19/02/2026
My chest, my chest. This were the last words of my father before he slumped into the chair. What seemed like a routine evening news watch escalated into a complete chaos which dimmed the light forever. The tought still hunts me everyday.
That night, daddy had just returned from his shop , sitting on his favorite chair just after eating and watching his favorite News. Mummy was with him, everything seemed okay until we heard a scream from mummy. Rushing out to the pallor , dad was slumped into his chair and was not responding to anyone. After few minutes of calling out his name, mummy asked for someone to quickly grab her bible and anointing oil. My brother quickly did and she began praying. A few minutes later, she reached out for her phone called our pastor who picked up after several minutes and began to declare upon daddyās life.
After a while, Mummy said we needed to go to the hospital but it dawned on us that only daddy could drive. I asked if I should go get help and mummy suddenly realised and said yes. I ran off to call Uncle Sam our neighbor, getting him to answer took a while as he needed to be sure of who was by the door. I donāt blame him anyways considering the safety of the country. Finally when he came out I told him what had happened and he ran off with me.
On getting there, Uncle Sam took the car keys to go get the car but the worse happened. No fuel was in the car. At that point he ran off to get another neighbor who had a car. Daddy was finally taken to the hospital after about 2 hours. That night was the longest night of I and my siblings lives. We stayed awake praying and hoping.
As early as 6:am mummy was back accompanied by few persons. Daddy wasnāt with them but we assumed he was recovering in the hospital. However, the screams that followed afterwards proved otherwise.
Daddy was gone, he had a cardiac arrest.
Now that I have grown up and became a nurse, I understood what went wrong that night.
1. Daddy was team fit and well, he never visited the hospital for a day. He usually had this chest pain but had his herbs to the rescue. When it got worse he took ibuprofen. He never bothered.
2. Every morning and evening he took his shorts of alcohol.
3. He had a shop with boys, so he drives to work every day, sits by his table until evening. Comes home straight to the pallor, eats, watch news and sleeps. The circle continues.
4. When he slumped mummy and children didnāt know what to do. She resulted to prayers. Whilst praying is good it wasnāt all that was needed.
5. Mumy didnāt know how to drive and this is the sad reality of most women presently.
6. No emergency service available to call.
7. No fuel in the car. Never let this happen to you especially in an environment without emergency service available.
Now that I have learned all this, I only thrive to do better and I pray you do as well.
Luminous New Life 2026.
Fiction but a sad reality for many