Coronavirus doctor's diary: The patient who married hours before dying
Dr John Wright relates two love stories from the Covid wards of Bradford Royal Infirmary - one about a patient marrying his fiancee hours before he died, the other about a nurse's tough decision to live apart from her four-year-old boy as long as the pandemic continues.This is a time of such heightened emotions - of fear and loneliness, but also of extraordinary love.
It was a heart-wrenching collision between love and death, but out of it came a very beautiful thing. Sophie called hospital chaplain Joe Fielder, and asked him if he could marry the couple straight away.Joe said he couldn't do a legally binding service but he could come and do a service that was like a wedding. They'd still say their"I do". They'd have the whole"til death do us part" and all the things that they'd have at a wedding, except in hospital.
We did a little photograph shoot for them afterwards. Because that's what she wanted, and that's what he wanted. We tried to make it as much like a real wedding as we could, and then we gave them some cake too.
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