Posted on 08/07/2023 12:43:40 PM PDT by Morgana
A dying 10-year-old whose last wish was to get married 'tied the knot' with her childhood sweetheart - days before passing away from leukemia.
Emma Edwards was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in April last year but parents Alina, 39, and Aaron, 41, said they were hopeful that she'd be able to beat the illness.
But in June the family were given the heartbreaking news that Emma's cancer, an aggressive form that affects white blood cells, was incurable and she only had days to live. Emma sadly passed away on July 11.
Alina said Emma's dream was to marry boyfriend of two years, ten-year-old Daniel Marshall Christopher Williams Junior, also known as DJ, with the pair previously attempting to 'wed' at school during lunchtime when they were eight.
Family and friends decided to band together to make Emma's dream come true and a ceremony was held for the young couple on June 29 where 100 guests turned up to watch them tie the knot.
Aaron walked Emma down the aisle in her gran's garden and their third-grade teacher made a speech about how the pair's relationship began.
Stay-at-home mom Alina, from Walnut Cove, North Carolina, said: 'Most kids want to go to Disneyland but Emma wanted to get married, be a wife and have three kids.
'Their teacher spoke at their wedding and said they tried to have a wedding at recess.
'They had a bridesmaid and groomsmen and kids came to class with clip-on ties. It was really cute but the teacher said there wasn't going to be a wedding in her class.
'When me and DJ's mom found that out, we said we had to let them get married. It had to happen super-fast.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Yes St Jude does supply that and that’s why I always donate to St Jude at the checkout isle if they are collecting donations.
I volunteered in the intermediate care nursery at Brenner Children’s Hospital back in the early 1990’s and worked with many terminally ill children and as a ‘rocker’ for infants with HIV and other terminal illnesses.
Maybe you missed the part of the article which said she was starting on a new treatment, but the leukemia was very aggressive and the young girl ran out of time. Thus, the ceremony was planned and executed in two days.
one of the saddest things ive ever seen..God Bless em all...all i can say.
A truly heartbreaking story that brought a flood of tears to my eyes. I’m glad she got her wish, but so sad it had to be this way. She is out of her pain and struggle now. At least she had a loving family surrounding her.
I was an EMT for Guilford County EMS and I’m not that strong.
Very sad.
You are right. I missed it. My mistake. Now I understand what happened. The ‘new treatment’ is almost certainly CAR-T. The problem is CAR-T requires at least 2 weeks from the time the decision is made to getting back the ‘engineered T cells’ from the lab for infusion into the body. And if she was already resistant to treatment then with a disease as aggressive as A.L.L, she didn’t have two weeks. If she were given the new treatment much earlier in the line she would have lived, but because it’s so expensive insurance companies will approve it only as a last resort.
Seems like the war on cancer has turned into a business like the war on drugs.
I hope she didn't get all that as a 10 year old.
Car-T.....is that cartilage transplant....I have heard of marrow transplants...?
There is a video of the ceremony with vows. Very sweet, and very age appropriate.
2 words you never want hear from your doctor : Acute Leukemia.
It’s means a painful, short time left to live.
This girl's story is a touching reminder that life is fleeting.
I'm glad she was able to make the most out of the short time she had, and marry her soul mate.
God bless this child, and all who loved her.
10 year Olds can get married?
Screen’s all blurry.😢
Sweet Kids...
suffer the children22s to come unto me
something wrong with the vid. the screen went all blurry.
God Bless these angels.
Not in the eyes of the law, but I suspect that in this case, the Lord will cherish them both.
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