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I just can't believe it what we've been through for it to end like this. I just can't wrap my head around it. It's really hard. Every day is hard. Tammy Bishop from South Dakota is desperately trying to find the wedding ring her husband Will lost on their wedding day in Las Vegas. noticed the ring was gone as they were out celebrating tying the knot. He had lost some weight, so it was two sizes too big. But he looked down and his ring was gone and he instantly burst into tears.
Just bawling. And I said it's just a ring. It's fine. We will buy another one when we get home. We are not going to allow this perfect day to be ruined over a ring. We had backtracked. We looked where the bus was parked. We looked under the bus. We looked all through the seats. I mean everybody was looking. Everybody on that bus was looking. And it was nowhere. The next day the ring was still on everyone's mind. And we were kind of sitting there for lunch and I kind of got a little smirk on my face. I go you didn't even have your ring for 12 hours. At that point he could start laughing and I go
this is you. You're always losing everything. And I go you drive me absolutely bonkers. The loss of the ring is especially hard because immediately after they got home from their wedding trip, Will suddenly died. A shock to Tammy after their short but intense love story that began in 2023. He thought I had a boyfriend because there was some guy sitting next to me. And then Will approached me and he goes so did your boyfriend leave? And I go boyfriend I don't have a boyfriend. And he was oh well how you doing? And I just started laughing. I go really that's your pickup line? A couple weeks after meeting, Tammy got a call.
I got a call at 12:30 in the morning telling me he had been in a major motorcycle accident and they didn't know if he was going to make it. He had suffered a spinal injury that was very significant. He had 13 fractures in his face. He had ruptured a lung. He had broken ribs. He was in pretty rough shape. And I immediately just fell to the floor. I was like pounding the floor with my hands just crying and I said it is horrible and got a long road ahead of us. I said, but praise God, we have a long road ahead of us.
I don't care if he's in a wheelchair the rest of his life, I will take care of him the rest of my life. I don't care. I just want my will. As Will healed, he professed his love to Tammy. And I said, what's that? He goes, I know I want to marry you. Let's get married. I said, we are not getting married. We've only been dating 10 days. We're not going to let trauma dictate our future. We're not going to do that. We're not going to rush into marriage. I go, we got a long road ahead of us. We have no idea how this is all going to play out.
Over the next few years, Will adjusted to life in a wheelchair. They moved in together. They started a party bus business, and Tammy was ready for their new chapter together. I looked at him and I said, I think I'm ready. I go, I'm ready to marry you. And he went behind my back and he did everything. He planned the entire wedding. The pair wed on October 20th of 2026. It was a perfect day, absolutely perfect. During the wedding trip, Tammy fought off the flu. As they were heading home, Will also began getting sick. They thought it was the same illness Tammy had.
Fever, the chills, and the trip home was miserable for him. And he was just rocking back and forth and he had tears in his eyes. He was in so much pain and he didn't want to go to the emergency room. Just wanted to go home. The next day, she tried to wake him up. I go, Will, you need to wake up. You have to call into work. And he sat up and he goes, yeah, yeah. And then he just flopped back down and he did that three times. And he was so congested. You could just hear it. And then I'm like, shall I let him sleep some more? Maybe he just needs some sleep. And I'm laying there and the more I think about it, I'm like, I don't even know if he's coherent.
Something's not right. I need to wake him up. He needs to wake up. So I started shaking him and I started like slapping his face and kind of pinching his cheeks and he's just not waking up. And I approached the [clears throat] bed and I'm like, no. I go, you cannot let her story in like this. We just we've been through too much. You can't do this to me. And I felt for a pulse and I didn't feel one. And I put his head back and I opened his mouth and I breathed in and all I heard was the congestion in the back of his throat. And I was watching and I wasn't seeing his chest rise. I wasn't So I knew my breaths weren't getting to him. So I made the call to call 911.
Doctors discovered an infection in his blood. His cause of death was cardiac arrest. I felt him leave. I felt him leave my heart. And I felt him running. He had his legs back and he was gone. And he's gone. He's I felt so robbed that I finally met my person full of life. It's my mind and my nervous system trying to accept so much joy that wedding day and how happy we were. We were on cloud nine. And then to come crashing down to a death and him being gone forever. We were planning our future and how much fun it was going to be and then to come to this death and funeral and all of it just came to a crashing end. It's just really hard.
Tammy is still processing Will's death. She's also dealing with expenses that have piled up since he died, but she still hopes to find his ring. And now that I don't have him, I really would love to have his ring. You know, put it on a chain, make a necklace out of it because it was our bond. It was our symbol of being married. It didn't mean anything at the time cuz he was the most important thing in my life. And we can replace that, but now that he 's gone, even if I were to go online and buy it, it's not the same. That was his ring. It was him. Tammy's sister has shared details about the ring in a Las Vegas lost and found group. They are reaching out to local businesses that might help them
find the ring, and they hope to one day get Will's ring back. I'm hoping someone does have it, and eventually I'll get it back someday somehow. Um again, I know it would be miraculous, right? Like the chances and the odds of that happening are slim to none. And I don't want somebody just to go buy a matching ring and be like it was his. I want his ring. Anyone with information on Will's ring can email weddingring 1020 202***@y***o.com. For Inside Edition Digital, I'm Andrea Swindall.
