-----Original Message----- From: Ismael Cavazos [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 1:29 PM To: Ismael Cavazos Subject: after my case
When I was born. I was completely blind. When I was 11 years old. I started seeing six surgeries on my eyes. I can not see very well, but I could see a little bit is better than nothing. I am consider legally blind. Seven years after that my accidents happen from the school grounds it was a Saturday we went to practice. We were waiting in for the rest of the guys there and also don't for the structure. At that time, I was 18 years old. My senior Erie high school I used to wait 134 pounds. This other kid started playing with me, and we end up wrestling. He was younger than I he was only 15 years old, but he used to wait 350 pounds. He grabbed me through the back. I lost my balance. I couldn't put my hands in front of me. So my head. When first to the floor. My neck. I couldn't get up, one of the kids told me notice that I was having problems breathing. That same kids told me stop playing around. He notice so he called the rest of the kids. One of the kids was my best friends lacked the school was closed. He ran to a small store that was close by their tube called the ambulance. He came back to tell me that he already called the ambulance. I told him to go and tell my mother is but don't tell her, what exactly happened to me. The reason I didn't want her to know, because three months before by accident happens. She had open-heart surgery, and I didn't want her to worry and have a heart attack. I also told him not to let my mother drive. He did everything what I'm told him to do from the high school grounds all the way to the hospital. I was breathing by myself. After that. I'd really don't remember exactly what happened when I opened my eyes. I was in ICU connected to a respirator. My mother told me she thought that I had only broke my arm. Two hours after that, they told my mother and my brothers that I only had 72 hours to live one of my brothers told me straight off. Don't give up on us, and he told me why he was telling me that what the doctor told them. I freaked out. I didn't know what to say what to think. I was scared and confused 72 hours passed by a week after that. My brothers and my mother took me to Houston's when I arrived there at Houston's a month after that they told my mother that I could have surgery on my back. But if I make it through surgery with therapy. I only could move my hands. The other 50%. I could die on surgeries so my brothers and my mother decided to leave me like that with no surgeriesy. A year after that they were going to bring me back to Brownsville Texas to put me in a nursing home. I really didn't want to go to a nursing home, but I didn't have any choice. My mother couldn't take care me at home, because her heart problems. Down here in the Valley. There were no nursing home they would take me, because I was connected to a respirator. So I needed to go somewhere else. So I did go to Colleen, Texasn to a nursing home. I was there two years and a half my mother and my older brothers were rotate to go and see me every Friday and come back Sunday's my mother and my baby brother's every weekends in my other two brothers were already marry. Like I said, every weekends, they will rotate and the rest of the week. I was by myself. I really got to a big depression. I really want it to die at that time. I was young, scared and confuse.Works got works. Very mysterious back then. Only thing I had on my mind that I won it to die, but I wanted to come back to Brownsville and dying in Brownsville, where I was born. That was my idea, what did help me that my mother very strict with us boys she told us all the time. To me and my brothers, that she raises was there for us that only thing she wanted from us for boys was her trophy and her trophy was a high school diploma. That was this. I didn't want to be the only one not to give her what she wanted. And my other brothers were going to give her what she wanted. So I said to myself if I'm going to die. I got to complete what she wanted so I did study for my GEDn. And I did get it and gave it to her. I was losing a lot of weight. I used to wait 85 pound was really giving up big time with him. At that time, we need it at court. I really want it to come back home. I told my mother. She told me that she didn't have the money to bring me back to Brownsville. The other thing she told me remember. There's no nursing home with any respirator well like I said, got works. Very mysterious. I started praying. This person from the state came to talk to patients at the nursing home. He asked me where am I from. I told them he told me what you'd like to go back to Brownsville. I said yes and I told of the problem. He told me are you sure were you like me to investigate for you and I say yes please. Couple of months after that, he came to tell me. He found a nursing home and Brownsville. That's going to start patients with respirators. I got one of the nurses to help me to call my mother to tell her what they told me she didn't believe me. When I was saying. She told me that I don't have the money to bring you down to your I started praying. A month after that these people from church volunteer at the nursing home to ladies came to talk to me. Me and asked me what was my names. I told them they asked me where am I from. I told him they told me why you don't go back home. I told them what my mother told me a week after that, one of those ladies and asked me. How am I doing. I said I am okay. She told me. Are you ready to go home. I said, what do you mean she didn't say too much. She'd only put a folded paper on my chest, and she told me to have a Merry Christmas with my mother and my brothers I was trying to figure out why she told me that one of the nurses walk in into my room I asked her what was on my chest. That paper, she'd open it up, and it was a check for $1500. I freaked out. I told her to help me to dial the phone to let her know. My mother thought that I was jokingn. She told me you are old enough to do what you need to do. So, I did make arrangements to come back to Brownsville. Nobody do, what was inside my mind, what it to die at that time two years after that. I got my senses my mother got very sick day found her cancer. She was dying before she died she got every one of us and talk to us by ourselves and give us some advice. My advice was, she told me. You don't need nobody got only one you need is got. Just hold on to his hand, and you'll be all right I took that advice and nothing has stopped me. Yet, I was at that nursing home for 17 years. My mother died after all I was 28 years old like I said.Works. Very mysterious. I started praying and telling God that I didn't want to be in a nursing home. I didn't want to be there for rest of my life. That's got to be something better for me three weeks after that. This girl works there, but she was working in other Hall date transfer. They told her to come work on another hall that girl. She came to my room with my tray. She started talking to me and I told her what was my plans she said, if you want me to help you I will help you if you will accept my kits. I will help you, I said, I don't have problems with that. I only had one day that I know her well I did made arrangements to start getting out the nursing home. So I've been out of the nursing home since 2001. Guess I can. Yes, I have been less I had asked anything to got he had complete. What I asked that only thing he had been complete me welcome Jim need walk again. He got his reasons, like everybody else. Hopefully, you can read my article and let me know what you think about it. Thank you and God bless you
