The medical intensive care unit staff at UMC Health System in Lubbock, Texas, helped arrange a last-minute wedding ceremony on Mar. 8, 2024, for Michelle Avila and Antonio Moreno to fulfill Avila’s late father Jose Antonio Avila last wish to see his daughter get married.When Michelle Avila and Antonio Moreno went to get their marriage license, they knew they wanted their parents to attend their nuptials.
UMC Health System charge nurse Sheena Helm, left, helped Michelle Avila and Antonio Moreno carry out their Mar. 8, 2024, wedding after hearing about their idea on Mar. 7."I emailed our CEO of UMC , Mark Funderburk, and within 15 minutes, he replied back to me in a huge group chain email with people in the administration I've never even heard of," Helm told "GMA.
"I didn't just feel like a charge nurse that day, I like a wedding planner," Helm said. "It just kind of all worked out. Everything just kind of fell into place.""We thought it was just gonna be, like, a small thing, and that turned into this whole thing. And I thought, it's bittersweet and it was perfect, regardless of what happened," Moreno said.
Michelle Avila said it meant “the world” to have her late father, Jose Antonio Avila, witness her Mar. 8, 2024, wedding to Antonio Moreno."You could just see it in his eyes. He was joyful. He kept thanking everyone for that moment and … even the next morning, before his health took a turn, he kept thanking the doctors and the nurses, just how grateful he was to have that moment with family," she said.
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