He showed me mercy, even when I don't deserve it.
I was born in a Christian home in a family of seven. I had one sister and three brothers. I was the second child of my family.
I go to church with my family and that is all there is to it...I join my fellow children in children department and because I'm blessed with the ability to memorize verses from the scripture which is the major thing our Sunday school teachers focus more on to enable us to go for Bible competitions with other children in other churches.
By God's grace,I did that quite a lot and won most of the competitions.
Half of my high school years was spent with my family because I go to school from home, while the remaining three years was spent in the burden school.. and I must confess that the mercy of God was always by my side.
I returned home to my family in one of the holidays and realized that my senior sister has been on and off the hospital. I was really shocked to my bones to say the least...
When the sickness started in the month of December, while on Christmas holiday in my home town. I actually thought it's a normal malaria or typhoid which are common in my area.
But while still on holiday, she became seriously sick. She was admitted and she was diagnosed to have leukemia..
That was like a death sentence.
My family started praying more for her , other men of God also joined in the prayers...she became a demonstration ground of faith, while treatment continued...
The first time she received chemotherapy, she bled from all openings on her face, her eyes, nose, ears and mouth...
She receives blood transfusion daily.
Each time she stabilizes a bit her Doctors will discharge her to go home and rest for a while.
Most times, she comes home by Friday, but before the end of the next day; Saturday, she will start bleeding from the nose ..and then she will be rushed back to the hospital. Hmmm..it wasn't an easy experience.
Each time the nose is padded with cotton wool and plaster, she will continue to breathe with her mouth for three days before the plaster is removed to ensure that the bleeding has stopped..
Leukemia ( cancer of the blood) is not a disease you wish even your worst enemy..
From the month of December 2012 , she battled the sickness until the month of August, 2013 , she died on the 19th by some minutes past 12:am on Sunday morning..
She received forty three pints of fresh blood transfusion and three pints of platelets..
Suggestions were made to fly her to India for bone marrow transplant...but the Doctors were of the opinion that she has received much blood transfusion that the transplant was no more possible...
But one consolation in all these experience is that she fully gave her life to Christ before she died...
Before her last admission in the hospital, she searched her room and removed all the C.D's and novels she borrowed from friends and sent them back to their owners through my younger brother, with written note of gratitude to them...
At the hospital, anyone that came to visit her, she was busy preaching to them and asking for forgiveness in case she offended any of them.
On the 19th of August, 2013, my family lost a genius, a care-giver to all, a good caterer and most of all a great composer and singer ..
When she was hugging us all on the night of 18th and showing her gratitude for all the care, we never knew it was a good bye.😭😭😭😭
