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Childbirth particularly perilous in Guinea-Bissau

By KRISTA LARSON July 22, 2012 6:10 PM

GABU, Guinea-Bissau — Fatumata Djau gave birth to her fourth daughter alone, at home, in the dark. she arrived at the hospital at 3 a.m. with the newborn still attached, and the midwife cut the cord in the parking lot.

Hours later, the 32-year-old mother lies listless on her side as sweat beads trickle down her back. she has lost a lot of blood, and the maternity ward is stifling, with no electricity to whirl the rusty ceiling fans to life.

Across the courtyard, first-time mother Aissato Sanha is following doctor’s orders — she is spending the final three weeks of a high-risk pregnancy in a bed literally a dash from the delivery room. But she is young, maybe too young, in her teens, and she has high blood pressure.

Both women are up against the same challenge: Guinea-Bissau is one of the deadliest places in the world to give birth.

Despite some progress, childbirth is still a perilous endeavor across sub-Saharan Africa, and Guinea-Bissau stands out for its dire statistics. A woman has a 1 in 19 chance of maternal death in this tiny country, compared to about 1 in 2,100 in the United States.

Experts say women are increasingly heading to medical centers when things go awry. Lives here, though, come down to whether cell phone networks are working, whether tides will allow boats to set sail. how quickly women can get to hospitals on muddy, rutted paths lit only by the moon, and whether their families can buy the right medicine.

Even then, it can sometimes be too late.

Amid the maze of packed beds at the Gabu Regional Hospital, Djau’s distraught relatives cluster around her bed in the tiny ward. the room reeks of iodine and bed pans. the howls of labor pain form a chorus with the cries of newborns swaddled in rusty bassinets.

“Give life without dying,” reads the poster taped above the chairs where women deliver their babies. it is apt — Guinea-Bissau’s maternal mortality rate is the fourth-highest in the world, after Afghanistan, Somalia and Chad. But few can read the sign anyway, because 60 percent of women here are illiterate.

Most women still prefer to have babies in their villages, where they sit in a stew of warm water and banana leaves as matrons coax labor along. However, if anything goes wrong, they are often far from a hospital.

As in many parts of western Africa, Guinea-Bissau’s hospitals are few and far between. A journey of just 11 miles can take three hours by foot, or cost up to 10,000 francs ($20) for a car, should one happen to be available.

Entrenched cultural practices can make the fight to save mothers’ lives harder. here, 13-year-old brides have children before their bodies are ready — about 7 percent of girls under 15 are already married, according to UNICEF.

Nearly all women in the Gabu region have undergone female genital mutilation. More than 20 percent had the most extreme form, which involves stitching a woman’s vagina shut so that only a small hole remains — a serious health risk during labor and delivery.

Even if a mother gets to a hospital, families must purchase anesthesia drugs before emergency operations can take place. while Djau is hooked up to an IV, a brother is sent out to buy medicine to stop the blood loss.

He comes back with a plastic bag of drugs from the pharmacy, but the midwife tells him he’s been given the wrong one. he sets off again, as their sister paces tearfully in the courtyard.

Medics explain that Djau is hemorrhaging badly because she didn’t deliver the placenta after giving birth at home. around 4 p.m., she suddenly begins to convulse in her bed.

The midwife is summoned and attempts CPR, in front of an open room full of other new mothers. A cleaning woman furiously guards the door, as other family members rush to see Djau.

The efforts to save her show no signs of working. Her distraught female relatives begin pouring out into the courtyard. it takes the strength of several women to keep her mother from collapsing to the ground.

Their cries of grief echo through the ward indoors, where her husband wipes tears from his face as the midwife checks for a pulse one last time. Her eyes remain open to the ceiling, her lips parted weakly. the midwife covers her body and face with the same orange, brown and blue wax print fabric she had been wearing around her waist.

Djau’s family lifts her lifeless body into the back of a bush taxi. Relatives on motorcycles follow the makeshift hearse in a slow procession back to her home.

