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I do embroidery work with
my three sisters Shabana, Paribano and Abida. We bring jobs
home. Our eldest sister Farida used to work with us too. She
died in '93. She remained ill ever since the gas, she used
to cough a lot and complain there was burning in her chest
and pain all over her body. My father too is very ill. He is
a tailor but he can hardly work. Last week he fainted while
at the sewing machine. We had to rush him to the hospital.
One of my brother sells vegetables and one is a tailor. My
brother Afaq has mental problems, he gets irritable at the
slightest thing and some times becomes violent. We took him
to the hospital several times but he was not getting any
better. They say we should take him to private clinics but
we don't have money for that.
My eyes burn a lot and I
cant see properly. There is burning in my chest and pain
too. Sometimes I think it is better to die than live with so
much pain all the time. A year after the disaster, I was
seven then, I fainted in the middle of the road and a
motorcycle went over my head. But the army man who was
riding the motorcycle was a good man. He took care of my
treatment. I was unconscious for two months. My head still
hurts at times. I also had a back problem. For a long time I
could not do any work, couldn't even walk some distance.
When the pain was too much to bear my mother used to heat a
brick and place it on my back, that and some light massage
would ease the pain for a while. She also took me to the
hospital. I had to take a handful of medicines and an
injection every day. The pain would be manageable as long as
I took all these medicines and if I stopped the pain would
come back. Then one of my aunts told me about the Sambhavna
Clinic. The doctor at Sambhavna told me to go for massage
therapy. I am still on massage therapy and most of the pain
is gone. I can now walk freely and am able to work. I don't
have to take any medicines.
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