Jeff Fenech has had a tumultuous fortnight to say the least. After falling ill at a training camp in Thailand, the boxing legend underwent an emergency surgery to prevent further complications. Doctors warned him that recovery would be intermittent and lengthy, but he wasn’t having any of it.
Despite initial reports hinting that he would be missing his daughter’s wedding due to the severity of the condition, Jeff made a spectacular comeback and managed to fly back to Sydney in time to walk his daughter Jessica down the aisle.
Prior to her Sydney wedding, Jessica had given her dad the opportunity to see her wed in a secret bedside ceremony in his hospital room in Thailand, but nothing could have prepared her for what was waiting for her at the church.
The wedding’s official photographer captioned a picture of the pair walking down the aisle and provides further details into the day’s unfurling events: “IMAGINE it’s 2 weeks out from your wedding day and suddenly finding out that your father won’t be walking you down the aisle as he has been rushed to a hospital overseas and has to undergo sudden life-saving open heart surgery,” he wrote in an Instagram post.
“Now imagine going through the emotions of those two weeks and the morning of your wedding day with this hanging over you .....only to arrive to church and see him standing by the door to walk you down the aisle straight from a flight and hospital bed!” he continues, adding that “nothing can stop the force of unconditional love of a parent” and that this is all “proof that the words ‘Can’t’ & ‘Not Possible’ don’t exist in the face of true will and determination.”
This story has completely revolutionised the concept of a happy ending!