“This week, he has just been in a decline, and all the nurses were nice enough to help us plan something,” bride Grace Benway said
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- Staff at a Chicago-area hospital helped plan an impromptu garden wedding so that one of their patients, a father with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, could escort his daughter down the aisle
- “It means so much to him, and to us,” bride Grace Benway said
- She described her 66-year-old father, Dan Benway — who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in November 2023 — as a “fighter”
A team of doctors and nurses at an Illinois hospital rallied together to fulfill a long-held dream for one father who is battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer: the chance to escort his daughter down the aisle.
Patient Dan Benway’s daughter, Grace Benway, had planned to celebrate her wedding with fiancé Thomas Decourcey next month in Colorado, and Dan, 66, hoped to be in attendance at the out-of-state nuptials, per NBC 5 Chicago. However, his declining health led the family to make other plans.
“This week, he has just been in a decline, and all the nurses were nice enough to help us plan something,” Grace told the outlet…