didn’t understand why this was happening to me. I remember asking my mom, “Did I do something wrong?” She held my face gently and said, “No, my love. Life just chose a harder path for you. But you are strong enough to walk it.”
There were many nights when I cried without making a sound. I didn’t want my mom to hear. She was already carrying so much. I could see it in her eyes—the worry, the fear, the helplessness. But every morning, she still smiled for me. She always stood behind me, just like in this photo, holding my shoulders as if she could carry my pain away.
We didn’t have much. Money was always a problem. Every treatment, every visit, every test—it all felt like climbing a mountain with no end. Sometimes we had to choose between things people usually never think twice about.