HEARTBEATS4CHES

07/09/2022

🙌🏻❤️‍🔥🎵🎤Jude's song to his Dad Ches at his Memorial at integrity Funeral Home Stockton St..Riverside on August 6th, 2022. 😭💔🙏🏻

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05/08/2022

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View Chesley Efrain Armando Simmons's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

02/08/2022

Ches' Funeral will be this Saturday with a Viewing from 5:30-6:30pm & Service from 6:30-7:30pm at Integrity Funeral Home~1662 Stockton St. (near corner of Riverside Ave.). Thank you! We 💓You! 😘☮️💚😇🐦🎼🙏🏻👑☯️

01/08/2022

We're working on Ches' Services but most likely will be Saturday afternoon @ Integrity Funeral Home on Stockton & Riverside Ave. area, followed by a later one at Memorial Park for those who couldn't attend. 🙏🏻💓😘

01/08/2022

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My dear sweet friend Denise needs your help! Her husband Ches' damaged heart f… Jacob Meyer needs your support for Fundraiser for Memorial and other expenses

31/07/2022

Our Beloved Ches passed away Peacefully Friday at Mayo; surrounded by me, our 2 Children, his Mom, Brother & Nephew David. Thank you for all of your 💓 & 🙏🏻's always. He's Physically & Mentally Free of pain.🙏🏻😇💔😭

27/07/2022

Attn All of our Prayer/Good Vibe Warriors! On July 20th, Ches went into Cardiac Arrest 2x (Heart stopped) & Mayo Team revived him twice. He was intubated. Thank you Mayo Team for saving him!! 🙏🏻🙌🏻😭💔

27/07/2022

Even after being taken off the Ventilator and given a new Pacemaker/Defibrillator, he has taken a turn for the worse since this and is on 2 Life support IV medications that his Heart and other organs are not responding well to being weened off of. His Heart is fully dependent on them. Hospice is now involved for his comfort. Not ok. 😭😭😭💔💔💔🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

04/07/2022

Please keep Ches in your Prayers! He is at Mayo in PCU for Edema, Heart Failure. His Sodium, Potassium & Electrolytes are critically low. He needs a Pacemaker/Defibrillator battery change & Mitral Valve leak Clip.🙏🏻

25/05/2022

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28/04/2022

Please Pray for Ches!! He has a 10 -15 % Ejection fraction (Heart function), was given "3-6 months to live without a Heart Transplant", 3 months ago, told "to get his affairs in order" a few weeks ago and told each life saving procedure or surgery they plan to do will come with great risks. He needs intervention. He is mentally and physically unstable and needs immediate treatment. 🙏🏻😭❤️‍🩹💔

26/11/2021

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10/10/2021

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Living with a Broken Heart

Remember what the Tin Man said in the “Wizard of Oz” after he finally got a heart….

“Now I know I've got a heart because it’s breaking.”

If someone you love died, your heart is probably broken. So how do you live with a broken heart? The answer isn’t how you fix it or move beyond it. The skill is learning to live with your grief as an ongoing way of being in the world. It’s the way you honor that which you love.

What I’m proposing is that, with enough healing, living with heartbreak can become natural, and very normal.

From my personal and professional experience, I can tell you that as you embark on your healing journey, you’ll start crying a whole lot more. Not just to clear pain, but for the simplest of everyday reasons, and out of nowhere. You’ll cry when you see a bird, a can of paint, an apple, or even the shape of a cloud.

Random things will make you cry.

The heart is designed to grieve, it wants to grieve…..it has to grieve!

Especially when it’s broken.

This is the price you pay for love. The loss of the life you thought you had, the life you once knew and held so dear. Loss of a dream you believed was true.

But you can also find and feel grief in opening your heart. Opening it to love and to new possibilities. Opening it to what the future holds.

Isn’t that what life is all about? Endings and beginnings, closings and openings? The heart was designed to navigate you through this forever winding adventure called life. But you have to be willing to feel…..and to live with a broken heart.

Here’s the thing…..you can learn to live with your broken heart by befriending your grief.

You can discover the love that still exists around you…..and share that love with others who are also living with a broken heart.

Gary Sturgis - “Surviving Grief”

18/09/2021

Please Pray for Ches! Thank you! 🙏🏻💖😭

02/12/2020

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Elvin's 8 year old daughter Sydney Elizabeth received her angel wings and became an organ donor in June 2017. Sydney's parents shared that her gift of life saved a 3 year old, and the comfort knowing their daughter lives on also saved them. Elvin is a quiet man preferring time outside in nature rather than in large crowds, but his voice is powerful when it comes to organ donation and transplantation. He volunteers his time and talents to support the lifesaving mission of the United Network for Organ Sharing in many ways, including through his artistic work. His creative butterfly displays were featured in the Gallery at UNOS in May 2018, and his work will be highlighted in a special exhibition in March 2021 called ""Kaleidoscope."" Thank you to Elvin for sharing his family's story and advocating for donation and transplantation. 💙💚 Elvin will be one of the volunteers hanging ornaments and lighting candles in honor of donors and donor families at the upcoming National event on December 17 at 5pm ET. Event details at https://bit.ly/NtlTreeofLife.

30/09/2020

🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻💚💚💚Please mask up! It does save lives.

Just a friendly reminder to continue wearing your mask to help save lives! You never know if you're standing near a transplant recipient who has a suppressed immune system which increases their chances of getting sick.

23/07/2020

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29/06/2020

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‼️BREAKING‼️ - As of 5 p.m. today, Jacksonville will be adopting a mandatory mask requirement for public and indoor locations.

DETAILS: https://bit.ly/3eITQ2l