Left behind

It was a week to graduate from Senior High School and most students were adequately prepared to write their final examination. Veronica a student of St. Monica’s Senior High, was a very intelligent and beautiful. She had a uniformed light brown complexion with a curly afro hair. Veronica was one of the brightest students in school and from a home with average monthly income but her parents would do everything to make sure their children had the best of education. She had two other siblings, a boy and a girl. In school Veronica developed a slight headache in the morning and later in the day her face and eye was swollen. The next day she realised it was getting worse, her friends could testify to that. She decided to report to her house mistress and she was given exeact to visit a nearby hospital. The doctor couldn’t tell what was really wrong with her because she has also developed dark spots on her body. The doctor transferred her to a larger hospital in Accra for treatment. She called home so her parents would come and take her to the hospital, she then reported to school with the hospital report. And she was asked to wait for her parents to come and take her home. So her parents came the next day to take her home, when they saw her, they were shocked because she had changed soo much. They realised how serious it was and they took her to the hospital she was transferred to in Accra where she was admitted. She went into coma later that evening. Her parents and siblings were worried. They doctors and nurses did a very good job taking care of her so she was able to regain consciousness within a month. When she came back she realised her friends had finished writing their exams and have completed school. She was so sad she couldn’t write with them. She was advised by her family and nurses to focus on her health first. After two weeks she was discharged and she didn’t know where to start from. She was seeing a psychologist after her discharge to take her of her mental health. The psychologist and her parents came to a conclusion she had to go for remedial and write the final examination the following year. Her siblings were writing theirs in two years, they were twins. She studied hard because she also wanted to go to college so badly. She wrote the exam and passed, few months later her dad took ill and passed away. She had to work to help her mum cater for her and younger siblings. She worked as a sales attendant in a pharmacy. She decided to go to college on weekends so she can work whiles attending school at the same time. She studied pharmacy in college, she decided to top up and study medicine after she had completed. She worked very hard both at work and in school. She finally came out of school with a first class honours. She was an online content marketer at the same time. She saved money to pursue her dreams as a doctor. She went to the medical school and came out successfully there and became a renowned doctor who specialised in surgery to make her dad proud of her wherever he is. Her siblings found a role model model in her and emulated her till they were also successful.

Moral lesson:

Being left behind doesn’t mean it’s the end of the road. Once there is life there is hope.