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    Lost Without My Children
    Lost Without My Children
    Lost Without My Children
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    Lost Without My Children

    By Lelia Alvarez

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    A grieving mother wanting to share her real life experience about the mysterious and sudden deaths of
    her children.
    Dealing with the mysterious death of her healthy three month old baby girl, and trying to find out the cause
    has been a mystery for over twenty-five years. Waking up on morning to find that her baby girl is dead was
    such a tremendous harrowing experience to deal with, and to have her children witness the death was unbearable.
    After twelve years as a single mother, she finds the man of her dreams, having someone to stand by her side.
    Her dream was to become a grandmother, she was delighted with joy when her son became a father, until
    her dream was shattered. She gets a call in the middle of the night, that her son has died. Grief-stricken with tragedy for the second time, she cant understand why her wish was granted being blessed with a precious
    grandson at a price of losing her son.
    After her sons death she is faced with so many legal problems hitting her all at once, she is so distressed
    trying to survive without her son. She becomes so angry and bitter, fearing of losing her only child, sinking into a deep depression, and refusing to give in.
    Grieving mother decides to write a book ,being the most hardest and emotional job shes ever had, but she is determined to finish with a goal to share her experience with families that have lost their children.
    There is nothing no one can say that will ease our pain, only the ones that have experience this horrible ordeal can relate to our pain.
    She will forever treasure the short time her children were in her life, but will forever be lost without them.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateMar 19, 2010
    ISBN9781449064693
    Lost Without My Children
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    Lelia Alvarez

    Lelia G. Alvarez Born in a small town know for the world’s first rodeo, called Pecos, Texas, she later moved to a small town called Monahans, Texas, lived there for over eighteen years, until she decided to be closer to her only child. She now resides with her husband in Queen Creek, Arizona. She misses being so far from her grandson in Texas, but she keeps in touch. Her grandchildren are her life, and she enjoys living close to her daughter. This is the first book she has published and hopes she can get better in writing books for the future. She hopes that she is able to establish her goal.

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      Lost Without My Children - Lelia Alvarez

      LOST WITHOUT MY CHILDREN

      DEDICATION

      IN MEMORY OF MY LOVING MOTHER ADELA,

      SON RUBEN, AND DAUGHTER CRISSY

      THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO MY HUSBAND ALVARO AND MY DAUGHTER HEATHER, WHO WHERE THERE, IN MY TIME OF NEED.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      CHAPTER ONE BEGGING OF RUBEN’S LIFE

      CHAPTER TWO BEGGING OF HEATHER’S LIFE

      CHAPTER THREE SHORT LIFE OF CRISSY AND HER DEATH

      CHAPTER FOUR COPING WITH MY BABY’S DEATH

      CHAPTER FIVE STARTING A LIFE WITHOUT MY BABY

      CHAPTER SIX DEALING WITH MY MOTHER’S DEATH

      CHAPTER SEVEN RUBEN FINDS OUT HE’S GOING TO BE A FATHER

      CHAPTER EIGHT BECOMING A GRANDMOTHER

      CHAPTER NINE NEWS OF RUBEN’S DEATH

      CHAPTER TEN RUBEN’S FUNERAL

      CHAPTER ELEVEN COPING WITH RUBEN’S DEATH

      CHAPTER TWELVE FACING THE WOMAN THAT KILLED MY SON IN COURT COURT’S RULING

      CHAPTER THIRTEEN FILING A WRONGFUL LAW SUIT

      CHAPTER FOURTEEN HEARTACHES WITH LAW SUIT

      CHAPTER FIFTEEN LOST GRANDDAUGHTER I NEVER KNEW

      CHAPTER SIXTEEN HEART BROKEN WITH LOST GRANDDAUGHTER

      CHAPTER SEVENTEEN DEALING WITH HEATHER’S EMOTIONS

      CHAPTER EIGHTEEN MOVING TO ARIZONA TO START A NEW LIFE

      CHAPTER NINETEEN EXPLANATION OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF DEATHS

      CHAPTER TWENTY FINALLY FINISHING THE BOOK

       CHAPTER ONE

      BEGGING OF RUBEN’S LIFE

      My dreams have always been to write a book, one day I was feeling so depressed and bored with my life thinking back at the way my life had turned out. I went form a happy child blessed with wonderful parents to a bitter and unhappy person. I asked myself why was I chosen to have had to endure this kind of life. No one can really answer me, I worked hard tried to make an honest living, helping anyone I could, but yet my life had so many ups and downs to the point that I felt my life had come to a complete stop.

