Still terrified, he slipped his hand in his pocket, brought out his phone and immediately called the emergency number to request an ambulance and immediately laid his daughter flat on the ground and started to perform CPR on her.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation popularly known as CPR is a lifesaving technique used to save lives. It is usually done when someone is unconscious, has stopped breathing and doesn’t have a pulse. These signs usually indicate that the person has most likely had a cardiac arrest meaning that the heart has stopped pumping blood around the body. What CPR does is to attempt to restart the heart and make it resume pumping blood around the body. CPR is done by initiating chest compressions which keep blood flowing till a regular heartbeat returns and giving 2 rescue breaths after every 30 compressions to improve oxygen supply. To better understand how to perform this procedure, it will be a good idea to search for videos demonstrating this procedure from reliable sources on the internet. CPR should not be performed indefinitely, it should be performed till the ambulance arrives or until the person is taken to the hospital and medical personnel can take over management. CPR saves lives, starting CPR immediately can double or even triple a person’s chances of survival.
The Ambulance crew arrived within minutes to take her to the hospital. She had been rushed from the emergency room straight to the operating theatre as she had sustained a major puncture wound that had led to profuse bleeding.
Deji and Ama waited anxiously in the waiting area to get feedback on their daughter, Jordanna stayed back at home with their son. “Is she going to be ok?” Ama asked, sinking her face into Deji’s chest and wailing, “I really hope so,” Deji replied, trying so hard to hold back the tears that were threatening to roll down his eyes.
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Meanwhile, back in America, Gloria was still working hard at her job and receiving peanuts thanks to Madam Monica. The money that she was receiving was not enough to pay her rent, so she was still receiving regular beatings from Jason in bed.
Eventually, she couldn’t take the torture anymore and decided that she was no longer going to accept any more physical abuse from Jason in the name of BDSM, she didn’t care about what would happen anymore or what he would do, she was just fed up.
“You can’t just decide to stop like that, when it’s not like you’re paying the rent, that was not the agreement” Jason had said when she told him that she would no longer accept to sleep with him anymore in exchange for payment of rent, but she stood her ground and insisted she was done with the madness. Whenever she was home, she would stay in her room and lock her door till it was time to leave for work the next morning. Sometimes, when Jason would come round and knock on her door, she would ignore him and pretend to be asleep. This had gone on for two weeks.
One day, she came home and locked her door as usual. Later in the evening, she heard the doorbell ring but ignored it because she didn’t receive visitors anyway. Shortly after, there was a knock on her room door, she figured it was Jason and ignored as usual but the knocking continued. Then she heard Jason speaking to someone, “I’m telling you she’s in there, she does this all the time” she heard him say. Immediately after, she heard footsteps of the other person moving closer to the door, “Ma’am this is an officer from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, if you can hear me, please step out now” the officer said. “What?” Gloria thought to herself springing up from her bed, “immigration officer? I’m in big trouble” she thought, “this idiot has blown my cover” she whispered to herself as she stood up from her bed to put on her trousers.
“Officer, like I told you on the phone, she deceived me into marrying her just so she could get a green card, I didn’t even know she was an undocumented immigrant until after I had fallen in love but I went ahead to marry her because I thought what we shared was real. I just discovered that she deceived me.” Gloria could hear Jason say.
Apparently, he had reported her to the immigration office and had lied that Gloria deceived him into a sham marriage. Unfortunately, Gloria did not have any copy of their agreement and did not have evidence to provide for the payment she had made to him because she paid in cryptocurrency, so there was no way that she could prove to anyone that she paid him money for the marriage arrangement. It was clear to her that the game was up, she had no choice than to surrender herself and face the consequences.
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Finally after going through the torture of waiting anxiously, one of the surgeons came out of the theatre and invited Deji and Ama into his office for a discussion.
“How is she doing?” Deji asked anxiously, “please sit” the surgeon replied pointing to the chairs in front of his desk and closing the door behind him.
He sat down slowly behind his desk looking from Deji to Ama who anxiously waited for him to speak, “please say something “ Ama begged, “I and the whole crew have been in there fighting to save your daughter’s life, she suffered penetrating abdominal trauma, the knife penetrated deep into her liver causing severe bleeding. If you recall, she was brought in unconscious.” The surgeon explained carefully, “We tried our best to control the bleeding as well as resuscitate her but all efforts proved abortive. I’m really sorry, but we lost her” the surgeon announced, looking very sober.
“How do you mean you lost her? Are you saying my daughter is d£ad?” Deji asked as all the tears he had been holding back suddenly began to rush down his face, “Is she dead?” Deji repeated, dropping to his knees as Ama remained transfixed in her chair with a blank stare on her face. “As much as it breaks my heart to say this, your daughter is no more, we couldn’t save her” the surgeon replied looking pitifully at Deji.
“Noooo, not my princess” Deji screamed, “WHY ME? WHY HER?” he shouted bursting into tears as the surgeon stared helplessly at both he and Ama.
Find out what happens next in episode 27 #checkwithdoctoro