More on Saroj

So I had another conversation with my maid, Saroj yesterday. Wherein she told me about how her husband started drinking heavily after her second daughter was born, and wouldn’t even accompany her to the hospital when she went into labour with her third child. She went to the hospital with a neighbour and reached just in time. No sooner did she lie down on the table, that her third, a son was born.
Fed up with this quick cycle, three pregnancies over four years, she wanted to put an end to it, now that a son had been born. Her husband of course refused to go under the knife. She decided to have the operation herself. All this was happening while she was still in hospital after the delivery, while she still had a chance... She needed her husband’s consent in the form of a signature on a form to be submitted to the hospital. But he wouldn’t hear of it. What if something happened to the son? No point in sealing that door just yet! He didn’t turn up to sign. She cried and howled, and forced the doctors to operate on her anyway. So, weak as she was, three days after the delivery of her third child, and all of 19 years old, she had her hysterectomy!