Help Us Lay Amador Alvarez to Rest

Hi everyone, it is with great pain and suffering to be writing on mine and my family’s behalf that my grandfather, Amador Alvarez, has passed to be with God and his son. He was so special that he decided to go on his birthday 10/4/1945-10/4/2024. He was a great man, husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. All of his life he worked in landscaping and he loved it. He was really ill over the course of these past two weeks where he became hospitalized because he was losing mobility and function in his right foot, losing appetite, vomiting, and becoming more ill. As soon as he arrived at the emergency room, he had a blood transfusion done as he had become anemic. Doctors thought he had a GI bleed, but it ended up being stomach ulcers that ruptured. Doctors ran tests to tell us he had prostate cancer that had spread to his bones—his spine had it the worst, which explained the loss of mobility in his legs and the ability to move. Our family was there every single day at the hospital with all of our faith and positivity he was going to be okay once he started treatment and was discharged home, where he would be in higher spirits and under our care. Back in 2018, he suffered a major cardiac arrest that he beat and had a pacemaker on his heart since then. Friday morning 10/4/24, we were informed that around 9 AM he had a massive heart attack to which his pacemaker could not bring his heart to start beating. Doctors began manual CPR, giving him medications through his IV and injections, intubating him, and then moving to mechanical compressions for two hours trying to get his heart to start beating. He was the strongest man we all knew. He was charismatic, funny, hard-working, caring, a family man, and a man of God. The immense amount of pain that is left in our heart has no cure. If you can find it in your heart to donate any amount to help us lay him to rest during this difficult time, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Thank you for taking the time to read his story, God bless.

Hola a todos, con todo el dolor de nuestros corazones, escribo esto en nombre de mí y de mi familia que mi abuelo, Amador Álvarez, ha fallecido para estar con Dios y su hijo. Era tan especial que decidió irse en el día de su cumpleaños 10/4/1945-10/4/2024. Era un gran hombre, esposo, padre, abuelo, y bisabuelo. Toda su vida trabajó en jardinería y le encantaba.

Durante estas últimas dos semanas se nos enfermó y empezó a perder movilidad de su pierna derecha, pérdida de apetito, vomitaba, y seguía grave. Al llegar al hospital, le hicieron una transfusión de sangre porque estaba anémico. Los doctores pensaron que tenía un sangrado gastrointestinal, pero después aprendieron que fue una ruptura de úlceras de estómago. Después los doctores le hicieron varios estudios al encontrar que tenía cáncer de próstata que se propagó a los huesos—donde su columna vertebral estaba afectada que causó la pérdida de movilidad en sus piernas y la habilidad de moverse. Nuestra familia estuvo con él todos los días en el hospital con toda la fe y optimismo que iba a estar bien con el tratamiento que le dieran y al regresar a casa bajo nuestros cuidados. En el 2018, sufrió un paro cardíaco y desde entonces él tenía un marcapasos en su corazón. El viernes por la mañana 10/4/24, alrededor de las 9 AM nos informaron que sufrió un ataque cardíaco masivo al cual su marcapasos no podía hacer su corazón latir. Doctores empezaron a darle los primeros auxilios, dándole medicina por su IV y inyectándolo, lo entubaron, y compresiones mecánicas por dos horas intentando hacer su corazón regresar a función. Era el hombre más fuerte—carismático, cariñoso, un hombre de familia y de mucha fe en Dios. Si encuentran en su corazón ayudarnos con una donación para ponerlo a descansar, se los agradecemos desde el fondo de nuestros corazones. Muchas gracias y que Dios los bendiga.