Everyday With Juliet

Very pathetic

“Ify called me yesterday morning, at about 8:30am.
She said, “Emy, don’t p@nic, but I have just been bitt£n by a snak£. I’m on my way to the hospital.”

I asked her how it happened because I was in sh0ck.
She said she was sleeping and felt p@in. When she opened her eyes, she saw the snak£.

I realised that wasn’t the time to ask too many questions, so I cut the call and called her back immediately with my smaller phone, using the bigger one to call people I knew in Abuja because she was going to the hospital alone.
Hand tied, just by herself.

Divine Health Hospital,
Trade Mall Road (Lugbe, Abuja).
That was the first hospital she went to.

When she got there, they immediately said they didn’t have the anti-v£nom and could not help her, so she booked another ride immediately to get to a hospital that might have it.

Note that while all this was happening, I was still on a call with her.
Never hung up.

She was speaking fine with me. Her hand was tied, and she was in a ride headed to Federal Medical Centre, Abuja.
We got to the next hospital some minutes to 10am, at which point she was still speaking with me.

When she got to the second hospital, she went into the emergency department and they started b0mbarding her with questions.
I was still on the call with her and it was irritating me. I kept saying, what are they doing?

I asked if they had the anti-v£nom, and she said they told her they would give her a drip.

The doctor removed the stuff she used to tie her hand to prevent the circulation of the v£n0m and kept telling her to calm down.
She immediately told me, “Emy, they have removed the thing I used to tie my hand.”

I felt okay since she was at the hospital and thought the doctors should know better than me. I encouraged her to calm down.

When the drip was in, she started feeling dizzy and her tongue wasn’t speaking well again. That was when I let her relax and ended the call.

At that point, my uncle I had contacted in Abuja was already at the hospital with her, so I felt a bit of relief, thinking she was getting all the treatment she needed.

Now, when they l0$t her, I started seeing people saying she was bitt£n at night or the day before but only came yesterday — which was a li£.
Doctors saying she wasn’t talking properly and came in late.

She came in by herself with both legs, without any help. I was speaking with her through it all. She was very audible.

Why did they remove the stuff she tied to prevent the spread of the v£n0m?
Why tell her to calm down and proceed to put a drip?

Did they even have the anti-v£n0m at this second hospital?

The hospital fail£d her and doubled down to li£ about everything.
I hat£ the country so much.

We had such a great time together in Abuja this past Christmas.
How was I to know it would be the last time with you?

She was still speaking fluently with me and even sent me this video…” -

The brother of late Nigerian singer Ifunanya Nwangene, popularly known as Nanyah, has shared a heartbre@king account of her final hours after she d!£d from a snak£ bit£ in Abuja.