10/03/2026
'Before I got married to Charles, my ex husband, we discovered we were both AS. I wanted to end the relationship but he convinced me that he would be there for me. We got married and we had a boy. Just before he clocked one, he fell ill and the doctor said he was SS, that was when the battle of my life started. Charles turned against his own son. I was the one paying the rent and all the bills in the house but I still held on to the marriage. I had two maids.
Whenever I went out and our son had a crisis, Charles would just abandon him. I spent millions on hospital bills, Charles never dropped N1. On November 26, 2006, I went to work and my son was 4 years old. Charles' cousin, Nonye was living with us then and she called me that my husband had moved out of the house, he said he couldn't deal with a child that was SS. For two years, I never removed his pictures and clothes. Since he left, he never called to check on his son. I did everything to save my son
I traveled to Ireland, I wanted to do bone marrow transplant for him but the doctor said he could become a vegetable and moreover he needed a sibling so I went back to Nigeria and started making research on how to take care of a child with sickle cell. I spent millions on him, he never went outside after 5pm, he never drank pure water. From 7 years to 14, he never had a crisis. When he was 14, I saw that his foot was swollen. I took him to the hospital and the doctor said he had a water retention and he needed surgery or they would give him some meds and injection for 21 days. I made sure he never missed his injection. After 21 days, the thing disappeared. When he was 16 years, I took him for his regular checkup and the doctor asked if he ever did a blood transfusion and I said yes, when he was 3. So the doctor advised he should get a blood transfusion. He instructed his student doctor to do the blood transfusion but he did blood extraction. He removed 3 pints of his blood. My son turned yellow and had jaundice. He was rushed to The ICU and he passed away on Aug 22, 2017' -Apostle (Dr) Eucharia Anunobi