A cancer diagnosis is a pill that too often patients find hard to swallow. When Wairimu Ndung'u received the devastating news about her health, she was immediately hurled into a world of total confusion. "I cried, I stood up in a room and went to a corner and sat down again and cried helplessly. I was scared. Nurses tried to calm me down. I was speechless. The biggest dilemma was how I was going to live with this situation? I wished this was a dream and I was going to wake up healthy."