Heartwarming Stories Of Doctors Using Stuffed Animals To Comfort Patients

Animals are not just cute. They are everything to us. Animals bring us comfort, animals bring us joy, our animals love us and love us hard, and we love them just as hard back. Animals are with us during the scariest moments. Animals save us - mostly figuratively and emotionally, but sometimes, animals literally save us. They make us happy, and they make us feel safe.

Even the stuffed animals have that effect on us. When we're too small to take care of a pet on our own, us, animal lovers, have a tendency to go for the stuffed ones. And to carry them everywhere. And to worry about them as if they're real - to the point of taking them to the doctor with us. Sometimes, the doctors even go along with it, and from that, we get some of the most wholesome stories ever.

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Whatever you may think about the doctor doing an x-ray for a stuffed animal logistically, you cannot deny that this was an adorable thing to do for the kid. This kind of positive experience and positive attitude is what we all need every single day. This boy might become a doctor one day because of this, and wouldn't that be an amazing story for him to tell?

Via Sara Lang
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Oh my goodness, thank you for providing this absolutely iconic picture. We can just imagine the relief on the son's face when he realized that his lil baby would be fine. Had we been the parents, we would have been sitting there and smiling like idiots. Aah, this is too wholesome.

Via Carlee Bluett
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The story that started it all and the hilarious complaints that followed:

Via ICanHasCheezburger
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