Carlitos aka Charlie Update
My mom died … I am not OK
I feared it was inevitable. Carlitos, who has become know as Charlie for his passion for English, seemed unaware that his mother could actually perish as a result of uterine cancer. Late detection no doubt due to no culture of preventative checkups. And for some reason no surgery but extensive chemotherapy and radiation which, in the end, was all in vain.
The very close and very religious family is devastated. It is as though they felt certain that the good Lord would intervene with a miracle. Sadly, it was not to be. Charlie is twelve years old but gladly he has four older sisters, an older brother and a devoted father.
Doña Lora has been returned to the town of her birth, Yecopaca, some forty minutes drive from Antigua, for burial. Overnight the family held a “velorio” for friends and family to pay their respects. As I am out of the country I asked a friend to contribute some flowers from “Tía Joan,” as I am known by many including Charlie and his family, in Guatemala.
Pobrecito Charlie, how does a twelve-year old get over the loss of a mother who was devoted to all six of her children, a mother who walked him to school and back every day as long as she could?