Alena Malaika Asuma Otieno

Godmother

The death of Keisha wasn’t a surprise, but rather a long awaited event. Keisha expired in the county hospital at 7:24 pm on February 24th, 2021 having succumbed to an illness she had been fighting for a little over two years. Two years, four months, and seven days to be exact−two weeks after she gave birth to Michael and started treating the stage 4 ovarian cancer found during a routine ultrasound in her first trimester. So, Keisha’s death did not simply mean that she shed her mortal coil, but she also shed her motherly duties and gave full parental control to Melissa, her best friend who had already been helping with Michael’s childcare throughout his entire twenty-eight months of life.