Therapy Cat Nurse on Call

Since the elastic wore out on my nurse’s cap, I wasn’t able to wear my nurse’s uniform for most of my therapy cat visits in October like I usually do. But my final visit for the month was the children’s hospital, and my human didn’t want to let the kids down. So she managed to sew in new elastic, which is a lot harder than it looks! And I was good to go. I wore both my costume and my cap for the whole visit.

My first stop after signing in was the arts and crafts table. I got to visit with a young girl for quite a long time, and a much younger little boy. After that I went through the lobby, and saw several kids who were excited to see me.

The exam rooms were really busy, so I saw a lot of kids. One was a cute girl in a paper hospital gown. While they were waiting to be seen, I sat on the couch with her and hung out. And I got to see a boy in another room while he was spending time on an IV.

One fun visit almost didn’t happen. My human opened up the exam room door to find an older boy focused on his phone. He said he wasn’t interested in seeing me. But then a little girl peeked out from behind his mom, and her face lit up. So of course we visited with her.

A lot of times the surgery area doesn’t have patients for us, or the patients have left already. But we went up anyway because my human knew the nurses and staff would love to see me in my nurse’s outfit. And this time there were a couple of patients to see! One was a little Spanish speaking girl who petted me for the longest time. The other was a teen boy who was lying on his stomach on the gurney.

Our last stop was rehab. My human saw a four year old girl playing in the waiting area, so we went in. She got called back right away so my human asked if any other patients were getting PT. One was finishing up, so we went in. It was a teen girl who was dressed in traditional Muslim clothing, so most of her body was covered up. She petted me for a while, and it was only after her mother fetched her wheelchair and she stood up did we see she only had one leg.

I had such a great visit! My human said it was worth all the times she accidentally stabbed her finger while fixing the cap.