Not long after Djau’s death, Aissato Sanha shuffles over to the maternity ward with her mother by her side. She’s given her age as 18, but the midwife believes she’s as young as 15.

It is a triumph for health workers that Aissato is here at all.

The hospital has a House of Mothers, a building just a few minutes’ walk away from a delivery room, where women count down the anxious days to birth under close medical supervision.

Outreach teams from a program operated by Caritas and Catholic Relief Services now regularly head into remote villages to identify high-risk pregnant mothers and relocate some closer to medical services. the teams also train traditional birthing matrons, helping them to determine when it’s time to get women to the hospital.

Such efforts have made inroads in sub-Saharan Africa: the United Nations reported recently that the number of women dying from pregnancy and childbirth has nearly halved over the last two decades.

But even now, and even at the hospital, it is touch-and-go. Generators only hum to life when a surgery is being performed. There is no power for refrigeration to store blood donations, and no electricity to run incubators for babies who have come too soon.

A typed list pinned to the bulletin board in the hallway shows the grim statistics at Gabu hospital alone: Four mothers died here in January, seven in February and three in March. There were no totals kept for April, when a military junta seized power, or for the chaotic month of May that followed.

As the sun falls, the head midwife at the hospital works with only a flashlight tucked under her chin and sometimes the glow of a candle on a nearby countertop to guide her.

The night wears on, and Aissato tosses restlessly in the one-room ward lit only by candles. at one point, she catches a glimpse of another woman’s baby coming out legs first, as the staff scream at her to push or the baby will die.

Tears stream down Aissato’s bewildered face as her water breaks on the floor near the nurse’s station. it puddles around the stools where they are logging each stillborn, each close call.

But by 10:30 a.m. the next day, her baby is no closer to birth. the hospital’s director is called, opinions are shared. Aissato must have a Cesarean section, an expensive but lifesaving procedure for both her and her child.

“You must buy these drugs now or the baby will die,” the surgeon tells her mother firmly as she sets off briskly to the neighborhood pharmacy.

Once the supplies arrive in a coral plastic shopping bag, Aissato, her mother, the doctor and the nurses walk over to the operation room.

After the surgery, as Aissato’s mother tends to her in a hallway, staff workers approach her father to see the baby. When shown the little boy who had struggled for so many hours to enter the world, the grandfather recoils with horror on his face.

The baby is missing part of a leg and waves around hands that have fingers webbed together. One eye socket is completely obscured by a cleft palate that stretches across a head far too large for his little body.

Aissato most likely took some kind of medicine in the early weeks of her pregnancy that caused the severe malformities, medical officials said. it was not discovered in an ultrasound because she never had one.

The decision is made not to show Aissato or her mother the little boy, who instead snores on a table in the corner of the delivery ward.

The midwives don’t know whether Aissato’s family will take the baby home. some families don’t, others do but only to neglect the disabled child.

As staff arrive for the start of a new shift in the maternity ward, news spreads of Djau’s death from the day before. Why didn’t her initial blood tests show how sick she really was? Why did it take so long for her to get there from the outskirts of town? Why did her husband wake up only when the baby started to cry?

“It was her fourth child — how did she not know she was in labor? Why did she choose to give birth at home all alone?” head midwife Maria Antoneta Cabral Barbosa says, shaking her head as she looks over her medical chart. “It stuns me.”

At a tidy cottage on the outskirts of Gabu with donkeys tied out front, mourners gather to comfort her 74-year-old widower, who is now left with four motherless girls.

The women crowd tearfully inside the windowless, dark entry room, while the men sit on floor mats in the family’s backyard as chickens and children scamper past. Djau’s 5-year-old, Halimato, smiles and clings playfully to her father, oblivious to the mourning all around her. Her 13-year-old sister, Roqui, sits on the sidelines, all too aware of how their lives have changed.

