Popular comedian, Julius Agwu, has expressed his
appreciation to God Almighty for sparing his life after
undergoing brain surgery about four months ago.
In an interview with Channels Television last weekend,
the comedian recounted the horrific experience that
nearly took his life “Jumping all the hurdles and
challenges of life, so many of us don’t really know what
is going on inside. Nobody carries signboard of ill-
health. So, I never realized what was happening, I just
noticed that at some point, I was loosing weight.
“Initially, I was working out trying to look shapely,
because as soon as you clock 40 you begin to take
some of those things seriously. I just noticed the over-
work, stress and everything. In Nigeria, we really don’t
rest, we hustle and hustle, we just keep working but
oyinbo (white men) will work for vacation and settle, you
know, rest. But our own, we hustle and even when we
die, we’re still working as ancestors through
consultations (Laughs).”
The rib cracker further explained that he was very busy
at that period shooting his new TV series, “but then I
just realised that once in a while, I would have
headache, take the normal pain relievers and it will go
down until I had a seizure and was rushed to the
hospital. That was the beginning of the story, when I
eventually regained consciousness, I lost all my memory
and I couldn’t walk properly.
“My wife and I had to go to Houston (USA), because we
had to find out what was really happening to me. That
was how through an MRI, it was discovered that I had
tumours in my brain and an emergency surgery was
advised. So, I thank God it went well and God has been
perfecting my healing. Since April till now, I’ve never
really done anything as regards my career. I thank God.
I am back and alive. God has been merciful,
He gave me a second chance.”
Agwu said the tumour was a big one at the back of his
head that was already like the size of a golf ball, full-
grown and very big. But the good thing is that after it
was removed, the doctors had to scan it to find out
whether it was cancerous. “But we thank God, it’s
benign and now my medication is dropping it. By God’s
grace, my memory is back. It’s not easy, it’s like a car
knocking engine. I don’t pray that such thing should
happen to my enemy,” he stressed.
The comedian, however, enjoined entertainers including
his colleagues in the industry to take their health issues
more seriously by undertaking regular medical check-up
and take things slow because “life has no duplicate”.
Agwu is currently United Kingdom and would return to
the country this month for his Crack Ya Ribs show
coming up in Abuja in October.
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