“Taking care of a child with a sickle cell gene, is like putting your money in a nylon bag and throwing it away into the bush”. ( By Prof. Cyril Otoikhan AKA My Hod)
Back then in the country some many children suffered medically and lost their lives without the parents knowing what Went wrong medically but thinking spiritually that something was wrong and at the end the mothers were being attacked and accused to be a witch by their families and community people, most times when I hear stories like how a woman gave birth to her children and they all died along the way, in my mind I always stop to think “what if something went wrong genetically”?, why were the children not taking to the hospital to do proper check up, or why didn’t the parents of that child go to the hospital to check themselves before tying the not… but well this Nigeria! We never take the health seriously, we prefer to go to one miracle center and let them deceive us about what is not in our future.
It quite sad because many children are pains and many have lost their lives because of ignorance of their parents, gone are those when people love blindly, I have done it severally and I know many us have done it and are also still doing it, believe it is very wrong because our genes are never written on our forehead, if you actually get what I mean..
A test must be done, Infact series of test maybe done because some machines produce wrong answers, the test shouldn’t even be done because of our partner to be anything but for our self, its actually a shame that someone should ask what your genotype and you say you don’t know!
It doesn’t cost much to check, that test shouldn’t be up to 4k or more than though, and if you’re scared of needle I promise it doesn’t hurt, its just as if a child pinches you a little.
Before I advice again let me tell about a girl that I personally know of back then in the university, that girl should’ve have been more beautiful, a very talk black and beautiful girl though, but with a sickle cell gene, she always has crisis on every of her birthdays, she literally spends her birthdays in the hospital and she wasn’t strong physically too, at her young age she had diabetes, so most times when senses that she is about to have a crisis she quickly goes into the bathroom her injects herself, she always travels with her injections and drugs, this same thing had killed two of her elder siblings and to cut the long story short her mother is a nurse, like a real nurse!
That must have been ignorance right there, because how would one be in the medical field and fail to do the necessary checkups, so here is my advice please and please if you haven’t done your medical test please after reading this post try as much as possible to do it sooner because later might be too late, it wouldn’t take anything from your body and its for the your safety, and if you’re in a relationship that you and your partner are not compatible, please think twice before moving ahead or see your doctor for medical advice.
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