April 3 (Reuters) – She’d picked her costume, they’d booked their honeymoon and the marriage was set for the top of March. Then, the coronavirus pandemic hit.
So the 2 young American doctors, Kashif Chaudhry and Naila Shereen, whose whirlwind courtship spun them between New York Metropolis and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, canceled their huge plans.
Two weeks in the past, they persuaded the imam at a mosque in Hawthorne, New Jersey, to open up for a fast nikkah marriage contract ceremony. The couple married the next day on Saturday and celebrated along with her household at her mother and father’ home in New Windsor, New York. After the ceremony, Shereen dropped her new husband on the airport 12 hours later.
“We mentioned our goodbyes – we have been a bit teary and unhappy,” he mentioned. “I gave her a crimson rose.”
Shereen was again at work by Monday.
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As an inside medication chief resident overseeing groups of residents, she rotates by means of totally different hospitals in New York, the epicenter of America’s coronavirus outbreak. To this point the illness has contaminated multiple million folks and killed over 50,000 worldwide.
Shereen is working lengthy days however says doctors try to maintain every others’ spirits up by swapping snacks and buying and selling humorous movies.
“Everyone knows New York is unhealthy however we all know the worst is but to come back,” she mentioned. “I by no means thought I would dwell by means of a pandemic.”
Chaudhry, a 37-year-old cardiac electrophysiologist, is seeing sufferers through videoconferencing the place he works at Mercy Medical Middle in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They’ve canceled all elective operations to attempt to preserve their protecting tools when the coronavirus tsunami hits. However whereas his head is in Iowa, his coronary heart is in New York.
“I fear loads about her,” he mentioned. “However I am actually pleased with her.”
The 2 doctors chat a number of occasions a day through Facetime. When requested about one another, Shereen mentioned Chaudhry is “tremendous humorous” whereas he mentioned he loves her “witty, sarcastic” humorousness.
Each say their religion not simply evokes however requires them to assist – they’re Ahmadi, a Muslim sect that believes in a prophet after Mohammed, an concept rejected by different Muslims.
Chaudhry, whose assist employee father additionally evokes him, already labored as a volunteer implanting pacemakers without spending a dime in Bolivia. He and Shereen began relationship after she contacted him after volunteering in Guatemala to debate different alternatives. Espresso was dinner, which they ate in a mall as a result of he had forgotten his jacket.
“After we met up, we talked and talked. I simply knew instantly,” he mentioned. “We had to surrender our huge wedding ceremony however it’s rather more essential I bought to marry the girl I really like.” (Modifying by Diane Craft)
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