A US man married his cancer-stricken beloved in her final hours last week and is now working on adopting her son, telling a local television station documenting the family’s heartbreaking story that “it was hard not to fall in love with both of them” after meeting them.
Kyle Adcock and Amy Drouillard of Saint Clair Shores, Michigan, had arranged to marry each other on Saturday – her dress, the venue and the vendors for the nuptials had all been picked out, as the Detroit outlet WJBK reported.
But Drouillard, 35, at that point was reaching the end of her two-year battle with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. So she and Adcock, 31, pushed the wedding up two days and got married in her hospital room, with nurses and close relatives attending the ceremony.
“Amy wore her dress, and she was beautiful and full of smiles,” Adcock said in a report that WJBK published Monday. “It was a beautiful wedding – [the doctor] set up a beautiful night for us.
“They had her best six nurses that she wanted to take care of Amy – and they brought a bunch of candles to the room. Family that was coming for the wedding ended up coming to our wedding still.”
Drouillard died from her non-curable illness within a short time of her wedding, leaving behind her groom and her 12-year-old son, Nolan.
It was Nolan’s second time losing a parent. Nolan’s father had died earlier in his life, WJBK’s report said.
Adcock told the station that marrying Drouillard would facilitate his effort to adopt Nolan as his son, and that was another reason factoring into his wedding’s timing.
“We had to get married [for me] to able to adopt him,” Adcock said. “And luckily we were able to do that.”
Nolan was as fierce an ally for his mother in her fight with cancer as Adcock was, the mourning husband told WJBK.
“She’s got a great son – it was hard not to fall in love with both of them,” Adcock remarked. “In this family, nobody fights alone, and that was true – we all fought for one another, and we’re still fighting for one another.”
He said Nolan remains full of life despite the unimaginable hardships with which he’s already grappled. Adcock said for now he is Nolan’s legal guardian, but he is proceeding with adopting the boy as his own child.
As of Tuesday, supporters of the family had donated more than $23,000 to an online GoFundMe campaign meant to help Adcock cover adoption expenses as well as Nolan’s needs moving forward.
“I keep telling him every day – you know, you’re going to do great things,” Adcock told WJBK.
Adcock said the memory of Drouillard’s smile on their wedding day is aiding his grief.
“The happiness on her face on the worst last day or the worst day of our life – that’s what keeps me going,” Adcock said. “And also knowing that I have Nolan to hold still – and he has me.”
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