Just 10 months ago, Jackie and Jim looked like any other engaged couple looking forward to a night out.
Fast forward to their wedding day on January 31 this year, and terminal cancer has left brave mum Jackie in a wheelchair and with just weeks to live.
The pair have been friends for years and in February 2014, Jim proposed.
But neither could have imagined the tragic twist their engagement would take.
A month later, Jackie, 42, went to her doctor after suffering a week of headaches.
The happy couple were left devastated when she was diagnosed with a lesion on the brain and surgeons were forced to operate days later.
10 months ago
Sadly, despite removing some of the tumour, doctors told the couple the cancer was in fact terminal and Jackie faced months of chemotherapy and treatment to try and fight it.
In January this year, she was given the horrific news she has just weeks to live.
Caring for Jackie had drained the couple's resources, and they would nnever have had the dream wedding they planned until a family member contacted the charity the Eve Merton Dreams Trust.
The pair tied the knot in what Jim, 38, described as "an amazing day".
Jim, 38, said: "It was always her dream as a little girl to have a perfect wedding, I think it is for a lot of girls.
"We found out she had the tumour on April 17 last year and we found out afterwards it was grade four which meant it was terminal.
"She's an incredibly strong woman, away from everything at the wedding, she's just a really kind person and great fun.
"She worked bar staff as her last job at her local working men's club in Bentley and was loved by everyone.
"Jackie couldn't believe the wedding, the day itself was really busy, she was over-the-moon even though it absolutely exhausted her.
"We wanted to get married and we got engaged last year before the illness. It became apparent I would have to care for her and money started to run out really quick.
"It was one of Jackie's family that came across the Eve Merton Dreams Trust, they have been fantastic and organised an amazing day."
Mirror UK
2 comments:
wishing her lots of happiness as she spends her last days.cancer is such a beast
The man is a real man who didn't abandone her in the face of adversity. God will bless him even if the woman has to die, she'll die happily. May God give her the strength to endure her pain.
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