Tyler Boshae is an employee of Montana Stone Gallery, Missoula. Tyler is part of our warehouse team, and the MSG family. Tyler was
hired with the knowledge that he has Tourette Syndrome. Tyler has been a great team member helping to receive and ship hundreds of
slabs of natural stone. He has always demonstrated a great attitude and has become a dear friend. His condition causes him great suffering
and uncontrollable muscle spasms or
"tics". Tyler began to see symptoms of this condition at age nine, he is now 23 years old. For much of his life, Tyler's
condition was controlled through various medications. Recently however, all medications began to stop working, causing Tyler extreme
pain, suffering, and uncontrolled tics.
Tyler has had to take a leave of absence and was recently hospitalized and heavily medicated to help bring his tics under control.
According to his doctors, Tyler's only chance of returning to a "normal" life is for him to have brain surgery. The procedure
recommended for Tyler is called "Deep Brain Stimulation" where electrodes are implanted into his brain and manipulated and
controlled by an electronic device programmed by his physician. This procedure has been used successfully to treat some patients with
Parkinson's disease, and several patients with Tourette Syndrome have undergone this procedure with very positive and promising results.
Tyler's family, friends, fellow employees, compassionate strangers and the owners of Montana Stone Gallery have established a foundation
to help raise funds to help Tyler regain his life and help pay for this urgently needed surgery. We have established the Tyler Boshae
Foundation and Club Twitch to assist in this endeavor. In addition, Community Hospital Foundation in Missoula has set up an account
where funds can be donated through their non profit foundation.
We need to raise $200,000.00 to help pay for Tyler's surgery and travel expenses to The Cleveland Clinic where the surgery will be
performed. Would you consider helping with this campaign? So far we have raised more than $112,000.00 toward this goal.
For more information please follow this link to clubtwitch.com
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