MamaMagic Milestones Winter 2014 | Page 11

“ This illness does not discriminate, rich, poor, black, white, sick, healthy, it knows no class or creed. It takes no prisoners. It kills.” At first I was just petrified of the baby, later I was petrified I was going to murder her. Sana was convinced that all the baby needed was a good long soak in her traditional concoction, as had been done to her grandmother, and her great-grandmother for all of time. Over my dead body, I said (as had my own great-grandmother in my defence when I was a baby!) and sent Sana on her merry way. Now I was stok siel alleen. Where was my mother, you may ask? Down the road, exactly where she had &VV