“She was a great confidante,” Djae Embalo said of his wife of 14 years. “I was sick for six years and she took care of me. Then when she was ill I could do nothing to save her. Now I am alone.”

Female relatives bring out Djau’s motherless newborn, who is swaddled in a scrap of bright orange and blue cloth, her head a mess of thick curly hair. what to feed her? her father wonders aloud. He’s heard of formula but is not sure how it works or how he will afford it.

And what to call her? Her mother died before they had chosen a name.

In the end, the little girl is called Mama Saliu Embalo. it is a boy’s name in the Fula language, after a tradition designed to protect children whose mothers have died during childbirth. this way, the mother cannot find the child and reclaim it — a belief that underlines just how high infant mortality is after a mother dies.

In the meantime, Aissato’s little boy is taken to an orphanage in the capital.

Aissato did not choose a name for him.

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Childbirth particularly perilous in Guinea-Bissau

The Associated Press: Childbirth particularly perilous in Guinea-Bissau

Childbirth particularly perilous in Guinea-Bissau

GABU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Fatumata Djau gave birth to her fourth daughter alone, at home, in the dark. she arrived at the hospital at 3 a.m. with the newborn still attached, and the midwife cut the cord in the parking lot.

Hours later, the 32-year-old mother lies listless on her side as sweat beads trickle down her back. she has lost a lot of blood, and the maternity ward is stifling, with no electricity to whirl the rusty ceiling fans to life.

Across the courtyard, first-time mother Aissato Sanha is following doctor’s orders — she is spending the final three weeks of a high-risk pregnancy in a bed literally a dash from the delivery room. But she is young, maybe too young, in her teens, and she has high blood pressure.

Both women are up against the same challenge: Guinea-Bissau is one of the deadliest places in the world to give birth.

Despite some progress, childbirth is still a perilous endeavor across sub-Saharan Africa, and Guinea-Bissau stands out for its dire statistics. A woman has a 1 in 19 chance of maternal death in this tiny country, compared to about 1 in 2,100 in the United States.

Experts say women are increasingly heading to medical centers when things go awry. Lives here, though, come down to whether cell phone networks are working, whether tides will allow boats to set sail. How quickly women can get to hospitals on muddy, rutted paths lit only by the moon, and whether their families can buy the right medicine.

Even then, it can sometimes be too late.

Amid the maze of packed beds at the Gabu Regional Hospital, Djau’s distraught relatives cluster around her bed in the tiny ward. the room reeks of iodine and bed pans. the howls of labor pain form a chorus with the cries of newborns swaddled in rusty bassinets.

“Give life without dying,” reads the poster taped above the chairs where women deliver their babies. it is apt — Guinea-Bissau’s maternal mortality rate is the fourth-highest in the world, after Afghanistan, Somalia and Chad. But few can read the sign anyway, because 60 percent of women here are illiterate.

Most women still prefer to have babies in their villages, where they sit in a stew of warm water and banana leaves as matrons coax labor along. however, if anything goes wrong, they are often far from a hospital.

As in many parts of western Africa, Guinea-Bissau’s hospitals are few and far between. A journey of just 11 miles can take three hours by foot, or cost up to 10,000 francs ($20) for a car, should one happen to be available.

Entrenched cultural practices can make the fight to save mothers’ lives harder. here, 13-year-old brides have children before their bodies are ready — about 7 percent of girls under 15 are already married, according to UNICEF.

Nearly all women in the Gabu region have undergone female genital mutilation. more than 20 percent had the most extreme form, which involves stitching a woman’s vagina shut so that only a small hole remains — a serious health risk during labor and delivery.

Even if a mother gets to a hospital, families must purchase anesthesia drugs before emergency operations can take place. while Djau is hooked up to an IV, a brother is sent out to buy medicine to stop the blood loss.

He comes back with a plastic bag of drugs from the pharmacy, but the midwife tells him he’s been given the wrong one. he sets off again, as their sister paces tearfully in the courtyard.

