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Chapter 1(The Genesis)

It all started four years ago........

 
February 19,2024..
     In an organization of Teenagers, there is a very valiant and agile guy(Joshua) that involves himself in mostly what everyone does but everything changes at a point in his life where he had no control over fate...
  But this fateful day, some tasks were being carried out by the teenagers in the organization, but Joshua was left out and wasn't privileged to do anything, other teenagers neglected him and didn't want to be friends with him, so Joshua was a lonely guy that did almost everything alone... So this fateful day, there is this girl(Joy)... Joy has been noticing the way Joshua is reserved and hardly makes friend and she also sees the way other people relate to him so she gathered courage to go and meet Joshua to talk about what is really happening... So Joy went to meet Joshua and their conversation goes thus;
  JOY- Hi... How are you?
  JOSHUA- I'm fine I guess.. What about you?
  JOY- I'm also fine.. Can I sit?
   JOSHUA- Sure, why not?
  JOY- Thank you.. So what's up, why are you sitting alone, why aren't you associating with others?
  JOSHUA- I guess I find peace in being alone(chuckles)
  JOY- (amazed) How? How will you find peace in being alone? And also I have noticed that people don't really associate with you.. Why is that?
  JOSHUA- I really don't know.. I guess you should ask them instead but to me it has become a custom.. I've been like this for the past 4 years so I guess I'm used to it(chuckles)
  JOY- 4 years? I don't understand, what happened 4 years ago that changed you? Because I'm very sure you would be a sweetheart and also I don't see why people avoid someone like you... Care to share what changed you?
  JOSHUA- Was that supposed to make me feel alright(chuckles) Stop flattering me..
  JOY- I'm very honest.. Even though this is my first time talking to you but I notice you everytime and I see that deep inside you is a sweetheart, a gentle and lively guy that just wants to be happy.. So what Changed?
  JOSHUA- Hmmmm... It is a long story, are you sure you have the time to listen?
  JOY- If I didn't have the time I wouldn't come to meet you... Talk to me Josh...
  JOSHUA- Okay... February 6, 2020 was the day everything in my life took a drastic turn....

   I went to a secondary school where most boys are seen to be strong and do most of the work... Mostly during sports and other sporting activities, even though I was good in playing football to me it didn't seem enough, so that particular year, I decided to participate in my school's inter house sports activities.. So I started, during the preparation for the sporting activities, I participated in almost all the track and field events in my school so on this particular day( February 6, 2020) I decided to join them in the preparation for the long jump event, so it required us running a short distance to gather momentum and strength to be able to have a long jump to cover much distance on the sector, and normally sawdust was used to cover the place so as to prevent injuries, so when it was my turn to jump I didn't know that there was stone under the sawdust so immediately I jumped, I landed on the stone and it affected my hip bone even though I didn't feel the pain that much that particular day.. I went on with my normal life...
    I wasn't feeling the pain too much until February 12, the day of the final preparation before the inter house sport, I started feeling the pain in my hip.. I couldn't stand up to walk a long distance, so that particular day I couldn't do anything I was in my classroom resting, I thought it would just take a little time and I won't feel the pain again, but that was my worst assumption... So ever since then I've never enjoyed my life again.. I started living in pain.. I had series of sleepless nights.. My dad and mum tried their best to give me the best treatment but it kept getting worse everyday.... It was worse that I was referred to different Men Of God, but nothing was getting better.. I started missing classes(Starts crying)
  JOY- (Consoles him) Sorry, yeah?
JOSHUA- (continues) Yeah, so I went to one hospital and they prescribed some drugs for me and said I should give myself 5 days of complete bed rest, from their things started getting worse, Ulcer set in and I became very lean that a skeleton was like a replica of me, I was kept inside like a fish is limited to the water.. We thought the rest would make everything better instead it kept getting worse by the day.. From there I went for my ultrasound after the 5 days and nothing changed.. The scan showed that I had dislocated my hip bone and I was referred to another doctor and the doctor placed me on different drugs and also 6 weeks bed rest.. March 8 was the day I started my bedrest properly, that day is one of the most emotional day of my life.. I had missed school for like a full month, so my classmates came to greet me at home, all of them.. I was very happy that day, most of them pitied me when they saw me but still we had phone even though I was still in bed.... After that day they kept checking up on me, there are some of them I can never forget in my life no matter the consequence, my cousins also started living with me because that time school was on hold because of a virus outbreak.. They didn't give me a room to be depressed or not feel among, to me my family is the best thing that happened to me, all of them were the best throughout my days of distress, they were there for me.. So when I started the six weeks bed rest I thought I was getting better because I wasn't really feeling any pain again, I even enrolled for admission in a football academy because football was my passion and my dream so I was thinking when I was better I would go back to playing football... So everything was going well till the fourth week of my bed rest when I started feeling serious pain in my legs again, those weeks are nightmares I still dream of... I went back to sleepless nights, in all these troubles my family was there, my parents, siblings, and cousins were there for me.. so back to my story.. So that I can sleep, my dad started sedating me so I can escape the pain a little because I couldn't sleep... So a day in the fifth week of my bed rest I went for my weekly check up and the doctor said I'm now better that I should start exercising it a little bit so my dad and mum took that and started exercising it for me, I started using crutches from there... So during those exercises It was like hell on earth for me, I wasn't feeling my legs, the more the exercise it kept getting worse and the pain kept increasing but my parents continued because they thought that it was the best thing, so one particular day ( April 26, 2020) I wanted to use the toilet so my dad said I should sit down on the closet but my hip bone was stiffed already and I couldn't bend down but my dad was forcing it and I was begging in tears but my dad didn't understand, it got to a point that my dad slapped me and I hit my head on the wall tiles in the bathroom and I fell down but still my dad continued not knowing that things were getting worse until my mom interfered and was like telling my dad that I couldn't go down again that or else my hipbone will break.. So my dad left me and took me to a physiotherapist hoping that he would help but the moment the physiotherapist saw me, he burst out in tears and told my parents that what is happening to me had passed his power that I should go for another scan.. When we did another scan.. The Man and my dad were having a conversation and my dad was crying, they didn't want to tell me the results of the scan so my mom went closer to them, when they told my mom about the results of the scan my mom also burst out in tears.. So my dad came to meet me and told me that my hipbone is decayed and that the solution was to go for surgery or they amputate my leg.. That night was a nightmare, I couldn't help my parents tears and their apologies when they realized they have been making things worse with the exercise.. we were again referred to another hospital in Ibadan, my leg got worse that I couldn't sit down or stand I was only laying down so when we got to the hospital, my dad carried me like a plank to the ward, when the doctor saw me, he said what is happening has passed his power so he referred me to a teaching hospital in Ogbomosho (Bowen University Teaching hospital).... When we got there, the doctor on duty was no more there so had to wait till he came back.. He attended to me and when he saw my scan, he aspirated my lap by putting in empty injection just to bring out the blood and check the blood.. When he aspirated out the blood, and tested it he realized that the blood already had bacteria and he told my parents that even if they treat it, it would still be the same since the blood has been contaminated, after he blamed my parents for not taking me to that hospital since it started.. So he broke out the news that the only thing they could do at that point it amputate my leg....