I felt so trapped I had no friends and no one I could talk to. I
couldnt talk to his
parents because they thought the sun rises and sets in his backside.
We moved into another Caravan park, finally I thought we could have a decent
roof over our heads, and he got a job. He wouldnt let me work because it
was "the
mans duty". I thought maybe because he had a job it would keep him busy
and he
might forget about hitting me for a while....little did I know things were
about to
take a turn for the worse.
I would have dinner ready for him when he came home, there was always something
wrong, too hot, too cold, too tough, too soft, too salty, not salty enough
and so on,
so every night without fail, his punching routine would happen, I forced
myself
to tune out and try answer the questions on Sale of the Century, trying
to block out
what was really happening.
After a while he started coming home less and less and then after a while
he stopped
coming home all together, except for the night of our six month anniversary.
He
came home, I was really happy to see him, I cooked dinner , I even had
a present for
him for our anniversary. Everything was fine for a change he ate his meal,
jumped
in the shower and clinbed into bed. He decided that he was going to put
in the
diamond earring stud that I bought him for our anniversary, he couldnt
get the other
earring out, so he grabbed the pliers off the top of the television and
tried to pull the
butterfly clip undone, he pinched his ear instead, it must have hurt him
because he
stood up turned to me with the pliers extended from his fist and punched
me over
and over and overo and over again in the stomach, I was in agony, I couldnt
breathe
I managed to lock myself in the bathroom, I could hear him cursing and
carrying on
and then I heard the door slam, and he was gone. I looked down at myself
and saw
the blood soaking through my shirt, I lifted my shirt to see what was wrong,
I was
already numb, upon lifting my shirt I found seven puncture marks where
he obviously
hit me with the pliers in his fist and one large bruise on my left breast.
I couldnt
beleive it , but I had learned to dismiss these things and cleaned up the
blood and
went to bed.
For days he didnt come home. He left me with no money and not one ounce
of food
in the house, on a Thursday night I remember I started getting very
bad abdominal cramps and noticed some spotting which I thought was unusual
because I wasnt due for my period for ages (I only got them once every
2-3 months)
I took some Aspirin and went to bed. About 3.00am the cramps hit
me again only
a thousand times worse, I sat up the rest of the night clutching my stomach,
I couldnt
call anyone and I couldnt walk to the phone because the pain was too great.
About
8.00am I managed to get the strength to get dressed and I walked very very
slowly to the doctors surgery which was 8 kilometers away because the bleeding
had worsened. It was 38 degrees celcius the middle of summer, by the time
I got
to the doctors the blood was sticking to my legs and flies were buzzing
around
because of the smell. I walked into the doctors surgery and collapsed.
I awoke in the
procedures room and an Indian looking doctors was looking at me, he told
me what
had happened because I was still feeling vague, I asked him why I was bleeding
like
that , what I was to hear next was like driving a razor blade into my ears.
The doctor
told me that I was six weeks pregnant and that I had just suffered a miscarriage.
I
did not even know I was pregnant, finding out that I was pregnant and lost
the baby
all at once may has well have been someone murdering me. The doctor had
told me
that it was caused by massive abdominal trauma (refering the the marks
on my
stomach & abdomin). Not only was Freddie responsible for hurting me
but now
he was responsible for the death of my unborn child.