A Twitter user has narrated how her mother died, after being misdiagnosed and given medications that destroyed her organs in Nigeria.
@Nwando_ recalled watching her mother die slowly after she went to different hospitals abroad, where she was told that her organ developed a major issue due to the medications she was given for years.
The Twitter user said the incident left her in rage, as she couldn’t eat for weeks or even focus in school.
Read her tweets below………
My mother didn’t live a long life because of the useless health care system in Nigeria. Misdiagnosed her for WHAT SHE DIDN’T HAVE!! Feeding her with meds upon meds for what she didn’t have!! I watched her die slowly… Cos when she went to different hospitals abroad..
They told her the said organ wasn’t having any issues but had now developed a major issue due to the medications these folks fed her for years. You see… she was a fighter.. she promised me that she will not die till My lil sis and I are done with secondary school!
This woman never stopped working her ass off!! She made sure we didn’t lack anything!! We never even knew they gave her a said amount of years she will live till I was cleaning her space one day and saw life assurance documents.. I will never forget everything I saw…
I couldn’t eat for weeks, I went back to school in rage!! I couldn’t even focus. I was a mess!! I will quarrel with her like mad when she gets pissed and says “when I’m gone, just in two months you guys will cry and forget me” I will be mad!! No type of prayer I didn’t say!!
I wanted her HERE!! I wanted to make money and spoil her silly Cos she didn’t stop at any chance to make others happy, my mom sent a huge number of children to school… she did some things that vexed me like mad.. I kept begging her.. mommy what of YOU!!!
Take care of you with this money so you can stay here for us… she called me selfish. I will never forget. So many things I cannot talk about. Maybe one day I can share in details but it haunts me!! It haunts me so bad that my mom could still be here with me if!!!
Just if this country didn’t fail her!! If she had real friends that pushed her instead of only looking to ‘milk’ her!! If maybe we were more grown up and we could have ‘changed it for her better’. It been 6 whole years and I have NOT FORGOTTEN YOU MOTHER!!
The house I live in now was your sweat and blood.. All that I am today, you worked so hard for it. “Nwando, you will make it.. You’re so smart, you will never sleep your way to get opportunities, people will see you and just love you”… Fvck!!! I don’t know what triggered me!!
But if you have your mother here, right now.. loving parents?? Supportive?? See… spoil them!! Spoil them silly!! I see bags, hairs, shoes, clothes I wanna order for my mom so bad but she’s not here!! I see people’s moms and I wanna hug them so bad!! Do it now!!!! Don’t wait.
Seee.. I wanna get married some day and do better with my kids, I wanna live long for them.. so I WILL LOVE MYSELF SO HARD!! Love them so hard to make selfish decisions sometimes!! No one may truly understand my bit but Nigeria failed my mother.. she was so good..
You should have met her, she was an angel… when she smiles, you just wanna snuggle.. she was my everything. I left science classes because of pressure.. I wanted to be a doctor but the pressure was too much I switched. When she asked me on her death bed to promise..
That I was gonna go back… I cried.. I told her yes but I knew in my heart that I didn’t wanna do it HERE!! I was filled with HATE!! I wished I could do something.. I was right there.. in the room starring when she breathed her last.. just me in there. I thought it was a joke..
I pushed… screamed… begged.. I couldn’t bring her back. Nothing could bring her back. Forgive me if sometimes I show you love but I zone off.. this is why.. I fear to lose anyone I love. I’m doing better now I promise. I’m a big girl now.
Forgive me also.. if I always choose myself first.. I wasn’t always like this. But it’s in my veins.. I could spend my last money on people… strangers and I have to pinch myself sometimes and say “what killed my mother wouldn’t kill me” I’m gonna be successful, I’m gonna..
Show love to people so bad but I promise I won’t lose myself… I won’t lose myself. I will love myself. I love you mother.. I love you Ogochukwu Florence Nzelu.. May we meet again to NEVER PART!! If there’s an after life, choose me; I promise to never fail you again
Thanks to everyone for your kind words. I had that moment yday, I’ve been struggling for weeks with my thoughts and I’ve been triggered lately Cos of this country’s p state but your words has lifted me. I can’t respond to it all now but I will. God bless you. Thank you.
