“2023 Has Really Tested My Faith”- Founder Of Chess In Slum Africa Tunde Onakoya Says After 5 Months Post Hip Replacement Surgery, He Finally Dropped The Walking Stick

Chess master and founder of chess in slum Africa Tunde Onakoya is grateful after a hip replacement surgery, five months ago he can now move. Sharing his testimony on Instagram with a video, he wrote:

“5 months post hip replacement surgery. Finally dropped the walking stick and can move around without support. Still a bit wobbly, but that resolves with time.

2023 has really tested my faith, but God remains kind to me. I’m grateful”.

In year 2022 Tunde Onakoya shared how his legs struggles started.

He wrote:

“For 27 years, i have lived with excruciating pain in my right leg.
I wasn’t born this way but something happened that changed the trajectory of my life.

Shortly after I was born in 1994 (i was 9 months old), I got really sick. My mom described it as a chronic case of measles.
This came at a time when my parents struggled to even put food on the table. My Dad’s car spare parts shop in Eko had just been demolished by the government

There was no money to take me to the hospital and as my condition worsened, my mum had to take me to a local nurse who gave me a bad injection without proper diagnosis. First mistake.

With time I got better but my mum noticed something odd after the first few weeks of recovery.

I had started walking as a baby before I fell sick but after recovery, I stopped walking.
This was strange as I was a very active baby. My parents were worried but weren’t sure what to do anymore as they had spent their entire live savings on paying the nurse for the treatment.

My Dad’s elder sister stepped in and took me to Igbobi hospital where they did an xray and discovered that some damage had been done partly due to measles and the bad injection from the nurse”.

Source; Tunde Onakoya | Instagram

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