Damaris Muga noticed the swelling first. Her son was around six months old. The swelling had settled into his joints and his legs, and none of it made sense. He had been born healthy, delivered without complication.
She took him to hospital. They said it was pneumonia, and she gave him the medication, and he got better. Then, a short while later, he got sick again. She took him back, and again they said pneumonia.