I just had to share this with you guys....
We have had this patient in the hospital for over 2 months now. He has spent A LOT of time in the ICU. He had been battling a very rough battle with illness. He finally has decided to 'surrender', wanted everything pulled out/turned off except a continuous pain medicine pump for his comfort. We have all in the ICU grown very close to him and his family since he has been in the ICU for weeks at a time. His wife is there every morning at 5am or earlier, his sons are there a lot and very very close a very close family who is always reminding the other that they love them. Anyway, as imagined it has been very difficult for the wife to accept that he wants to just be let go naturally and in comfort, is really almost numb at times with the whole situation. One of our House Keepers, when finding out she was letting the love of her life go, immediately went to the phone and called her grandma telling her that this lady needed a cat. Later that night she comes walking in with a cat carrier with a little "meow, meow" coming from inside the box. She walked up to the wife in the patient's room and handed her her new kitten, and said "Merry Christmas, now you have someone to cuddle with through all of this". They even put a little Christmas scarf on the cat. I think they adopted it from somewhere around her but not positive. There were many tears when that happend, it was a very special event to witness. Just wanted to share this story with you.
We have had this patient in the hospital for over 2 months now. He has spent A LOT of time in the ICU. He had been battling a very rough battle with illness. He finally has decided to 'surrender', wanted everything pulled out/turned off except a continuous pain medicine pump for his comfort. We have all in the ICU grown very close to him and his family since he has been in the ICU for weeks at a time. His wife is there every morning at 5am or earlier, his sons are there a lot and very very close a very close family who is always reminding the other that they love them. Anyway, as imagined it has been very difficult for the wife to accept that he wants to just be let go naturally and in comfort, is really almost numb at times with the whole situation. One of our House Keepers, when finding out she was letting the love of her life go, immediately went to the phone and called her grandma telling her that this lady needed a cat. Later that night she comes walking in with a cat carrier with a little "meow, meow" coming from inside the box. She walked up to the wife in the patient's room and handed her her new kitten, and said "Merry Christmas, now you have someone to cuddle with through all of this". They even put a little Christmas scarf on the cat. I think they adopted it from somewhere around her but not positive. There were many tears when that happend, it was a very special event to witness. Just wanted to share this story with you.