The girl in the picture is Katie Kirkpatrick, she is 21 . Next to her, her fiancé, Nick, 23. The picture was taken shortly before their wedding ceremony, held on January 11, 2005 in the US. Katie has terminal cancer and spend hours a day receiving medication. In the picture, Nick is waiting for her on one of the many sessions of chemo to end...
In spite of all the pain, organ failures, and morphine shots, Katie is going along with her wedding and took care of every detail. The dress had to be adjusted a few times due to her constant weight loss...
An unusual accessory at the party was the oxygen tube that Katie used throughout the ceremony and reception as well. The other couple in the picture are Nick's parents. Excited to see their son marrying his high school sweetheart...
Katie, in her wheelchair with the oxygen tube, listening to a song from her husband and friends...
At the reception, Katie had to take a few rests. The pain did not allow her to stand for long periods...
Katie died five days after her wedding day...
Watching a woman so ill and weak getting married and with a smile on her face makes us think..... Happiness is reachable, no matter how long it lasts. We should stop making our lives complicated.
Life is short
break the rules
forgive quickly
love truly
laugh constantly
and never stop smiling
no matter how strange life is
life is not always the party we expected to be
but as long as we are here
we should smile and be grateful...
Note: Many thanks to a friend who forwarded this to me...
19 comments:
Thanks for sharing. Life is short. So, make it worth.
a'd pun ada dpt email nie..
so sweet sbb that guys sanggup kawin dgn die..
walaupun tau yg de girls is sick..
power of luv's....
Hmmmmm......
Ditto...life is short. Enjoy it while it last.
Cahaya:
U r welcome. Reading it make me realised that no use for me to get emotionally hurt with what people said and did to me. It's not worth it coz life is short.
No more drama queen after this hahahahaha
Adzani Adnan:
Yg penting he is happy and at the same time he made her happy as well. What a true love they had...
I think what important in a relationship is the mutual happiness :)
The Anthropologist:
Hmmmmm...... ;P
Al Khalifah:
Yang penting kita enjoy ;P
Hi Nite Garden, our life today is not a dress rehearsal, we only get to play one round....
to live our life with no excuses, to love with no regrets.
Best regards, Lee.
indeed life is too short, for us to walk the right path and don't get lost.
Good stuff. It makes me think that those 5 days of happiness are better of than a lifetime of grumbling or being purposeless.
Thank you for sharing.
Life is short so take advantages that we have..ang make peoples around us happy..
So many lessons to learn in life. This is one of them - live each day well :) Be happy.
Hello Uncle Lee,
thx a lot. u tak penah miss visit my blog. appreciate that.
"to love with no regrets" - i like this line (",)
DrSam,
Once got lost, juz return back to right path..
Salam Ramadhan
Jumper,
Life is always abt making choices - choices for own happiness and some people are happy when they make other people happy..
Ad Rifza,
the most important is to make ourselves happy..
Benrauf,
(",)
Keats The Sunshine Girl,
School of life always give us the best lessons for us to learn and relearn.
Thanks for dropping by.
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