While a guest on the Get Back podcast, TikTok dad Taylor Odlozil opened up about his wife’s final moments.
Taylor’s wife, Haley Odlozil passed away in July 2023 following a long battle with stage four ovarian cancer. Haley and Taylor shared her journey on TikTok, hoping that it would eventually become a digital scrap book for their son.
Haley was just 30 years old when she passed away. Their son Weston was just 4 years old.
During his time on the Get Back podcast, Taylor opened up about the last moments he and Weston spent with Haley. Haley knew it would soon be her time.
“Haley comes to for a split second and she sees everybody that she loves around so she’s looking around and she’s like, ‘This is it, isn’t it? This is the end. This is just how I thought it was going to be,'” the dad shared.
“She started getting really scared, right? I was like, ‘It’s OK, we just wanted to be around you. We just wanted to be with you.’ And then I knew I needed to go get Weston immediately.”
As Taylor began talking about his young son, others in the room got emotional. The father revealed that he could tell his son knew what was happening but didn’t want to say it.
“‘I’ve been telling you that Mommy was going to be with Jesus. Well, he’s coming,'” Taylor told his son as Weston held his mom’s hand.
That’s when Taylor said his wife regained consciousness one last time. She looked at her son.
“She said, ‘I love you, son.’ And that was the last thing she ever said.”
Taylor shared it was a “scary” time for his son, but he tried to prepare Weston in the best way possible, telling him that it wasn’t his fault and that both he and his mom are so proud of him.
Haley was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2015. She and Taylor were just two months away from becoming husband and wife, Today reported.
At the time, Haley admitted she gave Taylor permission to leave, they told Today in an interview last year. “She was trying to let me know that I could leave if I wanted to,” Taylor explained. “I thought she was crazy.”
Back in November 2022, Taylor shared a video of moments shared between their family of three. “I’m losing my family and there’s nothing I can do about it,” the dad said.
@taylorodlozil This will be my wife’s last Christmas. Unfortunately we have run out of treatment options for her cancer. #cancer #hospice #ovariancancer #BeTheReasonVisa #grief #fyp #death
♬ original sound – Taylor Odlozil
“This will be my wife’s last Christmas. Unfortunately we have run out of treatment options for her cancer.”
Taylor admitted that Haley’s greatest fear was being forgotten. He vowed to make sure that won’t happen.
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