Nurses, doctors, throw surprise graduation for Fort Worth high school senior too sick to make ceremony

FORT WORTH, Texas — A North Texas high school senior who missed her graduation due to a sudden illness received an unforgettable surprise from hospital staff who refused to let her milestone pass unnoticed.

Laura Wiley, a senior at Boswell High School in Fort Worth, was admitted to Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance last Friday night, just hours before her graduation ceremony, after a kidney infection progressed into severe sepsis.

“I was saying, why couldn’t this have happened a week or two ago?” Wiley said…

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