WORK LIFE: United Kingdom (Second Trip)
February 18, 2014
Nyamekye and her husband travelled to the UK sometime in 2008 where the doctors confirmed the earlier diagnosis of chronic kidney disease leading to kidney failure. Nyamekye and Senyo decided to fight the disease through prayer and natural remedies however Nyamekye’s health continued to deteriorate at a fast rate. She lost a lot of weight and was very ill during this period. Because the cost of dialysis in Ghana is prohibitive and the family could not afford the treatment, Nyamekye and Senyo decided that she moved back to the United Kingdom to be do dialysis.
Nyamekye disliked the cold weather in the United Kingdom and the fact that she was away from her family. She therefore visited Ghana for a month during the summer and Christmas holidays and Senyo visited the United Kingdom as often as he could usually twice a year. Those visits to Ghana were memorable occasions because Nyamekye enjoyed them tremendously and she seized the opportunity to invite her family and friends over for meals. Nyamekye loved to cook and she took time to teach family and friends how to prepare delicious recipes.
She continued to be an active member of the Ilford Elim Pentecostal Church (City Gates) and she hardly missed a church service. To keep herself busy and active, she volunteered with the Redbridge Foodbank, a Charity Organisation for the homeless where many a week she was on duty serving food to the homeless and disadvantaged.
Last November, her health suddenly deteriorated after she moved flats and this she did after taking her usual annual winter flu vaccination. The vaccination caused her to feel very ill. She ignored pleadings from family and friends to spend the Christmas in London and instead planned to travel to Ghana. She had planned to leave London, UK for Christmas in Ghana on the 17th of December, 2013 however, she was taken ill on that day and had to be admitted into hospital where she spent three days. When she came out of hospital she was still quite unwell but travelled to Accra, Ghana with her youngest son Oku on Christmas day. The whole time she was in Ghana although quite unwell, she tried to participate in most of the Christmas family activities. She returned to London on Sunday the 18th of January, and was rushed to the London Whipps Cross Hospital on Monday night where she died at dawn on Wednesday the 22nd of January, 2014.
Nyamekye, was an amazing lady. She lived life to the full and we know she is now permanently healed from all pain and sickness which is certainly better. However, she will be sorely missed by all her loved ones and friends especially her best friend and husband Senyo and their two sons Eli and Oku. She was such a good human being.