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Thanks for taking the time to talk and be supportive.. Me and billy meet online about 5 years ago.. He moved up here from omaha so I can be close to family. He have been here for 4 years and he have so many health problems in the last year and 3 months. He had been in a nurseing home last summer and the reason he went in because He have full blown AIDS..He got out in september.. In december he had a very bad cold for weeks and got ammonia.. He have been on so many rounds of antobiotics and after that he was starting to have pain in his tummy area.. We done so many test on him.. Upper GI test,, catscans, and colon test..Everything is nomal, But they found he had small case of gasritis.. He have been in so much pain for about 5 months and not eating very well.. He have lost so much weight, Plus he was smoking and having lungs problems didnt helped.. We was visiting my mom in the nursing home here in town.. He started now feeling to good and felt like passing out.. The nurses checked his heart beat.. His pulse was so high.. I tooked him to the ER.. They put him on a heart monitor on him and saw his heart was going 200 beats a minute and after resting his heart was slowing down. When I heard that his heart was that high.. I got a very scared feeling. They checked his gall bladder and saw he had gall stones... They ammited him into the hospital to check his heart out, He was doing very good for 2 days and they Dr was going to send him home on march 31st, But his health went down so fast and he was at death doors.. His breathing was 45 seconds and his heart was going up and down and trying to adjust to his body.. On the morning of march 31st.. The hospital called me and told to get will power of health. I though it wasnt that serious.. When I got to his room there were 2 nurses there looking at him and I know it was serious. I tried to wake him up.. He only stayed up for about a second or 2 and fall back to sleep.. I called his family and mine.. I told them that he was passing away. My parents and closet freinds came right away and stayed with us and waiting minute by minute.. I called the prist and give him the last rights.. All day he was fighting to keep alive.. I have sighed to many paper that day.. I am the POA of his health care.. But one paper it took me about 30 minutes to decide.. I sigh papers not to start his heart when it stops.. If they did CPR.. They will break ribs or puncher a lung.. So that was a very hard desion to make.. I sighed him into hospice and when night falles He was coming to and staying awake longer and eating again.. Wow I though he was very close to death and he is coming back to me... When he was moving.I though he had a stroke because his hand was close shut.. So I ask the Dr to check him for a stroke.. He didnt had no Stroke.. Thanks god.. I though march 31st was me all time nightmare... I never in my life face this and didnt know what to think.. So the next day I put him into the nuseing home again and they put him on the floor where people that is close to death.. I tried to fight to put him where he feels safe and confortable. To march 31st to april 5 th.. I stayed by his side to watch over him and make sure he gets the right medical care.. I was so drained and out of it.. We had close calles in the past 3 weeks... He is getting better day by day and started to gaining weight again.. But I keep telling poeple looks can be deceiving. YOu never know what is going on inside him.. So everyone is so amaze he is alive. I saw our HIV Dr and I have told him about billy.. He have told me he have a body of a 80 years man and was amaze that he is alive.. He is 60 years old and so many health problems, They wont do any surgry on him.. They feel he is so weak that if they done surgry on him.. He wouldnt make it.. Each day is a blessing and trying build good memories with him before he pass away.. Hopeing it will be in 10 to 15 years from now. But god is the only one knows when his time is up and hoping when he passes he have no worries in his heart and let god guide him to his light and he will be mine specil angel.. Sorry for the book.. Just telling you what I have been going though and hard to deal of a love one that is dieing. We have lost 4 people in the pass 2 years, His freind donny, 2/20/09, his sister 02/24/10, My grandmother 10/2/10 and our very good freind gabby 1/19/11 and I sure hell dont want to put billy on this list of loses.. Thanks for reading this and it time to let you go.. Hope you have a very good day today and dont take nothing for granted. You never know when it your last day on earth.. No one knows, accect the man upstairs..
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