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Energy drinks leave new father with hole in his skull, fighting for his life during son's birth

A mother of one is speaking out after her husband's energy drink consumption nearly cost her family everything.

In a post shared on Endres Photography's Facebook page, a woman named Brianna described the heart-wrenching battle that she and her husband Austin ended up having to fight while simultaneously preparing for the birth of their first child.

"Being pregnant is supposed to be one of the most amazing journeys you will ever embark on," Brianna wrote. "You're creating a new life. You are experiencing unconditional love for someone you have not even met. Austin and I were so excited to meet our little boy. To bring him home. To be a family."

Amid her soon-to-be growing family's bliss, Brianna said she received news from her mother-in-law that would leave her whole world "shattered within hours."

"I still remember my mother in law waking me up that morning. 'Austin had an accident' she said. All I knew was that my husband was in the hospital. The worst part? I didn't know why," Brianna wrote.

"After a two hour drive to the hospital, I learned that my husband, the father of my child, the person I am so deeply in love with, had had a brain hemorrhage. Why? The doctors concluded (after running his tox screen and ruling out drugs) that this horrible event was due to his recent excessive energy drink consumption (a habit he had built when he started working longer hours and commuting)."

Before the family could process was happening, her husband was in an operating room undergoing a life-saving procedure. 

"Surgery was already in motion... and after an agonizing 5 hour wait, we got to see him. But while everyone was focused on the almost unrecognizable face hooked up to all sorts of machines and tubes, all I could see was his parents. I saw the light leave his mother's eyes as she saw her motionless son laying in that hospital bed. I saw his father break down crying as he held onto his wife. They didn't know if the life they created together would even wake up. Watching this family- my new family, who I have grown to love and be a part of, be so shattered and broken...that is the worst feeling I have ever felt."

The next day, Brianna said her husband was already undergoing his second round of brain surgery. 

"Following this were strokes, seizures, swelling, and more things we weren't prepared for," she wrote. "There was a moment, sitting by his hospital bed, just praying he would be okay, that I knew I would never give up on him. No matter how messy our life would become. I was going to be by his side through all of it. After two weeks of living in a hospital, wondering if he would survive or be taken from us, we made our way back home. The time had come for me to deliver our baby."

"I'm not going to lie to anyone, it was so hard. I had planned on Austin being a part of this huge moment," Brianna continued in her emotional post. "Being by my side. Holding my hand. Being there to cut the cord. Being there to welcome our son into the world. It didn't feel right... But a beautiful miracle happened as I delivered our son. Austin woke up."

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WAZAZI WA KWAMISHA UTOAJI WA CHAKULA SHULENI

Baadhi ya wazazi wakifuatlia kikao cha wazazi katika Shule ya msingi Muungano manispaa ya IRINGA, mkoani IRINGA leo. (Picha na Friday Simbaya)

IRINGA: SHULE ya msingi Munnugano katika manispaa ya Iringa, mkoani Iringa imesitisha mpango wakutoa uji kwa wanafunzi kwa muda kutokana na wazazi kusuasua kutoa michango.

Hayo yalielezwa na mwalimu mkuu wa shule ya msingi muungano Richards Nchimbi wakati wa kikao cha wazazi kilicholenga kutamubulisha kamati mpya ya mpango jamii wa uhamasishaji na utekelezaji elimu (MJUUE) Ushirikiano wa Wazazi na Waalimu (UWAWA) jana kupitia program ya USAID Tusome Pamoja.

Alisema kuwa kutokana na wazazi kutoona umuhimu wa watoto wao kupata uji mwalimu mkuu kwa kushirikiana na kamati ya shule hiyo wamesitisha mpango wa chakula shuleni hadi hapo baadaye.

Nchimbi alisema kuwa shule hiyo ina jumla ya wanafunzi 700 lakini ni watoto kumi (10) tu kwa sasa ndio wanaokunywa uji shuleni na kupelekea kushindwa kulipa gharama ya mpishi ya shilingi 60 kwa mwezi.

