By Ray Morphy
Two years ago, late 2023, I was diagnosed with blood cancer. This was when I just started building Morphy Academy, Calabar!
I had a choice: either to abandon the school project and go for treatment or stay put, finish and start the school.
I chose to stay put and face the school project. Morphy Academy in Calabar was my personal legacy project so I saw the cancer as a temptation and a distraction from achieving my dream!
I stuck to my guns to the consternation of my health team who felt that by continuing to work, i was ignoring and endangering my life.
I ignored them. Sadly, in the course of the intense school building project, the cancer advanced to stage 4. I still ignored it and poured all my energy into the work of finishing the school. God was faithful all through. So the school started in September 2024.
I heaved a sigh of relief because I could now start treatment as the school was up and running. For those who don’t understand why i refused treatment while building the school, the fact is that you cannot do anything intensive while undergoing cancer treatment. All cancer medications cause severe fatigue. During cancer treatment, even to stand up sef, na wa!
Anyway, by the time I finished the school work, I had depleted my funds. So here was I with stage 4 cancer and no funds. I kept my travails to myself except to a few people, not more than 3.
The only person I approached for a medical loan, a close close friend whom I believed was closer than a brother, he disappointed me big.tome.
This is a guy i would lay down my life for. Anyway that’s another story but I learnt my lesson. I guess he didn’t want to risk his money on a man whom he thought was going to die soon anyway. God thought differently.
Anyway, miracle no dey tire God. Money started pouring into my businesses from all directions so I found the funds to commence treatment.
Treating the type of cancer i had no be beans. Bills for authentic drugs come up to more than 15m per cycle of treatment. A cycle is typically 28 days.
This does not include payments to doctors, hospital bed etc. Add all the various scans, from CT scan to PET Scan. Molecular studies in Germany cost another N3.5m. This was a necessary prelude to treatment. The studies determine the specific mutation for which specific targeted medicines are prescribed!
So from September last year I started the treatment journey after my school had opened. I became a familiar face in the oncology hospital. I went through it all. I travelled everywhere, got conflicting prognosis and made difficult choices. In addition to hospital treatment, I bought all manner of equipment to hook up to my body at home!
I faced it all, the despair, the pain, the fatigue and the loneliness, but in all of it, I kept a cheerful face. Nobody could tell from my visage what I was going through! In the hospital, i would support others with money and moral support.
Many came to hospital but could not access treatment due to funds, once I see such persons, I would quietly fold money into their hands. I mean bundles that would cover their bills. You see, at this time I didn’t know if I would live or die so I was ready to give my funds to other people.that were ill.
I researched, I read, I tried all systems and alternatives. I saw my weight drop by more than 30 kg, I saw my good looks disappear. I researched death and the afterlife. I knew a little of it already but I delved deeper because I knew that I could be crossing over at any moment.
I tried OBE, I embraced my intuition and my Guardian Angel. I was already an adept at many inner practices but I intensified my efforts.
In the course of treatment, I opened up to a senior friend. He started wailing. Each time he called, he ended up sobbing, and I the sick one would end up comforting him. My maternal brother was a pillar at this time, so was my PH friend and mentor.
I had many insightful experiences in this journey with cancer. Will I talk of fake drugs. Sometimes, you will shell out 5m for a pack of 100 tablets and the tablets will turn out to be fake.
Again, here was I, a healer down with cancer. It was a case of physician, heal thyself! I did a lot of inner work to uncover the reason for the cancer.
You see, before this time, I had never spent a night in hospital on account of illness apart from many years earlier when I was poisoned and another time when I survived assassin’s bullets.
Many of the medicines i had to take have many adverse effects on either the liver, the kidney or the heart. So as you are treating cancer, you are possibly injuring your good organs! The risk is there but man na man and God na God. I went through without adverse effects on these organs!
And through it all, God came through, my body came through, medical science came through. Today the 14th, a day before my birthday, I got the medical report that shows that I am officially in remission. By God, I beat the cancer and so will others who I met in various hospitals.
And for you lovely friends who have never had serious illness, you really need to appreciate God and your body too. Your body is indeed a treasure to be protected. Pray not to be seriously ill. And may God grant you that prayer. Amen.
I am grateful to all those who God used to heal me. I am also grateful to all those who supported me in this travail. My maternal brother, my maternal sister, my PH elder friend, my atam elder friend in Spain. May God do for you as you did for me! For my sister m friend Josephine, gratitude, your advise was invaluable indeed!
And so today here i am, a survivor of stage 4 blood cancer! I WISH MYSELF HAPPY SURVIVAL BIRTHDAY!
