BEAVERTON Ore. (KPTV/Gray News) – An Oregon nurse with a child on the way is mourning the sudden death of her husband.
Skylar Hall says her husband Evan Giblin, who was also a nurse, died suddenly last week and the family is left with no explanation.
“I woke up, I found him, he wasn’t breathing and he didn’t have a pulse,” she said.
First responders tried all morning to revive him. But doctors said it was too late, he had died overnight.
“He woke up in the middle of the night and he leaned over and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I gave him a kiss on the cheek and went back to sleep,” Hall said. “That was the last time I saw him alive.”
Hall said the two met while working at the Providence Medford Medical Center and both of their families are trying to make sense of everything.
“I really wanted a boogeyman, something to blame it on. But there’s nothing to blame it on, there’s nothing that was preventable,” his brother, Eddie, said. “Skylar just woke up and he was gone.”
The families say the medical examiner has found no cause of death yet.
According to Hall, it could have been an undiagnosed heart condition, but that wouldn’t show up on an autopsy.
“He was 29 and healthy and he ate right and he exercised,” Skylar said. “He didn’t do any drugs, he didn’t drink, he barely drank caffeine. It’s so hard to describe him because he was sarcastic and he was sweet and he was so romantic.”
Not only are they left without answers, but Hall doesn’t know what is to come.
“The future is so unclear because now I’m doing it alone. I mean, I have so much family and so much support but I don’t have my person,” she said.
As a St. Vincent nurse, she’s currently on strike with the Oregon Nurses Association, which has been negotiating with Providence for more than a year.
“Financially the strike has been hard. Having a baby soon with the strike has been harder,” she said. “Even though it’s terrible that we need to strike for what we need, it actually has given me a lot of time to be together with my husband which was an unexpected blessing.”
She and Giblin were planning to open their own psychiatric practice someday, along with their dog, Goose, and their big family.
They talked about their plans the night before he passed.
“We spent hours just talking and just holding each other. We don’t do that every night but I’m so glad we did,” Hall said.
Hall is due to give birth on Feb. 26.
“His passing is unbelievable, just weeks before our daughter is due,” she said. “He was so excited to be a dad. He cried when we saw our ultrasound pictures. I feel so sad that our daughter is not going to have him in her life.”
Loved ones have created a GoFundMe to support Hall, her baby and Giblin’s funeral expenses.
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