The bride fell ill with COVID-19, ended up in the hospital on her wedding day and died five days later, reports NBC News.
29-year-old Stephanie Lynn Smith and her 31-year-old fiancé Jamie Bassett have scheduled a ceremony for November 13th. They planned to get married in the US city of Lubbock, Texas, where Jamie proposed to Stephanie. However, the couple never got married.
According to Jamie, Stephanie became ill on November 3, but at that time she did not notice any signs of a new coronavirus infection. After four days, she stopped feeling part of the tastes. She attributed this symptom to herpes zoster, which she had previously suffered from.
“She was worried about the upcoming wedding, – said her mother Oralya. – She went to the doctor, who prescribed her treatment.” Since the medications did not help and Stephanie’s condition worsened, she was taken to the hospital. There she was diagnosed with COVID-19 and pneumonia. After that, she was sent home to quarantine, prescribed to take vitamins, rest and control the level of oxygen in the blood.
On November 10, according to her mother, Stephanie became very weak, slept all day and ate almost nothing. The next day, her blood oxygen level dropped severely, so she was taken to the emergency room. Initially, the girl’s condition did not cause fear among the doctors, but every day the situation worsened.
“Today our wedding was supposed to take place,” Jamie wrote on Facebook on November 13. “Instead, Stephanie is in the hospital, and they are trying to raise her blood oxygen levels. I have not seen her for two days. This is terrible, and I am nobody I wouldn’t wish that. “
On November 17, Stephanie’s condition became critical, and she was urgently transferred to the intensive care unit. The next day, early in the morning, the doctors informed the girl’s relatives and fiancé that she had died.
A previously terminally ill resident of the English city of Liverpool died of breast cancer through month after the wedding. During the wedding, the couple did not know about the terminal stage of the disease and made plans for the future.