Hector Alvarado

Sitting in front of his wife's bed, Hector Alvarado gently caresses her round face with his strong hands.Not a day passes without Hector Alvarado, or their 19-year-old son, Josh, whispering "I love you" or "I miss you" to her.
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"I can't believe they made that decision," Hector Alvarado, 55, said from his North Hills home."Having been through different neurologists, they will all tell you the same thing.There is no way anybody can tell whether there is any thought process going on; it is impossible.To say somebody is in a vegetative state doesn't mean there isn't any brain activity.That is absolutely false, and I know that because of my own experience."

Alvarado said his wife, who is fed through a tube inserted below her rib cage, communicates with head movements and can breathe on her own.
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"She has a standard will about what to do with assets but not a living will," Hector Alvarado said.
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"She has been in the hospital several times, but she cries and is uncomfortable," Hector Alvarado said."She wants to be home.She wants to here."

Financially, the family struggles a bit.They pay for 20 percent of the medical care, and Tri-Care Prime, a military insurance, pays 80 percent.Hector Alvarado is retired and works as a computer system analyst for Coleman Research.
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Hector Alvarado, who has been married to Judith for 26 years, has no plans to be anywhere else but beside his wife.
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Hector Alvarado, left, adjusts his wife's position so that she is comfortable.

Sitting in front of his wife's bed, Hector Alvarado gently caresses her round face with his strong hands.Not a day passes without Hector Alvarado, or their 19-year-old son, Josh, whispering "I love you" or "I miss you" to her.
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"I can't believe they made that decision," Hector Alvarado, 55, said from his North Hills home."Having been through different neurologists, they will all tell you the same thing.There is no way anybody can tell whether there is any thought process going on; it is impossible.To say somebody is in a vegetative state doesn't mean there isn't any brain activity.That is absolutely false, and I know that because of my own experience."

Alvarado said his wife, who is fed through a tube inserted below her rib cage, communicates with head movements and can breathe on her own.
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"She has a standard will about what to do with assets but not a living will," Hector Alvarado said.
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"She has been in the hospital several times, but she cries and is uncomfortable," Hector Alvarado said."She wants to be home.She wants to here."

Financially, the family struggles a bit.They pay for 20 percent of the medical care, and Tri-Care Prime, a military insurance, pays 80 percent.Hector Alvarado is retired and works as a computer system analyst for Coleman Research.
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Hector Alvarado, who has been married to Judith for 26 years, has no plans to be anywhere else but beside his wife.