Carly Hyland
Appearances
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
Nightmare in Quincy
Most of my childhood memories were just at her house. She would decorate to the nines. Her tree was beautiful every year. She wrapped her gifts so beautifully. She made her own bows.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
Nightmare in Quincy
She loved to work just to keep her mind busy. She really didn't need to work, but she loved her customers and she loved the social interaction.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
Nightmare in Quincy
My grandma was having issues with her headlights. One thing about her is she was not very tech savvy. Even though her car was pretty simple, she didn't understand what was going on with the headlights. So instead of trying to figure it out while she was driving, she decided to pull over.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
Nightmare in Quincy
December 12, 2021, it was a Sunday evening. It's all a blur. My aunt, Ilsa, called me, and she was very, very short and frantic, and she just said, get to the hospital.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
Nightmare in Quincy
So the road she lives on, it's on the bottom road, so she knew that when her husband would eventually come down that road to go home, you know, he would see her. There was only one way, really, to her house, which was on that road.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
Nightmare in Quincy
You think that when someone pulls over to help you that there's no ill intent, like they genuinely want to help you. And she's an older lady pulled over on the side of the road. It's dark. And so her thought was not immediate danger. Her thought was maybe that these people can help me just turn on my headlights so that I can get back home.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
Nightmare in Quincy
On the way to the hospital, I talked to my mom. My mom actually had COVID at that time and was unable to come, which was awful. They wouldn't let her in the hospital. My mom basically said all she knew was that she had collapsed and that she was unresponsive and that they had taken her to the hospital. All we knew at that point was they were still working on her.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
Nightmare in Quincy
The doctor came in and told us that there's really not much more that they could do for her and that we need to go say goodbye. That was the first time I had seen her when they told us that she wasn't going to make it. And it was awful. She was hooked up to all these machines and she was breathing, but she was only breathing because of the machine like stuck in her throat.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
Nightmare in Quincy
Just remember sitting in the waiting room, just not knowing what was going on, but also like, there's no way that she's gonna die. Like she just went through this terrible situation. Like there's no way that that's gonna happen one after the other. And I just felt so bad for her because she had survived this terrible tragedy and she can't even like see it through.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
Nightmare in Quincy
I don't think anything can prepare you for what we went through. I think it's just still, we're still not even over it.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
Nightmare in Quincy
My name is Carly Hyland. I am Tina Lohman's granddaughter. So just to kind of put that in perspective, my mother is Heidi Young, who is her oldest daughter.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
Nightmare in Quincy
I know she was born and raised in California. She was an only child. My great-grandmother struggled to have children, so my grandma was her miracle child. She wasn't able to have any children after my grandmother, so she was very spoiled as a child.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
Nightmare in Quincy
Her father was big in the oil industry in Europe, so she lived in Italy for a while. She was able to travel to, like, around Europe, Paris, Italy.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
Nightmare in Quincy
But she loved it here, and her mother loved it here. It just appealed to them because it's close to big cities like Chicago and St. Louis, but it's far enough away to where it has that small-town feel.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
Nightmare in Quincy
Being the granddaughter of Tina Lohman was delightful. She knew how to spoil kids and her grandkids. She definitely made you feel loved. You know, I could always go to her if I just needed a vent or if I needed chocolate, I needed ice cream, whatever. She's always willing to listen to you. I couldn't ask for a better grandma. You just felt love when you were around her.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
Nightmare in Quincy
She was so funny. Oh, she loved to laugh. She was a sassy little thing. She had some attitude about her, but I love that about her. She didn't have a filter. You knew exactly what she thought about you, but she was also so kind. So even though she's a little sassy, she was so sweet and caring and so empathetic. She loved spending time with her kids and her grandkids.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
Nightmare in Quincy
mainly her great grandkids, actually. She loved babies. So whenever we all started having kids, that's just what she lived for. She loved having a big family. She was an only child, so just having a big family just really fulfilled her. That's kind of where her love language was, just buying all of the kids things, toys, clothes. She just was very thoughtful.