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A young couple became serious about their relationship “in illness and health” when they decided to tie in an intensive care unit in Minnesota.
According to a Gofundme The site organized on behalf of the couple, 23-year-old Ariana Sleen, who is pregnant with her first child, was rushed to Essentia Health-St. Mary’s Medical Center in Duluth, Minn., With severe back pain on March 31-Bara two weeks before she was set to tie the knot with her now husband, Chandler Sleen.
According to hospitalAriana quickly took a trip to the worse and was diagnosed with pneumonia. She then went into septic shock and must be placed on a ventilator.
“I just remember that I was rushed from room to room and I was just like” I have no idea what is happening, “and then just blinks to wake up and a bunch of people surrounding me,” Ariana remembered to the local outlet Northern News Now.
Her condition remained bad for several days, Per Gofundme, when she fought a serious urinary tract infection, a kidney infection with abscesses and a serious lung infection. But according to Ariana, Chandler never left her side.
“She had very poor pneumonia, went into septic shock, and it was when they had to put in the pipe,” Chandler said to the outlet and opened up that his hubby was placed on a ventilator.
“I was definitely very terrified,” the dad added to be. “I mean, these are the two most important people in my life here and they both fought.”
Despite the health scare, the hospital reported that Ariana began to improve and was taken by the respiratory machine, just a day before the couple would originally tie the knot.
“I could start standing the day after,” Ariana told Northern News now. “He picked it down to the exact date. It’s like another reason where I was” we have to go through it, “because it was just like God’s divine intervention.”
Fortunately for the loops, their nurses decided to add another line to their job title – wedding planner.
“All nurses and everyone gathered and put us in what is called ‘Taylor Swift suite,’ ‘reminded Ariana, Per Essentia Health,” and we got married. ”
Three of Ariana’s intensive care nurses – Madeline Vogel, Olivia Schmid and Deanna Anderson – opened up to help the couple as much as they could.
“I was just trying to clean up the room a bit, give way to a wedding cake and food and got some wagons and threw a sheet over it as a cloth,” Anderson told Northern News now.
“We had to get creative,” Vogel added.
After the nurses cleared Ariana’s room and helped her into her wedding dress, she said and Chandler “I do” right there in the hospital bed.
“This can top the list for the happiest things I’ve seen at work,” Vogel noted.
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When they reflected on their experience, the newlyweds said that they were extremely grateful for their nurses to help them put together an improvised wedding.
“These ladies have been just the kindest, sweetest people,” Ariana told the outlet. “They receive an invitation to the reception and everything safe.”
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The couple also said that they are planning to come back to Essentia Health when Ariana is ready to give birth to her child – a son named Sebastian – in June.
“Getting back here after each set of children we have and being like,” We’ll return to the same place we got married, that it was somehow fantastic, “Ariana said.