A 60-year-old Imo widow, Mrs Josephine Nwaeze has urged Nigerians, government and non-governmental organisations, faith-based groups and individuals to support her in offsetting the cost of burying her two sons, Chisimdi Peter Nwaeze, 32 and Chimezie Nwaeze, 30 who died in a space of three days.
The distraught widow who had single-handedly raised the two sons, along with their sister identified as Amarachi Nwaeze after losing her husband Joseph Nwaeze about 15 years ago said the pain of losing her two grown-up sons is unbearable.
Narrating to ABN TV the circumstances surrounding the painful death of her sons, Mrs. Nwaeze who spoke through her only surviving daughter said her first son Chisimdi has been very sick since last year.
She said the illness affected his legs, making it difficult for him to walk.
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She added that after several efforts, he started manifesting good signs of recovery in the village where he was being treated but could not walk.
Things however took a new twist earlier this month when everyone returned from a church programme one fateful day and found him lying on the floor, purging and vomiting without any prior signs of ill health.
She further said Chisimdi was immediately rushed to the hospital same evening.
Things however got worse, as his health kept deteriorating. He could not make it back alive as medical workers on duty pronounced him dead before the following morning of Sunday, July 21.
“There was no need of taking him to the mortuary because, to begin with, there was no money for that, so we buried him on Monday”.
On how her second son died, Mrs. Nwaeze speaking further through the daughter said that it was also shocking to the family.
“After the burial of Chisimdi, we started cleaning up the house, because visitors were still coming for condolences. It was even the younger one, Chimezie who was doing it, I was only assisting him.
“Before 8pm, he started behaving strangely and everyone was surprised and shocked. He started purging and I invited my sister, a nurse, so she came and administered medication on him and the purging stopped”, she noted.
According to her, things however took a new twist when his tummy started swelling and going down, along with his muscles.
A ray of hope that came could not last long, as he later died in the morning of Wednesday, the second in a space of three days.
The widow and her only daughter are therefore urging for assistance to help in giving Chisimdi and his brother Chimezie a proper burial.
According to her, the family has sold its few belongings attempting to save the life of Chisimdi to no avail.
The family can be reached via telephone +234 814 220 5392
