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Kathy Guerra
It is not enough to say that I am a single parent from a small town in Texas because that would be just part of the wonders of my world. I became fascinated through cursive writing when I started s...view moreIt is not enough to say that I am a single parent from a small town in Texas because that would be just part of the wonders of my world. I became fascinated through cursive writing when I started school. I never would have imagined that I would be blessed with a love of writing poetry. Then again, I learned the hard way that life is more than it seems... just wait and see. In my case it was everything I could not see that made it colorful.
I was born into a family full of hardships and struggles who need to be acknowledged as more than middle-class Mexican Americans making their lives count day by day. I was born in 1979 and it seemed as life would be set in perfection. I was captured in the web of a cancer called Retinoblastoma two years later. So needless to say, there begins my medical struggle. Do you know how hard it is to go on through life with only one eye? Do you know what it feels like to not know what to do when your peers are constantly placing judgement on your physical difference? The crazy things that come with cancer are still happening to me and I am already thirty-one years old.
My daughter is a twisted blessing in my world because she is my reflection. She almost got tangled in the same web as I yet thank God for common sense. I thank knowledge for being my refuge as a child, because as a child I escaped through learning new things. She did get the same diagnosis but at two months of age. Heartbreak. I fought with the doctors about what the better decisions would be. They wanted to repeat the same burden of removing the left eye but I declared that would be the last resort. She is now ten years of age and she has both of her beautiful brown eyes.view less