He didn’t dream of a marriage in grand style, with flowers and pompous decorations. All he wanted was for his mother to be there on his most important day. And so a young man from Puglia decided to move the wedding inside the chapel of the Galatina hospital, where the woman was hospitalized following a cerebral stroke. The lady, with the help of doctors and nurses, managed to accompany her son to the altar on her own two feet. After the ceremony, she returned to the ward, happy to have had that unique experience.
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Stroke and Hospitalization
The groom’s mother, about a month before the wedding, was struck by a cerebral stroke, reports Quotidiano di Puglia. The situation, as soon as the woman arrived at the hospital in Lecceimmediately appeared serious. So she was transferred to the Rehabilitation department of the hospital in Galatinaentrusted to the care of the head physician Antonio Faita and his team.
The woman’s concern, in addition to her own health, was related to her son’s imminent wedding, which she absolutely did not want to miss.
The doctors, however, were very cautious and, considering the overall picture, could not give consent to a hypothetical, albeit temporary, discharge of the lady to allow her to participate in the ceremony. “Her clinical conditions were really complicated – said Faita – but with the team and her family we worked to let her experience her son’s wedding in the best possible way and we organized the ceremony in the hospital chapel with relatives and friends. She was very happy, I am proud of the empathy and commitment shown by my team”.
The words of the groom’s brother
“It was not a courageous choice, but a choice of love – said the groom’s brother – what we experienced is certainly something unusual, but not extraordinary for us. What is truly indescribable is the professionalism, the outsized dedication of the Rehabilitation team at Santa Caterina Novella in Galatina. In an often hypocritical land like ours where what goes wrong makes more news than what goes well, I cannot fail to underline the air of happiness that can be felt in one of the ugliest departments for the type of hospitalizations it hosts. In a week they managed to stabilize my mother, who had lost the autonomy of some basic actions, with a loving way of doing things that is not at all obvious. We should remind ourselves more often that yes, doctors, nurses, healthcare assistants and all the hospital staff are doing their job, but it is a duty that consists in saving lives and many of them do it with such self-denial and passion that they cannot fail to move our consciences”.