My 3 Brothers Believe I’m Their Mother

hey I'm Tracy and when I was 13 my mom got pregnant I was an only child so I was very excited but when my dad found out he went nuts he started throwing things everywhere and yelling at my mother I thought he was going crazy but then I heard him shouting that the baby wasn't his my dad had a vasectomy after I was born so that only meant one thing mom had cheated on him dad stormed into my parents bedroom and started throwing things into a bag he called out for me but I was too afraid to go see him he was so angry when I didn't answer he came into my room to talk to me he said he wanted me to go with him but I couldn't stay with someone who behaved like that I said I was staying with mom because she'd need help with the baby dad got really upset he started crying and saying if I loved him I'd take his side and stay with him not take the side of someone who stabbed him in the back I felt really uncomfortable I mean I was just a kid how could I make that choice dad threatened that if I didn't go with him that would be it he'd cut all contact with me I just sat there shaking my head too upset to speak his last words to me were I can't believe you chose to stay with that snake I was in floods of tears as I watched him leave I never saw him again I went with my mother to all her doctor appointments and I was there for her first scan that's when we got a huge shock mom wasn't just pregnant she was having triplets I had no idea who the father of the babies was mom refused to talk about him she just said she made a mistake and the guy didn't even know she was pregnant her pregnancy was rough it's hard when you're having triplets when mom went into labor she was forced to have an emergency c-section she lost so much blood she almost died I felt so helpless all I could do was sit in the waiting room crying as medics rushed past to help my mom one of the nurses tried to make me feel better but nothing she could say could make me stop worrying I couldn't lose her she was all I had they finally let me visit she looked so pale and tired but my three baby brothers were gorgeous the second I held one of them in my arms I was in love mom said promise me that if anything ever happens to me you'll look after your brothers you're being silly I said nothing's gonna happen to you but I could tell it was important to my mom so I promised I'd always be there for my brothers mom let me pick out names and I called them Caleb Christopher and Conrad after my brothers were born life was hard mom suffered postnatal depression which made it hard for her to look after the baby so I did everything for them Caleb's first word was mom but he said it to me I tried to tell him I wasn't his mom I was his sister but he wouldn't stop calling me mom and soon all my brothers called me mom as well mom wasn't too happy but I have to say it was really cute even though I took care of my brothers I still got good grades when I was old enough I applied to Harvard and got accepted I was so happy but I remembered that mom and my brothers needed me so I decided to go to Community College instead when mom found out about it she burst into tears she didn't want me to give up my dreams because of her mistake so I agreed to go to Harvard but then there was a bigger obstacle when my brother's realized I was leaving they didn't take it very well Caleb told me he was going to hold on to me forever so I couldn't leave so I suggested they all moved to Massachusetts with me we got an apartment near campus so it was easy for me to get to classes it was a whole new start for all of us mom was happier and she started taking care of us again but one day I was called out of class when I went to the dean's office there were two policemen waiting they told me my mom had had a heart attack she was in the hospital but it wasn't looking good I couldn't believe it we were supposed to be building a new life together not ending it the police took me to the hospital where my mom was on life support my brothers were already there and I told them everything would be okay but I don't think they believed me I'm not religious but I spent the next day and night praying I'd do anything as long as mom lived I couldn't lose her mom didn't survive that was the worst day of my life I didn't just lose my mother I lost all hope what was the point of doing anything when you can lose it all in the blink of an eye I wanted to take my brother's home with me but it wasn't going to be easy CPS said they should be in foster care I said no way we'd lost her mom we couldn't lose each other they said it was too much for someone my age to look after triplets but I'd been taking care of them since they were born couldn't they see I knew what I was doing I had to go to court but eventually I was awarded full custody of the boys I was their sister and their mom of course I had to drop out of college there was no way I could study and be there for my brother's family was more important than a college degree even from Harvard mom had an insurance policy which was enough to keep us going for a while but it wasn't gonna last forever I needed to find a job but then one of my friends from Harvard called me she said she worked for a freelance writing company and she wondered whether I was interested in writing for them that's how I