This is Maricela, a tenacious 45-year-old single mother of sev… Maricela Albarran needs your support for Helping Maricela fight her seco
I never really expected this day to come back. I honestly thought the first time would be it. Just, life hits a funny way, like a "ríe payaso" sorta way; one moment we're celebrating having moved into a house where the kids can settle into a comfortable neighborhood with a good school, and the next we're scraping everything together to make ends meet while taking care of the children, managing the house, and driving a cancer survivor to chemo 10 years after remission.
Ríe payaso. Through the heartbreak and pain, ríe.
I'm reaching out on a limb here. I want to get my mom the help she needs to make this second round of breast cancer easier on her, but it's hard when everything around you crumbles and you have to stay upright for everyone else pretending it's all fine and you have it together, and I'm speaking from her pov. I know she has it unbearably tough right now and is struggling to keep up with her treatments.
The hair loss is the least of her worries; her skin is cracking on the back of her hands, patches of red irritation on her neck and chest, the port they surgically placed in her chest keeps flaring with the slightest touch making things like getting dressed or putting on her seatbelt tearfully painful. And to top it off, the person who should be by her side and supporting her the most, who was with her during the first cancer treatment, had the audacity to tell her to her face she's faking it. She's faking cancer for attention.
So please, we need all the attention she can get to help her with this fight, one more round, another two minutes in the ring. Even simply sharing the link would do a world of help with getting her the support she needs in this moment, and I thank you for all the help you're able to provide.
