Friday, August 7, 2009

Imagine..

Wonders shall never cease. Something very annoying and funny happened not too long ago, a friend to my very good friend's neighbour's...(might take forever to explain, its a very long link), anyway a woman just got a maid from one of them villages, wisely she takes all her maids for medical screening which includes HIV.
The young girl which should be in her late teens was tested positive! The poor thing was devastated, all she did all day was cry, cry, cry, and also think of easy ways to commit suicide(the suicide part we later found out anyway).She kept on wondering how and who she got it from, I can only imagine her psychological state at that time, poor thing.
Though her boss was very understanding all trough, nobody really wants an HIV positive teenager as a maid, esp. when you have kids. The young girl had just few days left to spend in the house before leaving for her village, where she can at least "carry her cross" around her family. On this faithful day, her boss was just "jisting" her neighbour about the whole ordeal and how she would have to start a new search for a maid allover again,then out of curiosity her neighbour asked where the test was taken, to her surprise the neighbour had also taken her mother to that same lab for series of test when she kept on falling ill, the same stupid lab had diagnosed her mother HIV positive, but when she took her to FOUR different labs she was diagnosed NEGATIVE!
Behold our young little maid has been taken to FIVE different labs and they all diagnosed her NEGATIVE!
This was when she came out with the suicide stories. Imagine if she had gone through with it she would have just died for nothing!, imagine the number of lives that STUPID LAB would have ruined or even taken, imagine if the woman had even kept her story to her self...can u just imagine?
So many things could have gone wrong, its possible results were mistakenly swapped and there is one very happy HIV positive person who thinks he/she is negative! who might just be spreading this disease even as we speak or rather as we read, or maybe the lab does not even have sufficient/necessary tools or skills. God help us all ooooo.

p.s
Some lagos landlords can be sooooo crazy, sometimes I am sure they feel like demi-gods. something terrible happened to a good friend of mine last week, its so annoying I am not sure I even want to blog about it.

1 comment:

  1. Amazing stuff..
    Inclined to say "Only in Naija"
    But I'm sure it's not only there it can happen in..

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