In the journey of life, a man is bound to be faced with many challenges, some of which are life threatening. The most pronounced and recurrent challenge I encountered in my life since my childhood up to my adulthood is health challenge. I remembered my dad telling me how they struggled with me, took me to many hospitals during my infancy in order to rescue me from life_threatening illnesses. At some point they had to just give up on my survival _but I however miraculously survived. My first most pronounced health challenge as a teenager occurred in 2012 when I was in my JSS ( Junior secondary school) 2. It was one fateful morning after preparing for school, I started trekking to school and after 10 to 15 minutes of walking it was as if something hooked my stomach all of a sudden. At that point I couldn't stand straight up. I couldn't make a step forward and neither was I able to make a step backward to return home. I was in so much pain at that point that I couldn't reason on any possible solution at the moment. I sat on the floor by the roadside with pains in my body and tears in my eyes. I didn't know how word reached my mother, but all I know was that I saw her beside me on my hospital bed. It was the most severe stomachache I have ever experienced in my life. That was my first time to be hospitalized as a teenager. Even on the hospital bed I couldn't lie still. I was just rolling about due to the severe pain. It was such a terrible situation . It was so terrible that I was pleading to God to just take away my life, cause the pain was something I couldn't bear at the moment it was too much for me to bear. But God showed me mercy . By the evening of the same day I was discharged from the hospital.
After that incident I have had other health issues but not as pronounced as the one I just narrated.
The most recent life_threatening health challenge I experienced started around 2021. It started by me having difficulties in breathing. Once I'm in a crowded or dusty area I will find myself gasping for air. Most times when I sing I will reach a point where I will start gasping for air. Sometimes when eating or after eating food I will find myself gasping for air. It was so terrible. This continued for more than two years without me telling anybody what's happening to me. This grew worse to a point where I will gasp for air until I gas_out. Many times in my early years in university I slumped off without anybody knowing. It usually happens so fast that I can't even prevent or control it. This usually happens in the night. it was at that point that I had to speak out. I was taken to hospital, and after some diagnosis it was discovered that I was having heart failure and my liver is also having a damage at that moment. Two critical organs in my body having issue concurrently? It was as if the end has come to me. I lost hope in leaving or surviving. It was so bad that a week won't pass without me being ill. A whole lot of money was spent on my health issue. Not that we had money or assets anywhere. Infact most times for me to be treated my parents will need to enter debt. A point reach that I told my parents to stop spending on my health issue. Because money is been spent without me even getting better. I told them it was God that made me and if he feels my time in this side of eternity is over He should just take my life. I stopped taking drugs cause literally I was tired. Cause most times when trying to treat the heart we end up wounding/ damaging the liver the more. So I gave up on everything. Cause my parents and my love ones are all and always in pains because of me not certain of what will happen to me.
After some months of rejecting any form of treatment or medication, I decided to go and do a liver function test (LFT) to know the state of my liver. The result I got shocked me, my liver is back to normality. Nothing was wrong with my liver anymore. The result looks so unreal to me but my health status is a confirmation that my liver is Okay. How my heart problem corrected itself is what I don't even know. I don't have an explanation for it. All I know is that after a long time I now remembered that I use to gasp for air. I didn't know at what point I stopped experiencing it but all I know is that that infirmity left me.
The one who made me said it wasn't time yet to be home. And here I am, strong and healthy.
My whole health crisis made me realized how much people underrate good health. You might not have anything but if you have good health then you have everything. With good health great wealth is a possibility, but a wealthy man with bad health is at a risk of loosing everything he has. Cherish your health.
Remember, ' WITH GOOD HEALTH GREAT WEALTH IS A POSSIBILLITY
