Lemoore resident plans wedding despite terminal illness ‎

The perfect marriage may be several months or years of careful planning. But time is about 27 years Susana Espinoza has not. The mother of four children with acute myeloid leukemia was in 2009, an aggressive form of cancer, diagnosed the blood and bone marrow. After chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant in July 2011 she was in remission until he became ill again on Christmas Eve. She had at a local hospital before being transported stabilized at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center.
"I'm in the ICU at San Francisco and my doctor woke me - I could have left a note - but I woke up to have to tell me to live three to six months and to walk in a straight line," Espinoza said.
On the news, said Espinoza friend, Brandon Martinez, his parents if he could marry her. Both have agreed. To help mother Juanita Espinoza-Howard Rossel, Martinez tried, you will find a wealth engagement ring.
"We had a bottle and took the edge around the top of the bottle," said Rossel-Howard. "We started to spin and make it look like a ring, when he entered the room, was a gift that one of his sons had given him, because it was Christmas, she bought a small ring of the school -.. I think it was maybe a dollar, but it was just a plastic ring - and ended when he proposed marriage. "
Martinez said he had to marry as Espinoza in the past, but the forecast was left with few resources. Rossel asked Howard the nurse for permission to visit relatives in the intensive care unit, where Martinez is on one knee and asked her to join Espinoza married.
"It was very emotional," said Martinez. "I felt good. At the same time, my heart is broken. Three to six months is a long time. Marriage should last forever. It's too bad, knowing it to be."
When she returned to Lemoore, Espinoza mother immediately booked an event on Facebook to friends and family, ask for the creation of a. To his surprise, the support was about the people I knew.
One of the first to respond was Ronette Cotta, the Rossel, Howard said he does not know yet. Cotta says he learned of the wedding because they have mutual friends and Rossel-Howard on Facebook, that the event has been redesigned.
"I've just read and felt like you need to have a wedding," said Cota. "I like helping people. He helped me with Isaac and receive flyers and the publication of this."
Cotta helped organize the community to support the Rossel Howard's nephew, Isaac Donets, was killed last month in Lemoore.
In recent days, area businesses with all that helped, for example, from wedding dresses to the balloons. Espinoza was calmness and not involved with the wedding last week.
Rossel told Howard he has offers from many gifts that they follow what they are lost forever preserved. She said she sent a lot of thank you letters could be interpreted as a confirmation. Fortunately, met a wedding planner and offered his services with the family on Monday afternoon.
Espinoza and Martinez say is: Saturday, "I do" in the Irwin Street Inn Hanford.