...On the night of 19th when my breasts became hard and sore to touch, the nurses brought me hot water bottles rather than my baby. I should have known. ...Birdman was apparently away to Very Big City with our baby. Every SMS update sent to me about her after 16th Jan was fake. I was a donkey eating at his trough. I should have known. ...Visitors who came to see me in the hospital did not look me straight in the eye. I should have known. ...My mother sounded reluctant every time I asked her on a timeline on when my stitches would be cut and I could travel to Very Big City. I should have known. ...I grieved at how many pricks and tubes were affixed to my little baby while she lay cold and unfeeling at the bottom of an earth pit fatigued from all the effort she put into staying alive. I should have known. ...Family dropped clues on how oxygen deprivation could affect the brain. I spelt it out for them. I told them that Lola was my daughter even if she came out r-e-t-a-r-d-e-d from the o...
You go girl!
ReplyDeleteAfter reading your last post about how you failed your unit exams but in the end would pull out ahead, I would say perhaps my dear that is exactly what you needed.
ReplyDeleteCheers to throwing arithmatic out the window!
That's right sista!
ReplyDeleteyou are so right!
ReplyDeleteI'm also too tired of writing down stuff, dots over calendar date... who cares!
that has been my mood lately. However, I am cycling for this IUI and today at the u/s the lady asked me when was the first day of my cycle and I couldn't tell! I had to calculate back to about three days before I was told to start the medication.. it was hilarious.
My nephew (age 7) said to my daughter (age 6) the other day, "Everything is math. If you know math you can do or make anything."
ReplyDeleteI just chuckled. HA! If he only knew. To hell with the math...what day did you say it was?
i hear you, good luck!
ReplyDeleteNothing wrong with that.
ReplyDeleteGood luck!