10/06/2012 - 09/01/2013
American Visionary Art Museum
800 Key Highway
Baltimore, MD
current exhibit

Art and Remembrance is a non-profit, arts and educational organization that seeks to change people's hearts and minds by illuminating the experience of war, oppression, and injustice through the power and passion of personal narrative in art.

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Los Hilos de la Vida
Threads of Life

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La gruta ~ The Cavern
by Celia Guerrero

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In 1983 my friend died. She was expecting her second baby when her husband had an accident. Her brother-in-law told her that her husband was in the hospital.

When she saw him it had a big impact on her.

She went to go see her doctor so they could do a checkup on her and her unborn baby. The doctor ran several tests on her because she had a very yellow complexion. The doctor was very worried and asked her to bring her husband along when they received the test results.

When she went to look at her test results she came accompanied by an aunt. She did not want to take her husband. The doctor explained why it was very important for her husband to come also. He said the illness was already too advanced. The baby was not going to survive and they had to end the pregnancy that same day. She refused to lose her baby and would not accept terminating her pregnancy. The doctor again explained to her that her life and that of her baby were at risk but she could not accept giving up her unborn child.

She died two weeks later. When her husband went to talk to the attending physician, the doctor explained that his wife had made her own decision and that he had to accept that.

This scene taught me that the love that a mother can feel for a child is so great that she could decide to to die with him.
En 1983 mi amiga murió. Ella esperaba a su segundo bebé cuando su esposo tuvo un accidente. A ella su cuñado le avisó que su esposo estaba en el hospital.

Cuando ella lo vió tuvo una gran impresión.

Ella fue con su doctor para que la revisarán a ella y a su bebé no nacido aún. El doctor la mandó hacer se unos estudios, pues ella estaba muy amarilla. El doctor se preocupó mucho y le pidió que llevara a su esposo con ella, cuando estuvieran listos los estudios.

Cuando ella fue por los resultados ella llegó acompañada de una tía; a su esposo no lo quiso llevar. El doctor explicó porqué era tan importante que asistiera su esposo también. Le dijo que la enfermedad que tenía ya estaba muy avanzada. El bebé no iba a sobrevivir y tenía que parar su embarazo en ese mismo día. Ella se negó a perder su bebé y no aceptó que le interrumpieran su embarazo. El doctor, otra vez, le explicó que su vida y la del bebé estaba en riesgo, pero ella no aceptó perder su bebé.

Ella murió dos semanas después. Cuando su esposo fue a hablar con el doctor que la estaba atendiendo, el doctor le explicó que su esposa había tomado su propia decisión y que él lo tuvo que aceptar.

Este cuadro me dejó la enseñanza del amor tan grande de una madre por su hijo que decidió morir con él.


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