“…A Dad’s Promise Ought to be Kept.”

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Scott Nagy thought a dad’s promise ought to be kept. He kept his.

The cancer invading his body doesn’t give him much time. A volunteer team of medical professionals gave him enough on Saturday to keep a vow to his daughter on her wedding day. He made the crosstown trip by ambulance, from an intensive-care bed at University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center to First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Strongsville. Monitor cords ran from under his charcoal tuxedo, and a tracheal tube loosened his tie.

“We did it,” Nagy said with a reassuring smile, telling his daughter he was just a small part of her day and warning she’d streak her makeup.

Jacky Uljanic, the UH nurse practioner who turned wedding planner for the occasion, passed around tissues. Nagy kissed a rambunctious ringbearing grandson and gave a thumbs up.

“It was a promise I made in March, to walk her down the aisle,” he said. “She’s my princess. This is my definition of walking down the aisle.”