Sunday, 22 December 2013
A touching picture it was to see the very last wish of a dieing man being executed.
It was a sweet mixture of pain and joy as a loving girlfriend married her terminally-ill boyfriend on his hospital bed.
Cola Glenny, 22, said 'I do' to Felix Glenny, 23, as he lay in Medway Maritime Hospital Kent, suffering from incurable bowel cancer.
Felix was able to make it out of his bed to celebrate the 'perfect' day afterward with his new wife, while their two children Ralph, two, and Pearl, four months, looked on.
Felix was able to make it out of his bed to celebrate the 'perfect' day afterward with his new wife, while their two children Ralph, two, and Pearl, four months, looked on.
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| Felix and Cola cutting their wedding cake |
He was admitted to hospital in November after suffering for several weeks with what he thought at first were stomach cramps.
But after being admitted to hospital on 11 November and diagnosed, a large tumor was found in his stomach, Felix went ahead to
perform a surgery unfortunately the cancer had spread.
Felix has barely weeks to live and demands that he wed his
long time sweetheart and mother of his children.
Felix and Cola his bride decided to marry as soon as possible, and invited their friends and family to a ceremony conducted by the hospital chaplain yesterday.
According to Cola said: 'After a second operation last Friday they discovered that the cancer had spread everywhere. That's it now, there’s no stopping it.
'When they told us I had to leave the room – it was too much to take it.
'After it all settled down and we got our heads round it as much as we could, Felix just said he wanted to get married as soon as we could. We arranged it for yesterday.
'It was crazy because we were really happy, but it was so emotional.
'It was a lovely day and we’ve been thinking about it today, saying “It was perfect and it couldn’t have gone any better”.
'We had talked about getting married even before he was ill - and when we found out the cancer was terminal we wanted to do it straight away.
'Felix managed to get out of bed and we went over the the social club and had a ceremony – the Chaplain from the hospital came over and gave us a blessing.'
'It was a really nice day and everyone really helped us out. All of our family was there and a lot of our friends.'
Felix, who is also known as Ryan, met through mutual friends in Lower Stoke, Kent, in August 2010. They quickly fell for one another and within a year the couple had moved in together and Cola was pregnant with her first child, Ralph.
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| Felix and Cola before his sickness |
Cola, a hairdresser, and Felix, who works for a water supply company, lived happily together for two years and had a second child, Pearl, who is now four months old.
But only weeks after his second child was born, Felix was struck with awful stomach pains and couldn't make it to work. But when the couple visited the hospital and called doctors, they were repeatedly told that Felix was not seriously ill.
'Once they said it was a kidney infection, another time they said it was irritable bowels and one of the other times they didn’t even take us to the hospital because they said there was nothing wrong with him.
'In A&E they said it was a sickness bug. I told him he has a family history of bowel cancer, but they just weren’t interested. He finally got taken in on the 11 November.
'Finally we went to a medial centre and we said we’re not going anywhere until we know what’s wrong with him.
'Then a surgeon had a feel of his tummy and could feel something in his bowels, and that’s when they did the CT scan and found it was cancer.
'It was awful finding out – we’ve got two small children. He’s been in hospital since. In the four weeks since he had his tumour removed the cancer spread quite far.'
But despite being struck by such a desperate illness, Felix's thoughts remained with his young family throughout - and how he would provide for them.
Cola said: 'He’s quite a family man, he insists he brings the money in. So he went to work two or three times while he was ill, but couldn’t really do much, because he had major stomach cramps which would go and come back.
He would be spending is last Christmas with his kids and it promises to be memorable.
