Christina Puntorno

What inspired your most recent tattoo?

I THOUGHT IT WAS WAS FOR A DRAWING I DID FOR A TATTOO ARTIST WOULD DO ON ME AND THE ARTIST WHO TATTOED WHO WIN THE $ AND I WOULD GET THE TATTOO. MY INSPIRATION IS THE LOSS AND GRIEF I HELD IN MY HEART FOR SO MANY YEARS WHEN MY DAUGHTER KALI FAITH WAS BORN IN 2005 PREMATURE AND BORN ALIVE FOR FEW HOURS AND SHE PASSED AWAY IN MY ARMS. BACK THEN 2 WEEKS SHY THEY DRS SAID HER BEING VIABLBILITY IS 24 WEEKS HER LUNGS WERENT STRONG ENOUGH

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

WHICH WHEN SHE WAS BORN SHE BREATHED WITH NO HELP AND LIVED FOR 2 HOURS. 2 YEARS LATER I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH LUPUS SLE AND KEPT GETTING I KEPT HAVING CHEST PAINS AND NO DRS COULD FIGURE OUT THE ISSUE ALL HOSPITALS KEPT SAYING I HAD A VIRUS IN MY CHEST WALL. I HAD ENLARGED THYMUS WHICH NEEDED TO BE REMOVED.I HAD TO GO TO DEBORAH HOSPITAL I HAD STOP MY JOURNEY WITH NURSING SCHOOL. I DID CERTFIED AS HHA & CNA & GOING 4 NEXT STEP NEONATAL CARE SO NO MOTHER GOES THROUGH THE LOSS I WEN

What would you do with the $25,000?

DEBORAHA HOSPITAL DID BOTCH SURGERY MY HEALTH INS & CHARITY CARE WAS SUPPOSE TO KEEP ME FOR 2 WEEKS I WAS DISCHARGED NEXT DAY BEING TOLD A NURSE A HELP WOULD COME TO MY HOME TO HELP. TIL THIS DAY I NEED SURGERY REDONE.I WAS SUFFERING FROM LOSS OF MY DAUGHTER & MY DIAGNOSIS I ENDED UP RESCUING A DOG BEAGLE NAMED MILO I WAS SUFFERING & MILO SAVED ME. I ADVOCATE KILL SHELTER NYCACC & OTHER SHELTERS. MILO HELPED ME OVERCOME THE PAIN I FELT IN MY HEART. WHEN HE DIED IN 2019 IT