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Do Not Close Your Eyes Analysis

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Synopsis of DO NOT CLOSE YOUR EYES by Benjamin Kumi Anim alongside Paa Kofi Botchwey

What is it like to have brain surgery? How would you feel if a doctor told you there’s a 2-year-old clot of blood, 5.5cm in size, sleeping nonchalantly in the cubicle of your noble brain right now? What if they told you that it’d cost you $50,000 to treat it? What would you do? Who would you go to? And do you know that you are at risk? Do you know what an aneurysm is?
Do Not Close Your Eyes offers a memorable insight into the life of a man who was supposed to die two years ago due to a giant cerebral aneurysm that had grown in his brain and the angels that saved his life. With unbelievable forthrightness and empathy, Benjamin Kumi Anim alongside Paa Kofi

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