Life And Death - Season 1 - Episode 8

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Life And Death - Season 1 - Episode 8

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(THE TRUTH WITHIN)
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>>>What exactly was it that could be making a senior nurse like
#nurse_Gbemisola to be shaking like a leaf on water…. I was confused as I looked on at her, even my body was becoming too heavy on my feet due to #fear_of_unknown…….Since Mrs Yusuf had excused us, I angrily moved closer to Nurse Gbemi, looking her sternly in d eye balls….. Finally, she summoned d courage to talk:
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NURSE GBEMI: Doctor, the relatives of that deceased man are here….
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DR SANYA: What! The family members are here and u are shivering like this…..And is that what u couldn’t say in d presence of d deceased’s wife? For God’s sake, if d family is here, then why are u this scared?
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NURSE GBEMI: Not at all sir, I am not scared o
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[ Is it true that she wasn’t scared? I began to get more worried….. it’s like there is something happening that I wasn’t grapping….]
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DR SANYA: Nurse Gbemi, is there anything that u need to start telling me now??
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NURSE GBEMI: (Still #shaking ) Nothing, sir….
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[ I looked at her for a while…,after few seconds of #silence …]
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DR SANYA: Where are the relatives now?
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They are at d reception, sir
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DR SANYA: Take me to them
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[ Nurse Gbemi led d way and I followed….Getting to d reception, indeed I met a group of people there, 3 old men and two young women in their fourties …..I saw Mrs Yusuf at another side, discussing with a young man… the two of them appeared to be so carried away with whatever they are talking about….. Nurse Gbemi returned to her seat, still shaking in fear as she kept a watchful eye on Mrs Yusuf and d man she was discussing with…. while I started exchanging pleasantries with d relatives……After d normal greetings, I asked them to follow me to my office…… They were already on their seats in my office before I realised that Mrs Yusuf and that young man she was discussing with were not yet with us on seat….]
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DR SANYA: Once again, u are all welcome…., but before we proceed, I will really want d wife of d deceased to be on seat….
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MAN 1: Even Rasaq is not here….
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[ Hmmmmm, I started thinking #Rasaq must be the name of d young man Mrs Yusuf was discussing with….]
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MAN 2: I saw them discussing at d reception before we came here…..
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[ Brilliant!…. I was right….. Suddenly, we heard a knock on d door, it was Mrs Yusuf….. She rushed inside, appearing not to be at peace…..]
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MAN 1: You are d one we have been waiting for
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[ Instead of replying him, she turned to me…]
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MRS YUSUF: Doctor, please can I talk with u privately?
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[ I sensed something to be terribly wrong somewhere, moreso that the man I saw with her at d reception was not in with her.. So, I quickly excused myself from d other relatives to attend to her… I noticed confusion on d faces of d relatives on seat, they too were suspecting that all was not well…..Well, Mrs Yusuf and I both went out of d office to d passage that leads to my office……At d passage, rather than talking, she appeared terribly angry…..Initially, I thought I was d cause but I had a second thought that what could I have done wrong……This is a woman who had been very free in speech with me before d arrival of d relatives, so what could have #suddenly gone wrong? Since she wasn’t ready to talk, I decided to break d silence….
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DR SANYA: Madam, why are we here….?
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[ She wasn’t still talking…..]
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DR SANYA: Madam, are u sure u are all right?
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MRS YUSUF: (#Angrily ) Doctor, how can I be okay when I just discovered that one of your nurses here was once an
#ex_girlfriend of my #late husband who died under serious circumstances right here in your hospital…..??
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[ I was almost speechless but I have got to put alphabets together to make d right words…I hope this woman is not trying to implicate my hospital in the death of her husband who died of food poisoning?]
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DR SANYA: Who among my female staff?
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MRS YUSUF: Your so-called most senior, of course!
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DR SANYA: You mean nurse Gbemisola…..??
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[ The man I saw Mrs Yusuf discussing with suddenly broke into our discussion from behind us….]
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RASAQ: I don’t know her name but Gbemisola may be it….. What I know is that we can recognise each other when we meet….
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DR SANYA: You can recognise her as who?
