My cousin Zarak Mohandas Delattibodier has kidney disease and received dialysis two to three times a week.
He needs a kidney.
A donor was identified and during the beginning stages of gathering donor information, he developed an infection in the mitral valve of his heart.
The infection was resistant to antibiotics.
Zarak also had severe periodontal disease.
The hospital released my cousin after a four-day stay and sent him home with antibiotics for the heart and dental appointments to begin work on the perio. One week later, Zarak had difficulty breathing and went back to the hospital where he lost consciousness and was placed on a ventilator and an iv catheter with major antibiotics.
The infection of the heart was fungal.
Mi pimo’s body was too weak to fight. He coded numerous times and stabilized with resuscitation but brain damage may have occurred and he could not breathe on his own.
The ‘No Resuscitation’ directive was put in place. Then rescinded by his wife who is separated from him.
Mi primo is no longer hurting…
No anxiety about the kidney donor’s health condition or going through dialysis
Mi primo is no longer hurting…
He may pass on in California, where he wanted to live and will receive a military burial
Mi primo is no longer hurting…
He’ll join his mom, mi Tía, whom he loved and whose hand he held as she drew her last breath
Mi primo is no longer hurting…
He can play his sax and jam with the angels
Mi primo is no longer hurting…
He can eat all the beef jerky, fried chicken and fries he desires with Excelsior Cabernet
Mi primo is no longer hurting…
He doesn’t have to carry the weight of his family’s dysfunction on his back anymore
I wish the decision could be made to turn off the switch that would enable his alma to be free…
