{"id":13244,"date":"2012-05-03T21:27:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T02:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=13244"},"modified":"2019-03-30T00:00:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T05:00:24","slug":"her-cats-presence-brings-love-and-comfort-to-woman-dying-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=13244","title":{"rendered":"Her cat’s presence brings comfort to grandmother dying in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is the sweetest picture I’ve seen lately. We all know how strict hospitals can be about anything out of the ordinary, but one hospital made an exception — and it made a world of difference to a dying woman.<\/p>\n

This picture was posted by a guy on Reddit. His grandmother is in a hospital dying, and the hospital allowed the family to bring her cat in for a visit<\/a>. I think it’s pretty clear how happy both of them are to see each other.<\/p>\n

Those who don’t have animals probably don’t understand. I didn’t grow up with cats and dogs, so I wouldn’t have understood at one time, either. But there’s a special kind of love that develops between pets and people. I know that if I were dying, I’d like to be surrounded by my furry friends.<\/p>\n

I’m happy that this hospital allowed the cat to come visit, and I’m happy that the family shared the picture.<\/p>\n

Note:<\/strong> If you’d like to meet some of my cats (many still with me and a few departed ones), you can read about Henry<\/a>, Oliver<\/a>, Sam<\/a>,\u00a0Amelia<\/a>, Thomas<\/a>, William<\/a>, Dagny<\/a>, Merlin<\/a>, Charlotte<\/a>, Emily<\/a>, Anne<\/a>, Molly<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Bessie<\/a>. And if you’d like, you can meet some of their canine friends over the years — Maggie<\/a>, Lucy<\/a>, Alex<\/a> and Munchkin<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the sweetest picture I’ve seen lately. We all know how strict hospitals can be about anything out of the ordinary, but one hospital made an exception — and it made a world of difference to a dying woman. This picture was posted by a guy on Reddit. His grandmother is in a hospital Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[80,242,241,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-13244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-cats","8":"tag-death","9":"tag-hospice","10":"tag-pets","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-3rC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13244"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28027,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions\/28027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}