A mum who lost her sight after she was wrongly prescribed swine flu drugs has tied the knot with her blind husband – with her blind son as their pageboy.
Samantha Goddard, 25, was wrongly diagnosed with swine flu by NHS Direct in December 2009 and had a terrible reaction to swine flu drug Tamiflu.
She collapsed covered in blisters and developed potentially fatal toxic epidermal necrolysis which left her hooked up to a life support machine and fighting for her life.
Brave Samantha survived, but the damage to her corneas left her registered blind.
She met her soulmate Tony Chandler, 46, at the Royal National School for the Blind.
Tony became visually impaired eight years ago because of a condition called Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy.
And her son Vinnie, two, from a previous relationship, recently lost his sight from the effects of two brain tumours.
Samantha and Tony, from Bicester, Oxfordshire, tied the knot with the little lad as a pageboy, this weekend.
Mrs Chandler said: “It was a brilliant day, we had a lovely time and the weather held up.
“After the ceremony we had photos taken outside and then we all went home and got ready for the evening do.
“We had about 20 or 25 guests there, it was a small gather of close friends.
“It was nice because it was people who we are close to who turned up.”
Vinnie then went through a brutal course of chemotherapy last year after being diagnosed with a brain tumour when he was three months old.
The couple have postponed plans for a honeymoon to allow them to spend time with Vinnie as he recovers.
Mrs Chandler added: “We are just spending our time chilling out and enjoying married life.”
