Celebrating 11 years of Tuberculous Cure.
To God be the glory!!!
On August 12, 2009 I was diagnosed on a routing
visit to an hospital check-up, that I had Tuberculous (TB) with couple of
months to live due to infections in my organs and lung. Although, I feel well
with few symptoms of fever, I just never knew I could be dead anytime until I
went on a routine check-up to Lincoln Hospital, New York, on August 12, 2009.
On that very day, after almost 8 hours of going through various test, the
Doctor called me to his office and said, “Sir, I’m sorry I am going to have to admit you right
NOW, is an emergency. If you hadn’t come
TODAY, you might be dead anytime. TB has spread over vital organs of your body
and lung.”
For four months I was in isolation, in a
special ward, all by myself alone. Six doctors were assigned to my case. At
first, they didn’t understand how to treat my illness, all they did was
stabilized me – keep me alive while waiting for multi test lab results. One
night, I had “out of body experience”, where I see my spirit separated from my
body, my body just lying in bed and I can see it, lifeless while in the spirit
I’m alive. I’ve seen death with my eyes. To deny “after life” is to deny your
soul eternity. So many people are just too afraid to die that they live less. Concentrate
on living! When time comes the flower will wither then you can cross that
river, only prepare ahead!
I had good Samaritan visitor once, for the rest
days, weeks and months in the hospital I was alone by myself but only the Most
High was with me. I had to force myself to eat hospital food just so medication
will work. I literally ate that meal by force, closing my eyes and forcing the
food through my throat with water just because I had no choice, I was all alone
by myself. Hospital food is never the best it could but it can be better.
Doctors and nurses wonder how I cope in loneliness of pain. It was a mystery to
them but to me it was a miracle. The word went around the hospital that, there
is a patience in so and so ward, yet in a terrible state of illness but never complain,
still has smiles in his face. Many doctors and nurses came just to see me and
also to keep me company, although they weren’t assigned to my case.
During treatment I met couple of patience’s whose been battling the disease for
a decade, that TB drugs has become resistant to their treatment. It’s a
nightmare that you have to swallow medications every day for months, even years
with terrible side effects, no cure.
For 9 months I battled the disease and finally was discharge March 2, 2010,
with another 3 years of therapy– to fully recover from drugs side effects. It’s
a long story of melancholy of which I’m not able to narrate it all now, that I
could only sum up in Nelson Mandela thought. “But the human body has enormous capacity for adjusting to trying
circumstances. I found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one’s
spirits strong even when one’s body is being tested.”
Please don’t envy me because you have no idea the battle I’ve fought to get
myself to where I am and the sacrifices that I’ve made. People just hate you
for the Lord’s blessing over you but they don’t know you have suffered in
silence through many years to arrive in your present day of glory.
You must never apologize for the life you live as long as your lifestyle don’t
offend God. The world wants to see you suffer but God will never allow them if
you genuinely follow his direction and be obedience to Him alone.
I’m grateful to the Almighty God and I will say if you’re battling cancer,
diabetic, whatever the illness or diseases, don’t be afraid to live or to die
but make sure you battle for your soul. That’s all that matters really.
Keep your spirit strong!!!
When the spirit is strong a weak body will succumb to victory. But, when the
mind is weak, it can’t carry the body.
When I fought and defeat TB, living didn’t mean
anything to me and death wasn’t my fear but I knew my time hasn’t come, even if
it was death I was ready to go. It’s the saving of our soul, that matter.
For whatever you do, remember the more right and truthful you are in this wicked
world the more people will hate you. The valuation of yourself shouldn’t depend
on people’s negative narration of your character – out of envy and jealousies, but
your validity lies on your own best valuation of yourself. Unfortunately, so many people are walking on
other men’s shadows, thereby denying themselves their full rights to living
fulfilled.
Moral Lesson
Never apologies for the life you live as long as is not an offence to God. - @WPPraise
