HOW BEDBUGS MADE ME KNOW I WAS HIC POSITIVE PART 2

. I required some extra blood in my system, so someone had to donate his/her blood for me. Since for one to donate, he has to certify some conditions. None of my siblings qualified since we never had weight, none of us looked healthier and again Dad wasn’t near so only mum was the remaining hope.

It all went up well and she donated 1part that I was to be filled up with. Again, a rule all blood received Has to be screened and results brought before its used. Mums blood passed through all that. Alas! Hey boy your mum’s blood ain’t safe for you.

 We can’t help, if u have no other person to donate you with blood, you will go back to your filthy nature.” this how African docs could say out of sympathy any way This was a shock to the family and it sent an alarm to all siblings to be tested.

Out of 14 why only me God! Why are we lastborns never have lucky. I was the only kid found positive like mum. I really asked questions how comes me alone? As rumours had it, I found answers to my questions “your mother got your pregnancy one year after your dad had gone for a casual job (mjengo/ construction) in the city and when your mum went to visit him there, she came back with a stomach.

You’re the one, the last born. Since then, we have been hearing tales that your dad nowadays drinks a lot goes with all kinds of women”. He is the perfect smoker but all this shit about my dad never got inside me as I already knew the whole story. In our village nobody knew about Aids at this time, my Dad No! Even just visiting a VCT I don’t think and mum this sounded news to her she had never heard of Human Virus.

This was her first time and my first time too. I thank God we were thereafter taught how to live with our situation though it caused isolation from other villagers but we never minded them. The whites who took me to the hospital Wacha mzungu aitwe mzungu, they never left us, they stood with us until this time, one of them donated clean blood that I used and also took me to one of their schools and granted me a scholarship up to university level.

 I really thank God greatly for them since right know am still working in one of their organizations to date. My mum she is still strong and we are leaving healthy lifestyle on pills and not forgetting the Bedbugs, they brightened our future. If not for them biting the white in our house maybe we could have rotten already six feet. Now I live positively with my status and I swore no kid will ever die of jiggers when I see and today, I have a link to help affected people.

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