🙂 Greetings, dear readers! This unthinkable story happened in the 90s. My friend Alexei’s wife was kept in the hospital. There she met many women and heard many interesting and amazing stories.
Zuhra
Zukhra was significantly older than other women in labor – she was already over forty. She is a taciturn, withdrawn and shy woman. “Well, the real beech!” – the neighbors thought at first.
But then they understood why Zukhra was so sad – she recently gave birth to a premature baby boy. At that time, it was unclear whether the child would survive. They also did not bring the baby to feed, so the unfortunate woman was very worried and did not want to communicate with anyone.
The neighbors in the ward were nursing their children in full, sang lullabies to them, laughed and joked among themselves, but as soon as Zukhra entered the ward, everyone immediately fell silent. The woman’s body was mutilated with deep scars that remain after serious burns. Only the face was clean.
This patient was often visited by a doctor, they talked for a long time. From their conversations, the women learned that she had undergone many skin grafts, but this is far from the end – there are still several ahead. After the doctor left, Zukhra turned to the wall, wrapped herself in a blanket and cried for a long time.
Several days passed in this way. And finally, they brought a son to the woman. Seeing him, she smiled for the first time – after all, this meant that the child would live. The roommates in the ward sighed with relief, as if they felt guilty before her for the fact that their children were doing well. Aleksey’s wife managed to get Zukhra to talk – and that’s what she found out.
Accident
In her youth, she married a loved one. Soon, the woman gave birth to two twin daughters. And then one day, one of her free days, she decided to clean up her husband’s garage.
Wiping the shelves, she tried to move the heavy canisters — they were terribly dirty, smeared with machine oil. One of these canisters slipped out of her hands and all the contents poured onto the woman. The canisters contained technical hydrochloric acid (Zukhra’s husband worked at a chemical plant).
The unfortunate woman does not remember what happened next. Then she was told that the neighbors, while working in the yard, heard a shout and a crash. We looked at Zukhra and, seeing this whole picture, wrapped her in a blanket and took her to the hospital.
Then there was a long struggle for life. The husband, having learned about what had happened, abandoned her and the children, leaving for another city. The twins remained in the care of their old grandmother, Zukhra’s mother.
– Most of all I was afraid for my daughters. I understood that if I die, they will remain orphans, – the woman confessed. “This is what helped me survive.
Persistent admirer
Years passed, Zukhra spent a lot of time in hospitals – doing skin grafting operations. She worked during the breaks. Daughters grew up.
A new mechanic, a middle-aged man, his name was Ibrahim, arrived at the plant where the woman had been working lately. Colleagues in the shop told him the tragic story of Zukhra. He began to look after her: he invited her on dates, gave flowers, sweets. But the woman understood that he simply felt sorry for her.
“Who needs such an ugly person?” She said to herself. Ibrahim tried to support her, said that life goes on and, despite what happened, she has the right to be loved. But Zukhra rejected the advances of a persistent admirer.
Once the daughters went to school. When Ibrahim came to visit, she was completely alone in the house. They drank tea, talked on various topics. He continued to insist on his own: they say, it’s too early for you, Zukhra, to put an end to your personal life, offered to meet. She refused again. And then a persistent admirer raped her!
Then he apologized for a long time, knelt, begging for forgiveness, even cried. In his defense, he said that he had to do this in order to prove that she was not at all ugly and could be liked by someone as a woman.
Soon Zukhra realized that she was pregnant, but did not dare to have an abortion. When the contractions began much earlier than the due date, Ibrahim took her to the hospital and stayed with her children.
Telling this story, Zuhra cried:
– How are my daughters without me? Will they get along with the new father, if I do accept him?
Morning of life
But one early morning the entire chamber was awakened by shouts that came from the street:
– Zukhra! Zuhra! A man’s voice shouted.
She looked out the window. In the courtyard of the hospital there was a handsome man with a large bouquet of flowers, and next to him were twin girls. They stood in an embrace and the three of them waved to Zukhra. She began to cry.
The roommates in the ward also wiped away their tears, but these were tears of joy – everyone understood that now everything would be fine with this woman. Here is such an unthinkable story …
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