"Cancer" is one of those frightening words you never want to hear in connection with
someone you love. The monster can be disfiguring, causes terrible suffering; even the
treatments available are often harrowing. Unfortunately, this “rich man” disease is gradually
becoming part of our lives.
Veronica Waceke is a screen plus stage actress whom you may have spotted on TV
shows like ‘Higher Learning’, where she plays Aida, a sassy University girl who runs an
escort company and she lures her friends to join the business with a promise of good pay
and the good life.
She has also been on ‘Guy Centre’, where she plays a talent scout who fishes for new
musical talent and goes ahead to promote it. She has also been featured in other local TV
acts amongst ‘Be the Judge’, ‘Makutano Junction’, ‘Machachari’ and recently, ‘Mother in
Law’.
The young, hardworking and passionate actor is now living in fear; fear for her life since doctors diagnosed her with Thyroid cancer. It started off as a painless swelling around her neck. She, and even some of her
friends, confused with a lower Adam’s apple and even made fun of it.
The swelling wasn’t going away and it was gradually increasing in size and this is when she got concerned, her folks too became concerned and it was her mother who eventually urged her to have the swelling
checked out.
The endless trips to clinics and hospitals begun. She got conflicting results with some doctors saying it was a goiter.
She was subjected to many tests with doctors at Kenyatta National Hospital finally finding out traces of thyroid cancer cells in the swelling.
The remedy for her kind of cancer is to undergo a procedural surgery which aims to remove the thyroid glands and there after be placed under permanent medication to prevent any recurrence of the cancerous cells. The procedure, which will cost around approximately ksh 400,000
The best we can offer this talented actress is not our sympathies but join “Art Synthesis”. It is a an annual charity event started and organized by a group of artists coming together to help Veronica. The first event will be held on the 23rd November, 2013 at the Alliance Francaise starting for 2:00PM.
The “Art Synthesis” will be an afternoon of fashion,dance,music,monologues and all ART things as we support actor Veronica Waceke who has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer in paying her medical bills.
