Saturday January 3rd, 2004
Surprise. Alex is back. Apparently he wasn’t really welcome at the funeral.. and even more.. It happened a day late, so he didn’t need to rush out there as he had isnsisted. They made him sleep on the ground, and generally ignored him. He isn’t drunk though.. so that is a plus. He did find out more about what happened to his sister though, and it is pretty horrible. She was hemoraging vaginally, or uterinely (is that a word?) for a few days before Christmas, but her uncle (where she was living in A’mong M’bang) didn’t want to take time away from the Christmas masses and other religious events to take her to the hospital, so they waited until after Christmas. When they finally took her, it was too late, and she apparently had a massive bleeding session, and died less than a half hour of getting to the hospital. My thoughts? One of three things probably happened. One, the least likely in my very unprofessional opinion, is that she had some biological malfunction upon reaching puberty. Two, she had an abortion that was badly done, and bled to death. Three, she was raped, and had been damaged in the process, and then bled to death… or any combination of the three. Not pretty thoughts, but hard to ignore. The tragic thing is that Alex attributed it to some family curse, and left it at that. I didn’t chose to bring up my thoughts on the subject as I don’t feel it is my place, or that it would help in any way… but damn.
wow. would not take her to the hospital. what a pig. i wonder how i will respond to the obvious misogynism... i guess we'll see in a couple of weeks. be forewarned: this time, if some dude punches me in the face (hotel proprietor or otherwise) i'm punching him right back...and not in the face.
Posted by: gwinn at February 20, 2004 01:03 AMI really appreciate blogs like this one becuase it is insightful and helps me communicate with others.
thanks.