Edgar Obare’s close brush with death leaves him scared for his dear life!
Edgar Obare popular known as the tea master or rather his teaness this past weekend almost lost his life to what appears to be an allergy reaction.
As seen on his posts shared on Instagram, the blogger says he went to meet a friend at one of his favorite restaurants, Art Cafe; only to end up at the Nairobi hospital.
Well, it all started after Mr Obare ordered prawns tagliatelle which he by the way enjoyed; before everything started going south. Through his page, the journalist narrated his story saying;
So yesterday on my day off I was catching up and having lunch with an old friend at @artcaffekenya Capital Centre, service was very slow there was like only one waiter servicing the upstairs tables. I ordered the prawns tagliatelle. The food came and first bite it was quite delicious, so we are laughing and exchanging stories over the next hour.
The death experience
However Edgar did not get a chance to enjoy his meal go down; and this is because as soon as he finished his meal, the the allergy reaction kicked in immediately! The blogger says at some point, he was unable to breathe and this being a bad sign, all he could think of is getting some water to drink.
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I finish my meal and suddenly I feel like I have a scratchy throat, then I am tearing up. Now I am struggling to breathe as my nose is blocked and throat is closing up, I have hives all over my neck and it’s itchy. I stand up to go downstairs to the counter to get some water,
Edgar went on to add that;
like I said service was horrible, no waiters in sight. The bar guy asked if I am okay, I said NO and I asked for a bottle of water then went outside on the balcony for some fresh air for like 2 min. It didn’t help, I go to the bathroom and see my face in the mirror is all swollen and my eyes are bloodshot red.
In need of medical attention
After realizing the water he had taken from the ‘bar guy’ was not working; the journalist decided to look at himself on the mirror – but the image he saw left him rushing for some medical attention.
I immediately knew I need a hospital, I call my friend we go to the counter and I ask for my bill and pay. All this time the staff is just staring at me, we rush out the door trying to figure out the nearest hospital, we went to Aga khan at Capital Centre and found it was already closed at 4pm, why do hospitals honestly close. It was 4.30pm so we rushed into Naivas to a chemist. From our googling it seems I was having an extreme allergy reaction, they gave me two antihistamine tablets I put under my tongue and advised I should go to a hospital immediately.
If not for the Nairobi Hospital, bloggers from most tabloids would not be reporting a different story on Edgar; and trust me his following wouldn’t have had it easy.
They googled for us and found Nairobi hospital was close by in the same mall actually and still open. I got injections of chlorpheniramine, hydrocortisone and cotipred and spent the next two hours in a hospital bed. Doctor said I was having an anaphylactic shock and I came very close. Thank you to that Naivas chemist and Nairobi Hospital for saving me. Contd in comments….
