17/10/2024
"Our Lives, Our Stories"
As I walked through the Outpatient Department (OPD) of one of the Teaching Hospitals in Ghana, I noticed a pale pregnant teenager clutching her belly with wide eyes filled with anxiety. Her skin had a yellowish tint, indicating a long-standing illness. She struggled to breathe, and her slender frame trembled with each step. The weight of her unborn child seemed to add to her physical burdens, and the fear of complications related to her illness filled her with dread. Despite her youth, her eyes betrayed a deep-seated concern, a mix of vulnerability and resilience that commanded attention and care. A nurse quickly approached her and asked her to follow. I watched in sympathy, ignoring my pain then, and wondered about her situation. Why was a pregnant teenager left to visit the hospital alone, and was she in any danger given her pale appearance?
My reverie was interrupted by a cough from a 'maskless' patient. Even wearing my mask, I quickly stood up as the cough sounded intense. As I sat in the waiting area to see my doctor, I heard screams and wailing from women and girls, with some men anxiously following behind. Curiosity filled me, as it did others. The news that followed was devastating and heart-wrenching. The pale pregnant teenager had passed away. She was a sickle cell patient who had become pregnant. Believing that as a pregnant woman, she did not need to take any form of medication without a doctor’s prescription, she stopped taking her folic acid, which she was on as a sickle cell patient, causing her blood count to drop drastically—the irony of genuine ignorance or innocence.
The story above is true and reflects my experience just this past Monday. This story can serve as a writer’s prompt to create any form of book: novel or novella, fiction or non-fiction.
Day in and day out, our lives are filled with stories. I believe we have all experienced many events that could be shared here. All the narratives around our everyday lives are stories. Everyone has a story to share. You do not have to be able to write to tell your story. In ghostwriting, we write for the client to take credit. Nobody knows that you didn’t write the story. What matters is your ability to share your story in a preserved form (written) with the world.
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