started my freelance career I made enough money to pay the bills and I could stay home with my brothers instead of having to pay for childcare for the next few years we were a happy family but one morning I woke up feeling wiped out like I hadn't slept I was used to being tired all the time but this was something else it was hard getting out of bed but I had to make sure my brothers got to school as I made their breakfast suddenly I was hit with a massive headache are you okay asked Conrad I'm fine I said popping a couple painkillers but they didn't help in fact my headache got worse and my vision went all blurry suddenly I collapsed my head felt like it was split in two I was in so much pain I thought it was going to die everything went black I couldn't see Conrad Christopher Caleb I shouted I need to go to the emergency room I wanted to be strong for my brothers but I was an agony I couldn't see his thing as they helped me down the stairs to get a cab halfway down I collapsed they couldn't hold on to me and I fell down the last few stairs I was lucky not to break my neck I was screaming in pain all the way to the hospital my brothers were panicking yelling at the driver to go faster we rushed to the emergency room and as soon as they saw me they got me to an examination room the doctor told me I had something called giant cell arteritis it's when the arteries which support the optic nerve in the eye become inflamed blocking the nerve so it can't get enough blood there's a cure right I said you can give me a pill or something I'm sorry the doctor said there's no cure you're permanently blind I felt like my world shattered into a million pieces I couldn't be blind I had to look after my brother's I begged the doctor to do something there had to be a cure there just had to be but the doctor said there was nothing he could do my brother's came to visit me Conrad said they brought me flowers so the smell would cheer me up but it made me miserable what's the point of smelling flowers you can't see CPS put the triplets into foster care but they couldn't find a family to take all three of them so they were placed with separate families it broke my heart to think of them all alone without me to help them with their homework or talk through their problems but what could I do I was blind and useless I thought things couldn't get any worse I was wrong the doctors did a lot of tests on me when I lost my sight they told me the reason I'd been so tired was because I had leukemia if I didn't start treatment right away I would be dead in six months of course I started treatment but it was so stressful all I could think about was how I was going to look after my brothers when I was out of the hospital how could we pay our bills when I had to pay for chemotherapy at last the doctors said I could go home but the thought of being out of the spittle filled me with dread I had to prove to CPS again that I could look after my brothers but I didn't know if I could I was disabled and struggling to cope with being blind I didn't have a job the only reason I still had my apartment was because of my mom's insurance policy but that money was running out I went to meeting after meeting with CPS and pretended everything was fine but inside I was falling apart the only thing that kept me going was the promise I'd made to my mom but I couldn't help thinking they'd be better off without me eventually CPS said the boys could come back to live with me but I was worried they'd made the wrong decision I cried all the time when my brothers were in school I felt like my life was over I was supposed to be a Harvard graduate in a well paid job not blind unemployed and struggling to raise three boys one day I was sitting on my bed crying when I heard Caleb say to me What's Wrong Caleb I gasped you're supposed to be at school Caleb told me he'd forgotten his homework so he'd come back for it and found me like this it all came flooding out I told him about how I always wanted to be a writer but now I was useless you're not useless said Caleb he told me how much he loved me and said I could still be a writer I could use the software I'm left and told him not to be stupid we didn't have the money for the software I needed so Caleb said he'd do the typing for me every day after he'd finished his homework Caleb sat down with me to write my book I'd always planned on writing the next big American novel but Caleb told me I needed to write my autobiography he'd said I was an inspiration the last thing I felt like was an inspiration but he was right my life would make a good book it took over a year of hard work but at last we had a book I was proud of I sent it to a few publishers but they all rejected it so I published it myself I didn't think anyone would buy it but in that first month I sold thousand copies I had loads of five-star reviews people really loved it then I had an email from a publishing company they said they loved my book and wanted me to write another one for them they offered me a huge advance I'm finally a best-selling author and that's why I wanted to make this film if I can make my dreams come true after everything I've been through so can you if you enjoyed this video like share and comment for even more stories

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Published: Fri Feb 28 2020