JULIE DIED DEMENTED

Some months after Linda died, her carer was involved with helping Joe Lari of 3 Angels Care with people suffering from HIV/AIDS. There were several young women at the Centre and in the final stages of the virus.

They were thin with hair falling out making them look like old women of 85 years. There was no ARV in those days. The people on the drugs are now able to start a new life.

Joe had one extra young woman but no space. I volunteered to help her by allowing her to stay at my home. Her name was Julie (not her real name) She was the sister-in-law of a senior parliamentarian at that time.

When his brother died of AIDS, he took his sister-in-law wrapped in a blanket and dumped her. She was found and passed on to the Provincial AIDS Office.

She came to my house and lived for 6 weeks before she died. That was really hard work. I did not know what I was getting myself into.

She used to wander around. The problem is that with dementia, she may not be able to find her way back. Such people can wander like lost sheep. If they leave the house, they may not be able to return.

One night she asked to be let out of the iron security door to the kitchen to wash her clothes in the laundry.

I went back to work on the computer and suddenly realized that there was no sound of washing. She was gone. I searched the streets but with no success.

At about 3.00am, there was a knock at the door. It was Julie come back. She said she had never left but was sitting under the house playing cards with a group of men. This lady was demented.

Later she told the neighbour that she was playing and won K1500. Then the police arrived and arrested the white man. She went down to Boroko police station and bailed him out. It cost her K1500. He must have done something really bad.

Some days later, she advised that her room had been attacked by raskols in the night and they had stolen all her goods. But she was saved by the Prime Minister who came to the window in a helicopter.

These are what are called delusions or hallucinations. With delusions, we only think. With hallucinations, we actually see people as in a dream.

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She preferred to sleep on the ground outside. So a mattress was placed under a tree. Then she would urinate and defaecate on the sheets and mattress. It would all stink. And she would stink.

I would carry her to the bathroom like a giant stick insect. It is not good for a man to be washing a woman’s private parts. All she had to do would be to cry rape and the trouble would only just be starting. Her dementia may start her thinking that way.

On her last night, I awoke to find Julie gasping for air. She could not breathe. It may be that the virus and smoking had finally destroyed her immune system and red blood cells. Her water-salt balance did not exist any more. It may have been tuberculosis.

She was suffocating. I sat beside her until she died. Then I wrapped her body in a sheet and took her to the morgue.

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