Not a cash cow!

Ade was a 32 years old unemployed bachelor living in one of the suburbs in lagos. Recently, he visited his elder brother femi, whose wife had just gave birth to a bouncing baby boy. Femi had observed that his brother had lost a lot of weight and looked very ill. He asked him what was the matter who him and ade responded that he doesn't know.

Before his brother left the house, he instructed him to go the the hospital for a medical examination. The test results revealed that ade had a kidney disease. The doctor had said that he would have to go through some treatment amd there was possibility of a surgery too. The disease had been progressing for a long time and his condition had degenerated.

Femi was really heartbroken as ade was his only brother and he must help him. The first thing he did was to send ade back to the hospital again to get the correct bill of all the treatment. The hospital bill was a little above $4,000 dollars which was very expensive. But femi must save his brother's life. So, he issued a check of the exact amount to ade the next day.

Three weeks later, femi was shocked when he discovered that ade did not use the money for the treatment. All this while, he had been making use of a traditional herb which he bought from a local medicine woman at a nearby market. The old woman had promised him that his disease would be cured before one month of using her herbs. She even boasted that her herbs had cured more deadly diseases.

Femi became very furious at his brother and he scolded him real hard. But ade was the stubborn one. He told his brother to leave him alone. After all, it was his health and his body and he has the right to take care of himself in whatever way he chose. Femi thought he was right, so he asked him what he had done with all the money he gave him, but ade simply hissed at his brother and walked out on him. Femi wasn't very surprised at this, his younger brother had always been ungrateful towards him no matter how much he assisted him.

When femi got home, he told his wife how ade had behaved amd she was really disappointed. Before his younger brother told him about the ailment, femi had planned to use the $4,000 out of the $5,000 he had in his account to expand his businesss. As a married man, he also had a lot of responsibilities to take care of. But he decided to help his brother first, because he believed that it was the right thing to do.

He had no doubt that ade had squandered the money again. This wasn't really the first time. Twice in the past, he had given ade $500 dollars to start up a business instead of remaining unemployed. But ade had always been a lazy fellow who lived a reckless lifestyle. He would rather spend any money that comes his way on alcohol and call girls. Femi had no doubt that it was his bad living habits that brought this terrible disease upon him.

Two months later, femi received a call from one of ade's neighbor that his brother was found unconscious in his room and had been rushed to the state's hospital. When femi went to see his brother, he was a very sorry sight. His wife who went along with him began to cry as soon as she saw how bad ade situation was.

The doctor informed femi that his brother's situation had really deteriorated and the hospital was now demanding almost doubled the initial amount before they commence treatment. It was obvious that the local herbs that ade had relied on had failed. According to the doctor, it even increased the osmotic pressure of the kidney.

At home, femi's wife kept mounting pressure on her husband to raise money to save his brother's life. But ade insisted that he had other responsibilities, he believed that he had done more than enough for his brother as far as family was concerned. It was not his fault that the younger man continued to foolish.

Of course, femi was not particularly a rich man neither was he a "cash cow". He also couldn't turn himself to money because of an ungrateful and irresponsible younger brother. But his wife wouldn't stop talking about ade and would cry every night and even refuse to allow her husband to touch her.

Ade died two days after femi had agreed to sell his land in order to raise money for his younger brother's treatment.

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