Young Entrepreneur Happy To Be Back At Work
As you will have read in the Ill Young Entrepreneur Makes A Confession and Michael Is Feeling Much Better posts, I made a return to the UK from Ghana much earlier than expected.
I really don’t want to bore everyone with my DRAMATIC, LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE – so just to keep it short, I spent 5 days in a hospital in Ghana (not nice) before managing to get on a flight and return to the UK last Monday. When I got back to the UK I spent a further 4 days in Hospital – before being released with a whole medicine chest of various medicines that I must take for the next 7 days.
What you need to know is that I am feeling much better now, sitting up in bed with my laptop, eating English food, watching English TV and doing what I love most, working on my websites!
Many people helped me in Ghana and here in the UK (More people than I could ever mention here) but I would in particular like to acknowledge the following:
Lydia – my private “nurse” in Ghana. Actually Lydia is not a nurse, she was the mother of one of Alisters friends. In Ghana there is not that common to have full time nursing staff, who check on you, attend to your needs. It is no exaggeration to say, I do not know what I would have done if I had not had Lydia to look after me
Secondly – to all the crew on the British Airways Flight BA0078 and in particular Steve – the Cabin Service Director. Steve even rang up 36 hrs after I got back to the UK to check on me. To be fair to BA, I really was not fit to fly – but things had got so desperate in Ghana and I was not getting any better, so somehow I had to get back to the UK. Steve organised a paramedic to come to come onboard and attend to me when we touched down at London Heathrow.
I really could go on and on – but I will not, I always knew my trip to Ghana could be life changing, but really I never knew it would be to this extent. I am a fit, healthy young man – and yes I had a painful time in Ghana – but now I am over the worst and recovering well. I am mindful that for many people PAIN is a constant thing, something that never leaves them. I now have a totally new understanding for those people and what they have to go through – and to borrow something from Dean Hunts recent post : Michael Dunlop Is A Wimp in comparison!
If I may I would like to finish here by acknowledging my real reason for being in Ghana – and that was for the School Children. I cannot really explain it, but these kids touched me in a way I cannot adequately express. In the short time I was there, these children became My Heroes. Below are some more photographs from the school.
These school children are unlike any other school children I have come across – and certainly very different from me. They all seem very happy to be at school. I have never ever seen happier school children and my regret is that I did not get to spend more time with them. In part of course, the reason they are so happy is that they are the “lucky ones” – the children who are receiving an education and as so often the case, it is EDUCATION that is the route out of poverty for these people.
I really hope I will be able to return to Ghana in the near future
