Dulce basura

“I think deep down, Kayla knows she’s abandoned me. I feel so bad that she’s moved so far away. Talking now and then is nothing like being here, close to me. Asking how I am during any ‘break from work’ can’t give her a realistic picture of my terrible health or what my daily life is like. If she spent some time with me, maybe she’d get a sense of what my life is really like. If my mother had to spend her days in social housing and had to endure almost eight years of constant harassment, humiliation, verbal and emotional abuse, and other traumatic things like physical threats to her own dog, I would do everything in my power to protect her and get her somewhere safer. On top of battling my health problems, which get a little worse every day, I have to live in this hellish place. And what hurts the most is that I have to do it all alone.”