By Victoria Ige
Actress Caroline Johnson, who was down with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (Cancer of the blood), and received overwhelming support before, during and after her operation in India, has died.
The mother of three, who acted as Uju in popular Christian soap ‘Heaven’s Gate’, passed on at 5:30PM yesterday (Wednesday December 16), after suffering a relapse. Uju,Caroline Johnson,
Her husband Tony told NET early this morning that his wife was ‘very okay’ until last Saturday when she ‘suddenly took ill’.
”It started again on Saturday. By Sunday she was unconscious. We had taken her to the hospital (St Mary’s hospital in Omole, Lagos) where she was transfused and revived”
”She was bleeding from her mouth and nose and under the skin” Mr Johnson told NET.
Caroline was placed on artificial Oxygen.
By Tuesday she got really better, her husband says. ”They were planning to discharge her on Thursday (today), and i even told her i’ll get her a wheelchair so we can go to the Redemption Camp”.
”Unfortunately, she broke down again on Wednesday morning”.
”She was tired”, Tony says, telling NET that her last statement was: ”I have finished the Book”.
Before leaving for India, Caroline Johnson went through endless chemotherapy and blood transfusions at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH).
Her illness was diagnosed in October 2008 – she was at the time, five months pregnant with her third child (whom she gave birth to, prematurely, on December 17, 2008).
She is survived by her husband Tony (they were married for seven years), and their three kids: Omolayo, Imisioluwa and Oluwatise (who clocks 1 today)
The late Caroline attended Ifako International Secondary School in Lagos and studied Mass Communication at Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Ogun State.
12 comments
What a great loss? I pray God gives the family the strenght to endure, though, it is painful but God understands why it happened and at the time it occurred.
May God protect the family she lef behind..
RIP..
Rest In Peace………we love you but the most high loves you most…….
parying for the family i hope them the best in life sad to hear
I was really shocked whe i heard the sad news, but God gives and he takes, i pray that her family will have the strength to bear her absence.
It saddened my heart to see young and vibrant people dying too sad.Ever since i learnt of her ailment,i felt bad.What a big loss?I pray that God will strengthen the family.May her gentle soul rest in peace.
And Now… 1Co 15:55 "O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?"
The verdict – Caroline, You won!!!
SHALOM
Am very sorry for the losted,of your wife and mother.May God give you all the heart to bear the lost.AMEN
"But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive [and] remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words".
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
May her soul rest in perfect peace
I pray that God gives the family the fortitude the bear the loss. Rest in Peace Caroline Johnson.
May heaven acept your soul.AMEN.
rest in the bossom of the lord, amen