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Mar 08, 2009 Features / Columnists, My Column
There was good news and bad news this past week, depending on which side of the fence you happen to be standing. For some people the good news came in the form of evidence that the local CLICO branch did transfer money to CLICO (Bahamas), contrary to what Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham suggested.
In theory, Guyana has money to get once it becomes available and those of us who now have to rely on the National Insurance Scheme can smile. I had an interview with the General Manager of the Scheme early last week and what she told me was indeed heartening.
For example, there was some rumour that some of us would have to pay more by way of contribution. I now do not have to pay but some of my friends who are already catching hell would have found it hard to find the extra money, especially since things are getting harder and harder.
A man walked into my office and announced that he had bought loose milk powder on the streets and that the next thing he knew was that his children all had diarrhoea. He said that the milk powder was cheap so he thought that he was capitalizing. It turned out that what he saved in milk powder was the cost he spent on toilet paper. That surely could not have been good economics.
There was more good news in that people were not afraid to give blood so that there could have been three open heart surgeries this weekend. These surgeries are taking place quietly and mark an end to the time when we had to send people overseas and spend a lot of money.
Another piece of good news is that I can get out of bed without problems and go do some exercising. The same bed that used to talk to me and force me to lie down a bit longer is chasing me away. People may find this strange but trust me, this is happening and there is a reason.
On Tuesday I went to give blood and got the scare of my life to the extent that I even contemplated going home and lying down. Some time last year Dr Max Hanoman told me that I was developing lifestyle hypertension and that I needed to exercise and watch my diet.
I did for a while but the rains came and I developed a close relationship with my bed. This relationship continued even after the rains stopped and I told myself that the people like Robert Persaud who told the nation that the rains would continue until April would be right, although they have never been able to predict anything accurately.
That day my pressure had three readings and all of them unfavourable. The last one told me that it was 200/110. That had to be a joke because it never reached there and I never felt anything.
Anyhow, a doctor told me a short while later that it was 140/90. I could live with that but exercise became necessary since I started to imagine my mouth twisting and my foot dragging—a sure sign of a stroke. The bottom line is that my bed has chased me and I am exercising but in doing so I started to remember a lot of things, some of which I cannot keep to myself.
One of the things is most strange. It involves a wife who has accepted that her husband has a right to feel guilty when he goes to bed with her since he feels as though he is cheating on the sweet woman.
This family lives at Parika; the sweet woman’s husband is overseas (Barbados I believe) and the man’s wife lives right there. Whenever the other woman’s husband leaves the local Mister takes control, even inviting the sweet woman to share his home. But to do this he had to put out his wife.
I now wonder which wife would accept such treatment but it seems that there are foolish women in Guyana; women who feel that marriage is until death do they part and for better or for worse.
When I heard of this situation I first said that someone was pulling my leg; that they wanted me to share a joke. I could not believe this until I got confirmation from an independent source.
To make matters worse, the man is no peach and he depends on the sweet woman to help and support him with the money coming from Barbados. But the wife works at a fairly good job and she can surely support herself.
So why is this happening to her? She wants the world to know that she has a man. Meanwhile, the sweet woman knows that she has physical needs and she does not mind paying for it. Hurting the other woman is no big thing in her book.
Life is strange and who am I to criticize this arrangement? There was the case of a man who lived with two sisters in Berbice and he killed himself when one of them left him. And in Agricola there is a man with two wives in the same house. They would pick up each other’s children from school so life is good.
I certainly could not try such a thing although I would have liked to. But then again some people are born lucky.
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