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RASAQ: As d #ex_girlfriend of this my sister….
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[ I was confused …. I don’t just know what else to say or do….. Even if nurse Gbemisola was d late man’s ex-girlfriend, what’s the big deal in it? They are both
#adults for crying out loud…..What is d need of making a #breaking_news out of it? Let’s even assume he must talk, for God’s sake, is this d right time?? Abi, why is this man acting so uncivilised?……All these were what I had in mind towards them……]
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DR SANYA: Well, I will want us to take things easy at this juncture… This nurse we are talking about is an adult, likewise your late husband……. So, in my own view, the death of your husband is still fresh…..,and I don’t think making trouble with a lady over your late husband’s death is d right way to honour his memory…..
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[ Mrs Yusuf cut in #angrily]
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MRS YUSUF: Doctor, u don’t seem to know d best way to honour my late husband’s memory…., because if u do, u will know that calling the nurse to answer some #salient questions regarding my husband’s death is d best way to honour his memory…..
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[ For God’s sake, what’s happening here? Is nurse Gbemisola having something to do with Yusuf’s death? ….. I still can’t believe this…]
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DR SANYA: Please my people, let’s not jump into hasty conclusion here…..
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[ Rasaq too cut in ]
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RASAQ: Doctor, my name is Rasaq….Nobody is jumping into any conclusion yet. For now, we don’t even know what to conclude with until d nurse answers some questions as said earlier…
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[ Mrs Yusuf kept nodding to what Mr Rasaq was saying….]
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MR RASAQ: To me now, it seems u are d one jumping into quick conclusion for now
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MRS YUSUF: Doctor, have u asked yourself why this nurse in question was shivering in #fear d moment she saw this my brother in company of other family members…..??
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[ Hmmmmm, Mrs Yusuf has a point there……But what could nurse Gbemisola be hiding? She was even d one who #passionately called me to come and attend to him when d man was freshly brought in…..I checked my wrist watch, the time was already half past four in d evening…..I needed to free these people on time so that I could have time to attend to my lovely #Mary as promised when I was in my hometown…..As it is now, I don’t even know what they came for……]
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DR SANYA: Okay, I am beginning to understand your point ….. Just as I was telling u in the office d other time, your late husband was my good friend, a life saver! So, nothing else can delight my soul as knowing d circumstances surrounding his death. But as it is now, this path we want to thread is not known yet to other family members. So, I will advise we attend to why you are all here in d first place, then maybe by tomorrow, you can come back to sort other things out. I promise you that on this, you have my support and total co-operation.
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[ I was so glad to know that I have finally been able to calm them down…. They agreed to come the following day on the agreement that I must not let d nurse have d idea of all we talked about till they are finally around the following day…..]
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>>>We all went back inside my office to meet the other family members who had anxiously been waiting for us…. They asked us what d matter was…. We were so smart enough to quickly cook a #delicious_lie for them which they all swallowed.
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>>>The relatives and I really talked at length…. They came to d hospital to get first hand information regarding the cause of death of their son (Yusuf). After telling them the necessary things that they needed to know, I gave them d deceased’s #death_certificate and they departed.
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>>At around 6:15 in d evening, I was already alone in d office, even nurse Gbemisola who was on afternoon duty has gone home. I began to think: is it true that my own nurse Gbemisola knew d late Mr Yusuf when he was alive and she never talked about it to me, even despite how intimate we are?….. Believe me, I don’t want to think of maybe she has a hand in Yusuf’s death because the nurse Gbemisola that I know, can’t even hurt a cockroach, not to talk of taking d life of a fellow human being…..
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>>>Suddenly, #Mary’s message came into my phone, it was even d alert of it that brought me back into consciousness…..The message says: HONEY, I’M PASSIONATELY EXPECTING U…..
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>>>Yes, it’s time now to attend to my
#love _life….. I cleared my table and drove out of d hospital premises, straight to my Sweetie’s house….., but on my way, right inside the car, I never forgot to call Dr Korede (my assistant ), he too must know where matter don reach in d hospital…….
Time to catch some fun with my pretty Mary is now. By tomorrow, I shall find out d #truth_within from nurse Gbemisola.