One-arm boy eager to return to school

“Ma will I have to go to a one-hand school because I cannot go back to my school?” asked seven-year-old David Sinanan, whose left arm was ripped off near the shoulder by an enraged stallion at a stud farm near his Cunupia home. Sinanan’s question was greeted with a smile from both his mother, Dilmatie Sinanan, 27, and step-father Peter Joseph, who assured him that he will return to his normal school — Ragoonanan Road Government School. With this answer, Sinanan just smiled and hugged his mother at their Craignish Road, Princes Town home yesterday. The child, who had spent almost a month at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, was discharged last Friday.

“He does still have nightmares and jump in his sleep,” David’s step-father Peter Joseph told Newsday during a brief interview at their Craignish Road, Princes Town home. However, Joseph said despite the nightmares David was “coming along well” and had even started to learn to write with his right hand, since David was a natural left-hander. “He was very happy to be back home...and we are glad he is home with us,” Joseph said. Joseph said the boy seemed to be coping well under the circumstances and even joked about having one hand. “He told his sister who spent the weekend with him to call him horse boy,” he added. He said they took Sinanan to visit with his principal, teachers and schoolmates yesterday and he was greeted warmly by everyone. The principal, he said, also requested that they bring him back to the school next Tuesday to visit with them.