I married my patient knowing she had only three days left to live — but after her funeral, her sister approached me with a small box and whispered, “She made me promise not to give you this until she was gone.

My eyes filled with tears.

The next morning, we organized the smallest wedding imaginable, right inside her hospital room.

I wore a white shirt and a tie instead of my usual doctor’s coat.

One of the nurses made two little wedding rings from clean strips of bandage.

Alicia wore a beautiful white scarf over her bald head, arranged like a bridal veil.

Her older sister brought a bouquet of flowers.

And for the first time in weeks, Alicia looked genuinely happy.

She smiled throughout the entire ceremony.

When she whispered, “I do,” everyone in the room began crying.

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Two days later, my wife was gone.

After her funeral, I stood alone beside my car, still struggling to believe that I’d become a husband and a widower in the same week.