Carlota Casiano

What inspired your most recent tattoo?

My recent tattoo was never finished because the artist died of sirrosis of the liver it is of the silence we don't speak of all that we go thru when we go thru treatment and how it makes us feel we suffer in silence cause we don't want be a burden to anyone so we suffer alone.

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

No matter all that I have gone thru alone and suffered in silence I am still here like a Phoenix I still rise thru the ashes and am strong like a warrior nothing will get me down and I fight even if I stand alone thru all the battles even losing my mom to cervical cancer and taking care myself with my TTP but still holding it down to care for my dad who has had two strokes and has recovered enough to help me out.

What would you do with the $25,000?

Some would go to bills and some would go to my brother who currently is fighting cancer for medication and treatment. I also get involved in community events that we do for kids like we just did an Easter Egg Hunt we do a trunk or treat in October and in December we do a toy giveaway to those less fortunate in our community those mean so much to me seeing the children happy since cervical cancer prevented me from having children of my own.