Medics explain that Djau is hemorrhaging badly because she didn’t deliver the placenta after giving birth at home. around 4 p.m., she suddenly begins to convulse in her bed.

The midwife is summoned and attempts CPR, in front of an open room full of other new mothers. A cleaning woman furiously guards the door, as other family members rush to see Djau.

The efforts to save her show no signs of working. her distraught female relatives begin pouring out into the courtyard. it takes the strength of several women to keep her mother from collapsing to the ground.

Their cries of grief echo through the ward indoors, where her husband wipes tears from his face as the midwife checks for a pulse one last time. her eyes remain open to the ceiling, her lips parted weakly. the midwife covers her body and face with the same orange, brown and blue wax print fabric she had been wearing around her waist.

Djau’s family lifts her lifeless body into the back of a bush taxi. Relatives on motorcycles follow the makeshift hearse in a slow procession back to her home.

Not long after Djau’s death, Aissato Sanha shuffles over to the maternity ward with her mother by her side. She’s given her age as 18, but the midwife believes she’s as young as 15.

It is a triumph for health workers that Aissato is here at all.

The hospital has a House of Mothers, a building just a few minutes’ walk away from a delivery room, where women count down the anxious days to birth under close medical supervision.

Outreach teams from a program operated by Caritas and Catholic Relief Services now regularly head into remote villages to identify high-risk pregnant mothers and relocate some closer to medical services. the teams also train traditional birthing matrons, helping them to determine when it’s time to get women to the hospital.

Such efforts have made inroads in sub-Saharan Africa: the United Nations reported recently that the number of women dying from pregnancy and childbirth has nearly halved over the last two decades.

But even now, and even at the hospital, it is touch-and-go. Generators only hum to life when a surgery is being performed. there is no power for refrigeration to store blood donations, and no electricity to run incubators for babies who have come too soon.

A typed list pinned to the bulletin board in the hallway shows the grim statistics at Gabu hospital alone: Four mothers died here in January, seven in February and three in March. there were no totals kept for April, when a military junta seized power, or for the chaotic month of May that followed.

As the sun falls, the head midwife at the hospital works with only a flashlight tucked under her chin and sometimes the glow of a candle on a nearby countertop to guide her.

The night wears on, and Aissato tosses restlessly in the one-room ward lit only by candles. at one point, she catches a glimpse of another woman’s baby coming out legs first, as the staff scream at her to push or the baby will die.

Tears stream down Aissato’s bewildered face as her water breaks on the floor near the nurse’s station. it puddles around the stools where they are logging each stillborn, each close call.

But by 10:30 a.m. the next day, her baby is no closer to birth. the hospital’s director is called, opinions are shared. Aissato must have a Cesarean section, an expensive but lifesaving procedure for both her and her child.

“You must buy these drugs now or the baby will die,” the surgeon tells her mother firmly as she sets off briskly to the neighborhood pharmacy.

Once the supplies arrive in a coral plastic shopping bag, Aissato, her mother, the doctor and the nurses walk over to the operation room.

After the surgery, as Aissato’s mother tends to her in a hallway, staff workers approach her father to see the baby. when shown the little boy who had struggled for so many hours to enter the world, the grandfather recoils with horror on his face.

The baby is missing part of a leg and waves around hands that have fingers webbed together. one eye socket is completely obscured by a cleft palate that stretches across a head far too large for his little body.

Aissato most likely took some kind of medicine in the early weeks of her pregnancy that caused the severe malformities, medical officials said. it was not discovered in an ultrasound because she never had one.

The decision is made not to show Aissato or her mother the little boy, who instead snores on a table in the corner of the delivery ward.

The midwives don’t know whether Aissato’s family will take the baby home. Some families don’t, others do but only to neglect the disabled child.

As staff arrive for the start of a new shift in the maternity ward, news spreads of Djau’s death from the day before. Why didn’t her initial blood tests show how sick she really was? Why did it take so long for her to get there from the outskirts of town? Why did her husband wake up only when the baby started to cry?

