Eye gouged out and beaten by a belt; Legacy of abuse in the Walsh family
Maura Walsh comes from a very violent family. Her own mother was blinded as a young girl while being beaten with a belt.
"When she [Grimma's Mother] was younger, my great-grandmother hit her with a belt, and blinded her right eye."
Here is an excerpt from Aunt Brie's blog from May 8, 2019.
In Which My Nana, on Her Deathbed, Taught Me To Stop Expecting Everyone Will Give Me a Fucking Medal For Doing This Mother Thing
May 8th, 2019
"Life is not fair, and life has especially not been fair to my Nana. Or so it appeared to me until this past weekend. When she was younger, my great-grandmother hit her with a belt, and blinded her right eye. The past few months, her left eye has developed glaucoma, and weakened, stealing away her eyesight entirely. She once told my sister and I that she never would have married our grandfather if she hadn’t gotten pregnant with our Uncle Kevin. The two of them met, got engaged, and then he went to train in the air force for the Korean War. While he was gone, he met another woman, and wrote a letter to my Nana, asking for her ring back. Back in New York, he returned, got her pregnant. She raised their six children while also caring for him."
"He [Grimma's father] had four open heart surgeries over the course of their marriage, and also, was schizophrenic, unable to work for long periods of time. Somehow, she was strong enough to not resent him."
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