MAMA LEAVES US
Then Mama died and we were left alone—4 sisters. Mama died maybe from sadness and worries. Her husband was gone and now her son. I think Mama lived for 7 years after Papa died.
She got a fever and we took her for an operation. We said “Mama speak!”, but she just looked at us and she didn’t get up from her bed for a month.
We worked to pay the doctors to heal our Mama. She didn’t get better so my Tio came over and said it was better that we took her back to the doctor. The doctor charged us a lot, sometimes 5000 quetzales, sometime 6000 quetzales. My sister encouraged us all to work hard so Mama would be healed and still live with us. Otherwise, we would be left orphans.
But Mama didn’t get better. The hospital said “No, prepare yourself because your mother will not get better and she will leave you soon.” That’s what they said to us. When Mama returned home she was with us for no more than a week.
The doctor said there was no solution, whatever they did for her- IV or whatever. The doctor said to us, “Don’t be sad but you will not have parents.” I said to my sister “This doctor is bad, Mama will live”.
I kept thinking she would get better and get out of bed and be herself, but my sister said we had to believe the doctor, after all he was a doctor. And when the time came, God took Mama. God took her at about 10 in the morning.
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