The unconditional love that a mother feels for her son and the fear of losing Torres moved to Kenya, a single mother, to risk his life to save Ariel Torres, 4 years old, who suffers from a heart condition, after the Doctors gave her two months of life.
Lower their gaze and his eyes flooded with tears, Torres recalled the sad times, last February, when the attending physicians at the Hospital of Ariel Sensuntepeque, Cabins, told him it was not possible to operate in El Salvador because they did not have the means to do so, and that their life chances were limited.
"He was born with a heart problem and was hospitalized several times. He made several checks and told me that to survive it was necessary to operate and gave us an appointment for February this year," Torres told of 23 years, originally of Sensuntepeque.
"When we were told that neither the hospital nor Sensuntepeque in San Salvador had the equipment for the surgery and failure to operate the child would live only two months more," added the girl.
Doctors suggested he travel to United States where the child would probably be operated because there was better technology and medical advances. Torres contacted some friends in Los Angeles, California, to assist him on his arrival.
"The hospital gave me the medical history that I present to the U.S. embassy to apply for visa. I went and told me I could not because I did not have an account with seven thousand dollars and that my son would be a burden for the government, "says Torres, Ariel while playing with a ball at his side.
"Then I said that I prefer to die on the road than at home and I came without papers with a guide (coyote).
In mid-March this year, Torres began the trip to the United States March 23 and crossed the Rio Grande.
"It was very difficult, full days of walking and walking, because they did not eat the cookies that were brought in the backpack to give to the child, after spending the Rio Grande the child began to cough and the guide left us in a place and told me they would return for us, but not again, "says Torres. "Then as I got to a tree and saw a few lights and followed. And walked about ten blocks away and came to a village of Laredo, Texas, where we stopped immigration."
"Then we joined the people who were going to deport the boy and gave him an asthma attack and was made a hole in the belly, I showed it to the officer and asked him to please bring it to a hospital" , continues in his Salvadoran mother. "He agreed and told me that if they said it was fine that day we sport.
In the hospital Macallan, Texas, where he led, Torres told the doctors the reason for his trip, told them to come to save the life of his son, who had gone to El Salvador.
Successful operation
"They told me they would help me and sent us to another hospital Macallan, Texas, where he saw a cardiologist, and then to a hospital in San Antonio." There was Ariel April 1st successful open heart surgery and spent two weeks in recovery.
"He has lots of energy. The doctors were surprised that the second day of the operation was stopped and wanted to play," said Torres.
On April 19 came to Los Angeles, where his friends were waiting for Ariel to continue her post-operative treatment. The U.S. government has paid for the surgery, she only paid $ 300. "For six months must be in check, I got to wear every two weeks. There may be performed another surgery," said Torres.
The couple and their young son cuscatleca have an appointment with an immigration judge in July to face deportation proceedings for his illegal entry into the country.
Torres sought help at the Consulate of El Salvador in Los Angeles to prevent the deportation without their child to medical treatment.
"We will support them in their situation through the Central American Legal Assistance buffet for Ariel to have more time and continue with the medical care they need to stay well," said Hector Hugo Herrera, Consul General of El Salvador in Los Ã