“Terminally Ill” Groom Surprises Wedding Guests By Announcing He’d Been Misdiagnosed

Jack Kane, 23, suffered from bad back pain and was devastated when he was diagnosed with a fatal tumour on his spine on 13 October, his doctors believed he only has weeks to live.

Shocked by the news, he decided to propose to his girlfriend Emma Clarke, 23, and make the most out of the short time he has left to live.

The couple quickly put a wedding plan together and without wasting time in just 8 days they were ready to exchange their vows, on the 23rd October.

To Jack’s surprise, just three days prior to the big day, his doctors called and told him that he had been misdiagnosed and in fact, he has a rare yet treatable neurological condition called Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO).

Jack was afraid of “jinxing the good news” so decided to wait until his wedding day to announce to 130 guests: “I’m not terminal”.

He said: “It took me so long to digest the news that I wasn’t dying. I had prepared myself for the worst. It wasn’t until a few days later that it really hit me. During my speech at the reception, the room just exploded when I made the announcement.”

His wife Emma said you could hear a “pin drop” after he revealed the good news.

“Everyone looked like they were taking seconds to register what was going on then the room erupted into cheers and crying,” she said. “Jack decided to tell everyone at the wedding because some of his family live and work away. We’d previously delivered the news he was terminally ill by making individual phone calls.

“We thought that it would be better to share this good news face-to-face with everyone.”

“When we were told Jack was going to die we thought ‘let’s just go for it’ and planned the wedding in eight days,” she said. “When we found out that Jack wasn’t terminal it was a bittersweet emotion.

“We had always prayed that a miracle might happen, but when we were told his condition was no longer terminal we didn’t want to get our hopes up too much.”

Jack is now undergoing rehabilitation to fight the NMO, which causes inflammation of the spine and the optic nerve.

He hopes to be able to strengthen his legs and believes he will be back home in a month.

source: North News and Pictures

h/t: independent