Nice nurse helps woman smuggle doggo into hospital to see sick family member: ‘The patient's heart rate was the lowest I’ve seen with the dog laying in her bed’

Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor

Feb 12, 2025 3:00 PM EST

You would think that in 2025 with the amount of examples that exist of therapy doggos lighting up the lives of hospital patients', that it would be standard policy to invite four legged family members for visits with their sick loved ones. But as this story goes to show the medical industry is severely stuck in the past. But even after this woman was given the run around she did not give up and the universe led her to the one pawson in the hospital who would have her back and make her dreams come true. Because let's face it, in every evil corporation there has to be at least one fairy godmother hanging about, waiting to make someone's day with their magic.

And this nurse ended up being that fairy godmother for this woman. Cleverly telling her to come once all the mean management staff had gone home for the day. The ensuing meeting between the patient and their pupper is simply the sweetest thing that could have happened, and the nurse-fairy godmother found that her patent felt a lot better after being visited by their soul mate.

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Healthcare, an industry that one might expect to be daringly dynamic to do whatever it can to support patient health, is actually quite the rigid affair as per the struggle, this hooman had to bring a little joy to her sick family member. Luckily, there are always those within the system who know how to find a little wiggle room.
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As this commenter correctly points out there is so little wiggle room to actually help and support the many people that are in one’s care. Especially when it comes to considering their actual needs beyond medicine, which as we all know have a significant effect on recovery. If you ask us, each and every hospital room should come equipped with a doting doggo as standard.
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