Couple gets married in hospital after groom sustained 32% burn injuries just before their wedding

A groom who suffered severe chemical burns and was hospitalised for his recovery tied the knot with his fiancé in the burn unit of a Georgia hospital in a touching ceremony.

According to an NYPost report, the groom, Preston Cobb, a decorated veteran of the Iraq War, had plans to marry his fiancé, Tanesha, on July 22 after getting engaged last year in September.

However, in a tragic turn of events, less than a month before their wedding, Cobb fell into a chemical spill at work on June 30, leaving him with 32 percent burn injuries.

“I literally watched the skin from my elbow like detach and literally just go to dust and crumble,” Cobb said to Fox Carolina.

“I literally felt like that was going to be the end,” he added.

Reportedly, his injuries were so grave he needed to be airlifted from his job to the Augusta Burn ICU.

The chemical had a temperature of 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit when Cobb fell, resulting in the veteran losing nine of his toes — with doctors needing to amputate four fingers on his right hand and partially amputating an additional four on his left.

Preston feared that his wife would no longer want to marry him, adding: “I’m not the same person that asked her to marry me.”

However, proving him wrong Tanesha stood by him in his road to recovery.

As Cobb recovered, the couple’s big day loomed closer, their special day still went ahead thanks to one creative nurse.

Mary Cook, a nurse at the JMS Burn Center at Doctors Hospital, overheard the couple discussing their wedding plans while caring for Cobb.

Hearing the couple’s wish to get married on their original date — Cook, with the help of her fellow nurses and doctors, organised the ceremony to take place in the burn centre.

“I wanted to give him something positive out of all this negative,” the nurse said.

Surrounded by their family, friends, and nurses, Cobb and Tanesha took their vows and married in a heart-touching ceremony.

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