37 CHAPTER THIRTY SEVEN CHEERING NEWS AND DILEMMA

After seven month of intensive care in the hospital, I was discharged from the hospital and I became a recluse.

I lost hope of ever been seen in the public again, because I knew my face would scare people, but one person never lose hope of me ever walking in the public again, that person was Ayo.

He spoke to me about special surgery he heard about that could take care of my situation in America. Though I did doubt that any surgery would fix my face, but he pleaded with me to try it and I agreed.

With my agreement, he wrote a letter to the medical institution that he heard about, in his letter he told the foreign doctors my story; and he attached pictures of my beautiful face before this incident, and that of my ruined face.

After a month, he rushed to my house one afternoon when he ought to be in the office with a cheering news that the team of doctors in that special hospital had agreed to tackle my case

This gladdened my soul, but while we were rejoicing he dropped a joy dampening side of the news on my chest.

He told me that the doctors said, I would have to go through several face remoulding surgeries and it is very expensive in dollar rate; and we would need to pay ahead before they would take up my case

I asked him how much exactly were they asking for? And he told me that in total it was around five hundred thousand dollars for me alone, and they recommended that I must be accompanied at least by a family member. Adding the travelling expense of that person to mine would still jack up the money needed.

The money needed created a dilemma that dampened the cheering news, for I did not know how and where I would get such amount of money from, especially as the dollar was standing like a towering monster against our local currency in the foreign exchange market.

I told Ayo that he should forget it, because there was no way I could raise hundreds of millions of our local currency for a face surgery.

Though I told Ayo to forget about it, but he been a person who doesn't believe that anything exist that is impossible, he told me that where there is a will a way will be found.

And he told me that I would need to brace up because we would need to go public with this dilemma, he believed that if my story gets on the media many people would contribute money to help my course.

However, to still do this we still need money that was staggeringly beyond my reach, because appearance fee on any media outlet was not a meager sum, and in his plan i would need to appear on as many as possible media platform.

This means everywhere I turned I was faced with dilemma, but Ayo seemed to be above all the situation that was above me.

He reminded me that our MD promised to give financial assistance, so he advised that we should start with his help. So he drafted a letter on my behalf and took it to the MD on my behalf.

However, when he met with the MD, a problem that has been brewing over his dedication to my recovery reduced the help that came my way.

Her daughter who was Ayo's girlfriend had complained to him that Ayo has been neglecting her, that she rarely see him because he was always with me.

The MD who was the one who matchmake the two himself due to his fondness and trust in Ayo as a very responsible person, and in his bid to have her only child marry a man he could keep a tab on tabled his daughter's complaints before Ayo as Ayo tabled my plea before him.

He appeared to be disinterested in my case because my case was frustrating a relationship he helped to put up. So he just gave an amount to save himself from people raising eye brows that he failed his staff in a time of dire needs.

Though the amount he gave was so small, but Ayo found a use for it. He has planned before to put me on a TV screen, but with this small amount he approached two major newspapers.

The chief editor of one of these two newspapers was so much touched by my story, that he decided to handle the write up himself. To do this he visited me to hear the stories first hand from my mouth. And he also went after Richie to hear his own side of the story, but Richie refused to grant him an interview.

This chief editor put up a very good write up that grabbed the attention of people and stirred up people against Richie, but caused people to come our to help me.

An account number was written at the end of his write up for people to put whatever they want to give to help my surgery, and just like that money began to come in trickles.

Of course, the money that came in was really not enough to pay for my trip to America for that surgery, but it was enough to eventually take me to a TV station, and that was when I appeared first on this show.