Gone too soon

Hello my name is Eli and, well, I’ll begin at the main beginning.

I was in high school and fell madly deeply in love with a boy JC, but he never paid attention to me in school. Once home, though, he would call and we talked all nite long on the phone. Well, he ended up in some trouble and had to go away and I never saw or heard from him for quite some time.

One day I hear of a car wreck he was in where he almost dies and where his friend actually did. He was given up for death many times and thankfully God had a plan for him.

Meeting again on Facebook

Well, years go by and I’m on Facebook. I look him up, send a friend request and all of a sudden, one day, I hear a ding ding ding and it is him! We talked until the sun rose that morning and we talked for several weeks. We live a few hours apart, so we decide to meet up and hang out. I remind you he was my first love and I’m married at this time but we meet up, hang out, laugh, smile, go for walks, and just live being around one another. We have to go back to our own homes and the hug he gave that day was such a meaningful hug, the way he rubbed my back, the way he smelt, I was head over heels again. Just knowing he was going to leave me the same way as we were kids, made me sad.  Well, he whispers in my ear he loves me. We get home, at it again talking until daylight and I couldn’t believe he had said he loved me.

Deciding to make a go of it

Well a few months go by and we meet up again and he tells me he wants me to stay with him but we go home separate again. A few days later I wind up at his door and eventually living with him. One day he comes home from work his feet are unreal. They are swelled so bad he showers and gets out and his legs are swelled. I tell him to lay down prop them up and I do some research. My research shows hep c so he continues to go to work until they are hurting him so bad he can’t stand it. So I finally talk him into goin to the emergency room. Well the Dr. doesn’t really know what’s happening so they send us home no matter what I said I had found. I fix us some thing to eat and while we are eating we get a call to come back to the hospital. So we go and the results were right, he has hep c, but his liver CT wasn’t right and his blood count was so bad they give him many pints of blood and they recommend another hospital that treats hep c. We get an appointment and he is treated and cured for that.

Hep C

In 2023 he gets where he can’t breath and at the emergency room they administer pints of blood again. He starts where he needs this done several times a month. I did forget a detail when he found out he had hep c the Dr. walks out and tears are rolling down his face. I explain now we know and we have to get it taken care of he says I wouldn’t blame you. I say "what?" He repeats his self adding if I left him. I said "why would I do that?" He said "I’m sick." I say "yes but I’m gonna be with u through all of this, I love you and this is a mountain we have to climb together." Well in 2023 he starts needing more blood and then all of a sudden his belly starts swelling and he gets a hernia exactly lower on his belly. He goes to the emergency room and they drain the fluid and have him CT scans MRIs and a pet scan and it’s cancer. This was in May or June of 2024. He goes to a hospital in North Carolina and they have nothing else to do for him. He comes home on hospice and he stays home not even a week and passes away August 4, 2024. That was the worst day of my life. He was my soulmate, my best friend, and my partner in crime. Cancer took the love of my life, along with liver disease, cirrhosis, and hep c and I will never be the same. He fought with swelling anemia varices, fatigue, brain fog, this horrible rash that never would heal and he showed me what true love was. How to love and be loved. How I was supposed to be treated and we went on adventures. He showed me life and I never got to tell him that I pray one day we find a cure. Nobody has know the pain I feel in my heart and the horrible way this disease affected him.

I love you Jimi and always will I carry u in my heart and soul forever