Gratitude Series

Tam's Story: Sometime last year, someone snuck into the compound I live in. I live in a relatively safe area and I’ve lived there all my life with nothing to be worried about with respect to safety.  One night, after I had gotten back from work, I was doing some work in my room…

“If we hadn’t performed the surgery so quickly, you would have probably died” - the doctor said to me as I laid numb in the intensive care unit of a hospital I couldn’t remember visiting. I had arrived in an ambulance, completely unconscious. “Please call my husband and tell him I’m okay” - I…