GREGORY JOSEPH WILSON FEBRUARY 24, 1956 TO OCTOBER 2, 2023
My precious husband passed away on October 2nd, 2023 after only approximately 36 hours in hospice. This was never supposed to happen. When I am able to say more about this mentally, emotionally and physically, I will. Write now I am living minute to minute, hour to hour and day by day. Living life without him is something I never wanted to do.
God let us get to our 25th Wedding Anniversary but it was to be the last.
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THE STORY OF US
Married co-writers, writing songs, Living life one day at a time - Then Cancer Strikes - NOW - Facing the fight of their lives together overcoming complications from Cancer Treatment
 Snapshot taken after returning from a weekend away. Exhausted but so very happy. Circa 1998
It all started from an email. I had been songwriting for a few years in 1996 when I received an email from a man that was looking for co-writers. Back in the day AOL was the only online game in town. In fact, it was a craze. Everyone was signing onto AOL and couldn't wait to hear that phrase, "YOU'VE GOT MAIL"
One day I heard those words and when I opened up my email, there was a request from a songwriter who was looking for co-writers. I read the email and moved on. My first thought was, "Oh no, another guy looking to get in my panties." I had just had a bad experience with another man who claimed he wanted to write songs with me. It turned out writing was the last thing he had wanted. I didn't delete this new guys email but I didn't respond either. A few weeks later after mulling it over, I responded. We hit it off. Writing was easy with Greg. Everything felt fun and easy with Greg. After writing together for 1 and 1/2 years, we felt like we were falling in love. He traveled to New York from Michigan so we could meet in person. That was January of 1998. The in person meeting took place at the Holiday Inn near the airport on Long Island. We knew as soon as we met that the love we were feeling while writing together was real. Before he left to go back to Michigan, we made a plan for him to give notice to his job, pack his belongings and move to Long Island. In March we rented our first house together and in April he relocated from Michigan to Long Island. On July 10, 1998, we were married. The first 10 years of our marriage was a whirlwind of wedded bliss, travel, fun, music and love. We even became Grandparents together. We moved to Georgia and had a house built in a place called Winder. |
We opened our own Songwriters Cafe called Inside The Song. We commuted back and forth from Georgia to Nashville networking and building ties that would connect us to the songwriting community. We made lifelong friends in both Georgia and Tennessee. On Christmas night of 2009, Greg had his first stroke. A year later, when Greg's health was stable, we made the decision to follow our dreams and moved to Tennessee to pursue our songwriting passion. Everything was going along as we had planned until the fall of 2017. The rest as they say is history. Collectively, we have conquered Kidney Disease, Strokes, Fibromyalgia and CFS. We geared up to fight the Devil. On November 29th, 2017 Greg was diagnosed with Bladder Cancer by a Urologist who claimed to know what cancer looked like without doing a biopsy. A second Urologist told us that it was probably cancer on December 12, 2017. The official biopsy results came in on January 17, 2018 after a BIOPSY, TURBT and CYSTOSCOPY on January 15th, 2018. We are documenting the journey. If it can help one person facing adversity, it will be worth telling our story. I am going to try and add to this blog as time allows. It turns out that we are now battling complications from the cancer treatments. We continue to fight for our lives together. Follow our blog to read the whole cancer fight journey and where we are now. 
Wedding Day - July 10, 1998
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