A nurse helped create "the best day ever" for his smitten
four-year-old leukemia patient when he married her in a whirlwind,
mock ceremony earlier this week at a U.S. hospital.
Abby suffers from pre-B cell acute lymphobastic leukemia. She met
nurse Matt Hickling at the Albany Medical Center's Melodies Center for
Childhood Cancer in Albany, N.Y. More photos after cut...
"They have always had a great connection since the beginning of her [diagnosis]," reads a post from her Facebook page, Amazing Abby. The page shows multiple photos of Abby's nurses, including Hickling, taking great care of her.
A few days before the ceremony, Abby kept saying she was going to get
married that week. When her mother pressed Abby to answer who she would
be marrying, Abby said Hickling.
Her mother texted Hickling to give him a heads up about Abby's romantic plans.
"This took me by surprise," Hickling wrote on his Facebook page.
That's when Hickling sprang into action. In less than a day, he and
the staff at the hospital planned and executed the four-year-old bride's
dream wedding.
"This day will hopefully be one our patient and her family can always
look back on and smile when days are tough," wrote Hickling. "I know I
will."
As for the little bride, she seemed pleased with her first wedding.
Both Hickling and Abby's Facebook pages say she called it "the best day ever."
"We are both in awe from today's visit and smiling ear to ear," wrote her mother.
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