What made you come here? Maybe it was a post shared on social media. Maybe you come across this on a google search. Maybe it was word of mouth. Whatever made you come here, I’m just glad you’re here.
I don’t know what will come from all of this. All I care about is it to continue tell Angel’s story. And more importantly, is to never have an ending to his story. I will endlessly work hard to have his impact felt across as many people as possible. Although his life ended, his story and impact will never have to. How will I accomplish that? Well, you will need to follow me through this journey. And the path on this journey is unknown. And I welcome the unknown. I can’t wait for the impact Angel will make. I’m just his messenger.
My name is Edgard Alberto Gonzalez. My wife and I lost our son a month after his birth. He had a birth abnormality, but nothing surgery couldn’t fix. Yes, a surgery on 1 day old baby is serious, but we had Stanford doctors telling us he would be ok and that the surgery success rate is very high. The surgery was a success and he was recovering ….. until he got sick.
He was in the Stanford NICU for little over 3 weeks before he caught an infection which ultimately cost him his life. All this happened unexpectedly. He caught an infection that made its way to his lungs. Caused his infectious pneumonia which put him on life support. He was dying in front of our eyes and we couldn’t do anything about it. We never took him home. We never changed him. We were barely able to kiss him. Nor was he able to go outside … until we took him off life support and rushed to the nearest patio so he can spend the few minutes he had outside instead of the NICU.
Grief is the ultimate price we pay for love. My wife and I miss him everyday and his identical twin brother will always remind us what he would have looked like.