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Martha is Melessa’s sister-in-law. She was generous enough to invite us into her home to share her story of growing up in Mexico and teach us how to cook her family’s favorite comfort food, chilaquiles (find the recipe below). Welcome, Martha!
“If I only had a brain.”
That song means more to me than you know.
When I was six years old and living in Massachusetts, I got the chicken pox. No big deal, right? As with any normal case of the virus, the chicken pox spread over the outside of my body. My parents and I had no way of knowing at the time, but unfortunately for me, the chicken pox had also spread inside my body and up my brain stem. The illness was so severe that I have no memory of the experience. I am told that I slipped in and out of consciousness and that I was so out of it that at times I couldn’t even recognize my own parents.
After being sick for a couple days, the fact that I was lying on the ground having a seizure and foaming at the mouth was a sure sign that things had taken a turn for the worse. I was sent to Boston Children’s Hospital. There, the doctors discovered that I had meningitis, encephalitis and Reye’s Syndrome.