This Teen Battling Cancer Had A Real Life ‘Walk To Remember’ Wedding With His Sweetheart

Love can make everything better.

Most of us who like to think of themselves as practical people, tend to dismiss emotions very easily. But these emotions, like love, are what make us human as well as give us an inhuman strength to fight something as terminating as cancer.

These high school sweethearts, Swift Myers and Abbi nee Ruicker, got married in Swift’s hospital room in a whirlwind wedding which was nothing less than what we fondly remember from the movie, A Walk To Remember.

 

The 18-year-old Myers, has been battling Ewing sarcoma ever since 7th grade. It causes tumors in his bones and soft tissues. His latest bout landed him in an ICU at St. Frances Children’s Hospital for the last month.

 

Myers proposed Abbi which she thought was a joke as they spoke about it a lot, but as soon as she knew he was serious, she said yes and the wedding was planned within a span of two days.

“He said, ‘Will you be my wife?,’ and we’ve always joked about so I just kind of laughed,” Abbi told ABC News today. “The next day he said, ‘You know I was being serious right?.'”

 

The nurses who were present in the room when Swift called Abbi’s dad asking for her hand in marriage, got to work immediately and whipped up everything from scratch in mere 48 hours!

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— abbi myers (@a__ruickermyers) July 23, 2016

“I’m really grateful for the nurses,” Abbi said. “They are still at work and still went through and did all of this in less than two days for us and that really meant a lot.”

 

 

The nursing staff at Saint Francis Children’s Hospital acted as the couple’s wedding planners, gathering decorations and finding a wedding cake, a videographer, and a photographer.

“It felt like I was hearing a love story straight out of a movie,” Meagan Ready, the couple’s wedding photographer, told ABC News of being asked to help. “I was humbled to have been asked to document such a special occasion.”

 

So many people wanted to attend that the wedding was live-streamed on Facebook and some guests lined a sidewalk outside to celebrate the couple from afar.

A teacher at the high school where the Myers met bought the couple wedding bands from a local jeweler. Myers added a bow tie to his hospital attire and said “I do” from his hospital bed.

 

The hospital bed later featured a “Just Married” sign on poster board signed by guests.

“I was in shock,” Abbi said of the outpouring of love. “I’m still in shock.”

 

Myers is continuing treatments for his ailment, and Abbi is by his side every minute of the day.

“Since the wedding he’s been much better and in better spirits,” she said.

Cancer cannot beat love, now can it? 🙂

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