C-Well inspired by son’s illness to pen ‘Owe Dem’

Fast-rising recording artiste C-Well is currently promoting his new single, titled ' Owe Dem'.

The song was inspired by his son, who miraculously survived a life- and -death surgery that left his organs outside his body for days. C-Well's son was born in 2015 with a rare medical condition known as congenital diaphragmatic hernia, which is a birth defect of the diaphragm. This causes an opening or hernia that allows the stomach and intestines to move into the chest cavity and crowd the heart and lungs. This crowding can lead to underdevelopment of the lungs (pulmonary hypoplasia), potentially resulting in life-threatening breathing difficulties that are apparent from birth.

Doctors had advised the family that there was a possibility that the child could have been born with this rare disease and suggested that the family should abort the child. But with faith, the baby came to term. However, after birth, C-Well's son was rushed to surgery which lasted for six hours to close the hole in his diaphragm. After surgery, the baby had to be hospitalised for six months with some of his organs out but as the swelling subsided, doctors gradually put them in.

"Every day me, the family, and members of the church, we were in that hospital crying and praying for his survival," said C-Well, adding that there were many sleepless nights and scary calls from the nurses telling them to come quickly to the hospital. But his son pulled through and is doing well.

"There was another child in the same hospital who was born around the same time with the same condition and that child, unfortunately, didn't make it," said C-Well. "God alone could have allowed my child to be alive and well now seven years later. That's why in the song mi seh, ' Dem seh mi owe dem, but mi nuh pay dem nuh mind.' The only person in this world mi owe ah God, and nuh 'mount ah money can't pay him back!"