EARLY PREGNACY
03 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
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Two months ago, she felt she was in trouble, as the head of the school had found out she was four months pregnant and was advised to stay home till the day she will deliver.
Unfortunately, she did not know the father to the child, as she had several boyfriends, the one he thought could be the father, refused to take responsibilities of a father.
The day of delivery came, and after going through labor pain, she was lucky to have given birth to a baby boy, though the child was smaller and looked weak.
One Sunday morning, her friend, ’Esther,’ paid her a visit at the Health Centre where she had gone for treatment, it was a great moment for the 2 friends to be in company of each other once again. As they were busy hugging each other, Esther opened up to her friend and said, ’’You are my friend who I trust fully, though it’s bad news,’’ she continued, ‘’I am H.I.V positive,’’ she begun to cry uncontrollably, but her friend had to remain strong to comfort her.
Her friend said to her, ‘’Being HIV positive is not the end of the world if you take the ARVs drugs you will live a healthy life, and continued comforting her till evening.’’
After two weeks she and her baby were strong enough to go home, the nurse who discharged her explained that, not everyone who was HIV needed ARVs drugs, she told her to keep going for medical checkups to know when she should start taking ARVs, she then told her not to breast-feed her baby in order to protect him from getting infected, she asked her to buy tinned milk for the baby.
After sometimes she regained some weight and her beauty, no one could tell that she was HIV positive.
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