Karime Borja announced the last words she dedicated to her son Mateo shortly before he died after years of battling the effects of a swimming pool accident that caused severe brain damage due to Ischemic hypoxia due to immersion.
Through a post on Instagram, the Ecuadorian presenter shared details of the last minutes of Mateo’s life, for whom she still managed to “hear his heart beating for the last time”.
“Matthew of my life, I told you everything in life. “It was all so sudden and thank you for waiting for me to say goodbye,” he said on September 19.
“You surprised us all. The moment I arrived and saw you, I can only whisper in your ear ‘life has brought us this far my love. I love you with all my heart, be happy and rest, mom and dad will be fine, because you already gave it your all,” she added.
“Be happy in heaven. Speak well to God about me, meet your grandmother, your grandfather and tell them how it was when you were on earth and wait for me there. “I love you and I want you to leave with the confidence that mom and dad are going to be okay,” she said.
In a final goodbye to her son on the shore of a jetty, the former beauty queen also highlighted that in one of the intimate conversations that both she and her ex-partner Matthew Lapo had with their little one, They both told him it was time to “rest”.
“Why am I saying all this? No, my love, it’s not for you to think you were a burden, because as I’ve told you a thousand times, you never were and you never will be. But why we, the only thing we could say about whose life we gave life we whispered in his ear with a lot of love, ‘my life, it’s time to rest,’” he said.
Karime Borja heard her son’s last heartbeat
Finally, Karim Borja He reported that after hearing his son’s last heartbeat, She sang him a song and prepared him for the final goodbye.
“I had the chance to hear his heart beat for the last time, as I heard it for the first time in the first ultrasound. I said to him: “Now my love, everything is fine now…”. I picked him up and hugged him tightly. I sang him a lullaby, told him again how much I love him, cleaned him, made him beautiful, cleaned his eyes and wrapped him in a stuffed animal quilt. “I decided to cremate him because, as cliché as it sounds, we came in dust and we leave in dust,” he said.
Matteo Lapo died at the age of 4 on Sept. 17 after years of battling the effects of a pool accident.
Because the baby boy was without vital signs for 15 minutes, this condition caused severe brain damage “equivalent to 90 percent disability.”
Source: univision
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