Bride Honors Late Father Before Walking Down the Aisle
“Growing up, my dad was always a family man. He could fix anything or anyone, he loved Pepsi and his recliner and he always gave back to our community. He was a man of few words, but when he spoke, everyone in the room listened. He was always my idol, the one that I sought to be proud of me and my moral compass. I was very much a Daddy’s girl.
His health began to decline when I was in high school. As a family, we went through a variety of emotions when he got sick. At first, it didn’t feel too serious. “He was my dad and basically a superhero that could fight off and withstand anything so what’s a little pain…?” After the first few hospitals stays and dozens of tests and labs to try to figure out what was happening to my dad, I grew confused and concerned. “What if something was really wrong with him? Why can’t they find a medicine that will fix him?” During my first year of college, I finally realized that this was serious and something was trying to take my dad away from me. The ‘something’ was called Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIPD); an auto-immune disease with trial treatments, but no cures. A staff of brilliant doctors and nurses helped our family to fight the disease for the next few years, but ultimately God decided that he needed my dad in Heaven more than we needed him on Earth in 2007.
Your dad always has a special place in your heart. In preparing for our wedding, it was difficult to find a way to honor him that was meaningful and representative of his place in my heart. I wanted him to be a part of our day, not only for my husband and
Thank you Sheryl for sharing your personal story with us.
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