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BARTICA MOTHER HOPES TO WALK AGAIN
Despite being rendered immobile almost five years ago, a 44-year-old mother of six, Gwendolyn Charles, of Bartica is optimistic about walking again.
Gwendolyn Charles
Charles, who is bedridden, cannot do anything for herself, except eat. She is paralysed from her waist down.
Before her accident, Charles was an active mother both on the farm and at home. Her eldest daughter, Kayla Charles, a nurse, said that almost five years ago their lives were changed.
According to the nurse, her mother and father were returning home on an ATV some three miles from Bartica when her mother fell off the ATV driven by her father and injured her lower back. The woman was the pillion rider.
Kayla added that since that day her mother was unable to walk. The nurse explained that while help was sought to have her mother walk again, nothing worked.
Kayla believes that corrective surgery would help.
Her mother, she laments, is in constant pain and has been relying on painkillers. The woman also suffers from insomnia.
Kayla said that since her mother was rendered immobile, her five other siblings, along with her father would take turns in caring for her every day.
The nurse said that she never sees her mother as a burden, since it is her line of work to take care for the sick.
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