Popular Twitter doctor, Aproko Doctor has opened up on his health battle with brain tumor.
Aproko Doctor revealed that for the past two to three weeks, he has been fighting for his life.
He disclosed that on the 5th of December, 2022, he was diagnosed with brain tumor, which has left him partially blind. According to him, he went blind in one eye due to the tumor.
Speaking in the video, he said, “One thing to understand is that health issues can happen to you regardless of who you are including me.
“For the past three weeks or two weeks, I have been fighting for my life. Some of you have no idea. It happened that I was diagnosed with Craniopharyngioma which is a brain tumour and I had no idea I would be sharing my story”.
“Here I am sitting on this seat sharing my own story about how I had a tumour in my brain. It was so bad that I couldn’t read out of my phone anymore to the point where this eye, I couldn’t read with it and it was also closing. They said it is a Craniopharyngioma and we need to do surgery to remove it.”
Aproko Doctor captioned the emotional video with,
“Throughout December of 2022, I was fighting for my life. I went blind in one eye on the 3rd of December 2022 and on the 5th, I was diagnosed with a brain tumour.
Today I stand here before you to share my story. It has been a long road to recovery but each day is better than the last”
Aproko Doctor narrates how he was accosted by SARS in Lagos
Years back, Aproko Doctor had revealed his ordeal with operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Mile 2, Lagos State.
He tweeted: “SARS almost picked me today o I was at Mile 2 about to pick a bike to Costain when one man just walked up to me Hello, who are you and may I know what do you do? My heart rate increased. My turn has finally come Another one materialised from nowhere with one scraggy ID card.”
He tweeted: “SARS almost picked me today o I was at Mile 2 about to pick a bike to Costain when one man just walked up to me Hello, who are you and may I know what do you do? My heart rate increased. My turn has finally come Another one materialised from nowhere with one scraggy ID card.”
He added: “They pointed to one small white bus, that I should enter so we could discuss further Me: I am a medical doctor and I have an emergency right now! I had to lie “Identify yourself then” I took out my ID card and showed them He gave the other signal and said you can go.”
He concluded his narration, writing: “So if you like have tattoo, have a low cut or dada, they can just walk up to you and force you to enter an unmarked vehicle Why? What sort of policing is that?”
