did an excellent job!

Surgical Success Stories - #471-480!

Hirut is 50 years old, widowed and has give birth to ten children with seven of them still living. Her prolapse had become quite severe over the last three years that she had noticed it. She’s now prolapse free and should be headed back home.

Ayelech has delivered eight children and all are alive! Thanks to your sponsorship, she is now prolapse free.

Dase has delivered five children and four of them are still living. Her condition revealed severe prolapse with a markedly ulcerated cervix which was removed at the time of her surgery.

Shamane is married and living with her husband. She had suffered from prolapse for three years until today! She was pregnant 11 times and has delivered nine children, seven of whom are still living.

Bayenech has been pregnant five times, has five children and is married. She had suffered from severe prolapse for one year. She had used a pessary for two months due to the fact that her organs were ulcerated from the severe prolapse. She was really happy to have definitive therapy for this issue!

Ayelech is married and has suffered from prolapse for one year. She has delivered five children, four of whom are still living. She is so grateful to no longer to have this condition.

Hatiso has had severe prolapse for seven years. She has delivered five children and only two are living. She has also had the grief of being a widow. She was brought to the clinic by her daughter.

Almaz had previously been scheduled for surgery but it had to be cancelled due to the fact that she had severe anemia. She was treated with a pessary and iron and was then able to undergo her surgery. She had suffered from prolapse for four years and has delivered eight children, all of whom are living!

Mature, a widow, have been pregnant 12 times. She has delivered eight children but only four are still living. She has dealt with severe prolapse for three years.

Ashanike had suffered intermittently from pelvic prolapse for six years but then for one year her prolapse was irreducible. She has been pregnant six times and delivered five children - all of them are living! She underwent successful surgery and is thrilled to no longer have this problem.

Surgical Success Stories - #461-470!

Name: Ukume
Age: 45 (the doctors think she may actually be 55)
Story: Ukume has never given birth which is unusual for prolapse patients. Her surgery went extremely well!

Name: Meskele
Age: 40
Story: Meskele is married with three living children after giving birth to four. She has had her prolapse for two years but is now prolapse free.

Name: Bizunesh
Age: Unknown
Story: Married and lives with her husband and her four living children after giving birth to seven. Her prolapse had been bothering her for five years before going to see the doctors.

Name: Marta
Age: 50
Story: Lives with her husband and they have raised eight children together. She had been dealing with her prolapse for the past year. Now she is prolapse free and has travelled home.

Name: Meselech
Age: 45
Story: Married with seven children, Meselech’s prolapse has been going on for a year and she is now prolapse free by the grace of God and generosity of all of you!

Name: Abebech
Age: 50
Story: Abebech is married with three living children after giving birth to five in total. She had only noticed her prolapse two months ago but in that short period of time it had become quite severe. Thank you for helping her.

Name: Aynate
Age: 40
Story: She’s married with seven children and prior to surgery had been living with her prolapse for the last year. She is now prolapse free and recovering well.

Name: Boltane
Age: 50
Story: When her church heard about the work the doctors were doing at Soddo Christian Hospital they sent a note Boltane asking if they would treat her. Of course they were more than happy to! She’s widowed and lives with one of her four children after having given birth to five. Her prolapse had been bothering her for the past three years but it is now a thing of the past.

Name: Jane
Age: 45
Story: Jane is widowed, and has given birth to five children with three of them still alive. She noticed her prolapse only three months ago but in that short period of time it had become quite significant. She is now recovering and so grateful to be free from her prolapse.

Name: Felekech
Age: 40
Story: Has five living children after giving birth to six. She’s married and has been struggling with her prolapse over the last two years. Her smile tells you how glad she is to be prolapse free!