The misery of Tuesday, May 24, 2011 Omaida
Díaz Padilla, a resident of 476 eligible Porvenir Avenue 37, La Palma, Arroyo Naranjo municipality
in this city, feels that it is not worth
survive in conditions in which it is, after almost five years with
skin cancer, a leg amputated and abandoned by her second husband and fellow
by the Ministry of Agriculture and the union of the branch, where
worked half his life as a clerk , to dissociate by
health reasons, no retirement pension or medical examination. Omaida languishes in his small apartment. The deterioration of the skin increases its physical distress and spiritual between depresióny
the boredom, the fourth to the bathroom, sometimes to the room, or this to hospital. And does not read, listen to music, not being entertained by the telenovelas nor the comedy shows. Only his grandson, age 9, daughter
occasionally interrupted by neighbors who bring you a bowl of soup and you talk about vitamins Misery Omaida hardship increases, because his daughter Juliet Lopez, an employee of the pharmacy
La Palma, earns 250 pesos a month equivalent to 10 dollars, barely enough for one week, not counting the need to buy disposable diapers, personal care items, the
essential vitamins and occasional transportation to medical checkups
considered unnecessary.
As has no treatment or can move with walkers, Omaida
sometimes falls on rising from bed or chair, which emphasizes its dependence
and sadness. Think then manage a haven for
not bother much to his, but his daughter convinces her
home is better, because "the lack of resources make those places
stores in human waste. "
With worsening ailments her mother, Juliet
requested assistance from the Directorate of Labour and Social Security of Arroyo Naranjo, where he opened a record
endorsed by the doctor, but everything is
so bureaucratic that they forgot the matter.
Omaida believe that life is a gift from God, but
feel forgotten by the Lord, and also by relatives and friends who are shirking their misfortune
. Almost no one visit, just Jesus, father of Juliet,
accompanied by his wife Doris. Always attending to their calls
of urgency, to take her to the doctor in the car.
Given the certainty of death, deprivation of material
recent years and the neglect of friends, Omaida asks: "What I did to deserve this
final? Why go on living if I can not walk, care for my grandson
or help my daughter? ". So this woman thinks
resigned to the worst. What happens to the human solidarity
to stories that go beyond fiction?
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