Days of My Life

Talk about daily life of a teenage girl in Iraq, and days of suffering and success. My nick name will be Sunshine..

Saturday, May 20, 2006

Emotional story ...

Hello friends , My mom published this post on her blog , it is very emotional story . Stories like this makes me more determined to help the people in the villages , because they do need help.

Hello
Last day I arrived my work an hour and a half late because of the very crowded road near the gate's check point …
An old woman and 10 years old boy with school bag on his back were waiting for me.
I treated the old lady first, and then asked the boy to get in. He was pale & shaking. He sat on the dental chair and pointed inside his mouth, and said "this is very painful".
I looked and saw nothing, I knew he was confused and pointed to the wrong side; I looked to the opposite side and saw a badly carious tooth.
I told him that we need to extract this tooth, he shake his head for approval.
"But we need to have the approval from some one older than you my dear" I said. "Any one from your family as your parents, older brother or sister, aunt, uncle, or even a neighbor ".I added.

He stepped from the chair in an attempt to leave, with his eyes full of tears, and said nothing.
-"Are you coming back with someone later? I asked.
-"no, I have no one".
-"With whom do you live?".
-"With my younger brother, he is Mongolian".
-I grip his shaky hands and took him to the patio, and asked him to look around, to the other functionaries; (they live in the same village), and asked him if he knew any one?.
Few minutes later he pointed to a man, he was one of the servants" H".
I sent for" H", and told him that I need some one of Salih' relatives because his tooth need to be extracted. He said "I am his fathers' cousin, I can stay with him because he has no One close…his older brother who was taking care of him was murdered 3 days ago"…
-why?
- He was a policeman…
-"Are you hungry, did you have your breakfast honey?" I asked Salih trying so hard to hold my tears.( I had to ask because he was pale and he could show symptoms of hypoglycemia if he was hungry, he could faint too after dental treatment).
- " no I did not , the neighbors did not bring us any". he said.
Just then I could not hold my tears any more, I took his little hands and took him to buy him something to eat.
-"let us buy something to eat, I am hungry too" ..
-" no, I will go home" said Salih pointing to a far cottage..
- I will take him to my place, bring him something to eat, and be right back"…said" H".
But the boy ran away….
I sat in my room, wondering how could these children survive. How could they live alone, what do they do in the darkness every day? Where is our government, are they aware about that policeman's family….
I can't imagine my daughter Mariam (she is 8 now) go alone to a dental clinic to extract her tooth ….it's scary for a child to face that alone.
After about an hour the boy came back with "H", he ate in his house and came seeking for treatment, I was so happy to see him again, I wanted to give him a big hug, but he was behaving like a man.. He sat silently, I gave him his shot, he was shivering, but was very quiet.
I told him he will not feel any thing he will be anesthetized, he nod his head, I extracted his tooth, and then he went without any word…..

Sunshine

22 Comments:

At 5:15 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thank you Sunshine for this wonderful post. It shows, again, what a great mother she is. I am sure that many who read this post will shed tears for innocent Iraqi who are forced to live in such atrosities.

I'll be Praying for you all.

 
At 9:24 AM, Blogger Jay said...

What a great mama you have!

What a coincidence, I was all day today driving back & forth from different dentists getting stuff fixed. I got braces & fillings done. You can read my new post on my page..

مع السلامة :)

 
At 12:23 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bless you and your entire family. I have been so touched by reading the blogs you all post. Please know that there are many many people in America that support you and love you.

My son is serving in Mosul and I pray that things will soon be back to normal and nice for your entire country.

 
At 6:02 AM, Blogger jarvenpa said...

Your mom's post brought tears to my eyes too. My youngest child, like the brother of this little boy, has Down Syndrome (the old term is the one the child uses, "Mongolian"). Both your mother and you have such good hearts; may you live safely and continue to bring kindness to the lives of others.

 
At 2:55 PM, Blogger olivebranch said...

beautiful post by your mum, she posted it at the Olivebranch Network also and there was a good resposne. (http://olivebranchoptimism.net)

Now it's your turn to write your own post again! I want too see some of the news stuff you have been writing my dear!

[olivebranch out]

 
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At 12:54 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

hai i m sanjeev, by reading this story i m ammased.........
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At 7:54 AM, Blogger gemzin said...

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At 9:43 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

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At 10:35 PM, Blogger debasi said...

I lik it...I am an emotional boy...now doing m.tech 4m iitb...& i ll devote my life 2 do something 4 dis poor children....

 
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At 1:20 PM, Anonymous rhea said...

wonderfull and a great work very emotinal i have send it to all my friends what deep thoughts you have said and used it makes me feel pity on that mother.Keep it up!

 
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