The music playing is "Hey, Jude", by the Beatles, a favorite of Lee's
 
My Guardian Angel

Lee Henry Aguilera
October 17, 1974 -
August 14, 2000



 
 
Lee was a little late coming into the world, but it was worth the wait. He was a beautiful 8 lbs - 7
1/2 ounces, 21-1/2 inches long baby boy. Black hair, slate blue eyes, which eventually turned green. Eye lashes that only girls
dream of. Eyes I will never forget. I became a single Mom when Lee was 2 years old. I went back to work, so I had to put
Lee into day care but he really got to like it. I enjoyed those years so much. It even brought us closer together, and it remained
that way until he had to leave me and enter Heaven. Wasn't long before junior school
started, he was a good student. Seeing the teachers on parents night, I was always told that when he had free time he was
always drawing, as young as he was, day care it was the same thing. It wasn't until he went to high school the drawing
continued, I knew then Lee had a gift. He was also a good student, but drawing was his first priority. I was concerned that his
other subjects would
suffer. Again on parents night the art teacher told me, Lee does have a gift, and that he wanted to go on and do animation
drawing. I didn't hold him back. Over his young adult years he also started writing poetry, and short stories. Unfortunately,
after he passed away, one of the hardest things that a parent will ever have to do is go through their child's personal belongings.
When I did, I found many stories on his computer - unfinished. What he has left me, are not only the wonderful memories we
shared together and being the way he was, but the gift that he had with his poems and drawings.
There are so many, I will eventually make a separate web site just for the work that he did. One thing that did come out of his
writing, obviously I can't finish his, but I can try and carry on his legacy. So I have started a book about his life. It's been great
writing about the real good times we had, when I remarried and had my daughter, they were also good. But reading and writing
about the cancer is very very hard. 
In 1999 he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, of course we were all devastated. Chemotherapy was started, he got very
sick with the usual side affects. Late September of that year it was in remission. We prayed so hard it would stay that way. But
5 months later it returned, this time with vengeance. It had spread through his body, affecting so many of his other organs. It
wasn't only chemotherapy, but radiation, steroids, M.R.I.'s you name it, he had it. There was even talk about surgery, but then
he started having problems with his blood sugar. About a month before he passed away we were told that it was only a matter
of time. He had come home to live with us through this. He knew that it was breaking my heart to watch him. I have Multiple
Sclerosis myself. He was always thinking about me, even at a time like this in his life. Because of this, the doctor's thought it be
better if he was in hospital, he agreed. It was a Friday, they had him on morphine right away, oxygen by!
 Sunday he was having a hard time breathing.. When I went to see him on the Monday I some how knew he was going to
leave me...He did Monday August 14/2000 at 6.20p.m.

This is all in memory of you, My Guardian Angel.
Rest in everlasting Peace until we meet again.
We all love and miss you
Yours forever,
Mom









 
  



  
Including on this page and the next are some of Lee's drawings.



 
  




 
 



 
 
LEE'S FIRST HEAVENLY ANNIVERSARY

You came into my life
Back in 1974
You grew up so fast
Before my eyes you were two, three, even more

Years kept going by
One day you were a teen
Oh so quite and so gentle
I never saw you mean

Always with pen in hand
I knew what you would be
A poet, a writer, an artist too
You tried not one, but all three

Although it was hard for you to succeed
In the way you wanted to
Don't ever forget, I know I won't
What you did all came from you

I never knew what you were going through
In your older years
If only you had told me sooner
It would have saved a lot of tears

When I had learnt that you were ill
I almost died inside
As you looked at me for the last time
All my feelings I couldn't hide

GOD knew that you were strong
Through your illness and your strife
But He knew just like I did
This shouldn't be the way of life

GOD came to meet you on that Fateful Day
 To take away all your pain
I now know you're in Heaven
I'll keep praying we will meet again

A Personal Tribute  to my Guardian Angel
Written by Sue-Anne Aguilera  (Lee's Mom)


 
  

 
 
  

  
 
 
 
 

  

 
  
This page designed, with LOVE,  by
Rosemarie Kellar
from one bereaved Member to Another,
as a volunteer for My Mom Is A Survivor.
 

 
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