Zia Bett, a Kenyan businesswoman and the spouse of the musician Nyashinski Zipporah Bett, has come up to discuss her grieving process for her late sister Janet Bett.
Zia, who lost her sister two years ago, has mustered the strength to share a few details about the time leading up to her death. She claims that God had indicated to her in her dreams that her sister would not survive.
Bett added that God was preparing her for the loss through the dream.
“A week before Janet passed, God revealed to me that Janet is going to pass. I usually get spoken to in dreams, so God revealed to me that she was not going to make it,” Bett disclosed.
She admitted that she had mentally prepared herself for the loss to the extent that even if she were still alive, she would still be mourned.
“I remember feeling so guilty for mourning her when she was still alive. I remember going to the gym, and broke down, and then I asked myself why I was crying yet she was still alive. A week later, she passed,” she recalled.
Bett, who lost her sister to aplastic anemia, recalled the days when Janet was in good condition and said the sickness caught her by surprise because she thought Janet to be one of the healthiest individuals she had ever known.
“For as long as I knew Janet, she was super healthy. She was always on one diet or another. She never went to hospitals, she had a healthy pregnancy. But all of a sudden she started feeling weak. This was around the time Covid happened,” she narrated.
The mother of two continued by saying that at a time when Covid was at its worst, she minimized her sister’s illness by believing it was only a virus that could be treated.
She used to tell me she wasn’t feeling well at the time, and I assumed it was probably covid. However, after some tests, she was found to have aplastic anemia. And we had no idea what this was at this time. She needed blood transfusions all the time now, so things got a little problematic for the family,” she added.
She continued to open up, describing how difficult it was for her and her family because they had to continually look for financial assistance to pay for her good medical care.
“It was a really trying time for the family because we had to do fundraisers and everybody had to do their best to help her. She had to go to India, and there she had to get a bone marrow transplant from one of her siblings in order to have a chance at living meaning it had to be a 100% match,” she added.
