TOSIN: help! Somebody help me!! Somebody help!!!!
ADAKU: (rushes out and finds Mrs Bola on the floor. She was breathing, but her breathing was very shallow and her eyes were shut)
ADAKU: What happened to her????
TOSIN: we just finished getting ready for church, as we stepped out, she just slumped????
ADAKU: madam Bola! Madam Bola can you hear me?? (Feels her pulse) of dear! Her pulse is barely there!
(Kneels down and gives her 15 chest compressions, then bends over her, locks her mouth into hers and gave her 3 rescue breath)
Can you hear me, Madam?
MADAM BOLA: (very faintly) y-e-s
ADAKU: great! Alright, just give me a minute let me get my car and take you to the hospital! Tosin, please get me Bose to assist me with getting her into the car!
(Adaku brought her car, assisted by Bose and Tosin, they got her into the back seat of the car. Adaku put her in the recovery position)
ADAKU: Bose, please come with us to the hospital. Some hospitals wonβt help you get the patient out of the car and I canβt carry her alone, please. Tosin is only a boy
BOSE: sorry I canβt come with you guys. Iβm sure the hospital will have wheelchairs to move patients around. Saturdays are the only days I rest. So I really need to rest but Iβll be praying for her. She will be fine, she is probably stressed
ADAKU: Tosin, get into the front seat!???
(Adaku drove as fast as she could to Ayodele General Hospital. She quickly got into reception and requested a wheelchair, but one of the nurses told her that all their wheelchairs were currently in use
She went back to her car and with a lot of difficulties, carried madam Bola into the hospital, purchased a card and they gave her a bed. After about 10 minutes, the doctor walked in and started taking her vitals)
DOCTOR: my name is doctor Ayodele, erm, I own this hospital. Your mumβs blood pressure is dangerously high. If nothing is done soon, and I mean s-o-o-n, she will have a heart attack and that may be fatal.
ADAKU: oh no! Please doctor, commence treatment!
DOCTOR: you need to deposit a non refundable sum of one hundred and thirty thousand naira, before we can do anything for her.
ADAKU: please doctor, I do not have any cash on me right now. Please treat her and money will never be an issue!
DOCTOR: we accept card payment, so, you donβt need to pay by cash.
If you look well at the reception, you will see it clearly written that we do not commence treatment without deposit. That was after we lost huge sums from cases like this.
So, itβs our policy here.
Iβm going back to my office. When the payment is made, come to my office with the receipt and we will commence treatment. Remember, you must act fast! ?ββοΈ?ββοΈ
(Adaku took her to two other hospitals owned by Yorubas, but they all refused to treat her without deposit. So she decided to ring her immediate younger brother who is a UK trained doctor and owns a sophisticated hospital in the Island
His brother quickly sent an ambulance to transport Mrs Bola to their hospital where treatment was immediately commenced on her..
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(Amara was at the backyard spreading her washings when Ebuka walked up to her)
EBUKA: hi
AMARACHI: hi
EBUKA: how have you been?
AMARACHI: good.
EBUKA: what are you doing?
AMARACHI: it is obvious, isnβt it?
EBUKA: thereβs no need to be rude. I..I am sorry I havenβt been talking to you all these while. I have been really messed up.
First, i want to apologise for the other day at Hilton. I was acting under frustration.
Secondly, I am also sorry for the nights I disrupted your sleep because I was drunk.
That was just my way of trying to block reality. I just donβt wanna face it
AMARACHI: itβs fine. Itβs your house anyway. Erm, Thanks for having me. I will be leaving tomorrow.
EBUKA: Thatβs why Iβm here. Phewww! What Iβm m about to say, will contradict what I told you at the hotel. Perhaps, love does grow with time.
Seeing you everyday and seeing what a total woman you are, has made me fell in love with not just your body, but you.
AMARACHI: interesting.
EBUKA: I just wanted to ask if you could stay a little longer with us here. No, Iβm not asking you to warm my bed just yet. Seeing you around makes me feel better. Can you justβ¦.You knowβ¦erm, just stayβ¦
AMARACHI: You need a house girl?
