Mrs Bukola Omolewa, MSN, RN- A registered nurse in the US displaying her memoir
The accomplishment of the biographer, Bukola Omolewa, Nee Olayinka, brings to mind the famous line of poetry from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 5- spoken by Malvolio in a prank letter rendered thus: “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
The line highlights different ways people achieve greatness, either through determination to make an impact, through unexpected opportunities, or through the inheritance of a huge fortune.
The autobiography titled Memoir of a Registered Nurse: Connecting the Dots, by Bukola Omolewa, MSN, RN, details the profession she entered at age 46.
The masterful literature has no doubt succeeded in preserving for posterity how the autobiographer’s determination enabled her to surmount circumstances others might describe as obstacles. She turned the seemingly insurmountable obstacles into a staircase/ladder and climbed to achieve self-actualisation.
What is evident throughout the pages of the memoir are intentions that are backed by actions which culminated in a gradual growth and development throughout all the phases of human endeavors in spite of the nuances peculiar to all humans at each stage of growth in one’s life course.
Readers are taken through the biographer’s journey of life right from infancy, as a baby, a toddler, to a pupil. Also, as a teenager and a spinster, up to her status as a wife, to motherhood and until becoming a grandmother and a certified professional nurse at her golden jubilee.
Gratifying is the aspect of a nursing mother who enrolled in an institution where her son was an undergraduate while mum was pursuing a course to lay the foundation to becoming a registered nurse in God’s own country, the USA.
These exposures later in life were of great benefit. They helped the biographer become an overcomer and a goal-getter, in spite of the vicissitudes of life. A cursory observation of her life’s account is inundated with overwhelming evidence of divine providence.
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Baby Bukola’s first birthday was disrupted by the first military coup d’etat, the forceful takeover of a democratic government by members of the Nigerian armed forces.
Unmistakable in the book is young Bukola’s picture as a toddler. She posed with dad and mum when celebrating her birthday as a two-year-old.
Her secondary education at Ilesha Grammar School offered a learning curve which culminated in her returning to Saint Anne’s School, Molete, Ibadan, (The first female secondary school in Nigeria) to rewrite her West Africa Examination Council, WASC, Ordinary Level, O/L. The successful outcome from the exam facilitated her admission to the Polytechnic Ibadan, where she studied for the Higher School Certificate, HSC, in preparation for the university education.
Youthful exuberance was featured at this stage of her growth as Bukola and her colleagues at the Polytechnic were the heart and soul of classic disco parties in the ancient city of Ibadan. At this stage, the dancing talents had been further honed so much that Bukola and her friends were often the cynosure of all eyes at parties in the city.
The 110-page biography is divided into eleven chapters. The content is arranged in chronological order. There were few fortuitous occurrences and her reaction to those occurrences quietly forming the dots which crystallized about three decades later
An early dot as to the passion that would later be instrumental to Bukola’s self-actualization and occupational career occurred when she was in preschool. It was the final hour of her maternal great grandfather, famous for dancing but then, old age was taking its toll.
She recounts her presence during the last support to preserve the life of the 105-year-old maternal great-grandfather. She recalls witnessing the sharp decline in the breathing of the old man, which in quick succession led to shallow breathing. This condition made the great- grandchild, Bukola, with her juvenile mind, wondered why something couldn’t be done to remove the distress great grandpa was experiencing.
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Her narration; “He was so weak after using the toilet that we had to help him back to the bed. He then began to sweat profusely, went silent and his breathing became shallow” Rightly, that scenario triggered a thought she expresses thus, “I felt completely helpless standing there and wishing I had the skill of a nurse so I could do something for him”.
Then her aunty, a nurse-midwife, began caring for the fresh, lifeless body, putting cotton wool in the right points on the old man’s body.
Her aunty noticed the rapt attention and the emotions oozing out from young Bukola and asked, “Is nursing something you would like to do?” Bukola shrugged off the question. The memoir relates thus, “Despite the deep wish I’d just had, I just smiled and said, ‘Not at all ‘” – The first dot crystallised.
NYSC CHALLENGES AND INFORMAL GROOMING FOR MOTHERHOOD
On graduation from Nigeria’s premier University of Ibadan, Bukola was posted to Kaduna State for the mandatory national youth service, under the auspices of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC.
As provident had it, one of her aunties lived in Kaduna with her nuclear family. Shortly after arrival and having been saddled with responsibilities at the NYSC as a platoon leader, Bukola witnessed her auntie’s safe delivery of her new baby. A brand-new cousin of hers, she had to care for when her aunty was hospitalized. (The second dot crystalized).
JOB HUNTING & COURTSHIP
Bukola, now a brand-new university graduate and having earned her discharged certificate from NYSC, had few jobs preferences apart from the primary occupation the university education prepared her for. She yearned for a career as member of the cabin crew of an airline. Report of an air crash about that time, scuttled that ambition. She thereafter nursed the idea of a career in the banking industry.
A seemingly idle chatting among spinsters figuring out what the future holds, when and how to build their homes as a wife and a career job to pursue, dovetail to the prospect of courtship with a man never known or met before.
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Bukola’s bosom friend suggested her own brother’s friend, based in the U S as a good suitor. Bukola agreed to give the conjecture a trial. That was the genesis of Mr Tayo Omolewa coming into the life of Bukola Olayinka. This fascinating 1990s romance across the Atlantic is thoroughly detailed in the memoir. Succinctly put, the entire account of that phase reflects divine providence.
The courtship culminated into marriage. Waiting for necessary immigration papers to be impeccably arranged started. The bride got immersed in her banking job which she enjoyed with all its demands. Baby arrived. Combining her bank job with nursing a baby and as a single parent, she found it very stressful. But the bonding in her family enabled her to enjoy support from her biological family and her in-laws. (The third dot crystallisation of nursing would be the time when her grandmother visited her to care for her newborn; Bukola ended up caring for both her baby and her grandmother)
At another landmark in life and in the divinely ordained career, the prospect of an all-encompassing documentary in the form of a motion picture may be a reality.
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