Here is a beautiful story that began at Sainte-Justine Hospital in Montreal, Quebec. Antoine and Stéphanie were both hospitalized there, each with cancer, when they met there.
In this month of July 2022, Stéphanie Guindon and Antoine Gagnon Bouchard got married, 10 years after their first meeting. Their romance would never have existed if it weren’t for the adversity they went through as teenagers.
“Life itself is done well, in the sense that yes, there are our misfortunes, but in the end our misfortunes bring our happiness”assures Stéphanie, in an interview on the radio 98.5.
Antoine was 17 when he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. This big guy mourned his future basketball career and spent 11 months locked up in his hospital room watching movies and series. Then, in 2012, he saw Stephanie walking through the corridors of the Saint-Justine hospital, which made him want to get out of his room more often, he says. VAT news.
At the time, the girl was 16 and had been hospitalized with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Love at first sight was not instant. “We met quietly through our parents who met in the kitchen room of the Charles Bruno pavilion”remembers Stefania.
“He was green and he carried a bag of blood! “
Antoine found the teenager “Super joyful” although she no longer had her hair, but Stephanie didn’t find it to her liking at all. He also told her mother: “No, I’ll never go out with him! “he told the site of the CHU Sainte-Justinethe Montreal Mother-Child University Hospital Center. “He was green and he carried a bag of blood! “ remembers the young woman.
Everyone with cancer falls in love in the hospital
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Crazy in love
Stéphanie was back in contact with Antoine via text message only in May 2013, when she was hospitalized again after a remission. She asked the young man for advice on the series to watch, then Antoine visited her every day in the hospital and supported her in her struggle.
It was finally in July 2013 that the two young men formed an official couple. Madly in love, they got engaged in 2015, bought a house and then got married in 2022. And that’s not all: Stéphanie is now pregnant with a baby boy whose birth is scheduled for December 25, 2022. A true miracle, conceived without treatment medical help, “Even though we were told it would be almost impossible”the young woman rejoices.
In terms of health, everything is fine for lovers too. No more tumors, but they still have to live with small wounds related to the chemotherapy treatments they have received.
“I’m glad I got sick to have met her”
“Stéphanie has taken the place of basketball. In a way, I’m glad I got sick from meeting her. “explains the future dad a The print. For her part, his wife acknowledges the role she played in her healing: “If Antoine hadn’t been there, it would have been really different. During my relapse, he was the one who helped me get through my days. “
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