Dying dad's daughter ties knot
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Siti Azmira Abdul Aziz and her husband, her husband Mohd Shahril Nahar, at the bedside of Abdul Aziz Mohd Muzir at the National Cancer Institute in Putrajaya on Saturday.
PUTRAJAYA: Doctors have warned that her father had only a few months left to live, which was why Siti Azmira Abdul Aziz, 24, decided to become a newlywed at the National Cancer Institute in Presint 9 here yesterday.
Siti Azmira, an accounts clerk with a private company, tied the knot with Mohd Shahril Nahar, 26, in a sombre akad nikah (solemnisation) ceremony at the institute's multidisciplinary ward where prostate cancer patient Abdul Aziz Mohd Muzir, 77, was warded.
"I do not mind holding the ceremony in a hospital as long as my father has the chance to see me get married," the soft-spoken bride said yesterday.
She said she and her husband had initially planned to hold the wedding in August but decided to bring the date forward when her father's condition deteriorated.
Aziz was diagnosed with the disease in January last year and specialists had predicted he would live for only another four months.
"But my father had a strong will, which was why he has survived until this day," said Siti Azmira, who met Shahril in 2008 through a social-networking website, Myspace.
They made the decision to hold the ceremony when doctors said Aziz's chances of recovery were slim.
"The cancer cells have spread to his bones and he is becoming weaker."
The bride's mother, Shamsinar Ismail, 61, said her husband was rushed to the institute last Wednesday after his condition worsened. "There were times when he would not be conscious but today, he woke up and asked to be dressed for the occasion.
"He insisted on wearing a nice attire for his youngest daughter's wedding and was in high spirits, even though he needed a ventilator."
She said the even went well.
