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[Ekow @henry_tmens]

Bro. I had to rub my eyes to be sure of what I was seeing

[Jr @ralphie_jr]

Can we just cancel that Ederson deal? This guy is fucking crap

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Belgium's full statement on Folarin Balogun's red card being overturned (via @belreddevils)

[Ekow @henry_tmens]

Sabalenka should have just let Ostapenko win in round 3

[ESPN @espn]

Naomi Osaka defeats the world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka to advance to the quarterfinals‼️

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That rush of blood from Casemiro has to be studied

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Ah Vinicius lose ein confidence?

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Danilo moves like Sibo

[Nαɳα Kɯαɱҽ @NanaKwame_off]

This is Heartbreaking Story 💔💔💔......Ridge Hospital Must Sit Up.

Folks, last night I lost my wife at Ridge Hospital!’
My wife checked in at the hospital Sunday evening. She had been due for surgery Monday morning.

We agreed that I would return to the hospital in the afternoon when she would have returned from the theater.
That’s how it happened. I returned to her. She narrated the experience to me. I stayed with her till 8pm when the orderly came to ask me to leave.

When I returned the next morning, my wife had taken a turn for the worst. She was sweating profusely and was in severe pain. The change was really dramatic.

I asked her if the doctor had seen her. She said no but the nurse had given her medication earlier on. She asked me to take her to the washroom. By this time she was screaming in pain.
I managed to sit her on the WC. But as she attempted to relieve herself she suddenly went limp and crumbled onto the floor. She was unconscious.

I rushed out to seek help. A couple of nurses came in to help. She regained consciousness but she was in a terrible shape.
The next one hour was hell as there was no doctor immediately available.
After about an hour the doctor arrived. He examined my wife and asked the nurse what medication had been administered. The nurse mentioned something I don’t remember. The doctor asked if she was sure and she said yes.
The doctor then went through my wife’s folder for a few minutes.

« But I didn’t prescribe that », he said.

My heart missed a beat.

There was a back and forth between the doctor and the nurse, which attracted two other nurses.
One of the new entrants said yes, he the doctor didn’t prescribe it but another doctor did so later.

The doctor said he was going to call him right now. He walked out the room followed by the nurses.

I followed them into the lobby.

He picked the phone and called someone. From the conversation, it was clear that the other doctor had promptly admitted to prescribing the drug.

Folks, I swear by my father’s grave that my wife’s doctor said something like this.

“ I can’t believe you have done this again. This is the second time. This woman’s case is similar to the other one but you have done it again”.

Folks, at this point I started feeling very cold.

What happened next is the reason I am writing this. But for it I would never share this on social media.
As our doctor was scolding the other doctor, they nurses were laughing heartily. Even the doctor was scolding his colleague somehow jokingly.

Yes, my wife lay dying and the nurses were laughing that a doctor had apparently prescribed the wrong medication for her. I was not angry and I was not mad.

I just felt cold. Very cold.

A lot happened subsequently as they tried to save her. They prescribed some drugs which I bought. Then they prescribed some more drugs which I bought. Then they prescribed more. Then they wanted a test done which we did. Earlier, my sister-in-law who had held the fort while I went to see the kids had also been made to buy drugs.

In the end I was left alone with my wife.

At 8 pm the orderly came to ask me to leave.
I drove home filled with a huge feeling of emptiness. I could not sleep. I tossed around in bed the whole night. At around 4 am I fell asleep.

My sister-in-law was to take up the relay this morning. I was to go and teach my students and then return to replace her. We took turns taking care of my wife.
My sister-in-law called me at 6 am which is the visiting time at the hospital.

I had overslept.
“Brother Imma, are you coming? The doctors want to see you immediately”.

“I am on my way”, I lied. I hurriedly jumped into a crumpled jeans and an old Lacoste. I did not bath. I did not brush my teeth. I don’t how I drove to Ridge Hospital. My wife died at 11 pm last night, three hours after I left her.
A lady in the ward told me she collapsed and died. Just like that.
By the way, my sister-in-law told me that when she got to the ward this morning she overheard doctors and nurses arguing over “wrong medication”
I am not angry. I am sad. Deeply sad. Indescribably sad.

Folks, let’s be clear. I have no evidence that the wrong medication killed my wife. I have requested for an autopsy.

I also appreciate the efforts made by some of the nurses to save the life of my wife. One particular nurse was very kind to me and I pray God’s blessings on her.

What I cannot accept, and why I am writing this, is that health workers find it funny that the wrong medication had apparently been administered to my wife. They were laughing. It was a joke. My wife’s life was a joke.

My wife heard the whole story unfold. How did she feel lying there listening?
I kept thinking “Is my wife’s life worth so little”?
Is that all she is worth? Can’t they see she is my wife? Can’t they see me standing there listening to them?

Now I have been thinking. I am a senior public servant, the head of a public tertiary institution. If this happened to me then I shudder to think of what can happen to an ordinary person in our country.

