Jeffrey Jay

I Am Jeffrey

I am currently sojourning near Tallahassee Florida, formerly in Michigan. I came down here last year to be a blessing to my mother who has macular degeneration and my step father, in turn they have been a blessing to me during my time of need after a recent divorce the left me with a handful of clothes and a car to travel in.

My father passed away in nineteen ninety three. My mother has been with her common law husband for over fifteen years now. I have an elder sister who is around twelve years older than me, I also have two elder brothers that are about fourteen and sixteen years older. There was another elder sister who passed away at a young age from a brain tumor, and twins that passed at birth.

Early Years

I vaguely recall attending a Catholic church until I was around the age of five. That was the last time I attended a church until I went to a private school, and after that I didn't go for a good long time.

I began getting into unrighteous behavior early in my teenage years thanks to an unrighteous "friend" and neighbor but yet it was my free will choice too. At the time my neighbor was talking about going to a private boys only Catholic high school to play football. I thought that it would be great to go there too especially since I thought he was going. I convinced my parents that was what I wanted to do and I wanted to try out for the football team. I was accepted and my neighbor was not so I ended up going there alone.

At first it was great because before school started they had an early football camp and had tons of fun plus I got into great shape. Unfortunately, I was drawn to a few "friends" that were bad influences on me and looking to get into mischief. When school started me and these miscreants were getting into all kinds of things, including breaking into the church and drinking the wine.

After being at the school for a semester or so I began experiencing some physical health issues. One day I went to the school nurse and discovered that my heartbeat was two hundred beats per minute, the nurse freaked out and called for an ambulance because she thought I was having a heart attack. After going to the hospital and taking several blood tests they really could not find anything that was causing the issues. When I went back to school my health was getting worse and worse which resulted in more and more tests still with no answers. This obviously affected my school work and inevitably I had to eventually drop out. When I moved back home I started going to the local public high school. I continued seeing doctors until one day a doctor noticed that I had a goiter which for those who don't know what that is it is a swelling of the neck resulting from enlargement of the thyroid gland. At that time we were told that there were only two choices to correct the goiter, one was surgery and the second was to take a radio active iodine pill. I certainly did not want to go for the surgery so I took option two. As a result my thyroid was mostly destroyed and they told me that I was going to be on prescription medicine my whole life.