Heng is a community call patient, meaning either no insurance or no established relationship with a local specialist. Her employer offers insurance but she didn't understand how to sign up. She is Cambodian and though speaks good English I can understand how such issues would be difficult. But her daughter will help and in a few months she may be able to have her enlarged uterus removed, a uterus responsible for bleeding that has left her with just half the blood volume she's supposed to have, prompting the ER visit an my interview.
The same daughter who was born in a Cambodian field as Heng and her father fled Vietnamese bombs. As she told the story I could see her reliving the fear of that day. "Run faster," her father pleaded, neither of them understanding that she was in labor. Finally she had to stop, and attended by her father with only a pocket knife, gave birth.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
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