{"id":3946,"date":"2014-11-05T21:18:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T20:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=3946"},"modified":"2014-11-05T21:18:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T20:18:13","slug":"watch-akinwunmmi-anus-inspiring-vvf-repair-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=3946","title":{"rendered":"Watch Akinwunmmi Anu&#8217;s Inspiring VVF Repair Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I shared with you photos from the recent <strong>Extended Hands Foundation<\/strong> pool effort in Ibadan and I was overwhelmed with your kind words and feedback. You really touched my heart in so many beautiful ways and I&#8217;m so grateful for all your prayers.<\/p>\n<p>As it is with most of our pool effort, stories of a few of the affected women stand out from the rest. Not that any woman&#8217;s story is less\u00a0important, but\u00a0I was so touched by <strong>Akinwunmi Anu<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>She is a young lady who developed <strong>Vesico Vaginal Fistula<\/strong> after labouring for three days at home since 2009. She later had a Cesarean Section but had complications afterwards. For 5 years, she suffered shame and discrimination as her friends and family ran away from her as she couldn&#8217;t control her urine and was constantly leaking.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the complication, she also stopped seeing her menstrual period. This troubled her for many years until recently when she had a successful surgery during the pool effort. This was made possible with the support of <strong>SNEPCo\/NNPC<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so glad we could bring a smile to her face once again. She had such a warm spirit and a beautiful smile for us all. Her satisfaction and restoration is what inspires us at Extended Hands Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Watch her inspiring story:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VCGiEyp_SWA\" width=\"620\" height=\"345\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I shared with you photos from the recent Extended Hands Foundation pool effort in Ibadan and I was overwhelmed with your kind words and feedback. You really touched my heart in so many beautiful ways and I&#8217;m so grateful for all your prayers. As it is with most of our pool effort, stories of a few of the affected women stand out from the rest. Not that any woman&#8217;s story is less\u00a0important, but\u00a0I was so touched by Akinwunmi Anu. She is a young lady who developed Vesico Vaginal Fistula after labouring for three days at home since 2009. She later had a Cesarean Section but had complications afterwards. For 5 years, she suffered shame and discrimination as her friends and family ran away from her as she couldn&#8217;t control her urine and was constantly leaking. As a result of the complication, she also stopped seeing her menstrual period. This troubled her for many years until recently when she had a successful surgery during the pool effort. This was made possible with the support of SNEPCo\/NNPC. I&#8217;m so glad we could bring a smile to her face once again. She had such a warm spirit and a beautiful smile for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[289,38,110,42],"class_list":["post-3946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-make-me-fabulous","tag-akinwunmi-anu","tag-extended-hands-foundation","tag-snepconnpc","tag-vesico-vaginal-fistula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3947,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions\/3947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}