by LadyMariam » Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:24 pm
LTO - you got me LMAO! Thanks!
To everyone, you're welcome. As I told James in the hospital, if his injury had been worse, I probably would have been much more upset, but as it was, I kept it together. It totally disrupted my life having to take care of him (which is my job as his mother, so I'm not whining about it - just saying that there are many different consequences). Calmette was fine, despite the horror stories I had heard. The emergency room charged $80 for his immediate care and x-ray). They charged $40 per day for the bed. Family has to bring all meals, toiletries, etc. I even got a folding bed and slept there for a few nights. The Khmer family with the dad in the other bed was really nice, we all got along well. They had to put up with a gazillion different police, US embassy people and press coming and going the first few days. All total was about $600 - a lot better than prices in a "Western" country.
Police: Calmette district police, Chey Chumneas commune police, Duan Penh district police, immigration police, military police, (did I miss any?). I really had no expectation for them to do anything and I was very surprised when they showed me the casing they found. I actually got nervous at that point because I wasn't particularly looking for any trouble. When they called that Saturday night to say the shooter (called "gunner" in Khmer-English), was in custody, they were surprised that I wasn't overjoyed ("sabay, sabay"). I told them I was "half happy" ("sabay gunlah"), as I could imagine them arresting an unwilling "gunner." I felt a little better when I learned the next day he had actually "turned himself in" (obviously by someone's order).
The same day James' story ran in the paper, there was a story about how the shooters of 4 (or more) Khmer victims at a protest were still at large. I couldn't help but feel bad about that. I am glad now that 2 of those shooters have also been arrested after orders from "on high." Maybe changes ARE happening step-by-step.
LTO - you got me LMAO! Thanks!
To everyone, you're welcome. As I told James in the hospital, if his injury had been worse, I probably would have been much more upset, but as it was, I kept it together. It totally disrupted my life having to take care of him (which is my job as his mother, so I'm not whining about it - just saying that there are many different consequences). Calmette was fine, despite the horror stories I had heard. The emergency room charged $80 for his immediate care and x-ray). They charged $40 per day for the bed. Family has to bring all meals, toiletries, etc. I even got a folding bed and slept there for a few nights. The Khmer family with the dad in the other bed was really nice, we all got along well. They had to put up with a gazillion different police, US embassy people and press coming and going the first few days. All total was about $600 - a lot better than prices in a "Western" country.
Police: Calmette district police, Chey Chumneas commune police, Duan Penh district police, immigration police, military police, (did I miss any?). I really had no expectation for them to do anything and I was very surprised when they showed me the casing they found. I actually got nervous at that point because I wasn't particularly looking for any trouble. When they called that Saturday night to say the shooter (called "gunner" in Khmer-English), was in custody, they were surprised that I wasn't overjoyed ("sabay, sabay"). I told them I was "half happy" ("sabay gunlah"), as I could imagine them arresting an unwilling "gunner." I felt a little better when I learned the next day he had actually "turned himself in" (obviously by someone's order).
The same day James' story ran in the paper, there was a story about how the shooters of 4 (or more) Khmer victims at a protest were still at large. I couldn't help but feel bad about that. I am glad now that 2 of those shooters have also been arrested after orders from "on high." Maybe changes ARE happening step-by-step.