To say she is beautiful is an understatement, fair, tall with all the natural endowment that could distract a man from his focus but like everyone she had two notable weaknesses or would I rather say one. Mrs. Ikenga was in her mid-thirties, having been married for about ten (10) years without an issue. She had fasted like Gandhi, prayed like Hannah and visited other places in search of a miracle.
Fate eventually smiled on her at 35years. When she broke the news to her husband, it was like announcing to Buhari that he won the election. Highly elated and in the spirit of celebration he gave the wife a key to a brand new Infinity jeep two days later.
At the later end of her regular antenatal visits, the gynecologist after examination recommended "Ceaserean Delivery" (CS) on the ground that her pelvis was contracted in addition to an ultrasound scan result indicating an abnormal lie (transverse lie) but she quickly rebuked the physician, rejecting the suggestion over her life while tapping her fingers and swinging her hands over her head . She also accused him of attempting to extort her by opting for CS. Dr Cyril didn't see her again . Mrs. Ikenga went to her pastor who told her that there is nothing God cannot do, quoting the scripture, assuring her that she would deliver like the "Hebrew Women". A prayer and fasting program was scheduled but mid way to this, labour started while in the church, she was taken to a maternity centre. After two days of labour, she was rushed to the Teaching hospital, covered in a pool of her blood and unconscious, having ruptured her uterus(womb) . She was quickly wheeled into the theatre and the ultimate price to save her life was to remove her womb so as to stop the bleeding . Of course her long expected child did not make it,she was just lucky to be alive but still had the CS she rejected initially .
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