Tegid Ward staff volunteered their personal time to transform the Bangor hospital facilities into a full wedding venue featuring fairy lights, flowers, a cake, and live harp music. Maggie Heginbothom, who had received a bedside proposal just 48 hours earlier, celebrated her 15-year relationship surrounded by medical staff she now considers family. In an extra personal touch, local stables transported her two beloved horses to the hospital grounds to be part of the day.
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Dedicated hospital personnel voluntarily gave up their days off to coordinate a rapid bed…: Dedicated hospital personnel voluntarily gave up their days off to coordinate a rapid bedside wedding for a palliative care patient.
The ceremony included personal touches from the bride's life, including visits from her o…: The ceremony included personal touches from the bride's life, including visits from her own horses outside the Bangor facility.
Fellow hospital patients and healthcare workers were able to share in the celebration alo…: Fellow hospital patients and healthcare workers were able to share in the celebration alongside the long-term couple.
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A woman with a terminal cancer diagnosis married her partner of 15 years in the hospital where she is receiving palliative care - and her horses even made the ceremony.
Maggie Heginbothom, 68, who has advanced liver cancer, thanked staff at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor for organising a wedding ceremony on Monday, just two days after her partner Mark proposed.
The horse lover and former clinical scientist with Public Health Wales described hospital staff as being "like family to me".
"It was so beautiful and I honestly never thought it was going to be possible, especially seeing both my horses there as well," she said.
Heginbothom, originally from the Vale of Glamorgan, was admitted to hospital nearly three weeks ago after becoming unwell while riding one of her horses.
After her partner proposed from her hospital bedside, staff on the Tegid Ward volunteered to pull together a celebration that included flowers, decorations, a harpist, food, cake and Heginbothom's beloved horses Ozzy and Quiosque.
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