Charistoula Karioti: The woman who became a mother at the age of 63 gave another interview. Her children are now 23 years old and studying. One of her sons is intended as an economist and the other as a journalist. Charistoula Karioti spoke on various topics, answering all the questions asked.
Question: How many years did you want a child and Mr. Charistoula did not come?
Charistoula Karioti - Answer: "My husband and I have been married for 20 years, without a child. We had gone to doctors in Athens, in Thessaloniki… I did not have a serious problem, and even though my age was progressing, I said "I will have a child!"
Question: What did the doctors in your 60s tell you now?
Charistoula Karioti - Answer: "Before, my doctors used to say 'you are big, live your life, eat your money, you do not have children'".
Question: In your village Archangelos, what was your name? "With me, whatever you want, you do more".
Charistoula Karioti - Answer: "But we stacked the francs. Is it the flu? Athens, planes, doctors… Halali money, for my children ".
Question: Did you do it, a medical miracle that made the rounds of the planet then!
Charistoula Karioti - Answer: "My daughter, I was tired of the estates, I was tired, no. I believed I would have children. If you do not believe it you do nothing. My misery, my Panagioula… There was no health problem, I had a period not only then, and after I gave birth to children and long after and years.
After you say to me "Charistoula, do you have a party?" So was my mother. From the lips of the doctor in Athens where I made the children, he says to me “What job do you do, Mr. Kariotis ?, Agrotissa? That is why you are very healthy ". I did general exams, "well done, he says, what foods do you eat?", "Like everyone else", I do not eat meat, only oil and milk. Cigarette, Christ and the Virgin. "Gynecologically you are a doll", they told me. They held a council, they saw, he says "we are moving forward, we have never seen such a woman!" "There is a way to get pregnant!"
Question: With the first IVF attempt, pregnant with triplets!
Charistoula Karioti - Answer: "The world has been embraced. I went back to Rhodes, and I was light, I did not understand anything I say, "so light, nothing happened". I was going to the fields again. And a porter. One day, the doctor Papastergis, who was watching me here, called and said "come, let me see you". I went, he saw me, I leave, I go, I take the bus to Archangelos, when I came, my husband Giannis told me, "the doctor called, you are pregnant with triplets. He ran on the road to catch you and you had disappeared ". Lord, have mercy. He saw me in the machine, and I left, and he ran behind me to tell me "you are pregnant with triplets, in your 60s"! She took my husband, he says "leave me"! What did I pull, my Christ. How I made them, how I gave birth to them, how I raised them! My parents' wishes were.
Question: What did the village say, the people here?
Charistoula Karioti - Answer: "Asta, my daughter. "What did he want, big woman, when to feed them, and when to raise them." The people gossiped and a form that we did not expect so much. We were upset. Gossip… pa, pa, pa. They did not expect me to have a child, 60 years old. To be a girl, to do. Old, big, above the limits? The journalists who passed through here, it is not said. The BBC came, German channels, all Greek and all the well-known journalists from Athens ".
Question: You returned to Athens pregnant with triplets, and the doctors decided to remove one. And the whole planet was watching your progress!
Charistoula Karioti - Answer: "I went to Athens again and the doctors saw that they had to take one out. The journalists came, the people, they talked about a medical miracle, what did science do! They asked me how I did it. If I was sitting in the office too. I told them, they are my parents' wishes. "He took the wishes of his parents and went up the mountain", do you know what he will say? Oh, my Panagioula, and I wish my children too ".
Question: Where did you give birth? They would have you in their feathers!
Charistoula Karioti - Answer: I gave birth in "Alexandra", I was eight months old, everything was normal. People would come and go, and they would bring bouquets, they would have seen me on TV, they would show me and say "are you?". They wrote me letters, wishes, for the children to become good people. They wanted to cut my hair, comb my hair for the photos. Of the dream ".
Question: And when you returned to the village, how were you received?
Charistoula Karioti - Answer: "I was in the car they were bringing us with the babies, and from outside people were saying" Is it Charistoula, is it Charistoula? ". "Calorie babies, calorie babies". God did everything for me, and I breastfed them for two to five months and Angelos pushed Nikolas because he wanted to breastfeed more, and to wash the babies by hand. What to do first. The journalists would come, they would tell us in the village that they were paying us, that we had served them. Shame, to be told such things. We paid, for years. Actors came and found us, Spyros Kalogirou and his wife, and many more ".
Question: What do you say today that you see your boys, now 23 years old, studying?
Charistoula Karioti - Answer: "I made golden children. Angelos graduated from Antena's journalism school and my Nicholas is studying Economics. I have them with me, on Sundays in the church together, they see them and say "her children grew up". Well, what would they do with it. Yes, the children of Giannis, yes, the children of Charistoula. The power of God. A daughter, yes, like you, willingly gave it to me, I did it with one… Glory be to His name ".
The Interview was given to the newspaper "I RODIAKI"
via: Enimerotiko
