2000s
From the years 2000 to 2009.
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Beto experiences a MRSA infection.
In early August 2007, Marcela would notice a growing redness and tenderness in Beto’s left leg and a growing fever. Seeing Beto in extreme pain, the family takes him to the emergency room, where he is quickly admitted under signs of “necrotizing fasciitis”, a severe bacterial infection that was spreading through his legs. Beto would…
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Beto learns to eat again.
Angel starts to learn to eat, and around this time physical therapists are testing Beto’s swallowing abilities, finding that he was developing his capacity to swallow properly. Beto starts gaining confidence in lightly eating through his mouth in addition to his feeding tube, learning to eat solid foods alongside Angel.
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The Apartment Fire
Beto showing off the bedsheets his Mom made him. This was Beto’s room in the apartment. The Morehead Apartment burns down. Beto was at school, Humberto at work, and Marcela had been taking a nap. She had just started treatments for hypertension, which caused her drowsiness. She always tried to rest while Beto was at…
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A Poem, A Goodbye.
My negrito, today we say goodbye to the place where you were born and where we lived for nine years, El Paso Texas, here things happened that marked us, others that made us happy, but all of them filled us with experience, here, your dad and I grew alongside you. Now we leave our friends,…