“We lef home since 5.30 this morning and we reach just after 6 and you know what time we get through? Until after 1. Yes, you hear me, after 1,” she said, the frustration in her voice evident.
“I didn’t feel it so much for me but is she I really worry about because I know how hard it was for her. This thing ain’ easy but is suh poor people have to get along. Wah else we guh do?” and as she asked that question, she threw her hands up in the air.
The ‘her’ she referred to is her heavily pregnant daughter; the two had left their home very early in the morning to visit the maternity clinic of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH). The daughter is less than two weeks away from the given date for the birth of her child via c-section. I have known this mother and daughter since the expectant woman was a child. Her mother was just a little weary of the many challenges they continue to face and wanted to talk.
