I killed my wife

Belinda brought sunshine to my life ever since I met her. Her smile was an infectious one and everyone enjoyed her company because it was never a dull one. Her love for our kids, Joseph and Emerald was priceless. With my busy job I hardly hard the time to spend with my kids but my wife was doing a great job so I just focused on making money for the family. We thought our live will remain happily after until she the love of my love passed away. The truth is I killed my wife. I wish I had known better. 10 years after our marriage, I begun to feel a lump in her breast whenever we made love. I assumed it was normal since I have heard from somewhere which I can’t remember that, lump in the breast is normal. Well since the lump didn’t interrupt the pleasure I hard when fondling and sucking her breast I was not bothered. Berlinda also cared less about the lump in her breast. Years past and the Breast with the lump was growing bigger. That was when we became concerned and realized the lump in the breast was also growing bigger. Within weeks, her nipple begun to discharge some strange fluids. Well it was still not a problem because I always bought those one stop creams sold in commercial vehicles that can cure every disease. She always applied the creams to her breast. Instead of her breast to getting better it got worst. She started to develop nasty scars on her breast. Herbal drugs have always been our savior so we depended on herbal drugs as my wife got weaker and weaker. Another truth is I hated the Hospital because of how one nurse treated me the last time I visited. I don’t know if she was the client or I was the client. But that was it, I never stepped foot in any Hospital and also forbid my wife from going there. Each day my wife got a new prescription of drugs that she can use from other women who claimed they have had the same symptoms or know someone who has the same symptoms that got cured using that drug. We tried several drugs whiles my wife got weaker each day. The sight of my dying wife killed the ego I had built against Hospitals. I final took my wife to the hospital. The Doctor diagnosed breast cancer as if that was not enough, he said it can’t be cured because it has reach it last stage and they can only sustain my wife for less than a month. I was pinched myself to wake up from this dream but unfortunately it was not a dream. My wife had a timeline. The Doctor explained that the disease is curable at it early stage. How was I to know when I never heard of the disease or it symptoms. I looked at the children wondering how they will grow up without a mom. I looked back at the years we spend together and always cried at the thought of my wife dying. The last words of my wife was ‘Philemon please take care our children’. I will not be able to forgive myself because I killed my wife.

A lot of women have died from this Breast cancer. The same reason runs through late presentation of disease to the Hospital. Many people are unaware of the disease and it symptoms. Due to that 1000 of women die from breast cancer yearly. If only they had reported to the hospital earlier, the Doctor will have detected it early and treated it.

Women’s Well-being Foundation want to create awareness on Breast cancer and conduct a free breast cancer screening at Hohoe in the month of October. The aim of the program is to promote early detection and early treatment of cancer.
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