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ZCTF Report – August 2013
Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force (ZCTF)
August 02, 2013

Health issues

Some of you may know that I have recently come out of hospital after an operation to remove a tumour. God works in mysterious ways because my problem started with severe pain in my kidneys. Having had kidney stones before, I was certain I had the same problem again and I went for a scan. In the scan, a tumour was spotted on my adrenal gland so if it wasn't for the kidney stones, I would never have found out about the tumour and I don't believe I would have survived. The doctor regarded the tumour as very serious because he couldn't tell if it was malignant or not so he felt it was more important to remove the tumour and deal with the kidney stones later. I was very happy to learn that the tumour was not malignant. It was called a cavernous haemangioma.

I would like to thank all of you who sent me get well messages by email and Facebook. I was feeling quite despondent in hospital and my wife Cheryl printed all the messages out for me every day. I felt so much better after reading the messages and I'm sure they helped me to recover so I am most grateful to all of you.

I still have to have the kidney stones removed but my funds are very low after the tumour operation so I will have to wait until I can do some work and earn some more money.

Johnny Rodrigues - Chairman for Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force

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