Marry Me 3 - What Do You Want To Do With Your Future?

Dear Reader,

Before you read the Excerpts from #MarryMe Part 3, please see the following announcement.

Good news!
There’s more @marrymeseries so I’m gonna pack them and make them into 1 book. Yes. A book.
Side note: there are also people I don’t want to read them so it’ll be(I’ll be) safer hiding them in this book
I’ll post the next Excerpt on this new page created for it Marry Me Book Series so follow the account and it’s page on @facebook
B L E S S I N G S ! !
#marryme
#series
#Author

I hope you enjoy reading the series as I enjoyed writing them.

Jane

Had an illness that left me bedridden

I didn’t know my parents wanted me married. I was barely 25 and shy of attaining any life goal and they thought marriage was IT for me.

“No”, I didn’t say. I let them assume.

A couple of weeks ago, I couldn’t trek from Agege to Ikeja to work as I usually do. I’d noticed a weakness in me I didn’t like. I was limping. The limp grew to something worse. Pains in my joints. It didn’t stop my going to work.

My salary was N29,900 but I flew Okada to and from work daily. Total cost? N600 x 5(you can do the mathematics.

I loved working. The clients depend on me. Who would make Oga his tea if I’m not around? I thought.
Then my feet started to swell. All good. I was flying bike to work.

It got worse. I could barely get out of bed. Boss called one day at 3pm on a busy Monday, I guess.
Where are you? Why aren’t you at work? He asked.
I’m very sick, Sir” I answered.

“Don’t self medicate o”, they always say this - don’t know why.
As if he knew what my next retort would be, he added; “if you need money, you can request for a loan from the company”.
Thanks for that I guess.

Armed with that information and after refusing injection from my cousin-in-law, I marched to private clinic.
“I’m feeling pains all over my joints.”
“What kind of pains” an unbothered nurse asked me.

I tried to point them out. Then I shocked myself and them; “ my right side is paralyzed”.

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