The beginning.....

I thought it would be easier if I created a separate blog about Tyler's story. Not only that, but I just feel there is too much to update when I have to update information about Audrey and Tyler. So, I just wanted to let you all know that I will have some updates on Tyler soon. In fact, I will probably post every post that I posted on my other blog and just put it all on this one. That way his whole story is on here.

So....it begins:


It all started on February 5th, 2009 at around 10:00 PM. Tyler had been suffering from a cold and bronchitis about a week prior to this day. He was not able to sleep at night because he was so congested. My parents went to take Mike out to dinner for his birthday and Tyler was home and they asked if he wanted to come with them. He said yes, but than realized that he was extremely tired and wanted to get some rest. So, they went to dinner and he was down stairs sleeping. My parents got home around 8:00 ish (give or take a few minutes). My Dad asked my Mom if they should wake Tyler up, but they both agreed that he hadn't had a lot of sleep for the past week and decided to just leave him alone and let him sleep. Finally, before my Mom went to bed at 10:00 she got this prompting that she needed to go check on Tyler, just to find out that he was not breathing and had no pulse. They immediately called 911 and the paramedics got there and were finally able to revive him after a few attempts at getting him back. We have no idea how long Tyler was not breathing for and that is why the doctors at the time and even now still don't know how much damage it did to his brain. We seem to think, with how much he is improving, that he was not out for very long. But, we don't know, and we probably wont ever find out. All I know, is my Mom was prompted by the spirit to go check on Tyler at the right time.

We get a call that night around 10:30 ish and when we get a call that late at night, you know something is wrong. Especially when my brother-in-law Troy calls. Well, we get to the hospital and they did a toxiology report to find out that he accidentally overdosed on drugs. With the drug he was taking it tends to slow the heart down and even stop it. Tyler was acting normal all day that day and didn't even act like anything was wrong. We know Tyler did not do this on purpose. He would never do that. He was suffering from bronchitis and had also taken some medicine to help with that which was not a good combination with the drugs.The drugs literally have taken over his life. He was never the Tyler we all knew when he was on drugs. We tried to help him as a family, but we could only do so much. The drugs were his life and we hope now, that he will change.

So, anyways, back to the hospital story. So, we were at the hospital until 3:30 that morning and the doctors were not hopeful that Tyler would make it. He had not improved since he was there and they said that if he didn't improve by 10:00pm the next day, that he was gone and there was no coming back. We had so many family prayers and Tyler had so many priesthood blessings that Friday. We had been thinking about making arrangements for his funeral and the doctors also told us that day that we should think about whether or not we want a DNR or not, just in case he went into cardiac arrest, which was highly possible for that to happen. We all agreed to have my parents sign the DNR because Tyler would not want to suffer his whole life. Well, Tyler was still hanging on and we all thought it was maybe because he wanted us to let my brother Corey know what happened. Corey is in jail and was not able to make it with us. Not only that, but on Saturday we were waiting for the EEG results to come back to determine how much damage it did to his brain and whether or not he had any activity. Well, the neurologists, the ones who read the EEG don't work over the weekend. So, they were able to send Tyler's EEG results to another neurologist at a different hospital, one that wasn't working that weekend either, but made an exception for Tyler, and he would tell us whether there was too much damage to his brain and there was no hope, or there was some brain activity and to hang on a little bit longer. Well, we had waited all day Saturday for those results and they came in and the neurologist said that he has more activity than they thought and that he is very lucky. The neurologist was shocked at how much activity he did have. He has seen many cases like this, and didn't expect anything out of it. He also said that with Tyler being so young, it gave him even more of an advantage. Let's just say that Thursday, Friday and Saturday was an emotional roller coaster for all of us.

So, ever since that report, Tyler has been progressing soooooo much. Oh man, seriously when my parents found him until about Saturday, it seriously was like his body was there, but his spirit was gone. He pretty much looked dead to us. That is why we didn't have a lot of hope before the EEG results came back. We know Tyler was conversing with some people in heaven during that time.

We know this is going to be a long road for Tyler and for all of us. But, we are prepared and want to do everything we can to help him keep progressing.

We are very blessed to have Tyler here, and we know that he still has work to do on this earth or else he wouldn't still be here. Life is so fragile and we were able to witness that. It has also brought our family closer together. We are so thankful for all of the prayers and support that we received in behalf of Tyler. We KNOW, that is what has helped keep Tyler here. We can't thank everyone enough. So, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!