Tyse's Story

My name is Tyse. I was born on January 18th, 2007. My mommy had a normal pregnancy until she was close to having me. My heart rate was going down and the nurses tried everything to get it to go back up. My mommy was rushed into an emergency c-section. I had the nuchal cord wrapped around my neck just one time, but it was tight. I had no respiratory effort once they got me out of my mommy's belly. It took the nurses and doctors three minutes to get me back to life. I was in stable condition until I had a grand mal seizure one hour after birth. I was transferred to another hospital and I had to leave my mommy behind.

I was shaking and jerking a lot after birth. All my tests came back normal, but I had another seizure when I was three days old. I had trouble gaining weight while being in the hospital. I still have trouble gaining weight today. I have cerebral palsy. I am experiencing spasticity in my arms, increase muscle tone in the legs, and decrease muscle tone in the trunk. I am one year old and there are still a lot of things that I cannot do. The things I cannot do yet is hold my own head up, roll over, crawl, and I have trouble grabbing toys because of my spasticity. I can smile and laugh which makes up for the things that I cannot do. I am just like any other toddler my age, but physically I am behind. I have an oral aversion so I am G-Tube feed only. Hopefully, someday I will find answers as to why all of this happened to me.

My name means fighter. My parents had the name picked out before I was born. I was nicknamed Tiger after I was born because I continue to fight. I fight every day to be strong.