Las desgracias nunca vienen solas

Today I interviewed a kind hearted mother of four. She had lost her leg to diabetes, her husband was blind and her son was deaf. Her son in law abandoned her daughter and their newborn baby. Her other daughter works in a factory to support all eight members of the household.
I chose to ignore the cockroach on the wall and focus on her responses. I had to focus, because all of her top front teeth were missing and she was hard to understand. Her husband was missing all of his bottom front teeth, and spent much of the interview swatting at flies in the kitchen with a dirty rag. Her grandson was asleep on the kitchn floor.
Is the United States like this? She asked me.
I told her many things were different.
A little more cofortable? She offered.
She knows. They have cable TV.