Folks, I am not courting sympathy. I have thought carefully before posting this.

Here is the thing:
Nobody, absolutely nobody deserves to experience this. It falls far below any idea of human decency. This should never happen again.

That is why I am calling out Ridge Hospital.

I am asking you a special favor. Please, help me call out Ridge Hospital.

It is me today. It could be you tomorrow.
Please, share my post again and again till it gets to the authorities of Ridge Hospital.

Hopefully they will sit up. Hopefully they will stop treating human life like statistics. Hopefully, they will understand that every patient is a person, a wife, a husband, a mother, a father, a brother, a sister, a son, a daughter, a cousin, a grandmother and a father that is dearly beloved by someone.

Thank you.

It’s been 6 years, no justice.

Director of Ghana Institute of Languages (GIL) Dr Emmanuel Kobina Kuto heartbreaking story about medical negligence at Ridge Hospital

[Ekow @henry_tmens]

😂😂😂

[Empire ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @Empire1872]

Best one yet. Lost it when Strachan turns up 😂😂😂😂

[Ekow @henry_tmens]

Omar Berrada chose to be interviewed and spoke about how united was prepared for the summer transfer window, yet two of their targets have been snatched from under them

[John Bennett @JohnBennettBBC]

Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t think Cape Verde’s an expansion story.

They qualified above Cameroon, Africa’s most successful World Cup team… They would probably have qualified anyway.

This is about a football Federation that has been able to build success on and off the pitch.

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Ronaldo can't catch a break.
Daniel Thomas really asked if Portugal won the game because he was subbed

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This is as racist as it gets

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Stephen A. Smith says where the hell the Los Angeles Lakers think they going with a bunch of white dudes:

“SOMEBODY HAD TO SAY IT. SO I’m saying it. Your three TOP PLAYERS ARE WHITE DUDES. REALLY? This ain’t golf. This ain’t baseball. Hell, it ain’t even soccer. And we got a whole bunch of brothers ON TEAM USA. WHAT Y’ALL THINK THIS IS? IT’S BASKETBALL.”

(Via @stephenasmith)

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😂😂😂😂

[Kris D. Lofton @RealKrisDLofton]

Every NBA coach next season pregame speech before they play the Lakers…

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There were vultures in the right (meghan kelly and cannae owens) spreading rumours about their divorce.
How can you be married and wanting someone else's marriage to fail?

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

Michelle Obama on the portrait with Obama.

Q: You are in the foreground. You are not in the background.

Michelle: That's because I married a man who isn't threatened by having a smart challenging partner. And that's another way to be a man. To lead and co-lead at the same time. That's a testament to the way my husband was raised and how he sees the world.

[Ekow @henry_tmens]

See how an atrocious VAR decision will probably cost Nagelsmann his job and has definitely cost Germany's progression into the next round.

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I've not seen Brazilian attempt a single dribble

[Black @LilithBlack25]

There's one one reason why Leopold II isn't considered as evil as Hitler

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This man has been hating on Ronaldo from Madrid days. He'll not miss an opportunity that presents itself

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.@AleMorenoESPN said this after Portugal’s match against DR Congo. Was he right? 😮

[Ekow @henry_tmens]

Souness, Keane and now Seedorf have said similar things about Rice.
At some point people will have to accept these aren't bitter old men who hate on the guy but former world class players who see that Rice is yet to reach that level

[Daniel Abrahams @DanAbrahams77]

“I think Declan Rice is too timid…I think it’s his character”

Former Dutch international footballer, Clarence Seedorf, has honest words about the Arsenal and England midfielder.

I have no interest in Declan Rice, but I am absolutely interested in behaviour change. Can someone go from timid to brave? From cautious to courageous? From fearful actions to free actions?

In any given performance moment, people can execute actions and behaviours with energy-back (avoidance) rather than energy-forward (approach) due to something called goal conflict.

They want to succeed but they don’t want to make a mistake. I’ll write that again because it’s an important relationship to understand - they want to succeed but they don’t want to make a mistake.

Simple!

But this simplicity can annihilate ability. Great players can look very poor. Great people can look highly incompetent. Awareness, understanding, decision-making, and action-execution all suffer.

The cure?

Attention - a focus of attention directed towards what is wanted (rather than on what is not wanted).

Intensity - a strong engagement with external information and cues rather than an internal engagement on thoughts, emotions, and feelings

Intent - a commitment to executing actions with an energy-forward high intent - purposeful, positive, proactive behaviours.

This requires practice during performance moments. That difficult conversation- attention, intensity, intent. That intimidating pitch for new business - attention, intensity, intent. Entering a room filled with strangers - attention, intensity, intent. That all-important game of football - attention, intensity, intent. Practice, practice, practice…

That is how you deal with goal conflict. That is how you move towards what you want. That is how you change behaviour.

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𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 (𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭) 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤, 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐞, 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠.

𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐬. 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐭!

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