By Omar Clarke, Westmoreland Correspondent 
Ninety-year-old Daisy Campbell (inset) at home nursing a broken leg after falling into one of the potholes along this pothole-riddled Mackfield to Cornwall Mountain main road, in Westmoreland. - Photo By Omar Clarke
WESTERN BUREAU:
NINETY-YEAR-old widow, Daisy Campbell, of Mt. Stewart, in Westmoreland, is now at home nursing a broken leg after falling in a pothole along the pothole-riddled Mackfield to Cornwall Mountain main road last week.
"A tek a taxi to Mackfield and after de car stop, mi open the door, step out and close de door. As a step back, mi foot go down inna de hole and mi drop," recalled Mrs. Campbell. "Mi think me only wring me foot, mi never know say a bruk it bruk, so mi get up and tek the bus go a Burntground." When she arrived at Burntground home of her daughter, who she had gone to visit, Mrs. Campbell said she started feeling a great deal of pain. Upon close examination of her leg, she said she noticed that it had become quite swollen
"Mi daughter tek a car and tek mi to the doctor in Savanna-la-Mar and him give me medication and seh a must come back de next day fe X-ray de foot," said Mrs. Campbell, as she looked down on the cast on her leg. "The X-ray show seh de foot bruk." The unfortunate situation with Mrs. Campbell has angered both her family and members of her home community. Her 52-year-old son Ivan Campbell, who is suffering from a stroke and cannot work, now faces an uncertain future.
"Mi sick and is mi mother have to do everything for me," Mr. Campbell lamented in an interview with The Gleaner. "Now that mi mother can't move around, me nuh know wha go happen now."
"It is sad that 'Ma Daisy' had to suffer in such a way," said Mrs. Hyacinth Campbell (no relations), another resident of Cornwall Mountain. "If it
wasn't for the deplorable condition of the road that would not have happened to her. I think she should sue the government."
The resident said that they had a meeting with Dr. Karl Blythe, their Member of Parliament, some time ago and were given an assurance that repairs on the road would start within ten days. However, they said the promise was not kept.
"Some time ago at a meeting at the Cornwall Mountain All Age School, Dr. Blythe made it quite clear to us that he can win without the people of Cornwall Mountain vote," said Basil Shaw, a returning resident now residing in the area. "So I know seh him don't respect the poor people of this area." Mr. Shaw added that he want to use this incident to send a message to both the Member of Parliament and the Councillor for the area that, "if the road don't fix before election we will be staying at home."
