I am a woman whom everyone thinks is sad but that may be what they think. I am happy because I am doing what several women of my age in my predicament and in my situation would never think of doing, I am a woman who loves her son that suffers from Spina Bifida! Everyone thinks that I will abandon him, drop him in a dustbin or run away from home, but I stand beside him like the rock of Gilbrathar while praying secretly and silently that one day I may wake up and find the cure to the ailment that is tearing my home and my life apart. I love my son to a fault, this love has drove me out to find solution to the strange sickness or learn to live or manage it, this love brought me this far.

Africa

SPINAL BIFIDA

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