Today, the hostess Sheinelle Jones opened the heartbreaking loss of her husband Uch Ojeh, during her emotional return to today’s show on Friday.
Sheinelle Jones when she lost her husband on brain cancer
In his first interview since his death brain cancer in May, a 47 -year -old journalist sat with a friend and colleague Savannah Guthrie to share memories of his husband and the silent power they have shared in his last months.
“It’s a beautiful nightmare,” Jones said. “My heart is broken in a million pieces. The life I have known since I was 19 was no longer.
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Jones met the ojeh when both students were. Their love story began in a college dormitory and lasted decades. A few years later they found themselves in the hospital room and held their hands again.
“I remember staring out of the window, and I’m like Oh, my God, it’s like the crazy, full of circuit,” she remembered. “We’re here again, we don’t talk and feel like a beautiful nightmare.”
When she spoke through tears, she described the quiet moments they shared in the hospital as something deep, even in the middle of fear and pain.
“It was scary. It seemed to me divine. It seemed bigger than us. But at the end of the day when we closed the door and it was only us, it was every time we felt as if we were the best.”
“We would just hold our hands and the sisters came in and they would call us turtles … We just looked at each other, said” I love you, “and hold hands. But that’s what I mean by a beautiful nightmare.”
Ojeh, 45, was a devoted father and athlete, known for the completion of triathlon and spending time with his children.
“It’s a nightmare to watch 45 -year -olds to do two triathlons and live and breathe from football and his children … take such a guy and watch how he has to deal with this fight, was a nightmare.”
For almost a year, Jones continued to work today while looked after her husband privately. Finally, she decided to withdraw from the program to be fully present in what she called both the attempt and the gift.
“I didn’t want to look back. I wanted to be strong and wanted to look back and know that I was strong,” she said.
“But I didn’t want to be so strong that I missed this blessing right in front of me – that I missed the fight, that I was missing in the fight. I just looked in his eyes.”
She described how she had ever become his anchor in moments of fear or fatigue.
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“Sometimes I was his oxygen. I would just (whisper),” I love you. We’ll be fine. I love you. Look at me. I’m here. “”
Despite the devastating result, Jones said that she was hoping.
“I believed he would be okay. I knew it would be hard, but we all believed to be okay.”
Sheinelle Jones captured the painful beauty of walking next to a loved one through illness – and the courage she needs to remain present in love and loss.
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