In Loving Memory of Lyle Nitschke: Pictures

January of 1948 - Lyle about 3 months old.

Fall of 1948

Lyle about a year old

June of 1950

Lyle and John

1953

Lyle and John doing what seemed to be natural for them

1953-54 School Year

Summer of 1990

Lyle, Susie, Carrie, Bruce

Charlie and Tony

June 1998
Fred, Lyle & John

June 1998
John, Doris & Lyle

Summer 1998

Back: Nancy, Bruce, Susie, Tiana, Lyle, Helen (Mom), John, Mel, Margie, Ben, Fred

Front: Tony, Betty, Shazana, Galen, Doris, Callie, Carley, Kimberly

June 2000

Back: John, Charlie (?), ?, Bruce

Middle: Betty, Susie, Lyle

Front: Tony

June 2000 - Lyle catching some "shut eye"

February 2001

Lyle, Betty, Doris, John, Nancy and Fred with Dad

February 2001

Lyle, Betty, Doris, John, Nancy & Fred with Mom

September 2008
Bruce and Kristen's wedding
Tony, Lyle, Bruce and Charlie

These are just a few pictures. I would like to put together a slide show and if anyone has pictures they would like to add, please send them to ninchkie@hotmail.com . Please include dates (general if not specific) and description or stories to go along.

THANK YOU!

What Happened...

Sometime in Lyle’s life it looks like he had rheumatic fever which affected a heart valve, leaving it somewhat misshapen. It appears that Lyle’s immune system was compromised over the last while and, among other things, has developed Diabetes which is an autoimmune disease. These conditions were prime for a staph infection to enter his blood stream through a sore, boil or some form of lesion. The doctor’s guess is that as it passed through his heart it lodged onto the altered area of the heart. The staph infection on his heart caused a stroke and blood clots that went to his brain which resulted in brain damage to areas of his brain. These conditions also made it a prime condition for Metformin (Diabetes drug) poisoning and other various infections on or in his body in the form of yeast and fungal. Lyle is battling many things.

Essential Oils

The first four days we were at the hospital the "day nurse" that was working was Vicki. She explained to us the studies that have been done on the power of prayer in these situations. Once she realized we were not only open to holistic measures, but eager to administer as much as the hospital would let us, she told us to go right ahead. She was not able to administer anything that was not directed by a doctor, but she said we had free reign. We rubbed coconut oil over as much of his body as we could, we also put lavender oil on him. We put oregano oil on his toenails which were infected with a fungus. The room smelled wonderful. When the night nurse, Thomas, came on his shift, Vicki told him what we had done and that she was all for it. When the morning rolled around Thomas came in to say he was going home, but first was going to find an Italian restaurant and have some spaghetti. He said that Lyle’s room no longer smelled like a hospital and kept him thinking of Italian food and was quite hungry! We were so blessed to have the nurses we had.

4 comments:

CallieJune 2, 2011 at 3:24 PM
Hey, I wanted to point out 2 errors I noticed in the description of the "summer 1998" photo. The first is that Mel is titled "Lyle" and I (Callie) am titled as "Carrie".

Thanks :)
NancyJune 2, 2011 at 3:26 PM
All fixed! Thanks for bringing that to my attention!
DianaJune 3, 2011 at 10:44 AM
I saw that, too, but then today it was fixed, so I thought my brain was playing tricks on me. Glad to know it wasn't. :)

In that photo of Feb 2001, Melissa looks a lot like me. Just thought that was interesting.

And Fred looks SO different clean-shaven! I didn't recognize him at first.
BettyJune 25, 2011 at 9:57 PM
Thanks so much Nancy for your interest in doing all this. Sure is grant of you and job well done.

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