A 10-year-old girl from the United States who had always wanted to marry her childhood sweetheart just days before dying of leukemia. According to the New York Post, Emma Edwards and Daniel Marshall Christopher “DJ” Williams married on June 29, just 12 days before the 10-year-old died.
Emma was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in April of last year, but her parents, Alina and Aaron Edwards were optimistic that she would be able to battle the disease. However, the family was told in June that Emma’s cancer was incurable and that she just had days to live, according to Kennedy News Media.
“We were going for another kind of treatment, and they told us that she probably had days to a week, not weeks,” Ms. Alina said.
“We didn’t expect to hear that at all. And we thought we were going for another kind of treatment that would work. It was like a gut punch. You never imagine them saying they can’t do anything else for her,” she added.
Ms. Alina and DJ’s mother rushed into action after hearing the terrible news, planning a fake “wedding.” “It had to happen super fast. We threw it together in less than two days; everything ended up being donated,” Ms. Alina said of the wedding, which was a garden ceremony with some 100 guests in attendance.
“It was so precious, and it came together so well. Her dad gets to say he gave her away. A friend of ours officiated, a friend read a verse from the Bible, and her best friend was maid of honor,” she added.
A devastating diagnosis: Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) Strikes Emma
Ms. Alina also praised her new son-in-law. “DJ is the sweetest soul you’ll ever meet. He has a heart of gold, and he loves Emma,” she said.
Alina Edward also claimed that Emma appeared to be a healthy child until she was taken to the hospital after falling over and specialists detected cancer in the bones in her legs in April 2022. She did, however, say that the physicians told her that the illness was “common” in children and that it was certainly treatable. Unfortunately, Emma was not one of them.
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), for the uninitiated, is a kind of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow. It progresses swiftly and violently, according to the Mayo Clinic, and requires immediate treatment. Adults and children alike can be affected.