Today’s Remembered Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
World War II boyhood memories shared by Russian psychiatrist Pyotr S.:
I saw a woman trying to kill herself. In the bushes by the river. She had a brick and she was hitting herself in the head with it. She was pregnant from an occupying soldier whom the whole village hated. Also, as a boy, I saw a litter of kittens being born. I helped my mother pull a calf from its mother, I led our pig to meet up with a boar. I remember – I remember how they brought my father’s body, he had on a sweater, my mother had knit it herself, and he’d been shot by a machine gun, and bloody pieces of something were coming out of that sweater. He lay on our only bed, there was nowhere else to put him. Later he was buried in front of the house. And the earth wasn’t cotton, it was heavy clay. From the beds for beetroot. There were battles going on all around. The street was filled with dead people and horses.
Back then I thought of death just as I did of birth. I had the same feeling when I saw a calf come out of a cow – and the kittens were born – as when I saw that woman with the brick in the bushes killing herself. For some reason these seemed to me to be the same things – birth and death.
I remember from my childhood how a house smells when a boar is being cut up. You’ve just touched me, and I’m already falling into there, falling – into that nightmare. That terror. I’m flying into it. I also remember how, when we were little, the women would take us with them to the sauna And we saw that all the women’s uteruses (this we could understand even then) were falling out, they were tying them up with rags. I saw this. They were falling out because of hard labor. There were no men, they were at the front, or with the partisans, there were no horses, the women carried all the loads themselves. They ploughed over the gardens themselves, and the kolkhoz fields. When I was older, and I was intimate with a woman, I would remember this – what I saw in the sauna.
Culled from: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
OK, my uterus hurts from reading this….
It makes me glad to have gotten rid of that troublesome organ!
What’s wrong with a little prolapse? LOL.. Good thing for me, I like dogs. The idea of children was never my thing. This isn’t the first time I’ve heard f this… In fact, I was a little more than frightened to find out that this affects 50% of women. Yeeesh!
Fifty percent? I’ve never known anybody that had this happen to them. Known of a couple, both serious runners, that had theirs prolapse from all the running. Not entirely sure how true it is, it was very much third-hand information.
Every ones body should come with a “users guide.” I really did not think a uterus could fall out of someone. The description in this story kind of made it seem like they justr fell out like the woman who gave birth washing dishes in the Monty Python every sperm is sacred routine-but I bet it wasnt that painless…