NEAR ELECTROCUTION CAN'T STOP THIS MARRIAGE.Byline: DENNIS McCARTHY Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
When it came time to cancel the caterers and call the wedding guests with the bad news, Howard Hull and Kristen Word couldn't do it. Love, not logistics, was the reason they were getting married. "Marriage isn't about some big production and a lot of fancy stuff; it's about love," the bride This article is about the female participant in a wedding. For other uses, see Bride (disambiguation). A bride is a female participant in a wedding ceremony: a woman about to be married, currently being married, or, in some uses, very recently married. said Wednesday from the doctors dining room at Grossman Burn Center in Sherman Oaks, where she was getting ready for her wedding with her mom and bridesmaids. Howard, the groom, was standing outside in the hallway with his best man, an IV line carrying medication into his left hand to keep the circulation going. The apprentice A person who agrees to work for a specified time in order to learn a trade, craft, or profession in which the employer, traditionally called the master, assents to instruct him or her. line mechanic for the Burbank Water and Power Department touched a couple of electrical lines a week and a half ago that were supposed to have been de-energized. They weren't. More than 4,000 volts of electricity entered Howard's body through his chin and exited through his left hand, basically blowing off two fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. . Which is why he was standing here in a hospital hallway on his wedding day instead of in the backyard of his mother's Glendale home with 40 invited guests and plenty of flowers and other fancy stuff. The couple could have postponed the wedding until Howard got out of the hospital in a week or so. But when you've been zapped by 4,000 volts and are still around to talk about it, it puts things in perspective, Howard says. "It makes you realize some things are important; others are not. Kristen showed me incredible love and strength through all this. "She only reaffirmed my desire to marry her right now, on the day we had planned. There was no reason to wait." Because marriage isn't about some big, fancy production. It's about love. And love doesn't care where you get married. When you work in a hospital burn center, good news is like a cool breeze on a miserably mis·er·a·ble adj. 1. Very uncomfortable or unhappy; wretched. 2. Causing or accompanied by great discomfort or distress: a miserable climate. 3. hot, smoggy smog n. 1. Fog that has become mixed and polluted with smoke. 2. A form of air pollution produced by the photochemical reaction of sunlight with hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides that have been released into the atmosphere, day. It makes you take a deep breath and smile. The veteran nurses at Grossman Burn Center have seen more than their share of pain and tears, so they were more than ready for laughs and wedding cake. "Once we decided to go ahead with the wedding here, it was a matter of making sure it was OK with Howard's doctor and pulling it all together in time," Kristen said. The couple looked around Howard's hospital room and figured they would have to cut the guest list in half to cram everyone in. "I told them to go ahead and invite everyone they already had invited; we'd find the space," said Herb Altman, who has operated the center's hyperbaric oxygen hyperbaric oxygen n. Oxygen at a pressure that is above one atmosphere. Also called high-pressure oxygen. Hyperbaric oxygen chamber for the past 34 years. Herb and the nurses threw Howard a bachelor party, then helped the staff set up chairs and carry in flowers and cake to the conference room. By 5 p.m. Wednesday, 40 family members and friends of the couple -- none of whom had ever been to a wedding in a hospital conference room -- stood and applauded as Kristen walked out the door of the doctors dining room on the arm of her dad, ReaganWord. "Nothing could stop this day from happening, not even electrocution electrocution Method of execution in which the condemned person is subjected to a heavy charge of electric current. The prisoner is shackled into a wired chair, and electrodes are fastened to the head and one leg so that the current will flow through the body. ," wedding officiant of·fi·ci·ant n. One who performs a religious rite or presides over a religious service or ceremony. Noun 1. officiant - a clergyman who officiates at a religious ceremony or service Alan Katz said, beginning the ceremony with a laugh. Fifteen minutes later, Howard Hull and Kristen Word were officially pronounced husband and wife. After the reception, they returned to Howard's hospital room and found the nurses had filled it with white balloons and electric candles A modification of the electric arc lamp, in which the carbon rods, instead of being placed end to end, are arranged side by side, and at a distance suitable for the formation of the arc at the tip; - called also, from the name of the inventor, Jablockoff candle. See under Candle. . "They brought us dinner and let me stay way past visiting hours visiting hours Noun, pl the times when visitors are allowed to see someone in a hospital or other institution: many prisoners' wives complain about the short visiting hours visiting hours were over," the new bride said Thursday morning. Smiling. dennis.mccarthy(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3749 CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2) Above left, Howard Hull kisses his new bride, Kristen Hull, after their wedding Wednesday at Grossman Burn Center in Sherman Oaks. Above, Hull is flanked by best men Eric Makhanian, left, and Brad Spradlin, right, as he heads to the hospital conference room for the wedding. Howard Hull was nearly electrocuted, but the couple married at the hospital on schedule. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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