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
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