Tragic is it for family and friends of a seventeen-year-old girl, Chisom Chukwuneke, who died of blood cancer.
Channels Television on its website said Chisom finished as the best candidate in the 2019 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in her school, Graceland College in Enugu. She died on October 18th after a bout with the disease in South Africa where her family took her for medical care.
An Epitaph in her school’s Facebook page reads: “Forever in our hearts! Only a moment you stayed, but what an imprint you left in our Hall of Fame.”
Her father, according to the Channels Television report, also wrote on his Facebook page: “Just like a dream but the realities are crystal now. Just a pain on the leg that snowballed to a devastating episode, the battle started earnestly. I hear you call, ‘daddy my leg is paining me’. I watch as you lie abed with pain.
“As restless and worried as I can be, I promised to do everything humanly possible. With glaring poor health care in Nigeria. Off we went to South Africa. We were happy at your initial recovery, not knowing the war was just to begin.
“We fought it together for more than a year in SA. You were an embodiment of intelligence of inestimable value. Above all an indefatigable personality, courageous in the face of glaring uncertainty. You were strong, philosophical.
“My strength even in sickness, you wanted your dad freed while you go on to rest. In the bosom of our Lord where there is no more pain. You spoke in parables about a special gift 10 days earlier and left a day to my birthday.
“Never did I know your gift you promised was your glorious exit. You exhibited virtuoso and dazzling intellects to the bewilderment of the doctors at Wits Donald Gordon Hospital, Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa.”
