Claris with her husband George in happier days. There was an outpouring of emotions when news broke that she had passed away. Photo/ COURTESY GEORGE OJWANG
This was however not to be, the last he heard from her was on February 16 when she made him breakfast before he left for work.
The next time he saw her was later in the afternoon when she was to be admitted at the Nairobi Hospital after she fainted in the house days before she was due to deliver their second baby.
The gynecologist who had seen her through her first pregnancy and now to the second pregnancy recommended that she be taken into theater for a caesarian section to remove the baby.
She never woke up from the operation. An operation to clear a clot from her brain was done but she was troubled by a recurrent bacterial infection in the brain, which also cleared.
The condition that led Claris to the situation is attributed to a phenomenon medically known as pre eclampsia.
It is termed as the most common of pregnancy complications; it may affect both the mother and the unborn child.
It’s most visible sign is blood pressure elevation although it also involves generalised damage to the kidneys, and liver, with the release of vasoconstrictive factors being secondary to the original damage.
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