A father in the United States suffered a heart attack days before his daughter's wedding but underwent emergency surgery in time to recover and walk her down the aisle as planned. Rick Nelson began experiencing chest pains at a friend's house shortly before the ceremony, prompting a rapid medical response that doctors credited with allowing him to take part in the milestone family occasion.

His wife, Gail, drove him to Cleveland Clinic's Marymount Emergency Department, where medical staff confirmed he was having a heart attack. He was then airlifted to Cleveland Clinic's main campus, where doctors discovered multiple severe blockages in his coronary arteries requiring urgent quadruple bypass surgery, which he underwent just days before the wedding.