      I finally decided to keep my mind occupied by writing a book. I had never written a book before so I begin, thinking this will ease my mind, but boy was I wrong. This job turned out to be the hardest most emotional job I have ever had, but I was determined to finish it.

      Starting with my childhood, I had wonderful loving parents who raised their seven children with a lot of love and we were raised as being very close to each other even as we all grew older, life was wonderful. I being the second born of the seven I remember my father always worked hard and was a good provider for the family. My mother worked part time but she was the one that managed the discipline toward the seven of us and all she had to say to us if we didn’t behave she would tell my father. As I look back my father never even laid a hand on us. I don’t know how my mother was able to devote all her love to all seven of us, counting my father and all her family. Mother was the type that went to every funeral and was always cooking for people that were in need. I can’t understand how she did it but she was a very strong person being able to raise seven children and she was also like a mother to her eight brothers and sisters.

      I remember being a very happy person having the time of my life. Once I graduated from high school my parents couldn’t afford to send me to a university so I went to a business school. Soon after business school I went to work for a bank in the bookkeeping department and worked there for a little over a year. I had saved up some money and decided I wanted to be on my own. I moved to El Paso, Texas with a friend and got a job there. I remember it broke by mother’s heart but she let me go. I worked there for over eighteen months and I was ready to come back home after I realize that was not for me.

      My parents welcomed me home with open arms and I got a job in a finance co and again I was having the time of my life. I loved to go to dances and I always had a lot of boyfriends, but I met a guy who was friends with my brothers, and fell in love. We eloped in April of 1974, I decided I wanted to wait to make sure our marriage was going to last before we got married, but my husband insisted on getting married. I don’t remember when we finally got married I know it wasn’t long after we eloped. On February 5, 1975 my first love of my life was born, during my pregnancy I was having a lot of problems and got close to losing the baby. I was six month pregnant when my son was born, he was so tiny, but determined to come into this world before his time.

      The time came that I had to leave the hospital without my baby boy, this was a hard time in my life having to leave him behind. I understood my baby needed to stay in the hospital in order for him to survive, but I remember I couldn’t stop crying as I left the hospital. I would visit him every day especially during the baby’s feeding time, it would break my heart when it was time for me to leave him.

      I decided to quit my job at the finance co since my son was so tiny and he would need a lot of attention and care. Finally after three weeks I was able to take my son home, I was so scared I decided to stay with my parents needing guidance from my mother since he was so tiny and delicate. I didn’t know anything about taking care of a baby, especially one so tiny. The doctors advised us the baby needed to be feed every three hours around the clock, and couldn’t be around anybody that was sick. I remember my parents were so excited to have us there with them, my mother even made my son his clothes since then there were no such thing as premature clothes. My son was my parent’s first grandchild, born on my grandfather’s birthday. He was my grandfather’s first great grandson, so he was a very special baby. With the grace of God and my mother’s help my son grew fast and healthy. Little did I know that my life was about to turn around for the worse, I was married for about three years, separated three quarters of the time, and the only good thing that came out of the marriage was my first born child Ruben.

      My life changed after my son was born, it was the greatest joy to have a child, and I realized that I now was a mother and a large responsibility came with raising a child.

      I was going through a very abusive relationship and I knew that this life was not for my son and I. I knew I needed to get a job in order to get a divorce and support my son. I found a job working for a gas company, once I felt my job was secure I saved some money and filed for a divorce.

      My son was twenty eight months old when I filed for a divorce, and was final when my son was almost three years old. My son loved his dad dearly and couldn’t understand why we were not together, but soon after we were divorced my ex remarried and that changed the way my son felt about his father. His father wouldn’t come around to see him nor did my son like the way his step mother was treating him. After the divorce it was just my son and I alone without no child support. I worked and supported my son on my own working two jobs to make ends meet. My parents were happy to help me, but I was to proud to get any help. The way I looked at it, my son was my responsibility and I was determined to support him on my own. I remember some of my friends that were having problems with their marriages telling me that they couldn’t divorce their husbands because they were afraid they wouldn’t make it on their own. I

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