"Mummy
my head is paining me" little Ekene told his
mum. He has been complaining of serious headache for some months now and he has also
been having serious fever at night.Mercy, his mother, took out a dosage of paracetamol
for her 7yr old boy. Come and drink tomorrow we will go
to the hospital again.The
doctors have conducted series of tests and he just has malaria which gets treated but comes
back after some months. She was going to try out a teaching hospital this time she thought
to herself. She had checked his body for wounds but found nothing."God dey"
she sighed.The
following
morning she dressed him to be taken to another hospital for treatment. She hadn't
slept a wink, Ekene had convulsed throughout the night and she could need some sleep.
The stress was too much for her, she has to fend for him, clothe him without a husband, her
husband had died in an accident since Ekene was 3yrs. She was a teacher and had no time
for herself and sometimes she had to conduct lessons.She always looked weak, the stress
was too much for her. The
doctor had taken blood samples from him to
run some tests. He would run some blood tests like genotype, malaria, typhoid, WBC and HIV
test. She chuckled when she saw the list. HIV test for a little boy, anyway, that's
protocol she
smiled to herself. nanny
for her taking care of Ekene for 2yrs to go
get the test results. Margaret was always fondof Ekene but he never seemed to like her, he
always complained that he hated her."Mummy I don'tlike Aunty Maggie" he never ceased
to say. She would shut himup or ignore him. She was grateful for the little help she
got from
her.She
reached the hospital and went to their lab to
get the result. The lab attendant nonchalantly handed her the test result and she took
it to the doctor. The doctor was alone in the office as she stepped in.
He read the result
out to her but she couldn't believe he rears, she screamed and jumped up
and down and
tore her clothes. The security guarded her out. "How could
my Ekene be HIV positive"
she couldn't believe it. She had run some tests when she was pregnant
and wasn't infected.
Ekene had never had anyblood transfusion so how on earth did
he get infected.
There must be a problem with thei rmachine, she must go to another
hospital she said to
herself. She headed home from the hospital. She was numb, she
couldn't go to the
market again. She took a bus home as she felt the burden of the world on her
shoulders."Chinekeeee" Mercy screamed."Margaret what are
you doing to my son?" Margaret who had forced Ekene on top of her like she always did and
was guiding his little pecker into her froze at the sound of Mercy's voice. Mercy froze and was
short of words. Shedidn't know if she was to scream or shout or hit Margaret, what
action seemed
right
at the moment? Mercy came home earlier than Margaret expected and she caught
her molesting the little boy. So this was how the poor boy contracted the virus
from."Mummy,
I don't like Aunty Maggie" the
sounds echoed in herhead. She should have asked him why, she should have
paid more
attention. She was too busy to notice that her baby was getting molested by a
beast. What did
shehave to gain from a kid? Mercy slumped,
the world was over for her.
Parents should educate their kids on sex education
early enough, they should be careful who they leave their kids with. They should call
them and ask them what they feel about a certain guardian. Guard your kids, they are
not too
young to contract HIV
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