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| 1964 |
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Born in Indiana on May 09, 1964. |
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| 1985 |
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Jimmy married the love of his life, Tami. |
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| February 1994 |
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Became Godfather to my son, Jonathan Lee. |
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| 1994/95 |
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Marriage to Tami ended. |
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| February 1997 |
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Became God father to my daughter, Caitlyn James. |
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| April 28th 2003 |
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Jimmy finally got hired on at Silgan! He was so happy and proud to be working with Mark. He finally felt like one of the "gang". |
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| 2003 |
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Jimmy was set up by a "friend" of many years. We'll call him ugly tattoo guy. Ugly tattoo guy was getting ready to go away for a long time.. so he decided to make a deal and set my brother up (with the help of the police department). He ended up on house arrest for quite awhile.. then he wasn't allowed to leave the state for a couple years. This made the last few years of his life hell. Jimmy's parole was up in January. A little too late. |
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| March 2005 |
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Moved out the house that he'd lived in almost all of his life to be with someone he thought he was in love with.. someone who said they loved him. |
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| May/June |
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on sick leave from work. Was lethargic and had really bad headaches. Had two or three episodes of blacking out. Started going for series of CT's and MRI's. |
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| September2005 |
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The person (who shall remain un-named.. I'll call her psycho soul sucking hose-beast) that told Jimmy she loved him, kicked him to the curb because he wasn't bringing her enough money in on sick leave. He had been so happy with her. He finally had the little family with kids he'd always wanted. The kids loved him and he took good care of them.. teaching them to cook and playing with them. We thought maybe she really was "the one" this time. We were wrong. As karma has it, he was given the ok to go back to work and she was "let go"... (go karma!). Because Jimmy's old house was kind of occupied (sorry about that).. Jimmy moved into one of his old bedrooms in our parents house. A lot of the stuff he couldn't get from hose-beasts house got sold. He lost so much stuff. He spent his last few months depressed over this "love" that dumped him and broke his heart. |
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| October 10, 2005 |
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Jimmy was admitted to the intensive care unit at Reid Hospital and diagnosed with acute pancreatitis. During his stay he went into complete renal failure and his heart stopped several times. I'm sure most of the nurses and staff at Reid remember Jimmy's visit! |
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| October 27, 2005 |
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Jimmy was discharged from reid, with very little instructions and over 15 different medications. Some medications had to be taken together, some had to be taken at seperate times... some on an empty stomach and some on a full stomach. He had to check his blood sugar all the time and calculate his own dosages. He did the best he could to keep everything straight, but had a pretty difficult time. The pancreatitis kept him in constant pain and it, along with all the different medications (pain killers, muscle relaxers, sleeping pills and anti-anxiety meds) made him sleepy and foggy, but unable to sleep at night. He was pretty miserable. The pain meds weren't working for him at all. He asked the doctor over and over for a prescription for a specific type. The doctor wouldn't write it out because he told Jimmy it wasn't nearly as strong as what he was on. Jimmy knew this, but he also knew that it also helped his pain more, even if it wasn't as strong as what he was currently taking. |
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| December 7, 2005 |
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Mom and Mark take Jimmy to I.U. medical center for some more tests. They tell him a part of his pancreas is dead and needs to be removed. Jimmy (who is terrified of even needles) agrees to the extensive surgery! Before I came home from school Jimmy drove out to the cig. store to pick mom up some cigarrettes and him up three packs of chew. We were due for our first snow of the season the next day, so I guess they needed to stock up on the "neccessities". The surgery was scheduled for December 27th. (we both joked about the date because this meant we wouldn't be able to make a court date that was scheduled on my birthday, January 5th. The person that shall still remain un-named, had served him papers and was suing for credit card bills that they had both used while he was living with her.. for groceries and such, and for the tires she had bought him for his birthday!) His doctor also finally agreed to call in a prescription for the pain medication that would actually help him. Mom and I were suppose to pick it up the next day. He came home and was excited but nervous. He told me and some others all about it. He kept saying he couldn't believe that he agreed to the surgery. He came out to the house, talked with me a little more, talked to the kids for a little and told them goodnight, and went into the house for bed. While he was walking up the stairs to his room he kept saying "man.. I can't believe I agreed to that!... I'm going to have a scar.. like Frech. Me and Frech are gonna be twins.. eh Mark?" He said all of this with a big nervous and excited grin on his face. That was the last thing we heard him say. |
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| December 8, 2005 |
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After Christmas shopping with mom (getting Jimmy some budweiser sleep pants for Christmas, for his stay in the hospital).. we came home. Mom went upstairs to tell him he could pick up his prescription later on that day. She couldn't wake him. She doesn't remember any of this but she called me in the house. I somehow knew right away. I ran in the house and asked where he was. I took off upstairs yelling his name. There he was. My blood turned to ice water. He was in his chair in front of the computer.. chin resting in front of the keyboard.. eyes closed, looking very peaceful. I knew he was gone even before I touched him, but I kept calling his name. He had two candles burning and a beegee's concert dvd playing (I wouldn't want to go out listening to the beegees, but he loved them so I guess that was a good thing.) It was freezing out and he had his window open and nothing but his sleep-shorts on. The first snow of the season fell while the paramedics and police cars showed up. This wasn't how we thought it would all end.. but I guess things don't always work out the way we plan. The coroner seems to believe that Jimmy died around 6am. We found him at 2:45pm. I know he was on the phone with someone until about 1am. I called the last numbers dialed on his cell phone. The last person he spoke to said he was slurring an awful lot and seemed out of it. He kept dropping the phone and was hard to understand. I think he wore himself out. He fell asleep while playing and chatting on the computer, like he often did.. but this time he just never woke up.
"I hope you went out smiling like a child into the cool remnant of a dream" |
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| Decmeber 12, 2005 |
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Jimmy's calling at Doan and Mills funeral home. Dawn and I arrived an hour early to set up pictures and such. Walking in and seeing him was extremely difficult. We placed letters and pictures in with him. I put his little walkie talkie in under his pillow (he had given the other one to me a few days before so we could talk back and forth from our homes).. I also put in the two cans of chew he never got around to opening (yes... silly,but he would have thought it was funny). I also placed one of his first concert tickets in his hand. Mom made sure I remembered to put in the prayer book Father Todd had given him, he was proud of that. The calling was full of tears and some laughter. I made a little "best of Jimmy" video and had it playing. The video contained Jimmy dancing around and being silly at Dawn's halloween party and of course it showed Jimmy showing his butt a couple times. Watching Jimmy happy and at his best was nice. So many people showed up... Jimmy would have been very pleased at the turn-out. I hope he realized how much he was loved. |
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| Tuesday, December 13th, 2005 |
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Jimmy's funeral service was as nice as a funeral could possibly be. The room was full of family and friends that loved him dearly. Father Todd spoke kind and loving words that would have made him very proud. Scott got up and spoke and so did one of Jimmy's best friends. He was carried out to the hearse by most of his best-friends. Jimmy was laid to rest next to our dad at Lutherania Cemetery. |
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| January 2005 |
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Almost a month after Jimmy died we received a ruling from the court in the mail. It seems the person that was trying to sue him... *did*... and she won! How can you sue a dead man? The nerve of someone to go to court and lie to the court about what this person owed them. She could have said he owed her a million dollars and since he wasn't around to defend himself..she could have gotten it. Just goes to show you how utterly low some people are. Her true colors are out there in all their horrible glory... and let me tell you, they're damn ugly. I'm sure karma will once again catch up with her; as it will the ugly tattoo guy that set him up (but that's another story). |
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