“It was her fourth child — how did she not know she was in labor? Why did she choose to give birth at home all alone?” head midwife Maria Antoneta Cabral Barbosa says, shaking her head as she looks over her medical chart. “It stuns me.”

At a tidy cottage on the outskirts of Gabu with donkeys tied out front, mourners gather to comfort her 74-year-old widower, who is now left with four motherless girls.

The women crowd tearfully inside the windowless, dark entry room, while the men sit on floor mats in the family’s backyard as chickens and children scamper past. Djau’s 5-year-old, Halimato, smiles and clings playfully to her father, oblivious to the mourning all around her. her 13-year-old sister, Roqui, sits on the sidelines, all too aware of how their lives have changed.

“She was a great confidante,” Djae Embalo said of his wife of 14 years. “I was sick for six years and she took care of me. Then when she was ill I could do nothing to save her. now I am alone.”

Female relatives bring out Djau’s motherless newborn, who is swaddled in a scrap of bright orange and blue cloth, her head a mess of thick curly hair. What to feed her? her father wonders aloud. He’s heard of formula but is not sure how it works or how he will afford it.

And what to call her? her mother died before they had chosen a name.

In the end, the little girl is called Mama Saliu Embalo. it is a boy’s name in the Fula language, after a tradition designed to protect children whose mothers have died during childbirth. this way, the mother cannot find the child and reclaim it — a belief that underlines just how high infant mortality is after a mother dies.

In the meantime, Aissato’s little boy is taken to an orphanage in the capital.

Aissato did not choose a name for him.

Copyright © 2012 the associated Press. All rights reserved.

The Associated Press: Childbirth particularly perilous in Guinea-Bissau

Viewing Events For ‘Transit Of Venus’

It sounds like the name of a rock band, but if you know anything about space you’ll know the Transit of Venus is a once-in-a-lifetime viewing event.

This evening, there are some free public viewing events where you can see it.

Huntsville

The U.S. Space & Rocket Center and the Von Braun Astronomical Society will host a free public viewing for the Transit of Venus from 4:30-8 p.m. outside the Davidson Center for Space Exploration.  This phenomenon is viewable shortly after 5 p.m. and remains visible for nearly three hours until sunset, which is scheduled for 7:57 p.m.  Telescopes and safe-viewing equipment will be available to spectators.  There will also be an astronomy-themed activity for children starting at 5:30 p.m.

Decatur

Decatur Heritage Christian Academy will host a public viewing event in the school’s front parking lot.  Dr. Gordon Telepun, a Decatur plastic surgeon and space enthusiast, will set up a telescope and project the event on a portable screen so everyone can see it.  DHCA asks that you arrive about 4:30 p.m. to orient yourselves with the details of the Transit of Venus.

About the Event

The Transit of Venus takes place when Venus passes directly between Earth and the Sun, appearing as a small dot gliding slowly across the face of the Sun.  The 2012 transit is a seven-hour journey, but is only visible for a certain period of time depending on your geographic location.  Historically, this rare alignment is how astronomers measured the size of our solar system.  The last Transit of Venus took place in 2004, but after 2012 there will not be another until 2117.  Venus transits occur in pairs that are eight years apart, and then separated by long gaps of more than 100 years.

Here’s more information about the Transit of Venus on our weather blog, Valleywx.com.

Viewing Events For ‘Transit Of Venus’

NFL Capsules – Scrimmages and Overall: Foster scores twice in Texans’ win

Smith threw for 126 yards and an interception in coach Jim Harbaugh’s home debut, getting showered with a mix of boos and cheers in the San Francisco 49ers’ 17-3 preseason victory over the cross-bay rival Oakland Raiders on Saturday night.

“We improved from last week. but if we want to be the team we’re talking about being, we have to finish in the red zone and can’t turn the ball over,” Smith said. “In my thinking, those first few drives, we didn’t finish and then had the pick. Can’t do that.”

