What Shouldn’t Have Been

I was a child that wasn’t suppose to be born. When my mother was just three years old, she was diagnosed with Sickle Cell Anemia. The doctors told my grandmother that mom wouldn’t live long enough to become an adult. When she became an adult, doctors told my mom that if she ever got pregnant she would die during childbirth. Two years later, she was pregnant with her one and only child. Me. She brought me into this world and despite what the doctors had said we both went home a few days later. She saw me graduate high school in 2016 and she saw me graduate college in May of 2020. She passed away on July 19, 2020. She is deeply missed and forever loved. She was 55.