Adenike Oyetunde is a Lawyer, Social Media Personality, Founder of Amputee United and cancer survivor, and most importantly, an amputee who has decided to encourage others through her story. She lives to spread hope, and joy wherever she can.

Adenike who lost her limbs to cancer at the age of 20 has also added a beautiful feather to her hat as an author of the book ‘Adenike.’

She spoke with THE NEXT EDITION about a variety of issues.

TNE: The picture of you in a brown suit went viral and introduced you to people who didn’t know you before, tell us about who Adenike really is.

It became clearer to a lot of people who did not know what it was so they had a visual image to what the journey was after that picture. I am grossly optimistic, someone who loves life, someone who is sold out to problem solving, problem solving comes to me very naturally. I’m a lover of books, I try to be a reader of books as well. I like good food. I love compliments, that happens to be one of my love languages. I like good life. Adenike doesn’t like to stress herself when it comes to hair. I don’t like making my hair but every now and then I’ll go out of my way to ensure I do something about my hair. I love cleanliness. Adenike hates mosquitoes with a passion to the point that I’ll wake up in the night once I hear the sound and turn on the lights and sitting still till I find it. Adenike is a God lover, a connector of people. Adenike is joy. Adenike is hope.

TNE: Your leg was amputated because of cancer, can you share with us what type of cancer and how you dealt with finding out you had cancer to agreeing to have your leg amputated.

Well, the kind of cancer was osteogenic sarcoma and in my book, Adenike, I took my time to explain it but I’ll share some about it. It was basically osteogenic sarcoma which means cancer of the bone and it was in my leg.

Source: https://www.nextedition.com.ng/its-unreal-to-think-with-prosthetic-limb-life-becomes-normal-adenike-oyetunde