19/02/2024
AM STILL STANDING by To Izy ( A must Read) .
Four weeks to go.
I am grateful to God (Osonobue Nu Dazi, Osonobue Edederiden). That am alive today is surely Divinely ordained. I do not know why God found favor in a poor wretch like me. I remain grateful to God and my ancestors for this.
I am grateful I was able to tell my stories, it didn’t start this way, few seconds after suicidal thoughts came in and after I couldn’t move and take the pains again. I looked up and asked my Ancestors for which I was sure they will come to my rescue to prepare to receive me in Eguae Osonobue(Heaven) I called on my late brothers Emmanuel Nkem Okei and George Jnr Isioma to await my arrival. The pains had become unbearable, I had two drainage pipes in me, it was painful. I have never experienced anything of such. It was after I directed my doctors not to try to resuscitate me and I warned my wife and all that I will sue anyone that attempts to resuscitate me and I told my sister that I wanted to be buried in my ancestral robes. I apologized to her and told her my job on earth was finished and that I look forward to joining my late brothers. Nothing else mattered to me. I only had two regrets, my death will break my mother and that my last child was just 6 then. It was then, my ancestors and late Godfather led by my late grandfather appeared to me and strengthened me. My late Godfather told me to return home. He chased me home. I woke up and immediately had some energy. It was this moment Instead of suicidal thoughts I channeled my energy into writing. The first pages of this book I wrote in pains and was on admission when I wrote the first 15 pages.
This book will inspire others that if I could by His Grace defeat all that came my way then it is possible that you can too. I doubt if anyone, I mean anyone had the same cross I had. I had a liver transplant, colon cancer scare so my whole colon was taken off, was given Ileostomy bag, returned home few days to Christmas 2022 and few hours to Christmas my house collapsed to due flooding. This did not stop me from serving in the church as an usher few hours later despite securing a small room as a refuge home after losing my home. I went on to several other comas, one particular one around April 2023 saw me go into a 5 weeks coma. Glad my wife said in coma, I was speaking Agbor and sometimes begging and sometimes in a fighting position. This made me smile because I knew that was my Ancestors and my late brothers interceding for me. I went on to several others surgeries, procedures and comas.
God is faithful. This medical challenge has caused my family to incur huge medical bills and house bills but God has blessed friends and colleagues to assist us. It is my hope that this book will not only inspire people but help us settle most of this built bills and incoming bills as we continue to see our liver and GI teams. Only next week I will be doing a Liver Biopsy but God is Faithful. Join me and my family as we launch our book. My junior Daughter Ehima Nkonyeasua gave me the title . she gave me five titles to pick from and I gave my eldest child and daughter to pick one of the five and she picked this. So proud of my two daughters.
God bless you all. I remain Tonna(Praise God)
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