"He used to always say that we wouldn't be married for at least 40 years, just so I wouldn't know when he would pop the question, so when he did, I was super overwhelmed," she said.
"I even asked him if it was a prank and was waiting for him to say, just kidding, 38 more years."
Medina said Mead, a 26-year-old welder, had got the ring a month ago and everyone at the hospital was in on the plan.
"Nearly all of our visitors came at the same time and I was stressing out because I had to talk to all of them, but little did I know they, the nurses, and the doctors were all in on it," Medina said.
"The nurses even took Ryder to 'check on him' when really they were getting him in his outfit."