Wow i just came home from work, having had the most...heartbreaking...and also the most lovely shift. One of our patients who is 38 is dying of cancer and is barely hanging on- she has 4 kids with her partner and today they decided to get married.
They has planned on doing it later but her condition changed for the worse this afternoon- so they called in the celebrant who came running in with his wife..and they got hitched! It was so beautiful and so heartbreaking- everyone there was crying from happiness and grief at the same time. Her poor husband just kind of looked stunned- he still hasn't really grasped how badly off she is and i think that it must have been the worst and the best day of his life.
She looked beautiful, so beautiful, and graceful and peaceful and so pretty!
I was so overwhelmed being among those nurses- they went from being everyday people to being superwomen, who's powers of love and grace and creativity just lit up the whole building.
The team came together to give this couple a precious moment in time that the family and the husband will always remember and fulfilled her dying wish. I'm so proud of the men and women that i work with, and feel so privaleged to have been a part of it.
I know today will always stay in my memory.
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