- Tyler Nuttle, 32, could only watch his condition deteriorate after he was diagnosed with an “inoperable” brain tumor next to his spine.
- Eighteen months later, he sought a second opinion from doctors at UC Medical in Cincinnati, who obtained it within days.
- Now he hopes to be a father again to his five-year-old son Jaxson.
- “It didn’t even cross my mind that going to another doctor would change anything”
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Eighteen months of agony are over for a young father and Air Force veteran after discovering that his “inoperable” brain tumor could be removed after all.
Tyler Nuttle, 32, thought his life was over after an MRI revealed the tumor incredibly close to his brain stem in July 2022.
Doctors told him there was nothing they could do except offer grueling chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments in an attempt to stop the spread.
But almost 18 months later, he decided to get a second opinion and went to see doctors at UC Medical Center in Cincinnati.
“At the first appointment they were able to say they could get him out,” he said.
Tyler Nuttle, 32, was an Air Force veteran and sergeant in the Air National Guard when he began experiencing symptoms that included nausea and vertigo.
The young father was forced to quit his job and struggled to keep up with his son Jaxson.
But 18 months after his desperate diagnosis, he prepared for the operation that would change his life, with the help of his mother, Ruth.
“I couldn’t believe it because for almost a year and a half I was told this was inoperable, so it didn’t even cross my mind that going to another doctor would change anything.”
“I just thought it was a universal truth.”
Nuttle was medically discharged from his role as a sergeant in the Air National Guard and found it impossible to work because the tumor made him nauseous, he had trouble standing, and he was unable to drive in 2021.
He had to quit his job at a bar in Fairfield and it was another 10 months before his symptoms were diagnosed.
But there was little comfort in discovering the cause of his illness.
“They told me, go live your life, and I think there may be more to it than this,” he said.
Friends and colleagues raised thousands of dollars to help him as his condition deteriorated at his home in Hamilton County.
And all the while his son Jaxson was turning into a kid who couldn’t understand why his dad wasn’t well.
“I haven’t been able to run with my son, who is almost five, and it’s been difficult because he’s so active,” Nuttle said. “It’s literally hard to keep up with him.”
“I told him a couple days before the surgery that I could run with you again.”
And he is now recovering after surgeons at the prestigious Ohio hospital completely removed the tumor in an operation others considered impossible early last month.
“I’ve gotten to the point where I think I can’t give up. There are a lot of things I needed to fight for,” he told WLWT.
The brave young father is recovering at Cincinnati Rehabilitation Hospital in Blue Ash and hopes to return to college and get back to work.
Now he is recovering from an operation that he previously thought was impossible: “It didn’t even cross my mind that going to another doctor would change anything”
And Jaxson, now almost five years old, is helping his dad take his first steps toward recovery.
“I told him a couple days before the surgery that I could run with you again,” he said.
“I’ve gotten to the point where I think I can’t give up. There are so many things I needed to fight for.’
His mother, Ruth Campbell, said she hopes his story inspires others to find their own ways out of “impossible” situations.
“Just don’t give up,” he said.
‘Keep looking for the answer you want to hear.
“He kept going until he heard it.”