Chapter 1 of Adjetey Anang‘s memoir, his mother narrates how he nearly lost his life at age one.
“We were all scared. I thought I had lost my son, by virtue of my husband’s work, we found ourselves in the Northern part of the country, Bolgatanga to be precise.
“Adjetey till then hadn’t shown any signs of illness or sickness. He was a healthy growing boy. And then one day, he suddenly fell ill,” she said.
She continued: “At that time, we had a domestic help who took care of Adjetey while we were both at work. We do not know what happened while we were away. I hadn’t noticed anything unusual in the morning, so it was very disturbing to see him looking so pale. What scared me even more was the fact that his pupils had disappeared and you could see the whites of his eyes.”
During Adjetey Anang’s health crisis, his mother vividly recalled the harrowing experience as he was rushed to the hospital.
Filled with worry and desperation, she couldn’t cease her fervent prayers, desperately hoping for a miraculous turnaround as his condition deteriorated.