Jaouad, who’s the creator of the most cancers memoir “Between Two Kingdoms,” mentioned the occasion occurred proper earlier than she was scheduled for a bone marrow transplant. She had been identified with leukemia for the second time.
“We received married the day earlier than I used to be admitted to the hospital to endure my bone marrow transplant,” she advised “CBS Sunday Morning.”
Jaouad continued: “Now we have identified that we wished to get married, I feel, from the primary week that we began relationship. That is when Jon first introduced up the subject of marriage to me. So, we have had eight years. This isn’t, you understand, a hasty determination!”
She added that her analysis wasn’t really an element within the two tying the knot.
“He mentioned to me, ‘I simply wish to be very clear, I am not proposing to you due to this analysis. It is taken me a 12 months to design your ring. So, simply know this timing has nothing to do with it. However what I do need you to know is that this analysis does not change something. It simply makes it all of the clearer to me that I wish to decide to this and for us to be collectively. However as soon as we realized we had this tiny window earlier than the bone marrow transplant, we determined to go for it.”
She mentioned the marriage was “tiny” however excellent.
“And I am going to let you know, we walked into that bone marrow transplant unit on cloud 9. We have been so glad, so brimming with love and positivity from this stunning night that we might had. And I actually consider that that carried us by,” she mentioned.
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