“Tulikuwa na utaratibu wa kutoa uji kwa wanafunzi wote ambapo kila mzazi anatakiwa kuchangia shilingi 2000 kwa mwezi lakini wazazi wengine wameshindwa kutoa michango wa uji kwa wanafunzi,” alisema Nchimbi.

Naye mwenyekiti wa kamati ya shule ya msingi muungano saidi lawa alisema shule hiyo inakabiliwa na changamoto mbalimbali ikiwemo miundombinu mibovu ya vyoo vya wanafunzi na walimu, uchakavu wa vyumba vya madarasa na kutokuwa na viwanja vya michezo.

Alisema kuwa kupitia mpango jamii wa uhamasishaji na utekelezaji elimu (MJUUE) wamepanga kukalabati vyoo vya wanafunzi ambapo gharama za ukarabati zitagharimu zaidi ya shilingi milioni mbili (2m/-) ambapo kila mzazi mwenye mtoto anatakiwa kuchangia shilingi elfu tano. (5000/-).

Lawa alisema kuwa ili kuboresha mazingira ya ufundishaji na kujisomea serikali kwa kushirikiana na jamii wanabudi kutoa michango ya mali na hali ili kuboresho ufaulu kwa wanafunzi.

Kwa upande wao Washiriki wa Mahusiano ya Jamii (CEF) mradi wa USAID Tusome Pamoja, Winston Ngowo na Sara Ndoto walisema kuwa mradi wa elimu wa miaka mitano unaofadhiliwa na Shirika la Maendeleo la Kimataifa la Watu wa Marekani (USAID).

Walisema kuwa Mradi huu unalenga kusaidia kuboresha stadi za ufundishaji na kujifunza kusoma, kuandika na kuhesabu (KKK) katika shule za awali na madarasa ya chini ya shule za msingi (1-4), katika mikoa minne ya Tanzania bara (Iringa, Morogoro, Mtwara na Ruvuma) pamoja na shule zote za serikali Zanzibar. 

Pamoja na kutoa mafunzo kwa walimu , vitabu kwa wanafunzi, malengo zaidi ya mradi wa USAID Tusome Pamoja ni kuimarisha ushiriki wa wazazi na jamii kwenye elimu kupitia kamati za shule, Ushirikiano wa Wazazi na Waalimu ( UWAWA) na jamii yote kwa ujumla.

Hivi Karibuni,USAID Tusome Pamoja ikishirikiana na serikali katika mikoa huu, iliendesha mafunzo ya mpango jamii wa uhamasishaji na utekelezaji elimu (MJUUE) wenye lengo la kuhamasisha jamii katika kubaini changamoto katika sekta ya elimu zinazo athiri ubora wa elimu na ufaulu; Kubaini rasilimali na utatuzi wa changamoto hizo.

Pia mafunzo haya yalilenga (kusaidia jamii ishiriki katika kuandaa mipango ya elimu kwa ajili ya watoto wao hivyo kuimarisha ushiriki wa jamii katika kuboresha utoaji wa elimu.

Kupitia mpango huo USAID Tusome Pamoja unaotekelezwa na shirika la Care International kwa shirikia na RTI International, ilitoa mafunzo ya siku tatu kwa Wawezeshaji Jamii Elimu 968 kutoka shule 481 za msingi za serikali mkoani Iringa.

Walisema kuwa pamoja na mambo mengine wameweza kusaidia kuongoza uandaaji wa dira na mipango kazi ya muda mfupi ya shule zao za msingi.

Na mipango hiyo kuridhiwa na jamii, Wahamasishaji hawa baada ya kupata mafunzo pia wanafanya kazi ya kujitolea ya kuhamasishaji jamii kushiriki katika shughuli zote zinazohusu elimu katika shule zao. Na Friday Simbaya, Iringa