The game was also was marred by violence.

There was at least one fight in the lower bowl of the stadium during the game, which is not uncommon at any sporting event, let alone one between rival teams. but afterward, word began spreading quickly of another incident outside.

Two men were shot and injured in the parking lot, according to police. the victims are a 20-year-old man who is expected to survive and a 24-year-old man who is in a hospital with what authorizes said were life-threatening injuries.

The 49ers released a statement that they were aware of an incident and police were investigating. On the field, they took comfort in the small strides from last week.

While the running game racked up huge chunks of yards, the passing game wasn’t always crisp.

Smith was 8 for 13 and came up empty in the end zone. he had a pass intercepted by defensive end Matt Shaughnessy in the second quarter and led the 49ers to a field goal in one half of play.

The 2005 no. 1 overall pick at least left healthy. Oakland starting quarterback Jason Campbell didn’t return after taking a couple of blows on a scramble play in the second quarter. he was scheduled to have test for a concussion.

Bay Area fans might have left with more questions than answers about the two starting quarterbacks.

Although San Francisco’s offense was a complete turnaround after a 24-3 loss in the exhibition opener at New Orleans last week, Smith’s performance mimicked so many others from his previous six seasons: he anchored three long drives, showed signs of progress and made one major mistake.

With second-round pick Colin Kaepernick waiting on the sidelines, the pressure is on Smith to finally perform. Kaepernick threw for 52 yards on 6-for-8 passing and — like Smith — benefited in long drives by a strong running game led by Kendall Hunter, who finished with 105 yards and a touchdown on nine carries.

“There’s a lot to learn, new terminology and stuff like that,” Hunter said. “With new coaches, you just got to adjust and learn everybody and get used to everybody.”

The Niners opened with a 16-play, 79-yard drive that stalled 2 yards short of the goal line. the ensuing field goal attempt was botched because holder Andy Lee couldn’t corral the snap, throwing the ball away and injuring his hip getting pounded to the ground by defenders.

On the second drive, Smith tried to squeeze a pass to tight end Vernon Davis on the left sideline, Shaughnessy dropped into coverage and was gift-wrapped an interception. Smith walked off the field to a slight chorus of boos, the only cheers coming from Raiders fans.

Smith, the presumed regular-season starter, said he never saw Shaughnessy drop into coverage. Both Smith and Harbaugh believe it was an error in recognizing coverage and not a reminder of past mistakes.

“We talked about (the interception),” Harbaugh said. “We feel that’s a correctable thing. I know why it happened. we just have to do a little better job of our eyes.”

The best highlight of the night for the 49ers came when new receiver Braylon Edwards made a one-handed catch on the sideline for 32 yards on final drive for the first-team offense. San Francisco settled for a 23-yard field goal by David Akers, who also had one punt blocked filling in for Lee.

Not that the news was any better on the other sideline.

The Raiders already were without several key players because of injuries, notably receivers Jacoby Ford and Louis Murphy and running back Darren McFadden. now they could be adding another to the list.

Campbell was hurt late in the second quarter when he scrambled to his left, was tackled by Justin Smith and appeared to take a knee to the helmet from linebacker Ahmad Brooks. Campbell was down on the ground briefly while being checked out by trainers.

“The ball got knocked out of my hands. I tried to go dive on it and caught a knee to the head,” Campbell said. “

He sat on the bench after being replaced by Trent Edwards, finishing with 74 yards passing. Sebastian Janikowski made a 46-yard field goal in the fourth quarter for Oakland’s only score.

Raiders coach Hue Jackson, still searching for his first win at the helm of the silver and black, didn’t blame the injuries for the poor performance.

“That has nothing to do with tonight,” Jackson said. “Tonight we didn’t play Raider football. we didn’t play like a Raider. That’s just the truth. Let’s call it like it is.”

