With only days left to live, 74-year-old Jeannie Guffey had one final wish: She wanted to be baptized.

But Guffey was confined to an intensive care unit at Huntsville Hospital in Alabama, surrounded by IV poles, monitors and other medical equipment. A traditional baptism seemed nearly impossible.

Three nurses refused to let that stop them.

Erin Powers, Kaitlin Swaim and Emily Owens came up with an unconventional plan involving a kiddie pool, an electric air pump and even ventilator tubing — all to make sure Guffey could fulfill her wish.

Guffey had been diagnosed with lung cancer about a year earlier, and by the time she entered the ICU, her family knew her time was short. Hospice care was approaching, but she still wanted to be baptized.

The nurses purchased a kiddie pool with their own money and had it delivered to the hospital. Using an air pump provided by Guffey’s family, they inflated the pool inside her hospital room.

Then came another challenge: filling it.

The nurses connected the ventilator tubing to the sink to create a makeshift hose and filled the pool with warm water. Hospital staff then carefully used a ceiling lift to lower Guffey into the water.

Her adult son performed the baptism as her family and caregivers looked on.

“It was just a really sweet, emotional moment,” Guffey’s daughter-in-law, Carol Guffey, recalled in a story published by Huntsville Hospital. “The nurses went above and beyond to make this happen at the 11th hour when we were running out of options.”

“Seeing her baptized, it was like the weight of the world was lifted off our shoulders.”

The next day, Guffey entered hospice care. Nine days after her baptism, she died on July 17.

For her family, the timing — and the determination of the three nurses who happened to be caring for Guffey — felt like more than a coincidence.

“That was a total God thing,” Carol said. “And those nurses will be special to us forever.”

Evangelist Franklin Graham later shared Guffey’s story on social media, praising both her faith and the nurses who helped make her baptism possible.

“It’s never too late,” Graham wrote. “What an incredible story of faith and Godly determination.”

Guffey’s baptism may not have taken place inside a church or even a traditional baptistry. Instead, it happened in an ICU room, inside a kiddie pool assembled by three nurses determined to honor a dying patient’s final request.

For Guffey and her family, that was more than enough.