Dad suffers heart attack days before daughter's wedding — then doctors make sure he walks her down the aisle

A begetter who suffered a bosom onslaught conscionable days earlier his daughter's wedding refused to fto open-heart country support him from walking her down the aisle.

Days earlier the planned ceremony, Rick Nelson began having thorax pains portion astatine a friend’s home. His wife, Gail, rushed him to Cleveland Clinic’s Marymount Emergency Department, according to a infirmary connection sent to Fox News Digital.

When it was confirmed that Nelson was having a bosom attack, helium was brought by chopper to Cleveland Clinic's main campus. Doctors recovered aggregate terrible coronary blockages that would necessitate open-heart surgery.

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As Nelson was prepped for surgery, helium told his doctors, "My daughter, Rachel, is getting joined Saturday. I person to beryllium there."

Following a palmy quadruple bypass performed by cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Faisal Bakaeen, Nelson began recovering successful the ICU.

A begetter who suffered a bosom onslaught conscionable days earlier his daughter's wedding refused to fto open-heart country support him from walking her down the aisle. (Camilla Florenca Photography)

The archetypal program was for his girl to travel sojourn successful the infirmary truthful helium could person a archetypal look astatine her successful her wedding formal — but that evolved into thing overmuch bigger.

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Care teams from crossed the infirmary worked unneurotic to marque definite Nelson could instrumentality portion successful the June 6 wedding, coordinating each item to safely determination the ceremonial to the hospital's rooftop.

Nelson gets a archetypal look astatine his girl successful her wedding formal earlier accompanying her down the aisle. (Camilla Florenca Photography)

Just days aft undergoing life-saving bosom surgery, Nelson traded his infirmary furniture for a front-row spot astatine his daughter's wedding. His attraction squad prepared the venue, helped Nelson get dressed for the juncture and made definite helium was capable to locomotion his girl down the aisle.

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Nearly 80 household members and friends gathered connected the infirmary rooftop, wherever caregivers lined the aisle arsenic Nelson — inactive recovering from the country he’d undergone conscionable days earlier — accompanied his girl to conscionable her groom, Dana Schultz.

Rick Nelson is pictured with his daughter, Rachel, connected her wedding day. (Camilla Florenca Photography)

"Moments similar these punctual america the enactment we bash is astir much than medicine. It’s astir people, families and milestones that can’t beryllium repeated — and the shared committedness of a squad to marque thing truthful meaningful possible," said Dr. Bakaeen, according to Cleveland Clinic’s statement.

"It’s hard to enactment into words what this meant to us," Nelson’s woman said. "Everyone went supra and beyond."

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The solemnisation continued aboriginal that time astatine the couple’s reception, wherever the bride’s parent started her toast with a lighthearted quip: "He didn’t person to marque this melodramatic of a determination to get retired of giving a speech."

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Nelson has since been discharged and is recovering astatine location with his household portion opening cardiac rehabilitation — grateful helium was capable to support the committedness helium made to his daughter.