Pre-wedding allows ailing father to walk daughter down aisle

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Albert "Hugh" Campbell walked his daughter down the aisle and had their dance at a pre-wedding ceremony, just in case he isn’t at her fall wedding.

The Courier-Journal (http://cjky.it/1AmvAGF ) reports Campbell removed his oxygen tubes before taking his 22-year-old daughter, Emily, down the aisle. The 54-year-old Campbell needs the tubes to breathe more often as the breast cancer he has been fighting for seven years spreads.

Doctors have given him six months, but Campbell isn’t so sure the timeline will stick. He tells his daughter daily that he’ll make it her Oct. 10 wedding.

But he agreed to a doctor’s suggestion of the pre-wedding ceremony, held Friday at Norton Cancer Institute.

That way, he says there will be something to remember him in case he’s not around in October.

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Information from: The Courier-Journal, http://www.courier-journal.com

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