A paramedic diagnosed with a rare cancer, given just 6–12 months to live, had two main items on his wish list: to marry the love of his life, and raise enough money to prevent her struggling with mortgage payments on their new home.
Gabriel Vivas, 30, already beat testicular cancer. Yet after being diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma/peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET), a rare neuropathic bone cancer, he quickly realized his priorities in life. On July 15, Gabriel and his sweetheart, Natalie Sturgeon, 25, said “I do” in an intimate Staten Island ceremony accompanied by family and close friends.
