"My Pops thought he was the bottom of the barrel. told those gathered for his father's funeral both in person and via Facebook Live. "My dad would never claim to be a perfect man," Luis Jr. 21 service celebrated that arc of a life. He started out there six years ago as head usher and ended up as Pastor Joe Adams' dear friend and "right-hand man." He started out struggling with alcoholism and ended up sober, a mentor to other men in the congregation, a regular presence at the local homeless shelter, a man remembered for the big heart in his small, diabetic body. His death leaves a yawning hole in his family and his church, Koinonia Life Ministries in Cathedral City. Luis Sr.'s service was first, five days before the holiday. Thanksgiving for the Macias family was bookended with funerals. "Whenever she'd get up, she was short of breath. "When I met her, she was on about four liters of oxygen," said Amanda Beck, a registered nurse who cared for Alexandria at the Rancho Mirage hospital and eventually discharged her. She spent a week at Eisenhower.īalloons float away at the end of Tatyana's memorial service. Another ambulance ride, another hospital stay. She spiked a 102-degree fever, shook uncontrollably. Norma spent the night at Eisenhower and came home on Nov. So I tell her, I go, 'Let me take you to the hospital.'" "And then that Monday, my mom starts having trouble breathing. "I go, 'That's two.' I go, 'What's next?' And I'm just praying and just asking why," Alexandria recounted.
An ambulance came, raced her to Eisenhower Health. Tatyana didn't respond to her mother's questions.
On Sunday evening, Norma went to Tatyana's room to check on her before going to bed. I couldn't do anything but breathe right then and there when I was looking at him." She said good morning, asked if he was hungry, stroked his forehead, pushed his hair back off his face. When she got home, she went into the room where Luis was sleeping. On Halloween, Alexandria headed to her doctor's office. We were doing the sanitizing, not going out, people were bringing us food and stuff due to COVID." "Once they told us we had all came back positive, we were all just quarantined in the house," Alexandria said. Getty Alvarado, left, Alexandria Cantu Macias, center, and Marianna Solares, right, gather for Tatyana's memorial service. 24: Alexandria, Luis Sr., Tatyana and Federico get tested. Grandmother and granddaughter are both positive for the coronavirus. Two days later, the results arrive, and it's bad news all around. 21: Norma, Alexandria's mom, takes Gabriella to be tested for the coronavirus and gets tested herself at the same time. "I'll still see, like, memories or things like we used to do together, me and my sister, or me and my husband and the kids. And though it's been a month already, it's just like, it's like little things trigger me. It is early December, and, she says, "emotionally, it's still a shocker. Alexandria ticks them off, her voice calm.
20.įor the next seven weeks, each passing day was worse than the one that came before. But she got sick first - with a slight fever and a runny nose on Oct. She's in eighth grade and all her classes were remote. A cemetery worker places the urn of Tatyana Cantu Broughton into her grave at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City.
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