Hi Everyone, many of Josh and Joi's friends have asked me to set up a Gofundme in order to help cover some of the upcoming costs. - Erik Robles

The following is from Josh,

About Lejoi: For those of you who had the opportunity to meet Joi... She definitely lived up to her name & gave people so much joy. She was very caring, kind, sweet, strong, and a fighter. She fought so many obstacles over the last couple of years and overcame them.

She may be hard to get a hold of at times since she has a bad habit of responding back to messages, but she was always there for you. She's shy at first,

but once she gets comfortable with you, you made a lifelong quality friend. She loved going out but also didn't mind just sitting at home watching TV & eating snacks.

She LOVED food and was always really picky so each night was sometimes a struggle to decide on what to eat.

She fell in love with cars & drifting because of me. She was inspired by my love for Evos which she developed as well. Lejoi would pull up to car meets in my 240SX and loved it.

After our very first Formula Drift Event that we attended in 2012, we were both hooked to their events & became HUGE fans and attended every single Formula D Irwindale event since.

At every Formula D event, she would cheer very loud for her favorite driver, Fredric Aasbø. Losing her voice in almost every event.

She listened to Taylor Swift 24/7. She absolutely loved her music & adored how Taylor treated her fans.

Health Journey: Lejoi was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma 2015. She perused treatment, but only for a few months & decided to stop since

she hated the feeling of what it was doing to her. The following year, 2016. She attempted to continue the treatment, but stopped again due to the

same reasonings. From 2017 - 2021 she developed a chronic cough. In 2020 she tried to continue treatment again, but became difficult to schedule

appointments due to Covid. On February 2021 things took a turn for the worse. She was very very short of breath. Gave it a few days to see if things

would improve before taking her to the Emergency Room at Ventura County Medical Center. At Ventura County Medical Center, they ran a few tests followed

by X-rays and hit us with the worse possible news. They told us that she only had approximately 30 days left to live and that there was nothing they can do.

4 days after being admitted to Ventura County Medical Center's ICU her lung ended up collapsing followed by possible seizures resulting her to get intubated.

A few days later UCLA Santa Monica decided to admit her to see what they can do. After spending 67 days at UCLA, she was nurtured by them to good and strong

health and was able to be discharged to finally go home. Less than a month after being home she unfortunately fell a few times and was in so much pain

& was not able to walk. At that time, she only weighed about 65lbs. We admitted her to St John's Regional Medical Center to see what exactly happened.

St John's Regional Medical Center had her for over 16 hours & were not able to figure out what was wrong. They got in touch with UCLA & UCLA told them to

transfer her back over. After a few hours back at UCLA they discovered that Lejoi ended up fracturing bones in her pelvis.

Since then, Lejoi was able to enter remission twice under UCLA's care. With that being said UCLA highly suggested that she does an Autologous stem cell transplant.

They collected her stemcells on October 2022. Before transplant Lejoi was significantly stronger and healthier compared to 2021. So, on January 23rd 2023 she

was admitted to UCLA Ronald Reagan for the transplant. The first 5 days she had to undergo chemotherapy to kill whatever little cancer remains that were left in her body.

Come the last day of the 5-day treatment Lejoi's arms and and other parts of her body started to flare up and swell. Come January 30th they did the transplant

and seemed it went well. A few days after the transplant she developed breathing complications. She was constantly short of breath. For the last 2 years her base for

blood pressure was always on the lower side at around 90/70ish. Come February 5th she had low blood pressure complications and was not responding well to the meds

that were given to help increase her blood pressure. She then had to get transferred to the ICU & use a high flow oxygen nasal cannula due to her breathing.

After a few tests, they discovered that there was liquid around her heart & had to drain it ASAP & would also have to do dialysis. The procedure she had to do to drain the fluids

was a high-risk procedure. Fortunately, the procedure went well. Shortly after coming back to the ICU they started dialysis. Seconds before the blood left her body, she had a very

difficult time breathing even being on the High-Flow. I saw her Oxygen levels on the monitor drop to the low 70s while looking at her... barley breathing, eyes kind of rolling back as

if she was dozing off. I was quickly told that I had to wait in the waiting area as she needed to be intubated. After about 15 minutes waiting one of the Doctors approached me and said

"Well, she's alive... But we don't know for how much longer". I was told as soon as dialysis started her blood pressure dropped to 0 and they had to start CPR which brought her back.

They asked for my consent to continue to try to keep her alive since she is young, but to also prepare for the worse & I agreed. I was then brought to an isolated room. Less than

an hour later the Doctor comes to me and says, "she's dying" and that there wasn't anything that they can do. Shortly after I was brought back to her room & there, I saw Lejoi...

Ventilated.... eyes closed. At 5:58PM was her final heartbeat.