16 years ago, I witnessed my Bengali parents lose hope due to my father’s illness. He was diagnosed with Idiopathic Torsion Dystonia. Due to his sickness, my father was forced to move to the United States and leaving his family because the United States is one of the only countries with the treatment for his sickness. Then five years later my father had a stroke and spent weeks going from hospital to hospital to receive care. That was the first time in my life I saw my mother