Two weeks after a Lagos High Court temporarily stopped the coroner's inquest into the death of her son, Chimamanda Adichie has broken her silence. And she isn't holding back.

In a statement posted to her social media accounts on Saturday, the 48-year-old author of "Purple Hibiscus" said she wakes up every single day with her heart racing. She made public a letter dated 16 April, explaining that staying silent about what she calls Euracare's wrongdoing would mean enabling it.

"I wake up every single morning with my heart racing. Did this really happen? My precious son, Nkanu Nnamdi. My KanKan, my diokpala."

Nkanu Adichie-Esege died on 7 January at Euracare Multi-Specialist Hospital in Victoria Island, Lagos. He was five years old. The hospital itself first applied for an inquest in January, saying the death was unexpected and an inquest was in their interest because of "rumours of negligence."

But on 30 May, Justice A. O. Opesanwo of the Lagos State High Court granted an ex parte application by Eurapharma Care Services Nigeria Limited — the operators of Euracare — to temporarily halt the inquest. An ex parte application means only one side (the hospital) was heard before the order was given.

Adichie says the hospital has "delayed, confused and obscured the process at every turn" since the inquest began. Now, she alleges, Euracare is asking the High Court to stop it entirely.

"If this is how Euracare manages a crisis, it's little wonder it mismanaged our precious son's care. Most egregiously, Euracare is now asking a High Court to stop the inquest."

She described an inquest as a public judicial inquiry designed to establish the circumstances surrounding a death — not a trial or a claim for damages, but "simply a search for the truth."

"If Euracare cares about the truth, then why create delays and distractions and now, finally, try to stop an inquest?"

Adichie also revealed that a person high up in the hospital ownership told a relative: "I admire and respect Chimamanda so much that I don't want her to go to court because her name may be dragged in the mud and bad things may be said about her since court cases are about winning and anybody would do anything to win."

She called that message manipulative and implicitly threatening. But she said it won't work.

"But this threatener doesn't know how fiercely we love our child. They can drag all they wish in the mud, but our quest for justice will continue."

She ended her statement thanking well-wishers from around the world and asking for continued prayers: "This weight is too heavy."

The case has drawn widespread attention, both because of Adichie's global fame as a writer and because of the questions it raises about medical accountability in Nigeria. The inquest, if it resumes, would be a rare public examination of a private hospital's role in a patient's death.

For now, the next move belongs to the court. The hospital's application to permanently stop the inquest is pending. Adichie and her family are waiting — and fighting.