I’ve come to realize, after 21 years lol, that my parents raised very resilient children. My brothers and I have managed to bounce back from a lot of things. I’m proud of us. I’ve always loved them, even though I rarely say it, but these last couple of weeks have strengthened my love for them. I seriously have 3 of the best brothers in the world! I couldn’t imagine what life would be like with out them. On Wednesday I got a call from one of my brothers saying that my youngest brother was in the hospital. He didn’t give me specifics, but I knew it was due to him having Sickle Cell. So many things were rushing through my mind as I drove to Ann Arbor. I drove 90mph all the way to the hospital. I had to get there, had to be there. Couldn’t and didn’t want to miss anything. When I got to the ER I called my brothers name and he didn’t answer. I instantly began crying. He’s had SC crisis-es before, but my parents have always been around when it happened. They shielded my other siblings and I from the pain that my baby brother was going through. Now I was the mom. I had to sit there and see my little brother struggle to breath, his heart rate was abnormally high. I could see his heart beating in his neck. He had a temp of 104. All I could think of was how I wanted to switch plaves with him. I asked God, no I begged Him, to transfer Chiso’s pain to me. I’d take it. 3 days later and he’s doing a little better. His was fever was down and he was breathing normally, but now another setback, a minor one. His oxygen level is low and his temp is up to 99. The doctors want to give him a blood transfusion, but we said no. My mom always warned Chiso against them. So now we’ll wait it out til tomorrow morning to see if he gets better. My mom will be back from Nigeria, so she’ll have the final decision on if he has a transfusion or not. Keep my brother in your prayers everyone. He was a lot coming up and we need him him to be 100%! He graduates from high school this Thursday and will hopefully be joining me at MSU in the Fall.
Oh yea, while I was walking down the hall I saw a plaque that said, “See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.” Exodus 23:20. I don’t know what made me glance at the plaque. I seriously stared at it for 5 minutes and just cried. I guess it was me being scared for my brother. I thought, “Is Chiso this angel?” Then I thought of my grandma who passed a way on March 16, and I knew she was the angel. This calming feeling came over me and I knew that he’d be ok. I am worried about his increase in temperature and the oxygen level, but I know he’ll pull through! He’s an Osuji, and that’s what we do, we survive and go on to do great things!
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On another note, I haven’t seen my beautiful nephew since my mom left to go to Nigeria.
Xavier
I miss him so much. He has such a presence. He commands a room, again, that’s how you know he’s an Osuji lol. He is one of the smartest two-years old I’ve ever come across. And he has a smart mouth, just like his auntie 
He has really brought our family back together. For a while things were pretty crazy, then poof here comes Xavier who flipped things all around then returned them back to normal! I’m thinking about getting him for the whole summer. It would be a little hard, but I think I can handle him, work, and class. I don’t know lol, we’ll see.
“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced–or seemed to face–the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
^^^This is my favorite quote from The Great Gatsby. It’s also one of the best books ever written. It is a must read, if you haven’t done so already.
