Beaverton nurse with baby on the way grieves husband’s sudden passing

BEAVERTON Ore. (KPTV) - A Beaverton nurse with a child on the way is grieving her husband, also a nurse, who died suddenly last week. His family is left with no explanation of why he passed.

What’s more, Skylar Hall, the mom-to-be, has no income because she has been on strike with other Providence nurses for weeks.

Skylar had been with her husband, Evan Giblin, for four years. She has a baby girl on the way, due in just two weeks. Her life changed when she woke up last Tuesday.

“I woke up, I found him, he wasn’t breathing and he didn’t have a pulse,” she said.

They tried all morning to revive him. Eventually, doctors said it was too late, he had passed 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 back and went back to sleep,” Skylar remembered. “That was the last time I saw him alive.”

Skylar and Evan met while working at Providence Medford Medical Center. Evan comes from a family of nurses, all trying to make sense of such a sudden passing.

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“I really wanted a boogeyman, something to blame it on. But there’s nothing to blame it on, there’s nothing that was preventable,” said Evan’s brother, Eddie. “Skylar just woke up and he was gone.”

They say the medical examiner has found no cause of death. Skylar said 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 Skylar 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’s 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’s actually given me and Evan a lot of time to be together which is an unexpected blessing, you know?”

She and Evan planned 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,” Skylar said.

She is due Feb. 26.

“His passing is unbelievable, just weeks before our daughter was due. 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.”

Skylar’s family has created an online fundraiser to support her once the baby arrives and for funeral expenses.