Celebrated actress, Binta Ayo Mogaji, has spoken about a very trying period of her marrital and medical life.
She says she lives with one fallopian tube because one was removed around the time she was giving birth to her only child.
She was 40 at the time and the fallopian tube was ruptured when she had her first pregnancy which was ectopic and had to be evacuated in order to save her life.
In a podcast with Abiola Adebayo, also an actress, she also narrates the roles played by her colleagues and a late journalist and writer, Eddie Aderinokun, during the difficult period.
She notes: “There was this lawyer who wanted to marry me because he had been in a marriage for 14 years and they never had a child. He took me to his mum and I was looking for a child that period. Our mothers were introduced and I got pregnant.
“Unfortunately, the pregnancy was ectopic. It stayed right inside the fallopian tube and LUTH was on strike at that time. So, by the time we realised what was happening, they took me to seven hospitals and the late Uncle Eddie Aderinokun was the one who gave me a note to the hospital where they admitted me.
“They didn’t even want to admit me. The doctor said he wasn’t sure if I could survive till tomorrow and I said “Do you believe in God? Even if you do not believe in God, believe in me because I believe in God. We did not have an agreement that I was going to die like this.’ They did the operation and it took them seven to nine hours the following day.
“Fortunately or unfortunately, the ectopic pregnancy ruptured before they could do anything and it ruptured my appendix, so they had to remove one fallopian tube. I am living with one and I had my child through natural birth with that one I have left.”
