AN URGENT APPEAL TO THE X COMMUNITY: Help My Sister Marycynthia Win Her Battle Against Lymphoma
This is the part of life that nothing prepares you for. One day you are healthy, strong, and full of dreams; the next, everything changes because of a few signs on your body. My sister, Marycynthia, and I are just two young women trying to find our way in the world. I am a 25 year old graduate, and she is a 23 year old student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN). Marycynthia has always been the brilliant one, my parents rarely had to pay her school fees because she constantly won scholarships. Even from her hospital bed, she was recently awarded another scholarship sponsored by NNPC. She was supposed to resume this January as a 400-level Law student, but this illness has already taken two years of her life. I am reaching out to ask for financial assistance for her treatment. For those who know the medical reality, chemotherapy alone is often not a permanent solution for advanced-stage cancer. She was being managed by the Haematology department at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) before the NARD strike worsened our situation. Now, her best chance at survival is a Bone Marrow Transplant. Despite having anemia, low neutrophil and platelet counts, her kidney and liver functions remain stable. This shows that while her situation is critical, it is not hopeless.
We have been recommended to a hospital in Benin. The cost for the transplant is ₦45,000,000. We don't know for sure how many courses of chemotherapy she is going to receive, scans (PET, CT, ultrasound), concentrated platelets, neutropenia care, transfusions, and private hospital bills, we summed a total of ₦62,000,000 ($44,000).
At first, I felt like my world was crashing. The amount is overwhelming. But thanks to the support of friends and kind-hearted strangers, we have raised ₦18,400,000 ($12,900) so far, which allowed her to begin chemotherapy.
No one can watch their loved one waste away without doing everything possible. I am here again soliciting your support. Balancing her care and fundraising has not been easy for me, I need your help. We still need roughly ₦44,000,000 ($31,780) for the bone marrow transplant.
From one Nigerian to another, one African to another, and one human to another: please help my sister survive Lymphoma. It is treatable if the right care is given.
Help Marycynthia survive cancer!
Tell someone about Marycynthia today!
Keep Marycynthia in your thoughts and prayers!
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Me and my guys recreated our induction picture that we took in 2015, that’s 11 years ago! Wow! We thank God!
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If I may say something about Pastor Kingsley Okonkwo getting a tattoo:
First, I do not think tattoos can be biblically declared a sin. Many are quoting Leviticus 19, yet that same chapter also says:
“Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed.”
“Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.”
We cannot selectively obey the Law if we choose to appeal to it.
We can only obey all of the law at all times. We can't obey all at select times, or some at all times.
The penalty for that is sin. And Christ paid it when He hung on the tree, dead, giving us liberty from this law.
So, if tattoos are condemned on this basis, then many pastors with afros stand guilty, since the same chapter says:
“Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
Any pastor who has worn jeans and a T-shirt also stands judged.
I am saying we really can't judge using this basis.
So how should we view Pastor Kingsley getting a tattoo?
Recall my opinion on why Pastor Adeboye would not drink alcohol, even though Scripture does not call it sin unless it leads to drunkenness.
Culture and the conscience of weaker believers restrain certain liberties, especially for ministers.
That is what is at play here.
Something being lawful does not make it expedient.
Paul had the right, as an apostle, to be financially supported by the church, yet he waived that right for the sake of the gospel.
“I have made no use of any of these rights… that I may present the gospel free of charge.” (1 Corinthians 9:12–18)
Paul also said that if eating meat would wound a brother’s conscience, he would never eat meat again, for the sake of the one Christ died for.
“Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat.” (1 Corinthians 8:13)
The tattoo issue has gone viral and drawn mixed reactions.
In the end, I do not think it advances the gospel in any way.
God forbid that I dictate how another man should live.
However, publicly glamourising the tattoo by posting the whole process only intensified an already volatile situation.
This is my opinion. I may be wrong.
The body of Christ has many liberties, but we must learn to bear the burden of not expressing them all—
not because they are forbidden, but because of the gospel.
In Western cultures this may not be controversial, but in ours, while not sinful, it is contentious for clergy.
Personally, I would rather bear the burden of not getting a beloved tattoo if it helps the sheep of the Lord and preserves the image of His Church, both of which Christ suffered to purchase.
I will gladly suffer that restraint with Him. Afterall, the Bible says:
“For it has been granted to you not only to believe in Christ, but also to suffer for His sake.” (Philippians 1:29)
And here’s to me on the completion of my degree🎓🥂
Grateful to God🙏
Bachelor of Aquaculture and Fisheries Management.
B.Aqfm (Second class upper division)
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With humility and faith, we appeal once more for your support to help give our beloved mum another fighting chance, as we continue to trust God for a miracle.
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