They said “I do” just in time to say goodbye.
A city couple tied the knot in a moving ceremony Thursday — at the Brooklyn hospice where the groom gets round-the-clock care for an aggressive form of cancer.
“She’s the love of my life, she’s my friend and my moon, my stars, my sky, she’s my everything,” Christopher Robinson, 25, said of his new bride.
Terry Robinson, 23, formerly Torres, beamed as she walked into his room with their adorable 2-year-old son, C.J.
“Christopher actually stood up from his wheelchair and that brought me to tears,” she said.
The pair met four years ago when they were both attending college in upstate New York.
After leaving school they struggled to find work and housing, even bouncing through shelter systems in the city and upstate a few times.
Through it all, they kept working toward their goal of a house and family. They both had found jobs and were living in an apartment, slowly saving for the day they could buy a place of their own.
In 2013, Robinson was shot five times by a burglar. Incredibly, he survived. After eight surgeries and several months in the hospital, he walked out a whole man.
But his good luck didn’t hold. He needed another operation to fix a hernia he developed.
It was then, in August 2014, that doctors preparing him for the surgery told him about a growth on his kidney.
Within days, they’d diagnosed him with a rare and deadly form of renal cancer — and said it appeared to have already spread to his lungs. They gave him a few months to live.
Last week, relying on an oxygen tank and too frail to move, the groom checked into MJHS Hospice, run by the Metropolitan Jewish Health System. But he was determined to officially marry the woman who had already stayed by his side for better and worse.
Thanks to a generous city clerk who brought the licensing paperwork to him and the hospice staff — who pulled together decorations, a cake and a musician in less than 24 hours — he got his wish.
A day after the city gave him his license, Robinson put a ring on his beloved’s finger.
“It was like something out of a dream,” he said of the wedding. “It was beautiful.”
