Jesse Cox - Online Memorial Website

Born on March 18, 1962.

 On or about this day was when I moved to GA to live with Jesse.  It was a big step for me.  I'd met him sometime before a couple of times and we had talked on the telephone forever at times or online via yahoo.  He was quite the different man than what I was used to.  He had told me prior to our meeting that he was disabled and had been in a motorcycle vs semi accident in 1985, and had lost his right leg above the knee and the use of his right arm.  But those so called disabilities sure didn't slow him down when he made up his mind to do something.   He could do many things most people didn't think he could, they just didn't know how hard headed he was.  But he was a sweetheart at the same time, and could surprise me a lot.  He always had this impish smile that always made you think he was up to something, and of course, many times, he was.  He was a good hearted man and would do anything for anyone.  He loved his family, he had 2 sons, which he was proud of, but admitted he never told them as much as he should have.  And he loved all his grand children.  We had a good active life until July of 2008, at which time we had decided to go spend a romantic getaway weekend at Fernandina Beach, FL.  The first night was "game" night, which at the time allowed him to play World of Warcraft, and I could go spend a few hours down at the beach.  On my way home, I called him and asked what he wanted to eat and unfortunately what he had chosen made him deathly ill, but he had refused to go to the hospital, and went on being sick, until he didn't have no choice but to let me call an ambulance and he went from Yelee,FL to Jacksonville,FL, where he spent a month in ICU.  He made it home finally, and was ok for a few months and then started having problems again, and required the first of many blood transfusions.  From then on, he had a pretty rough and painful life.  His liver was shot, and even after some futile attempts to fix the damage, it couldn't be done, it continued, until August of 2010 when he was hospitalized again, only to find out that his liver failure had also attacked and shut down his kidneys.  The doctors then had decided there wasn't anymore they could do for him and gave him the option of staying in the hospital under limited pain, or going home with hospice, he decided he wanted to come home, they had tried to get him to go to a hospice house first for a few days, but he was determined he was going home and he did.  Watching a loved one die before your eyes and knowing there is nothing you can do tears you up inside.  I still think of him and have a lot of good memories of him.  I still miss him terribly, but know that now he is finally at peace with no pain.  Rest in Peace My Beloved, I love you now and forever.

 Tifton Gazette

Passed away on November 21, 2010.