Hunter had a 52-yard TD rush in the third quarter and Xavier Omon ran for another from 5 yards out in the fourth quarter.

After losing 24-18 to the Arizona Cardinals in its preseason opener, Oakland didn’t exactly make any strides the second time out. the Raiders, who have struggled to find the end zone once they’re close, have only scored one touchdown in eight trips inside the 30 this preseason.

“I think we are still knocking some rust off,” defensive tackle Richard Seymour said. “It is good to get out here and work with our teammates, but we still have a lot of work to do.”

NOTES: Raiders TE Kevin Boss had a left knee injury. … Lee was scheduled to undergo test on his hip. Harbaugh said he didn’t think the injury was serious.

Raiders QB Campbell leaves with injury

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Oakland quarterback Jason Campbell was knocked out of the Raiders’ exhibition game against the San Francisco 49ers on Saturday night with a possible concussion after getting kneed in the helmet.

Campbell was hurt while scrambling on a play late in the second quarter. he lost the ball on the play and then got hit by defensive lineman Justin Smith and linebacker Ahmad Brooks as he fell to the ground to recover his own fumble.

“I tried to go dive on it and caught a knee to the head,” Campbell said. “We just have to run some tests and make sure it’s not a concussion.”

Campbell sat alone on the bench for the rest of the first half and did not come back to the field in the second half. he was going for tests Saturday night to determine whether he had a concussion. Campbell said he has had a slight concussion once before in his career.

This marks the second straight year that Campbell got hurt in an exhibition game against San Francisco. he got a stinger last year that affected him early in the regular season.

Campbell was 5 for 7 for 74 yards in two-plus series as the Raiders lost the game 17-3. Oakland did not score with Campbell on the field, going three-and-out on his first drive and failing to push it in after driving to the 1 in the second quarter.

Campbell completed a 22-yard pass to Darrius Heyward-Bey that put the ball at the San Francisco 2. Campbell then rolled out on first down and appeared to have Kevin Boss open in the back of the end zone. but Campbell tried to run it in and was dragged down for a 1-yard loss by Patrick Willis.

“One thing we’re trying to learn is we have to finish,” Campbell said. “The only play I regret from tonight is probably that one. It’s a run first play but at the same time you should try to give him a shot in the back of the end zone.”

Michael Bush ran it to the 1 on the next play, but Marcel Reece was hit for a 1-yard loss on third down and Campbell got sacked when he had no open receivers on fourth down.

“We have to finish those drives down there with touchdowns,” coach Hue Jackson said. “That’s what the expectation is. again, we didn’t get it done.”

Campbell then got hurt after Oakland moved the ball into San Francisco territory on the next drive.

Boss also left the game with an injured left knee after getting by a helmet after a catch.

“It’s nothing serious, that’s for sure,” Boss said. “Take a little time to heal up.”

Two shot in S.F. parking lot after Raiders-49ers game

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — a man wearing a shirt slamming the San Francisco 49ers was seriously wounded as gunfire erupted in the parking lot after the team’s NFL preseason game, while another man sustained lesser injuries in an earlier shooting, police said.

The violence occurred after the 49ers’ 17-3 victory Saturday night over the Oakland Raiders at Candlestick Park, police Sgt. Michael Andraychak said.

A 24-year-old man was treated at San Francisco General Hospital for life-threatening injuries, and a 20-year-old man was hospitalized with less serious wounds, Andraychack told the Associated Press. their names were not released.

The violence comes months after a San Francisco Giants fan was severely beaten by two men in Los Angeles Dodgers gear outside Dodger Stadium after the teams’ season opener March 31. two suspects have been charged in the case.

Police Sgt. Frank Harrell said that in Saturday’s attack the 24-year-old man, who was wearing a T-shirt referring to the 49ers with an obscenity, was shot two to four times in the stomach, according to reports in the Oakland Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle. he drove his truck to a gate and stumbled to security, Harrell said.

The other man was shot before that in the parking lot and had superficial face injuries, Harrell said.

