By Joy Umukoro
Ace 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 recuperating in the United States
and would return to the country this month for his
Crack Ya Ribs show coming up in Abuja in October.
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I'm happy for him. He came out alive to snap pictures with wax figures .