EBUKA: no no! Of course Iβm not asking you to do stuffs around the house. Itβs up to you if you want to do them or not. I just want to come home and meet a woman at home, thatβs it
AMARACHI: your wife is here. What other woman do you need to come home to?
EBUKA: listen, Amara. Funmi is still my wife today only because we cannot obtain a divorce now. Weβve only been married for five months but I have asked her for separation.
She knows when I say Iβm done, I am indeed done!
The marriage between I and Funmi, is finished. As it stands, I am single, sorrowful and seriously searching
AMARACHI: hmmm! I would have loved to stay. Iβm sure you donβt need a prophet to tell you how much I want you in my life
I couldnβt even hide it but fate looked into my heart and created this opportunityβ¦..
EBUKA: awwwww! Itβs sad that love was standing all these while in front of me, but I couldnβt see it. Funmi was a scale in my eyes. Iβm glad she fell off and I saw this diamond. If you give me the chance, I will make you the envy of your friends and foes alike
AMARACHI: but I must go to London
EBUKA: why!!
AMARACHI: I already paid for the ticket as well as my hotel and the fees are non refundable
EBUKA: How much is it all together?
AMARACHI: I paid nearly 2 million naira
EBUKA: Iβll transfer that into your account right now
AMARACHI: oh my God! Will you? Awwww! If not that someone might be watching, I would have given you a very deep passionate kiss right now! Thank you!!!!
EBUKA: we have forever and a day to do that. And let me know what you would love to do after your graduation so that I can be working towards that, okay?
AMARACHI: okay!! Thank you so much
EBUKA: itβs nothing. I like to help any woman I am with to achieve the best she can. That was why I sent this dirty little cheat to do her masters. But she has ruined it because she couldnβt keep her legs closed. Her loss anyway!
The next step will be to send her out of my house
AMARACHI: please give her some more time!
EBUKA: if you say so. You are very kindhearted, Amara and thatβs another thing that gets me falling in love with a woman. And if she has legs like yours? I just give her my mumu button. Now you know who has my mumu button! ??
AMARACHI:????
EBUKA: anyway, send me your account number so that I can transfer the money before I leave. Iβm going to see my solicitor
AMARACHI: yeeeee! Iβll go inside and send it now! Thanks baby! (Runs back into the house)
EBUKA: you are welcome mama!? (gets into the car and left)
NKECHI: what is it! Why are you excited this Saturday morning!
AMARACHI: NK! Guess what!
NKECHI: what!
AMARACHI: your brother has asked me to stay!???? (starts texting Ebuka her account details)
NKECHI: thatβs my girl!!!! ??????? so who are you texting?
AMARACHI: I am texting my mum to tell her, because she is expecting me home tomorrow!
NKECHI: (singing) what a wonderful worldβ¦.?? Yoruba female demon is about to lose her strongholds in this family!
The God I serve and pray to daily, neither sleeps nor slumbers! Chineke imeela o! (Thank you, God)
This is worth celebrating. Let me rush down to that mini market down the road and get some items for ofe nsala(white soup)
AMARACHI: alright, sister in law??????
NKECHI: if you like, I go call you auntie sef! Girl, Iβm so grateful to you! You donβt know what you have done for me!
(Nkechi left for the market and Funmi came to the living room where Amara was seated, having coffee)
FUNMI: morning, Amara
AMARACHI: morning, dear. Hope you were able to get some sleep last night.
FUNMI: I did, but I had this nightmare about my mum and since morning Iβve been trying to reach her to no avail.
AMARACHI: didnβt you tell me she attends SDA. So she must be in church.
FUNMI: I thought so too, But Iβm worried
AMARACHI: have you prayed for her?
FUNMI: Yes.
AMARACHI: then quit worrying! When you pray and still worry, you are casting a vote of no confidence in God!
FUNMI: thanks dear. I worry no more. I saw you talking to my husband this morning. What was he saying?
AMARACHI: you know I was trying to convince him to sort thing out with you. He seems really hurt but you can still feel that he still loves you. Iβm sure with time, heβll come around.
FUNMI: Iβm just worried about what would happen if he sends me out of this house.
AMARACHI: donβt worry, we will figure out something. Go get yourself a cup of tea. Ebuka is not worth all these headaches and heartaches..
To be continued
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