Melissa and Tyler Button celebrated their one year anniversary with Lou Grubb Friends Fore Golf (LGFFG) this year on April 22 and 23.
The family, including Tyler’s parents Scottie and Alan Button, and good friends Caroline and Christopher Hoeye, joined LGFFG again to thank Barrow and our surgeons. The couple purchased one of the trips at the event’s auction to take for a second honeymoon.
The Buttons tied the knot on April 25, 2009 in Austin’s parents’ backyard in Paradise Valley. They invited family and wedding party members to join them at the LGFFG dinner and auction at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort and at the 18-hole golf tournament the following day at McCormick Ranch Golf Club.
“We’ve been going to this event ever since Barrow saved Tyler’s life,” explains Austin. “We’re just so grateful to Barrow.”
Button learned that he had a huge tumor imbedded in his spine when an accident at the school where he works sent him to the Emergency Department at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center with a sore neck.
“The doctors said they were surprised my spine was able to hold my head up,” Button says. “It was eating my spine away. I should have been paralyzed or dead.”
Button underwent surgery to remove the tumor, which was located where the spinal cord meets the brain stem. Barrow surgeons used the latest in neurosurgical techniques to remove the complex lesion. After surgery, Button had CyberKnife treatments to kill any remaining tumor cells.
Today, Button remains tumor-free. Doctors told him that after three years, the chance of the tumor recurring are very small.
Austin and Button designated Barrow Neurological Institute as one of two charities for wedding contributions.
“I can’t say enough how grateful I am to Barrow that I get to keep Tyler,” Austin says.
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