SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — For Sebastian Cruz-Sanchez, getting ready for the day doesn’t just mean getting his backpack ready for school. Right now, the San Diego High School junior has a full plate and at least a 12-hour day ahead of him.
“It’s a lot because from the school, there’s work, and then there’s like this little sliver for me,” says Cruz-Sanchez with a smile.
He tells ABC 10News that he’s the sole provider for his family at the moment.
“For our home, yes, because my mom wasn’t able to work right now,” he says.
His mother, Karina, is undergoing chemotherapy after a diagnosis shook their lives.
“They found out it was cancer, but they thought it was early, like stage one cancer on her liver,” Cruz-Sanchez explains. “But they did more research, and they found out it was actually stage four cancer in her colon that it spread to …