How Joke Silva has handle her husband illness

 Joke Silva knew we had an appointment for interview. And not appointment with death.

Of course death was not in the offing but life, a celebration of life as she had just clocked 60 years of age and 40 years in the entertainment industry.

And immediately we were ushered into the living room, strutting like Arabian  princes with panache, there Joke was with her husband. While Yoruba movie on African magic, all glirtz and shine, was entertaining on a wall mounted plasma TV.

Once in a while, her husband of more than three decades would nod his head in response to some captivating scenes in the movie. Of course, he is an actor and knows a good act when he see one.

Though he was looking frail, with grey beards straggling over his lean face like a Biblical prophet, he showed no sign of someone in the media had allegedly had died several times.

He showed no sign of someone on the verge of dying. He showed no sign of someone the media was stampeding to his grave.

Still, underneath that fraity was a zest for life, a zest for living underneath that fraity was strength cemented by the bond between them.

"Sir J, are you good?" Joke would ask repeatedly, her attention reveted on him, with love writ large in her eyes, love of more than 30 years. And he would nod his head and hum a yes.

A yes? This indeed sums up the love life of Joke Silva and Olu Jacobs, two seasoned Nollywood actors who met and fell in love each other on stage while rehearsing professor Wole Soyinka's Jero's metamorphosis at the National Theater Iganmu, Lagos.  

It's sums up the enduring strength and courage the couple have displayed, even in very trying times, even when everywhere seams bleak and grim.

This indeed sums up how Silva handled her husband degenerative disease with love laced with stoicism. Even though she has been sorely pained by what her husband was going through, she has never showed it or given up.