Must Read: Cancer

7 years ago

Must Read: Cancer

]I got back to school, and it was all about project everyone was busy with their projects but I was lacking money to type and print a page.

Luckily Josh borrowed me his laptop, I called a friend AY he sent me 2k to start with and gradually, I typed all my project myself, the drawings, tables, formulas and all. Like the saying, necessity is the mother of invention, I became a Ms word guru overnight.

Now after typing and printing the first copy, I had to do two more photocopies each and then the binding. Exams have ended, project had been defended, what was left was the submission. I was broke.

I was just thinking about my life over the past 5years one afternoon when my phone beeped, checked the message, it was an alert, alas, it was 5k. But from who now? The name was Tos.

Quickly I picked up the phone and called Tos
Me: tos how far
Tos: am good ooo, have you seen the alert
Me: yes, but where did u get the money
Tos: it was Mama that ask me to send it to u
Me: Mama? Where did she get the money, is she healed now?
Tos: no, its from the money that those who came visiting gave her that she ask me to send that to u
Next tin I knew was that I was just crying, this woman with her state, she could still remember and care so much, I cried again and this time prayed to God to please heal her.

If I had known I would have marked that day in my calender.

God do answer prayers you know, but sometimes you ask why he always take so long, like the psalmist say, our God is in heaven and doeth as he pleases.

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I submitted my project and packed my bags out of ilorin. I got to lagos when SK told me that JK had delivered but she died after delivery, I was shocked and I just couldn’t come to terms with her death. After graduating from the university, she just passed on without eating the fruit of her labour. She gave birth to a girl, and passed out after about 3 days after delivery.

May her gentle soul rest in perfect peace
Well, school is over now, I was back to lagos fully while waiting for the senate to sit on our result and approve our names. During this period, I was going to the villa more often, the yorubas have a saying that goes like ‘let’s close our eyes and pretend we are dead so we can know who love us’ I was surprise to see relatives, I mean close relatives speak ill of us, and abstain themselves from our cause.

Well, at this stage mama’s b0s0m had opened up, you could see the inner part of the b0s0m, well, like I do joke, no matter how big a ladies b0s0m is, its just and extension of excess body fat. I could see the inner part of the b0s0m and maggots living within. We tried all we can to make the wound as neat as it could, but still you will always wake up to find maggots coming out.
No one was coming from anywhere to treat or pray with her anymore, it seems everyone was tired and just waiting for her to give up the ghost, but God had other plans.

Three months later, Mama was a little better now, I visited her, and we spoke at length she told me she can’t wait to recover and be the mother her children deserve, she told me that the last time she saw yinkus and Abimbola, she felt for them, she said the looked abandoned and unkept. She told me she made a sandal for them before they went back, she said she would have made for me too, but she didn’t know my actual size.

I told her not to worry, that when she gets better she will defiantly buy more sandals for me and that I can’t wait to start spending on her when I get to collect 19,800 naira from my youth service.

I really enjoyed her company that day and in her usual manner she said some prayer for me when I was about to leave.

Finally, the school released our names and we were told that graduation will be by october 21 – 23. Although my grade was nothing to write home about, I was still excited I had graduated.

At last I was free from the hullabaloo of schooling in Better by Far, to us then it was Suffer by Far.

I told mama about the convocation, that I would love her to be there, she said she won’t go that I will go with my brothers, dad, and granny.

I insisted that she must be there with me, she said she won’t be there.

Two weeks to convocation, I was to go to school to finish up my clearance, I was preparing to leave for school when I got a damaging and heart shattering call