What a crazy few days, summing up how unpredictable life is here in Nigeria, life is never dull and hardly ever goes according to plan. This last couple of days have had moments of excitement and joy followed by sadness and tiredness.
On Tuesday Aminci a friend of mine went into labour and i was involved with driving her to hospital inorder for her to have a cesarean ( something she was very scared of as no one in her family has ever had an operation before. ) A few hours later she had a baby boy, who was premature and was rushed into an incubator. Ive never seen an incubator quite like this one, little more than a glass box with tubes...the baby was tiny and was struggling to breath. Aminci was confined to bed and the baby was in another part of the hospital so she couldnt see it . Erin and I went to see the new baby and left thinking all was well. The next morning after Hausa class i got a text to say that the baby had died :( barely a day old. Lack of oxygen and limited facilities didnt help , my poor friend didn't even get to hold or feed her baby.
People here cope with death very differently,showing little emotion and the baby was buried that day in their garden. Maybe we see death so much more here life is never taken for granted and seen as the Lord's will
No comments:
Post a Comment