“Dey seh labour pains are the worst kinda pain but me don’t believe that. Me can bear the pain of making seven more children… but na the pain of getting my foot cut out again. Dis is the worst kind of pain,” Kamlawattie “Seema” Lionel said.
The 25-year-old woman’s foot was amputated last Sunday at the New Amsterdam Hospital following a vicious stabbing by her husband.
Lionel was attacked and stabbed by her husband after she refused to reconcile a relationship which she had ended with him.
The last injury, a stab went through her leg. “The knife went through and through meh foot… meh coulda feel it on the other side… was only the knife head you could have seen,” she said.
The housewife is now having difficulty coping with the reality that she has lost a leg. “I can’t accept it, I have one child and now I am a single parent. I am healthy and it is kinda shocking.”
Despite having her leg amputated, Lionel is thankful to the doctors at the New Amsterdam Hospital for their diligent work in saving her life.
The incident took place on December 22 at Port Mourant, Corentyne when she was approached by her reputed husband after she had just stepped out of her mother’s yard to visit a relative.
According to Lionel, she was approached by Shamwar Approo. “He ask me, ‘Seema you na gone take meh back?’, ‘Seema you na like meh?’, ‘Seema why you left meh so long?’… you get other man?’”
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But she refused his invitation, something he did not take lightly.
The woman said she heard her reputed husband saying “well take this” and he reportedly started to stab her in her abdomen.
“He pulled out the knife and give me two jooks, on me belly… me didn’t see the knife,” Lionel alleged.
According to the mother of one, for years she had been living in an abusive relationship and had left home on several occasions, but in December, she felt that “enough was enough”.
She told Guyana Times International that whenever she was abused by her husband, she would leave home for two to three days to stay with her mother. “I would go by my mother and stay there and he would come and hug meh and kiss meh and tell meh sorry,” she explained.
That was the cycle for the past seven years. “Sometimes, he would even cry and tell me sorry and I would go home back. This time I made up my mind though,” she said.
Approo was recently placed on a bond to keep the peace after the couple appeared at the Albion Magistrate’s Court.
According to Lionel, since she had moved to her mother’s home, she received reports that her husband was lurking around; carrying a knife and a bottle suspected to contain a poisonous substance.
Police are searching for Approo who has not been seen since the incident.
