By By Elsie Udoh
Nigerian medical doctor and social media influencer, Dr Chinonso Egemba, popularly known as Aproko Doctor, has revealed his life-threatening battle with a brain tumour, which almost took his eyesight.
Aproko Doctor made this known in a video uploaded on his Twitter page on Monday morning.
“Throughout December of 2022, I was fighting for my life. I went blind in one eye on the 3rd of Dec. 2022 & on the 5th, I was diagnosed with a brain tumour.
“Today, I stand here before you to share my story. It has been a long road to recovery but each day is better than the last,” he captioned the video.
Speaking in the video, Aproko Doctor revealed the severity of the brain tumour diagnosed as CranioPharyngioma which almost resulted in him losing his eyesight.
According to him, the tumour which was sitting at the centre of his brain affected his left eye, making him unable to read with it. He also shared that he had to undergo surgery to remove it.
He said, “For the past three weeks or two weeks, I have been fighting for my life. Some of you have no idea. It happened that I was diagnosed with CranioPharyngioma which is a brain tumour and I had no idea I would be sharing my story.
“Here I am sitting on this seat sharing my own story about how I had a tumour in my brain. It was so bad that I couldn’t read out of my phone anymore to the point where this eye, I couldn’t read with it and it was also closing. They said it is a Craniopharyngioma and we need to do surgery to remove it.”
The medical doctor went on to applaud the competence of Dr Tayo Ojo, the neurosurgeon who helped undergo the surgery that saved his life in a Twitter thread he uploaded and mentioned education and health as the systems necessary for the success of any nation.
“Education, health. For me… those are the two systems any nation needs to succeed.
I’m dedicating my life to seeing that they succeed in our country, Nigeria,” he wrote.
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