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IN MEMORY OF ALL THE VICTIMS AND FAMILIES AFFECTED BY CJD.....
I have been in Canada for 13 years, I'm from Colombia//...He vivido en Canada 13 annos, soy de Colombia...
and for the longest time, everybody that knows me, knows that my big dream//...y por mucho tiempo, los que me conocen saben que mi gran suenno...//
Is to bring my father over to see Canada//...Es traer a mi padre a Canada...//
and enjoy some time with him//...y disfrutar un tiempo con el...//.
I love my father very much//...Amo a mi padre muchisimo....//
he's been a good father to all his children//,...ha sido un buen padre para todos sus hijos//
and I was finally able to bring him here, he arrived in June.//..y finalmente lo pude traer, llego en Junio...//
We were very excited he got a visa, he's 87 years old//...estabamos muy contentos de que le dieron una visa porque tiene 87 annos...//
so this is a miracle that he gets a visa at 87//...entonces es un milagro que le aprueben una visa de turiste a los 87//
The reason I wanted to be with my dad//....La razon por la que queria estar con mi padre//...
is because he is a wonderful dad//...es porque es un padre maravilloso....//
a wonderful man and he came to see his grandson//...un hombre maravillosos que vino a conocer a su nieto....//
I am currently separated, I am soon to be divorced//...Estoy separada pronta a divorciarme...//
from a relationship that wasn'//t ...de una relacion...//
going very well//...que no iba muy bien....//
and now that Mateo had a chance to be with his grandfather//....y ahora Mateo tenia una oportunidad de estra con su abuelito...//
he was happy to see a man in his life//...el estaba feliz de ver un hombre en su vida....//
and he was just enjoying so much his time with his grandfathers// ...y disfrutaba mucho su tiempo con su abuelo...//.
A few weeks ago he started feeling just...confused. //... Hace algunas semanas comenzo a confundirse....//
and seeing things that were not there//...y a ver cosas que no estaban alli....//
he started seeing hallucinations//...comenzo a alucinar......
we took him to the doctor, and the doctor said he had suffered a small stroke.//..lo llevamos al medico y le diagnosticaron un pequenno derrame....//
I started treating him at home, I didn't have the money to go for a CTScan or MRI//...comenzamos a tratarlo desde casa ya que no tenia el dinero para el CTscan ni El test de resonancia magnetica...//
But because his signs were so mild.//...pero porque los signos eran tan leves....//
we thought we could do i//t...pense que podria hacerlo...//.
I did make sure the doctor the doctor kept seeing him, but the doctor said//....me asegure de que el doctor siguiera haciendole seguimiento, peroo me dijo......//
"there's nothing you can do", he kept loosing the ability//...."no hay nada que puedas hacer" y asi continuo perdiendo la habilidad...//
to use his left side//...de usar su lado izquierdo....//
Then he started loosing the ability//...luego comenzo a perder la habilidad....//
to understand and to talk, just pretty much until he became//...de entender y de hablar, hasta que se quedo....//
completely immobile in his bed//...completamente inmovil en su cama...//.
he couldn't move anymore//...y no podia moverse mas....//
In 4 weeks he went from a man that was completely fine, to a man that has to be fed...//en 4 semanas paso de ser un hombre que se encontraba bien, a un hombre que tenia que ser alimentado...//
has to have his diaper changed//...ha tener que cambiarsele el pannal.....//
things my mom and I never thought we would have to do//....cosas que mi madre y yo nunca pensamos que nos tocaria hacer.....//
He had a complication and we had to rush him to the emergency room.//...Tuvo una complicacion y lo llevamos a emergencias....//
and he almost died that day, and the doctor said "it will be a miracle if this man survives//'....casi muere ese dia y el doctor nos dijo " sera un milagro si este hombre vive"....//
the complication was a stomach complication, it didn't have to do anything with his brain//...la complicacion era del estomago, nada que ver con su cerebro....//
and once that got better// .....y una vez que se mejoro....//
(24 hours later!) they said: " If you want now that he's out of danger..//.(tan solo despues de 24 horas) el doctor dijo:" si quiere ya que esta fuera de peligro"//
we can check what is wrong with his brain" we can do it now" and I said " let's go for it"//...."podemos revisar su cerebro" y dijimos: "listo, hagamoslo"......//
They did a CTScan and and MRI and other proper test//s...se hicieron los tests adecuados, un CTscan y un MRI....//
and what they discovered is an illness that attacks only one in a million//....y lo que descubrieron fue una enfermedad que solo ataca a uno de cada millon de personas
know as CJD//,....conocida como CJD//
some people know it as MAD COW DISEASE//...algunos lo conocen como la enfermedad de LAS VACAS LOCAS....//
this is really a very rare disease, it simply appears sporadiaclly//...una enfermedad muy rara, que simplemente aparece esporadicamente.......//
it can happen to anybody//....y que le puede pasa a cualquiera....//
and unfortunately it happened to my dad//....y desafortunadamente le paso a mi padre....//
I know I said he was 87 years old but he lived life like he was 45.//...yo se que les dije que el tenia 87, pero vivia su vida como si tuviera 45....//
and so he was really not expecting for something like this to happen in his life.....y entonces el no esperaba que algo asi le pasara en su vida.....
he was enjoying his time with his grandson....el estaba disfrutando su tiempo con su nieto....
now he has been given days or just weeks to live....y ahora solo le han dado dias o si acaso semanas para vivir....
they say there is NO CURE and nobody has ever survived from it//.....dicen que NO HAY CURA y nadie ha sobrevivido.....//
and now he's at home, they sent him home//....y ahora esta en casa....lo enviaron a casa....//.
just to rest until his time comes//....a descansar hasta que le llegue el momento.....//.