“[The doctors] decided to send her off to a few different specialists,” Tyrrell tells PEOPLE. “[They said] the swelling behind the optic nerve could be dangerous, so they wanted to do an MRI to check to make sure that it was nothing serious.”
Just moments after Alexis’ MRI, doctors told the family that the little girl needed to undergo brain surgery immediately.
“We were devastated. We didn’t expect to have to be rushed into surgery. When they told us, we thought we would have a week or two, but we had like two hours then they took Alexis into surgery.”
Doctors quickly diagnosed Alexis with Chiari malformation, a condition in which brain tissue grows into the spinal canal and part of the skull presses on the brain and forces it downward.
Tyrrell says breaking the news to her daughter then was one of the hardest things she’s ever had to do.
“We didn’t really say anything to her because we knew she would freak out. She was only 7,” Tyrrell tells PEOPLE. “When we went to get ready, she asked what was going on because there were people everywhere. I said, ‘They’re gonna do a little operation on your head.’
“I was carrying her, she jumped down and ran away. It was horrible. We had a healthy child, then suddenly they’re telling us there’s something wrong.”
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