If she had received immediate medical attention eight years ago on the day she slipped in the bathroom and banged her head on the floor tiles of the three-bedroom bungalow that her children built for her in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Mercy’s grandmother would probably be still alive today. She would have clocked 85 in August, 2015. However, she didn’t survive the accident.
On that fateful day, it took the 77-year-old woman about one hour to crawl to her bedroom to put a call through to her neighbour. By the time she could make the call, she was already weak, unable to lift a finger again. The neighbour, a lecturer in one of the tertiary institutions in the state, heard the scream of the old woman loudly enough for him to rush down to her apartment. In the twinkle of an eye, he carried her to his car and rushed her to a hospital in the town. Later, he called one of her children – Mercy’s father – who resided (and still resides) in Lagos to inform him of the incident.
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