![]() ![]() The hospital nurses would squabble over who got to take care of him, and he'd give advice to others from his hospital bed. ![]() Tyler had a more selfless outlook on life than many other 16-year-olds. From that night on I chose to be the bigger man." He told me that people who go through hard things either become bitter and angry, or they learn from it and become stronger. My bishop came over that night and gave me a blessing. I told my mom that I didn’t want to go through it - not a whole year of it. "I remember going home and feeling so mad and depressed. On the Tyler Robinson Foundation website, a letter from Tyler shares some of his feelings about the experience and how his membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints strengthened him. ![]() He was going to miss his junior year and some of his senior year at Brighton High School. ![]() Tyler needed 20 rounds of chemotherapy, an operation and six weeks of radiation. Nine years later, Tyler was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare type of cancer most often found in children. At this early age, Tyler began developing the resilience that would help him cope with near-death experiences. He stayed at Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City for weeks. When he was 12 years old, Tyler had a staph infection that became septic. Tyler's attitude and perspective began developing early in his life. "Ordinary" in his parents' words, but Tyler's story and legacy have grown into something much more than ordinary. "Tyler was an ordinary 16-year-old faced with an extraordinary challenge of being diagnosed with a rare soft tissue cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma - stage 4," Tyler's parents Shannon and Brent Robinson, of Sandy, Utah, wrote in an email to the Deseret News. When he attended an Imagine Dragons concert at a small Utah venue, he probably didn't know it would change his life - and the lives of many other people - as well. When Tyler Robinson was diagnosed with cancer, he knew it would change his life. We know we certainly did on our end, but I think it just really stuck with them. I don’t know if it was just in that moment where Dan, the lead singer, just felt something special. And my other brother Jesse put Tyler on his shoulders, you can see it on the video, and they sang that together. They had never met they had never talked. ![]()
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