I went to the healthcare centre
for my baby's check up.
My baby was 6 months old.
I have four boys and a little girl.
I don't have many children.
They said 'Give us your baby in a blanket.
We are going to cure you.
Otherwise, you won't have enough money for food.'
That's what the doctor said to me.
'Where are you taking me?' I asked.
They put me in a car.
They drove us to Anta. Me and several other women.
Once there, they said 'Take off your clothes.'
They made me undress.
They put some sort of perfume on my feet.
Then they took us to a different place.
They gave us an injection.
That's the last thing I remember.
I got there at 9 am.
Then, in the evening, at 7 pm,
they took me home in an ambulance.
My husband asked 'What happened to you?'
He didn't know about this.
I didn't know they were going to sterilise me.
It happened so suddenly.
They treated us like stupid people
during Fujimori's government.
That's why now we feel bad.
It hurts. Since they stitched us up we feel
as if we had a thread pulling inside, mostly when we lift weight.
Our waists hurt.
That's how I suffer.
If I wouldn't have let them sterilise me…
Or if they hadn't done it wrong,
I wouldn't be suffering this way
and having all these pains.