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Saturday, October 10, 2015
I Saw Death Coming - Julius Agwu Says
Popular comedian/actor Julius Agwu, is hale and hearty at the moment but he has yet to forget what he went through while he was sick and out of circulation.
Agwu, who had a surgery to remove the tumour in his brain, said he saw death beckoning on him that period. He relived that moment in a new interview with Saturday saying:
“To me, this is actually like a rebirth. I saw death and God brought me back to life. It is a
rare opportunity because not too many people survive this and come back normal. Look at me, I have danced and given thanks to God because it’s truly a miracle. I am a living testimony that God really works. Some people are of the opinion that God is partial in some ways, but if He is truly partial in my case, then I have to give Him all the glory. I thank Him so much and I really don’t know where to start from in giving Him thanks.
“There was a day I got back home and at some point, I noticed I was going down, I lost my appetite and I wasn’t feeling too good. You know how people will tell you different things and also form opinions. I just told my wife places where I kept vital documents for her to keep. She simply asked me ‘where are you going to’? I replied her that I didn’t know what was happening and if in case anything happened to me, she could go on from there. She wasn’t shocked; she even replied me that I was not going anywhere.
“The truth about it is that a lot of people just walk around and do not know what is inside of them. Some people do not know what others are passing through,” he said.
The comedian who also doubles as a singer said that all entertainers do is to work without paying attention to their health. He seized the opportunity to tell his colleagues to take a time out sometimes for medical check-ups.
“As entertainers, all we do is hustle, work, and some other things without bothering to check our health. I just realised from this experience that we are more of colleagues and not even friends because nobody really cares about you. When it happens, it is just you and your family. I knew a lot of people who reached out to me and I appreciate them but really, it’s funny. What are we really hustling for? The true joy is your happiness and family because that is what life is about. Just like all the people who stole money, how much would they spend? Once you die, that is the end.”
Friday, September 4, 2015
How Doctors Found Brain Tumour As Big As A Golf Ball In My Head - Popular Comedian Julius Agwu
Comedian, Julius Agwu, has expressed his appreciation to God Almighty for sparing his life after undergoing brain surgery about four months ago.
In an interview with Channels Television last weekend, the comedian recounted the horrific experience that nearly took his life “Jumping all the hurdles and challenges of life, so many of us don’t really know what is going on inside. Nobody carries signboard of ill-health. So, I never realized what was happening, I just noticed that at some point, I was loosing weight.
“Initially, I was working out trying to look shapely, because as soon as you clock 40 you begin to take some of those things seriously. I just noticed the over-work, stress and everything. In Nigeria, we really don’t rest, we hustle and hustle, we just keep working but oyinbo (white men) will work for vacation and settle, you know, rest. But our own, we hustle and even when we die, we’re still working as ancestors through consultations (Laughs).”
The rib cracker further explained that he was very busy at that period shooting his new TV series, “but then I just realised that once in a while, I would have headache, take the normal pain relievers and it will go down until I had a seizure and was rushed to the hospital. That was the beginning of the story, when I eventually regained consciousness, I lost all my memory and I couldn’t walk properly.
“My wife and I had to go to Houston (USA), because we had to find out what was really happening to me. That was how through an MRI, it was discovered that I had tumours in my brain and an emergency surgery was advised. So, I thank God it went well and God has been perfecting my healing. Since April till now, I’ve never really done anything as regards my career. I thank God. I am back and alive. God has been merciful,
He gave me a second chance.”
Agwu said the tumour was a big one at the back of his head that was already like the size of a golf ball, full-grown and very big. But the good thing is that after it was removed, the doctors had to scan it to find out whether it was cancerous. “But we thank God, it’s benign and now my medication is dropping it. By God’s grace, my memory is back. It’s not easy, it’s like a car knocking engine. I don’t pray that such thing should happen to my enemy,” he stressed.
The comedian, however, enjoined entertainers including his colleagues in the industry to take their health issues more seriously by undertaking regular medical check-up and take things slow because “life has no duplicate”.
Agwu is currently United Kingdom and would return to the country this month for his Crack Ya Ribs show coming up in Abuja in October.
Friday, July 10, 2015
comedian Julius Agwu Recovers after a successful brain surgery in the US
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