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Life as they say is full of emotions and no human is without emotion, but it's just that the level of our emotions differs. Like the popular saying in my local language which says " He whom has not face battle thinks he's strong." Seriously nobody is strong, even if you are, there will always be a time or day that you will be emotional, maybe about what someone did to you or what you're passing through. Though you being emotional may not be immediately, but while thinking or resonating about that particular thing or incident, you get emotional. I too used to think I'm strong not until...
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Like I said earlier, I used to think I'm strong not until the year 2020, during the covid19 outbreak. Before the outbreak in my area, I was about to relocate to another city, the city of Ibadan. Seeing what I was passing through then, a friend of mine called me and asked me to come over to Ibadan and discussed how I would relocate to the city. So, I got to Ibadan on a friday and was planning to spend a week, but after the 3rd day, I received a call from home that my dad was terribly sick, that was January 2020, a time the covid19 was brewing up in my area, so, on hearing this, I quickly packed my bags and left for osogbo my base.
When I got to osogbo that same day, I met my dad very sick with my younger brother by his side, I was moved with tears rolling down my cheek. I that was already struggling with life, how do I take care of this aged man and more so, it was during the covid19 when everywhere was locked up. So, I didn't know what to do at first. Later, I tried my best and I called a doctor friend working at a state hospital and he asked me to look for a means to bring him to the hospital, mind you, it was the time of covid19 where everywhere was locked down in my place and there was no free movement and before you can move around, it should be in the case of emergency and one need to get a pass. How do I get the pass? As I was thinking about this, that friend of mine was still calling and I asked him on how to get the medical pass at the hospital and present at the various check points. But the guy asked me if I was serious, he said it's an emergency case and that I should be calling him whenever I get to the security check point.
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So, I look for a neighbor's bike that helped us to the hospital, my dad was at the middle and I sat at his back. So, on our ways to the hospital, when met the police and other security agencies at the check point and they were asking for the pass, but as they were seeing my dad, they were just passing us knowing fully well, it was a case of emergency. Seriously, I didn't even call that my doctor friend until we reached the hospital.
Hmmm! At the hospital, I called that my doctor friend who has informed his boss and immediately we got there, my dad was rushed to the emergency unit, where he was being attended to. But before he was being attended to, we were asked to make a deposit and this was where the problem was as I had nothing on me, I was only trying to be strong but No, I couldn't control my emotion as I bursted into tear crying like a baby. It's then my friend came to me to tell me crying will not pay the money and that if I wanted the man to live, I should rather go and look for the money.
When I heard what he said, I rose up, picked up my phone and was scrolling my contact looking for whom to call and send the money to me. The problem then was that no one is working. So, while scrolling down my phone, I saw the name of one of his long time friend who lives abroad and I then send him a text via my dad's number and immediately the man saw the message, he responded and asked me to send my account details which I sent to him, if not for the man, I wouldn't have been able to make a deposit. So, the man sent me the money and throughout our stay at the hospital, he was with us not physically but in spirit and in kind.
But, the life at the hospital was not an easy one, as looking after a sick relative was not an easy task. Infact, the person looking after the sick person is the real sick person. At the hospital, I was not able to sleep, I was always keeping vigil to look after my dad, calling the nurses here and there. Going about to get drugs and food for my sick dad, seriously it was not easy. But thank the monetary aspect has been solve, keeping vigil was the simplest thing for me to do.
Maybe I would not have gone through all these stress had it been my mum was alive, but we lost my mum February, 2011 and since then, my dad has not been feeling fine and this was because of the shock of my mum's death. But we are just trying to manage him even till now. Though, he was discharged then, but his health has not been as before, but better than what he was through during the pandemic. You would ask me about his relatives, none of then showed face. But we thank God we weather the storm and the storm is now over.
Seriously it was a bitter experience but we thank God for the timely intervention of my doctor friend and my dad's long time friend who came to our rescue when we needed his help most. I just pray for his perfect healing.
So, this was how my relocation plan in the year 2020 was aborted, but in everything, we give thanks to God for the gift of life.
Thanks for reading.
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