A girl called coco. ❤️

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@BlackG_damii My babyy!😚❤️

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💋!

[Anjolaoluwa🫆 @anjie_el]

Last day as an intern 🤭❤️

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@anjie_el The prettiest intern!💋

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@iamprincessIK CONGRATULATIONS bae!🥳❤️

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@newdavd Well, your words, not mine

[locumRN♨️ @orezieml]

"Are you seeing anyone?"

Patients!!, I'm seeing patients

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@BlackG_damii Lethalll

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Category: Face card!🫦

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@BlackG_damii Ykb!!!😝🤎

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@BlackG_damii You so fineeeeee😍😍

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@BlackG_damii Girlllll😍

[Amiola💕 @BlackG_damii]

I looked good, so…🤭

[Samuel Joshua @JoshuaSamuell]

NMCN release our certificate!!!

[T!WA🥹🇬🇧™️ @nobod3yyyy]

I was 21. NYSC posting: a village clinic in Osun. No light. No water. Just me, a matron in her 60s, and women who walked 3 hours for antenatal.

Day 1, a 16 year old girl came in bleeding and pregnant. Her 40-year old husband said, “It’s normal. First baby always hard.”

Matron took one look at me and said, “Corper, you go learn today.”

We had no ultrasound or blood bank. Just gloves, faith, and a torchlight I held with my mouth while Matron’s hands disappeared inside that child.

For 6 hours we fought. The girl was slipping. Matron prayed in Igala and English. I cried, thinking, “This is why I wanted to japa.” 😂

Then the baby’s cry came; a small, angry boy, alive. The 14-year-old whispered, “Aunty, thank you for not running.” 😭

Covered in blood and sweat, Matron said: “You think this work na for money? This work na for the girls who don’t know their own worth yet. You stay. You fight. You stubborn. Because if we no stubborn, who go be stubborn for them?”

That was 5 years ago.

Today I’m a doctor in Lagos with a clinic in Abule Egba. Every girl who comes in with “normal period pain” that’s been killing her for years reminds me of that torchlight and Matron’s hands. I get stubborn.

I’ve diagnosed 47 cases of advanced PID this year, done 12 fibroid surgeries, and caught 3 girls early before their wombs got damaged.

Ladies, my message is simple:
1. “Normal” pain that stops your school, work, or life? It’s NOT normal.
2. Your body is not “village people.” It’s biology. Test it. Scan it. Know it.
3. Be stubborn about your health. The world will call you dramatic. Be dramatic and alive.

That matron died 2 years ago, but her stubbornness lives in every girl I refuse to let die quietly.

[Rosetina Degen 🚢🎒 @rosetina_degen9]

it annoys me when people graduate from schools and refuse to leave, like why are you still at every party?

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@_msfayy Twinnn

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@_msfayy You guys, Fayy is too beautiful for this world 😭❤️

[Marvis⚕️💫 @phramezy]

Nobody:

Medical students the night before an exam: