
Most of their time is spent around their dining table, playing games, talking to each other.

“It’s the hardest thing, watching the most special thing in your life sitting there suffering, and there’s not a thing you can do,” he said. He talks openly about how he feels when Betty’s health takes a turn for the worse and she has a medical episode, making it difficult for her to breathe. “If we’re lucky, if we’re lucky - once a month we can go with one of the kids to the grocery store, if we’re lucky and feel good enough,” said Larry.


“She had bracelets and inside it says ‘remember when,’ so when I come and see her and we have good days and stuff, we have good days, I’ll hug her and say ‘I’m going to remember when,’” said Michelle Hylla, Larry and Betty’s daughter.īut getting around for Larry and Betty is a lot harder these days.
