TEN days before he was due to walk her down the aisle, Hollie MacPhee’s dad had five cardiac arrests and almost died. His only daughter went from planning her wedding day to believing she would have to plan his funeral.
Marcus MacPhee from Glasgow was 49 when he took ill on his way to work as a joiner in November last year. He was violently sick and felt numb - not the normal symptoms of a heart attack.
He had five cardiac arrests and medics told Hollie to say her goodbyes to her beloved father. Hollie, 26, a self-confessed daddy’s girl, said: “Dying was the outcome they all went with, they thought he wouldn’t make it.
In total my dad got five stents fitted which is a lot for someone who had no heart problems at all. “But the wedding was creeping closer and closer every day and we worried we might have a funeral on our hands rather than a wedding.” Marcus only survived, says Hollie, because the ‘stars aligned for him’ that day.
Read more on dailyrecord.co.uk