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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    Font - Top Fan Sara Lang My friend took their dog to the vet because they thought the pooch might have swallowed her keys. Their son was so infatuated with the x-ray that he asked the doctor to x-ray his teddy bear. One of the nurses had a heart ornament and placed it to show up on the film like the bear had a heart inside of it. The little boy absolutely LOVED it! She has photos and film of the car ride home with his head pressed against the bears chest trying to hear the heartbeat. ODS 213 Lik
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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?

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    Mobile phone - My husband took our son to ER after he had hurt his foot. We were happy to know that his Pika (Pikachu teddy)was all good too Carlee Bluett PIKA 46 ODE 76 4.5 Like Reply Hide Message 3d 00
    via Carlee Bluett

    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. 

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    Human body - Faith Penewell When my daughter was 8, she had hernia surgery. The anesthesiologist put a mask on her stuffed cat. ODS 56 Like Reply · Hide Message 2d
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    Rectangle - Liz Dahne When I was little I had a Care Bear (Funshine) that had a small string hanging from her mouth, so obviously that was a tooth. Yes, I took her to the dentist with me to get it cleaned, and yes, they did it. OSD 16 Like Reply · Hide Message 2d
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    Mammal - Violet Ellen They put a bandage dressing on my stuffed bunny I wouldn't let go of when I had my tonsils taken out when I was 9. Cutest shit. I don't think I named it but ya, bunny had its tonsils out too lol 7 Like · Reply · Hide Message 2d
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    Font - Melissa Wessel Faith Penewell I used to bring bear with me as I was in the hospital alot. He always got his own ID bracelet and bandaids plus he got a sticker like me for being brave. He even got to have a CAT scan with me. I think they x rayed his paws too the first time I had to have my hands x rayed to show me there was no reason to be scared. I even had one nurse I preferred doing my blood work. They looked ALLLLLLover the hospital for that lady for some times they go above and beyond
    via Melissa Wessel
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    The story that started it all and the hilarious complaints that followed:

    Dog - "My wife took our cat to the vet and my son told the vet his toy dinosaur was feeling bad, so the vet gave it an X-ray..."
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    Head - Michelle John OMG THAT DINOSAUR HAS NO BONES OR GUTS. WE NEED TO GET HIM INTO SURGERY, STAT. 53 Like · Reply Hide Message 3d
    via Michelle John
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    Head - Meredith Leblanc Cute that the vet did that just for fun. It also proves that the vet charging $200 for an x-ray is complete BS. 30 Like · Reply · Hide · Message 2d
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    Rectangle - Tina Christen What was the diagnosis? "Extinct"? D 25 Like · Reply · Hide Message 3d
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