An emergency room trip almost canceled a Baltimore couple’s wedding. But Ascension St. Agnes Hospital nurses made it happen.

Tony and Neunutae Bell had been counting down the days until their wedding. After getting engaged three years ago and waiting for COVID-19 cases to wane, the couple realized this past Thanksgiving that a rare date would be coming up: Feb. 22, 2022. It’s a palindrome day, which is a number or word that can be read the same way forward and backward — and it was a Tuesday. Such a “Twosday” won’t happen again for 400 years. But a few days before the planned courthouse nuptials, Tony found himself in the emergency department at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital. The Baltimore couple was ready to call off the wedding.