--- title: 4 Year Old Girl With Cancer Marries Favorite Male Nurse description: 4 year old leukemia patient married her favorite male nurse at the Melodies Center for Childhood Cancers at Albany Medical Center canonical: https://time.com/3963184/leukemia-patient-marries-male-nurse/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-17T20:02:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:22:16.700Z og:title: 4 Year Old Girl With Cancer Marries Favorite Male Nurse og:description: 4 year old leukemia patient married her favorite male nurse at the Melodies Center for Childhood Cancers at Albany Medical Center og:url: https://time.com/3963184/leukemia-patient-marries-male-nurse/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 4 Year Old Girl With Cancer Marries Favorite Male Nurse twitter:description: 4 year old leukemia patient married her favorite male nurse at the Melodies Center for Childhood Cancers at Albany Medical Center twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a 4-Year-Old Cancer Patient Fulfill Her Dream of Marrying Her Favorite Nurse  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jul 17, 2015 8:02 PM CUT  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jul 17, 2015 8:02 PM CUT A four-year-old cancer patient had always dreamed of marrying her favorite nurse, so the hospital organized a “wedding” for the couple in less than a day. Abby, who has leukemia, “married” Matt Hickling at the Melodies Center for Childhood Cancers at Albany Medical Center, WNYT.com reports, after one of the nurses posted a video on the news outlet’s [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/loriciafardoni1/videos/10153264020564130/ "undefined"). The “groom” was wearing a tuxedo t-shirt and scrubs. The other nurses on staff were “bridesmaids,” who carried bouquets of flowers and walked down an aisle covered in rose petals donated by a local florist. Afterwards, there was cake and ring pops for everyone. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3963184/leukemia-patient-marries-male-nurse/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3963184/leukemia-patient-marries-male-nurse/"},"headline":"Watch a 4-Year-Old Cancer Patient Fulfill Her Dream of Marrying Her Favorite Nurse","datePublished":"2015-07-17T20:02:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:22:16.700Z","description":"\"Here comes the bride...\"","url":"https://time.com/3963184/leukemia-patient-marries-male-nurse/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3963184/leukemia-patient-marries-male-nurse/","name":"Watch a 4-Year-Old Cancer Patient Fulfill Her Dream of Marrying Her Favorite Nurse"}}]}] ```