"So that mom was happy": a terminally ill child took her mother to the altar
The last wish of 12-year-old Keith Barkett from Ohio (USA) was see mom happy. The terminally ill child is so used to seeing his mother upset and crying for six years of hard struggle with cancer, that he forgot how she smiles.
Therefore, before dying boy asked mom to get married. He himself accompanied her to the altar.
Keith Barkett had a rare form of cancer - soft tissue sarcoma. The diagnosis was made when the boy was only 6 years old. Several heavy courses of chemotherapy, radiation therapy - the child and his mother had to go through a lot. But cancer every time prevailed, and the disease persistently returned.
The mother of the boy Taylor in May of this year, the doctors explained that further struggle would not bring results and only torment her son even more, that the boy had no more to live than until December.
Kit was taken home from the hospital. Taylor quit her job to spend as much time with her son as possible.
Mother tried to fulfill all his desires - brought to Disneyland, Florida, allowed to play video games without time limits. Mom visited with all of the games of his favorite baseball team with Keith.
Taylor also has a seven-year-old daughter and a six-year-old son. Brother and sister also took an active part in fulfilling the wishes of the elder brother, who had very little to live.
In early November, the boy felt very bad, and he addressed his mother with his last request. He said that he wished her happiness and wanted to see her smiling, and therefore, before he died, he would like to take her to the altar.
Adam, with whom Taylor met, fully supported the boy’s desire, and the couple prepared for the solemn ceremony in a few days.
The priests gave the go-ahead to such an early ceremony, knowing how long and courageously the boy Kit fought with a terrible disease.
November 7, 2018 child, very weak, in a wheelchair proudly escorted his mother by the hand to the altar. That day looked really happy. Keith died exactly five days after my mother's wedding.
Taylor reported that the wedding day was for her the most piercing in life - he was both joyful and bitter at the same time.
The story of the boy and his mother became famous, thanks to the journalists who told the brave lad to the whole world. Thousands of people express their condolences on the Internet every day. At the same time, they thank her - the woman managed to raise China with a generous, kind and not childishly serious person.