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[Tique]

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@Travone wrote:

@Tique  that is very interesting.  I didn't realize that about Joss and Nell..

@Travone   I couldn't know that you didn't know about this and not do something about it. This is the best article I've read about the whole Joss/Nelle/Carly/Jax connection. Ask if you have questions after reading it.

How General Hospital's Josslyn Ended Up With Nelle's Kidney

Kassie King

Josslyn Jacks was born on-screen on "General Hospital" in 2009, though that date was modified since the character has been rapidly aged into a young adult played by Eden McCoy since 2015.

Josslyn was born to legendary "GH" character Carly Corinthos Jax, and her husband at the time, the wealthy Jasper "Jax" Jacks, per Soaps in Depth. The girl's life has been marred with drama since her birth — Claudia Zacchara tried to kidnap her as a newborn but was stopped and killed by her older brother Michael— but one of the scariest moments for her family was when she was diagnosed with kidney cancer as a toddler in 2011.

The doctors informed Carly and Jax that Josslyn needed an immediate kidney transplant or she would need to undergo chemotherapy. Carly refused to put her young daughter through such difficult treatment so she became determined to find an organ donor. She ended up going to her best friend Jason Morgan whose young son Jake had just been hit by a car and pronounced brain dead. Jason and Carly were able to convince Jake's mother Elizabeth Webber to donate his kidney to Josslyn and her life was saved.

However, several years later everyone would come to learn that nothing about the situation was what it seemed.

Carly began the search for Josslyn's donor

In 2015, it was revealed that little Jake Webber was alive and well and had been held captive by Helena Cassadine for four years as part of a plot to inflict pain on Luke Spencer, Jake's grandfather who believed he was responsible for the boy's death. After Jake was rescued by his former step-father Lucky Spencer, Josslyn and her family realized that he couldn't have been her kidney donor.

Josslyn's mother Carly began a search to find the person who gave up an organ to save her life. Soon after, Joss' father Jax returned to Port Charles from his home in Australia and tried to convince her to give up the search. Not to be deterred, Carly enlisted the help of Nina Reeves (then Michelle Stafford) to post an ad in Crimson asking the donor to come forward.

Meanwhile, Jax was acting shady and taking secret phone calls leading some to believe that he knew something more about Josslyn's transplant than he was letting on. Not long afterward, a young woman named Nelle Hayes showed up in Port Charles claiming to be the mystery donor, setting off a chain of events that nearly destroyed several lives.

Jax purchased Nelle's kidney for Josslyn

Nelle Benson showed up on Carly Corinthos' doorstep in 2018 claiming to be Josslyn Jacks' kidney donor after seeing the ad in Crimson. Initially Josslyn's family was skeptical and wanted to protect her from any potential harm and so they forced Nelle to complete a DNA test which confirmed that she was in fact the donor.

Nelle explained that when she was child she'd been heavily medicated and informed by her parents that she needed a surgery to make her well. Following the removal of her kidney, she spent the next several years dealing with complications that caused her severe pain. She also revealed that her parents had suddenly come into money after her procedure. Josslyn's family questioned Nelle's motives for trying to contact Josslyn and she said that reading her story had helped her realize that what happened to her had saved someone else's life and had helped her to let go of her anger.

When the question came up of how Nelle's kidney had made its way to Josslyn, Jasper Jacks was forced to admit that years earlier he had contacted Carly's deadbeat adoptive father Frank Benson to help him find an organ to save Josslyn's life. Frank was always hard up for money and had extensive criminal contact so Jax asked him to procure a black market kidney in exchange for one million dollars. Though everyone was furious with Jax for his subterfuge he maintained that he believed the kidney had come from a willing donor who was paid for their sacrifice and that he'd never expected a young child had been manipulated in such a heinous way.

Nelle's ulterior motives became clear

Josslyn Jacks immediately bonded with Nelle Benson upon meeting the person who had saved her life. Though the family embraced Nelle after confirming her story was true, they soon learned that she had an ulterior motive for coming to have. It was revealed that Nelle was the daughter of Frank Benson, Carly's adoptive father who had abandoned her, and when Jax asked him for a kidney he had offered up his own child to be butchered.

In reality, Nelle still harbored anger toward Josslyn's family for what happened to her and especially toward Carly who she felt had abandoned her. Though Carly maintained that she had no knowledge of Nelle's existence, the younger woman claimed that they met once in Florida when Carly hit up Frank for years of back child support before coming to Port Charles. Nelle viewed Carly as the older sister who had left her to suffer with their abusive father while she was off creating a fabulous life for herself.

Nelle's vendetta against Carly continued and only got worse. She ended up getting involved with Carly's son Michael Corinthos, switching their newborn son with a dead baby, leaving Michael to grieve their child while he actually was alive and being raised by Brad Cooper and Lucas Jones. Fortunately, the family learned the truth about little Wiley's parents and were able to get him back. In 2020, after an altercation with Carly, Nelle slipped off the edge of a cliff and fell to her death, ending her reign of terror against the family that was never truly hers.

source: thelist

[Tique]

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@mysoutherncomfort wrote:

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Yes, @Tique Although Portia didn't "tell" Trina she had to move back home, however, for Trina's safety, it was suggested strongly that she not stay in the dorm and live at home.  As I recall, this came about after Jordan visited the home of Portia/Curtis/Marshall/Trina to impart that the PCPD suspects the hook killer of targeting not only Trina, but of all those who supported her during the trial.

Trina, after getting input from Jordan and the rest of the adults decided that it may be in her best interests for the time being to live at home. 

Now to present day as Trina parades around town apparently on her own...oh well...

Just enough details for me to remember those scenes. I tend to agree more with your thinking of strongly suggested.

Thank you  @mysoutherncomfort.

[Travone]

@Tique thank you for the backstory.   I remember Joss being in the hospital and needing a transplant,  but I wasn't watching during the majority of the Nell years.this puts the pieces in place.   You should be hired by GH.  You know the backstory better than the writers. 

[Tique]

@Travone  in this case I knew where to find the best backstory. Glad you enjoyed reading it.

[kelsey17]

Today just watching it seems that almost the whole show

is teen geared...........Trina/Spencer....Joss/Dex....

just getting a bit much lately....

laughed as Drew was forgiving Carley for her Nina lies....

he said "well you did come through when you told Nina

to go get herself tested for bone marrow"......really??

because she said that to Nina he felt she finally did the right thing???yikes..........those two make me gag

[Tique]

On this day in 1990, Frisco and Felicia got married.

@redwingsgal 

[cowboy sam]

@kelsey17 

What made me want to gag...

was the bedroom scenes with Carly&Drew!🤮

[Tique]

Vintage General Hospital 

[mysoutherncomfort]

Speaking of wanting to gag...Spencer wanting sole custody of his yet unborn sibling (or is it his child)  (or is it neither his nor Nik's)?  Really?  A twice convicted felon at the ripe old age of 19 or 20? 

IF Laura (as grandma or great grandma) wanted to try for custody of the child, then maybe; that's a big maybe.  But Spencer?

What are these folks doing in the writing room?  

[Tique]

Today is a day to pause and remember certain events that should never be forgotten.

From January 2021

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@Tique wrote:

@grandma r   thank you for your thread acknowledging

Holocaust Remembrance day.

I included the link in case others want to read it. If not interested please pass on by.

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