They celebrate before the big occasion at annual golf event
This year’s Lou Grubb Friends Fore Golf (LGFFG) event on April 23-24 took on a new dimension when it became part of a wedding weekend for a grateful Valley couple.
Melissa Austin and Tyler Button tied the knot on April 25 in Austin’s parents’ backyard in Paradise Valley. They invited family and wedding party members to join them at the LGFFG dinner and auction on Thursday night 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.
Button has been tumor-free for two years. 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 on their wedding website www.cuteasbuttons.net.
“I can’t say enough how grateful I am to Barrow that I get to keep Tyler,” Austin says.
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