SAN ANTONIO (KABB/WOAI) - Ashley Solis, a young mother and wife, was ripped from her family after contracting Covid-19 while pregnant.
"I wake up and I always think I see her there when she’s not there," says her husband Roland Solis. "Everything is just so new."
They were high school sweethearts who struggled through the ups and downs that come with getting married at a young age.
Now, 10 years and six kids later, Roland says without his 28-year-old wife, the road ahead looks uncertain.
"It’s hard trying to move forward when sometimes you don’t really want to, but I try to do it for the kids," says Roland. "That’s all I focus on now."
Ashley was six months pregnant.
What was a family of 7 at the time, all contracted Covid last month.
Everyone but Ashley recovered.
She was rushed to the hospital, sent back home and rushed to the hospital again.
Doctors had to perform an emergency C-section so she could be treated for Covid.
"Like three weeks ago she was just like all of us here," says Roland. "Loving, outgoing and capable of doing anything. It just attacked her fast and hard."
Ashley had enough strength to deliver baby Miguel on September 17, three months premature.
He was still-born, but doctors were able to resuscitate him.
Ashley was put on a ventilator and died less than three weeks later.
Her family says she fought until the end so Miguel could live.
"There’s only one word to say: he’s a miracle and we’re blessed to have him with us," says Ashley's sister-in-law Victoria Gonzales. "I know that Ashley would love him just as much as she loved the other five."
He's only two pounds right now, but his father says he's on the road to recovery.
Like his mom, baby Miguel is a fighter.
"He’s strong just like his mom," says Roland.
There is a plate sale for the family this Saturday, October 16.
The information is listed in the flyer below.
If you would like to help pay for Ashley's final expenses and help the family's six children, you can do so with this GoFundMe page.