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GEORGETOWN HOSPITAL SYSTEM
Nurses
throughout Georgetown
Hospital System are empowered to
go the extra mile for patients. In fact,
it’s something they take to heart.
Just ask Travis Smith and Kimberly Elgin,
who found themselves getting married in
the most unlikely of places this past spring—
Waccamaw Community Hospital.
“I was blown away by what the nurses did for
us,” Travis says. “I was totally surprised. It was
pretty phenomenal.”
Travis and Kimberly had traveled to the Lowcountry fromGalloway, Ohio—along
with about 40 friends and family members—for a romantic wedding on the beach on
Sunday, May 4.
e sun. e sand. e surf. Everything would be perfect. It was the wedding
the couple had envisioned since getting engaged on Christmas Eve 2012.
Change of plans
ings started going wrong when Kimberly began to experience stomach pains far
worse than any bride’s pre-wedding jitters. A er seeking medical care, she and her
groom soon learned Kimberly had developed
appendicitis on what was supposed to be their
wedding day.
It was a heartbreaking turn of events. Instead
of a seaside wedding, the couple’s focus turned to
surgery—to be performed at Waccamaw the next
day by Robert Brockman, MD, a board-certi ed
surgeon with Surgical Specialists of Waccamaw.
Still, even with surgery looming, Travis
and Kimberly weren’t ready to give up on the
wedding date they’d long had circled on the
calendar. So Travis approached hospital sta with a simple request: Would it be
all right if the couple exchanged vows by Kimberly’s bedside?
“I went up to the desk,” Travis says, “and I told them, ‘Believe it or not, it’s our
wedding day.’”
at’s when the hospital’s employee partners sprang into action. Soon, a
wedding unlike any other was in the works.
“Not only were we told that we absolutely could get married at the hospital,”
Travis says, “but when the nurses realized we wanted to get married, well, what
they did totally surprised us.”
Travis Smith and Kimberly Elgin exchanged vows at Waccamaw Community Hospital.
Photos byWhitney Boyd, courtesy of First Glance Photography
In
sickness
and in
health
Nurses help couple say
‘I do’ in spite of surgery
