Alyson Cowan and Parker Warling are die hard Trail Blazers fans. They’ve been that way since they were both kids. LaMarcus Aldridge and Arvydas Sabonis top the list as their favorite players ever, although it was admittedly hard for them to choose.

Both natives to the Portland area, the couple have been together for three years and have a 10-month-old daughter, Aubrey and plan to get married in the next year or two.

They moved to Chandler, Arizona last summer for Parker’s job. He’s a warehouse manager at a telecom communications company.

In the early hours of December 2nd, tragedy struck.

Alyson was awoken at 4am by her fiancé Parker choking and struggling to breath.

Parker was suffering through a diabetic episode and was having a heart attack at the same time.

“Two separate storms came together and created one big storm,” Alyson told NBCSNW via direct message.

Alyson performed CPR on Parker until the paramedics arrived — they revived him a total of 4 times.

Parker was rushed to a Chandler Regional hospital and was admitted into the ICU where he spent 10 very long days. “You can imagine, the scariest stuff happens.”

“We still do not have a cause for the heart attack,” Alyson said,” And Parker now has a defibrillator on his heart for the rest of his life. We had no idea he is a diabetic and he was otherwise incredibly healthy.”

“Chandler Regional took such good care of him and we are so thankful for the knowledgeable staff. We are hopeful to receive answers as to what caused the whole thing.”

With Parker recovering, Alyson turned to a shared love to help his spirits: The Portland Trail Blazers.

“The tweet started somewhat as a joke. Alyson said. “We were laying around and saw that Nurk was shooting and I sheepishly laughed we could tweet him.”

To their surprise, Nurkic replied.

“I was honestly SO shocked!”

Jusuf Nurkic provided the family tickets to Monday night’s game vs. the Phoenix Suns. Prior to the game, Trail Blazers social media manager Amara Baptist coordinated the meet and greet.

“He was such a gem when we met him! He was so sweet to Aubrey and seemed like he genuinely cared about Parker.”

On cloud nine, they were treated to a thrilling 111-110 win over the Suns. Alyson and Aubrey even made it on TV!

It was an unforgettable night.

“It’s too hard for me to choose a favorite memory, but finding out that all of our family and friends back home saw Aubrey and I on TV was something special. It was so fun watching her enjoy the whole night from start to finish.”

“The Portland Trail Blazers are an incredible organization and Amara, who arranged the whole thing is also so great! Being able to have a piece of home with us where we are in a new place without family was incredible. We are just so thankful!”