Joyce is a native of Chicago who relocated to the south in 2005 after the death of her first husband. She remarried in 2005 and moved to West Tennessee with her 3 children and lived for 5 years. In 2010 her and her family moved to South West Louisiana.

In late 2008 her husband Randy became sick. He was a truck driver and told he had reoccurring mono and needed to take a month. After the month he was no better, but worse sleeping 16 hours a day to which the doctor said it’s chronic fatigue syndrome. Six months later he is no better, but while watching a talk show gets a clue to what is really wrong. The guest on the show had suffered from mercury poisoning and when he started describing his symptoms my husband said “That’s me!”