“We are treating it as separate shootings, but we believe they are related,” Harrell told reporters outside the stadium.

Harrell said police took a man in a Raiders jersey off a party bus before it left the stadium and were calling him a suspect.

The suspect and the two victims had all attended the game, Harrell told the newspapers.

The 49ers issued a statement acknowledging the shootings and the investigation, but offering no further details.

In violence during the game, the Oakland Tribune reported that a 26-year-old San Rafael man was assaulted and knocked unconscious in a men’s restroom. Police said he was hospitalized and a suspect was arrested. There was no immediate indication that it was connected to the postgame shootings.

In the Giants fan attack in March, the two men accused in the beating, Louie Sanchez, 28, and Marvin Norwood, 30, have pleaded not guilty.

Bryan Stow, a Santa Cruz paramedic, suffered severe brain injuries and remains hospitalized.

Stow’s doctor said this month that he has made “significant improvement” despite a series of ups and downs since his near-fatal attack. he said Stow is awake, breathing on his own, can move slightly and has been able to interact with his family.

The attack drew widespread attention and focusing the spotlight on security at Dodger Stadium, and the intense rivalry among Dodgers and Giants fans.

Other NFL News

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My World: Getting to know YOU

So I was looking at the questions for Getting to know YOU and I really wanted to play along.  if you want to play along a day late too just click on right here and have fun.  
1. if you accidentally knick a car in a parking lot..Do you leave a note or do you get the heck out of there?
Dewayne backed into a car a few years ago and I am telling you I SO wanted to drive away but the good person in me that my Mamma raised right reported it to the driver.  
Now it is a whole nother story if it is a knick from my door or the kid’s door….sorry for yah!!!  No one has ever reported it to me when they have banged into my door with theirs and I am not gonna be any better than them…(hides her face in shame because she knows better than this but refuses to have to pay for damaging someones door when no one pays her).
2. Love your body or plastic surgery?
We go through this question quite a bit on these blog hops…..I want plastic surgery but in order to have the plastic surgery I need to have the money :o )  I need to win the lottery….bad!!!

3. What about your favorite blog(s) continues to drive you back?
This is something I have been thinking about a lot lately.  There are a lot of blogs that I read every day and the one thing that brings me back is when someone is being themselves.  I love to see pictures, read funny stories about your children, pets and spouses, I like to read about new craft projects and see what you have been cooking up in the kitchen.  one thing I hate is when a blog owner starts to get really popular and her whole blog changes.  The things I loved reading are no longer being written and it seems that the only things being written are things to try to keep an audience.
I don’t like fake blogs or fake people!!!

4. What percent of your blog is BS just to make your life seem more interesting than it really is?
Do we need to go back to question 3???  My blog is 100% true, I might not write the bad and the ugly but that is just because I don’t want to bore you or scare you away LOL.  I can say one thing that I try not to do on this blog that I am really bad at in real life….cursing!!  I have a bad mouth, not all the time bad but it can be pretty bad….yeah ok, it’s bad!!!  I know when to not say bad words but I do say them quite a bit.

5. if you had to give up one type of meat for the rest of your life, what would it be?
FISH!!!  I have had enough fish for 5 peoples lifetime!!!  My Dad was a fisherman so fish was something that we ate for FREE….are you starting to get where this is going?  We ate fish ALL the time!!!

6. How often to you eat out?
Way too often.  Lately I have been eating a lot of junk because I am too busy redoing my apartment to cook.  Heck, I am too busy to eat, sleep or do anything else for that matter.  it will be worth it in the end though!

7. Skinny jeans or boot cut jeans?
Both but mostly boot cut jeans!!!

8. if you caught your spouse cheating would you forgive, divorce, or plan your kill?
It’s hard to answer this question unless you have been or are in this situation.  I can honestly say that I can not forgive or forget something so horrifying!!!  I think I would go Loraina Bobbitt on the man!!!


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