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But a short time after leaving, Elesandro received a call from his wife asking him to come back — and it would be the last time the two would speak.
“She FaceTimes me and says I need you here right now,” 30-year-old Elesandro recalled toKFSN.
According toMayo Clinic, while Caesarean sections are common and save lives, they involve numerous risks for the mother, including infections, blood clots, cardiac arrest and postpartum hemorrhages. Because Charlene had heart problems andunderwent a surgerylast summer, there were added risks in going through with surgery, theBeereported.
While she initially survived the operation, once Elesandro was able to return to the hospital, things quickly turned for the worst.
He continued: “And then [I] heard code blue. This lady comes to our door area and says, ‘We need you, doctor,’ and the doctor rushes back there. And then 20 minutes later the rest of the doctors and nurses flow in the room and tell me that my wife didn’t make it but my daughter’s in an incubator getting her treatment.”
The couple’s newborn daughter, Quinn Nevaeh Flores, survived the ordeal but will remain in the NICU for the next few weeks after being born prematurely.
AGoFundMe pagehas been set up to help pay for Charlene’s funeral, which has been set for Saturday.
With the help of hundreds of donors, the GoFundMe page has raised more than $12,000 so far.
Now, Elesandro and his other daughters — Lanyssa Vasquez, 12; Kiara Flores, 12; Adriene Flores, 8 — are doing their best to heal after the loss of Charlene.
“I told my kids, you’re [an] extension of your mother,” Flores told KFSN. “You guys are women, and you guys are going to be my life, you guys are going to take that role, you guys are going to take care of me, and I know you will, and they have.”
source: people.com
