An Ode to Ma is for my adoptive mother, Remedios “Meding” Rivero, who took care of me since I was one year old. She raised me and loved me like her own child even when she already had four children. An Ode to Ma Who’s gone afar Above the heavens She became a star My Ma, I remember Her love and care Never ceased to show that she is always fair Amongst us, her children not four but five I am the fifth but not from her hive The one she kept to nurture and chide As I am the one who was not her child. My Mama, not mine…
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A Mom with AFIB (Atrial Fibrillation)
October 23, 2017, at approximately 1:30 a.m. I woke up with a pounding heart. So hard that I thought my heart was coming out of my chest. So hard that I could not breathe, my head spinning, and felt like I was having a heart attack. I was so sure I was having a heart attack. My husband, my children, and my stepdaughter woke up and they thought I was just having my usual panic attack but I told them that this was different. It felt different. At first, no one was panicking. I told my husband to call 911 and that I felt like I am about to pass…
