FORT WORTH, Texas — A North Texas high school senior who missed her graduation due to a sudden illness received an unforgettable surprise from hospital staff who refused to let her milestone pass unnoticed.

Laura Wiley, a senior at Boswell High School in Fort Worth, was admitted to Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance last Friday night, just hours before her graduation ceremony, after a kidney infection progressed into severe sepsis.

“I was saying, why couldn't this have happened a week or two ago?” Wiley said.

Doctors diagnosed her with a serious infection that forced her to miss walking the stage with her classmates. While Wiley and her family were grateful to be getting care, they immediately realized the ramifications.

“It's running through my head,” she said. “I'm like,

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