Couple celebrates marriage after 3 years of bride's fatal illness

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An Illinois couple is celebrating becoming newlyweds when the bride developed a rare disease that threatened to end her life.

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Victoria Kape, 26, opened up about her personal journey in a TikTok video that has since garnered over 2 million views.

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Cupay said she had been diagnosed with lupus, an autoimmune disease, in 2016 after experiencing symptoms for two years,

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But it wasn't until June 2019 that he said "everything went down."

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"My mom brought me to the emergency room because I had a fever but we were just thinking it was just another lupus flare-up," Kape recalled.

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It turned out to be unrelated. "I started developing blisters, and that's when doctors diagnosed me with Stevens-Johnson syndrome" She said.

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Stevens-Johnson syndrome, or SJS, and toxic epidermal necrolysis are serious diseases.

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Where skin tissue begins to die and separate from the body. Toxic epidermal necrolysis, or TEN, is considered a more severe form of SJS.

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Symptoms of SJS and TEN may include fever, body aches, other flu-like symptoms, and red or purple rashes that can blister, peel, and turn painful.

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