For Mother’s Day, this mom recalls ‘In all these years I still haven’t cried’ over her daughter’s win against cancer.
Amy De La Cruz and her daughter Sabrina Schiermeyer, who pose in Santa Clarita on Thursday, May 9, 2024, have celebrated 20 Mother’s Days since Amy’s childhood cancer diagnosis at age 10. After 21 years, Amy De La Cruz still remembers in detail the day in 2003 that her little girl was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
In the following weeks, the Sabrina underwent two brain surgeries that confirmed her tumor was malignant. She had to undergo extensive chemotherapy and radiation. De La Cruz had three other children, and what helped her keep going was the support of her family, relatives, friends and husband, who quit his job to take their daughter to endless appointments.
“It takes a village,” De La Cruz said. “Between family and friends and co-workers and therapists here at the , we all are the village.” “I took those skills and tried to apply them as much as I could at home,” De La Cruz remembered. And that created a lot of tension between the mother and daughter.Sabrina Schiermeyer, now 31, recently looked back her constant frustration and anger as a young girl. She had problems with balance and vision. And because her face drooped slightly she couldn’t smile normally — or even cry normally.
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