Post by Logan on Feb 14, 2016 4:15:04 GMT -6
FLINT – She sat in the wooden chair where she spends most of her time, took a hit off her cigarette and watched over her helpless mother, who was curled up in a hospital bed in the dining room.
“We just sit here all day long,” said Lisa Gaines. “She might talk to me, then again she might not. But she don’t like being left alone.”
Erma Jean Gaines, Lisa’s 70-year-old mother, has been bedridden for five years now, ever since she broke her foot trying to escape a hospital bed and never properly healed. Even though she’s thin and frail, everyone still calls her Big Mama.
“This foot right here don’t turn no more,” Lisa said, reaching down under her mother’s blanket and pulling out a crooked foot covered with a soft white footie. Big Mama’s face became a pained wince. “So we can’t take her nowhere. It’s like we’re stuck.”
Read more: www.freep.com/story/news/columnists/john-carlisle/2016/02/13/flint-family-poisoned-by-poverty-and-toxic-water/79423502/
“We just sit here all day long,” said Lisa Gaines. “She might talk to me, then again she might not. But she don’t like being left alone.”
Erma Jean Gaines, Lisa’s 70-year-old mother, has been bedridden for five years now, ever since she broke her foot trying to escape a hospital bed and never properly healed. Even though she’s thin and frail, everyone still calls her Big Mama.
“This foot right here don’t turn no more,” Lisa said, reaching down under her mother’s blanket and pulling out a crooked foot covered with a soft white footie. Big Mama’s face became a pained wince. “So we can’t take her nowhere. It’s like we’re stuck.”
Read more: www.freep.com/story/news/columnists/john-carlisle/2016/02/13/flint-family-poisoned-by-poverty-and-toxic-water/79423502/