Cursed By God?

After I read this reading I was a little taken back.  I have never heard of obstetric fistula and I now I think about all the other things I do not know.  How sad that this happens to so many women.  I am glad it is rare now there are places that can help and it says there is a success rate for surgery that is 93 percent.  I liked how they wrote in a story of Simeesh Segaye and talked about her life.  I just thought about putting myself in her shoes because her age is so close to so many of ours.  I could never imagine staying in a hut for two years not coming out, and only seeing my family when they brought in food and water.  She talks about coming to the point of thinking about killing herself.  Even though her family had to sell their whole farm it made me smile to read that she was taken to the hospital in a vehicle she wasn't kicked out of and was taken care of.  It then talked about how she was stuck in the fetal position because she was in that position for so long that she couldn't move her legs. Ouch! My favorite part of the story is the last paragraph-"They think they've been cursed by God," Ms. Kennedy explained.  "And we tell them that they haven’t been cursed by God and that they’re beautiful and that the only reason that they got a fistula is because we failed them as health professionals."-because I'm sure she hasn't heard that she is beautiful in a very long time being stuck in that hut.