Hero mom: "He mattered way more than I did"
HAVERHILL, Mass. - Lying in her hospital bed, Christina Simoes knows she may never walk again, but she says she's thankful she and her toddler son are alive after she jumped from a burning building with him in her arms.When fire broke out Wednesday in their apartment complex, Simoes, 23, realized there was only one way to save her 18-month-old son, Cameron.
"I grabbed my son and I held him as tight as I could to my chest and I gave him a kiss and a hug, and I told him I loved him and I jumped out the window," Simoes told CBS Boston Sunday from her hospital bed.
"I didn't think about it. All I was thinking about was getting him out of there. He mattered way more than I did," she said.
Simoes said she was lying in the bed with Cameron when she saw smoke in her window and jumped up. "That's when I saw the flames were only 10 feet away from where I was standing," Simoes recalled.
With the fire spreading rapidly, Simoes said, she had no choice but to jump from a second-story balcony, holding on to Cameron for dear life.
Simoes suffered severe back injuries and doctors are not sure whether she will be able to walk again. Cameron is doing just fine.
Though she is still in a lot of pain, Simoes told CBS Boston just holding her son in her arms is the greatest Mother's Day gift she could ever receive.
"I'm having a good day," she said from the hospital. "My whole family is here, my son is here. It's magical, I mean there's nothing that feels better than having everybody here with me."
She will remain in the hospital for at least 10 days before beginning rehab.
Despite her incredibly brave act, she says she is not a hero for saving her son.
"I don't think that I'm any special hero at all. I'm just Cameron's mom," Simoes said.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
why did o post this here? on your blog? when i have it set all up to be reflections, and love letters for you when i am gone?
simple, i saw you had liked it and shared it on your facebook wall, and it struck me..
its different than the norm you always push out to the world.
this one, reeks of compassion, and thoughtfulness, to me anyway.
i cant help but wonder, are you reflecting mothers day (was just yesterday) and how i am always trying to get you to undwerastand, a mother will be the one to die for you, to sacrifice her life, drowned in any ocean to make sure you can breath, walk through fire to make sure your safe, give you her very last breath, and ounce of energy.
not another living soul will do that for her child, and i have told you over and over and over again, im that mom.
im the ONLY one who worried at night when your not here, worries when your not hime during the day, has cried tears of pain when i had to think of you entering the miliraty and being killed..over seas, worried when youd go off with dreinds id never see you again, and youd be dead in some ditch..id never know..
worried every hour you were in the iar on a plane, to and comeing back, every second was filled with worry..
why?
because i carried you inside me for 9 months, raised you alone allot of your childhood, and, have invested my heart into you.
id have done just as this mother did, daniel, if i was faced with the same circumstances, id have jumped out of that window and broke my bakck to make sure you werent harmed.
i have failed, on some elves of protection, and i know that, i own that, and i feel gulity for that every day of my life.
i feel powerless when your depressed, or fel theres no way out of a corner you have found yourself in...but i try, with what wisdom i have been blessed with to help guide you out of that place..
i wrap you in my love, and hold you tight, and ask you to believe in me, just have trust..ill show you a way.
and i feel, to me anyway, i have done the best i have been able too.
maybe not to you, i dont know, your allot like your nanna, keep allot hidden inside.
i refuse to allow life to go by and you ever have to question my heart and you.
you held it 100% if the time. you have the key.
"you matter way more than I do"
dont ever forget that!
i love you, daniel. thats forever!
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