10:45

 Okay guys who has ever spent the night wandering the korle-bu teaching hospital?

Hmmm...Well i did, and i came out with valuable experience.
Here is a gist…

• When you do make sure you are absolutely obligated to be  there. 
•        Please make sure  you have the best mosquito repellant with you.The
     mosquitoes swarm all around.   
•   Kindly endeavour to be patient because some 'fianga-fianga' nurse will be extremely rude to you
• Be assured you won`t spend the night in your relations' or acquaintances' ward  especially if they are of the opposite sex.
   
•      Finally, come prepared for life altering moments and scenes i.e. if there is ever any  suitable preparation   for those moments.

Now, let  me tell you how i can be sure of this advice and what's been happening
in my life since my last post.
 Three weeks prior to the 29th of August,2013 the date of  the famous Supreme Court verdict date, I happened to be at the
korle bu teaching hospital on account  of my Grandmother.Her condition was bad
so my aunt and mum took turns, staying with her on twenty-four hour
basis.This meant they needed an errand boy,to be collecting drugs ,laboratory test
results etc.
Yes you guessed right it was good young me.A GIJ graduate
waiting on the National Service Secretariat to post him either to some
obscure village somewhere in Ghana or some big company in Accra.As it turned out, i was most qualified and obligated
in my whole  extended family to spend the nights
wandering the korle Bu Hospital both day and night.
 On nights like these, i found out that the security personnel at the
Hospital were mostly very friendly people who were eager to chat
anytime.However, they are  all immune to mosquito
bites or at least the mosquitoes just missed their presence.It wasn`t so
with me,the mosquitoes attacked me mercilessly. Thus,I had to carry a mosquito repellant with me,applying it to
every part of my body and yet the insects' whining sounds still made the nights
terrible.
On other nights,my mother would call me to come help with adjusting the old
lady's  bed and other stuff.Usually when I did, I met nice young nurses who
were willing to cooperate with us.Nevertheless, on one of those nights  i
met a nurse there and being my gentle self i greeted and told her was to
help lift the old lady.She didn't even look up to see me nor did she utter
a word so i entered the ward.After a few minutes she harshly and loudly
kicked me  out ,stating that guys were not allowed in there.Okay that i can
understand but the fact that my grandma needed special care which they were
not ready to give, was annoying.I left without uttering a word in reply.

 One more thing i observed was that the hospital
is disturbingly peaceful at night, apart from the occasional hallucinative moans and
scary cries of some suffering patients. It happened that i was
prepared to enjoy the peacefulness of one night roaming about, when my
elder sister who was taking care of grandma on this night called me to help
out.This unusually rude nurse pushed
me out .I could only catch a glimpse of grandma’s blank staring back at me.If only i knew those moments would be among her last  i would have
defied the nurse and stayed.I returned to perch somewhere leaving my sister there.

After a few moments,my sister came running up  the stairs shouting grandma is not
breathing! grandma is not breathing! I rushed past her into the ward and
amidst my sister's loud wailing i could bearly make out what the young
doctor said but it sounded something like "I'm sorry but your grandmum
passed away".I turned to see my grandmum oxygen mask off, looking peaceful and
yet it broke my heart..... at that same moment my phone's light came on for
which reason i'll never know and the time said 10:45..A life changing moment it
was.
 Two months after 29th August 2013,am short of one more loved one to share
each milestone i reach with.I realise that death till its done with, will
continue to  pluck our loved ones away one by one, that is if we don't go
first.Then later, we probably find that we are left with no one to share the so called success
with.So maybe, we should all hold on to our loved ones tight, not to be so focused on
our dream chase that we neglect them.
Guys now,do you remember  that obscure village I mentioned earlier? Well the National service postings
came out weeks ago and OH YES BOLGA HERE I COME!......stay tuned more to com come.