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After marrying her longtime fiancé in a deathbed wedding ceremony, a woman with aggressive ovarian cancer suddenly started recovering.
32-year-old Sereena Scott knew something was very wrong when she ballooned from a size 12 to a size 18 literally overnight.
Doctors soon confirmed the worst when they found a watermelon-sized tumor growing on Sereena’s stomach.
Shortly after being diagnosed with extremely aggressive ovarian cancer, Sereena came down with pneumonia and one of her lungs collapsed.
“I asked the doctors if I was going to die and no one could answer the question,” Sereena said, according to The Daily Mail. “I didn't need them to tell me - I could feel my body failing and I knew the end was near - but I was hoping for reassurance.”
Knowing she might not survive much longer, Sereena hoped to marry her longtime fiancé, 37-year-old Robert.
The pair had been engaged since 2005, but they held off on a quickie ceremony so they could plan their dream wedding.
Sereena was soon granted her dying wish to marry Robert, and the pair were soon wed inside the hospital.
“My heart was racing, I was so excited that he was about to become my husband,” she said. “I even found the strength to put my thumbs up afterwards - I couldn't have been happier to become Mrs Scott.”
The newlyweds knew their time together would be short, but they were glad they had the chance to get married.
Then, out of nowhere, something changed.
“After the ceremony, everything improved - the chemotherapy was working and the tumour on my ovary was shrinking,” Sereena explained.
After recovering from the pneumonia, Sereena was even strong enough to undergo surgery to have the massive tumor removed.
“I was allowed home a few weeks later and that's when we decided to book to have our vows renewed,” she said. “The second ceremony took place on October 10 last year - just one day after the couple's wedding the year before.”
Since Sereena’s miraculous recovery, she and Robert have finally started to enjoy their lives together.
“I feel like the luckiest person alive to have beaten cancer when I was so close to dying,” Sereena said. “I can't wait to start my future with Robert and we are hoping to adopt a child in the near future.”
