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Tatenda Tanyanyiwa

Bongani Ndlovu, Showbiz Correspondent
AFTER spending two weeks in hospital last year and having a brush with death, forgotten gospel musician Tatenda Tanyanyiwa has penned a book chronicling her sickness and healing.

Titled, Tate’s Healing Journey, the book will be launched today at 5PM at Holiday Inn Bulawayo, where Tate, as Tanyanyiwa is known, will do a book signing and sell copies for $10. People might remember Tate for her debut album that was released in 2011, Love Song for You — which was a dedication to the Almighty.

Tate said she was happy to be back up after having been down as she was suffering from deep vein thrombosis, a condition she was diagnosed with last year. It is an accumulation of blood clots in the veins affecting the lower extremities such as the legs and arms.

“The dangerous thing with this blood clot is that if it broke off, I could possibly suffer from a heart attack or pulmonary embolism which is a blood clot in the lungs and I could drop dead instantly. So the two weeks I was in hospital was to contain that blood clot from moving.

“I was put on bed rest and couldn’t do anything as they were monitoring the condition,” said Tate.

Tate said the book contains details of how she dealt with the condition and her healing journey after hospital.

“In the book towards the end, I put a snippet of the doctor’s report as a testimony that I’m completely healed and the thrombosis has cleared. I wish I’d met someone suffering from the same condition at the time when I was in hospital as some of the time, I’d feel like I was all alone.”

“All this has been captured in the book as I thank God for seeing me through that experience. I want to reach out to anyone who’s sick or suffered from oppression or fear and anyone who’s desperate for an answer or breakthrough from God,” said Tate.

This is not the first time that Tate has been taken ill ever since she launched her career in 2011. In 2012 when she relocated to Bulawayo from Harare, she was involved in a car accident that took her a year to recover.