The life of a mother can take an unexpected turn in a split second. For the mother of musician and artiste manager Ogidi Brown, widely known as ‘Artiste Maame,’ that moment came when she received a call that would change everything.
“When the accident happened, it was during Easter, so I travelled to my sister’s place in Milano. I received a call from an elder telling me what had happened.
“He told me to stand firm as he was about to give me difficult news. He then said Ogidi had an accident. I asked if he was still alive, and he said it was serious, but he wasn’t dead,” she recalled in an emotional interview with Delay.
The shock of the news hit her so hard that she felt her body shut down. “My entire body froze. I couldn’t hear or see anything anymore. At that very moment, I felt like I needed to pee, poop, and everything at once. I was sweating profusely. I was at church at the time, so I left everything I was doing, picked a train, and went to the hospital.”
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But the pain of the experience did not end there. Upon reaching the hospital, she was denied access to see her son that day. The next day, she was met with an even more terrifying sight. “When I got there, they told me he was likely to die in 10 minutes, so he was airlifted by helicopter to a larger hospital.”
The condition in which she found Ogidi Brown was heartbreaking. “When I got there, it was an extremely difficult sight to behold. I kept asking if he was dead. No part of his body was working, and they had covered him with a white cloth as though he had passed. They had attached numerous machines to his body. When I saw him, I shook. He was swollen and just lying there.”
For a mother who had moved abroad in hopes of a better future, this was a devastating blow. “I have never worked since I travelled abroad. My son had the accident exactly one and a half years after I arrived there,” she revealed.
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