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I was called early Wednesday morning (9/29/04) by a nurse from a hospital on Long Island. My sister-in-law had suffered a massive heart attack and was pleading for me to come out. My brother was in Europe on business and his office was still trying to get him a plane ticket to come back. The hospital told me that Lyn was agitated and wanted me to come as soon as possible. I live in Texas so it took a few hours to get there - I arrived at the hospital close to midnight that day.
Lyn was more then agitated, she was climbing the walls even on medication - her beloved cats were home alone and she was worried about them. She was convinced the ambulance crew had let them out when they carried her out. I took her keys and went to their house to check on them - both were indeed outside sitting on the front step. They have two rather elderly kitties who immediately wound themselves around me demanding attention and asking in that piercing cry cats in distress have where Lyn was. I opened the door and we all went in. The cats listened intently as I told them that Lyn would be fine, deigned to sniff at the food I provided, and sat up to get their picture taken. I knew Lyn would not be quiet until she could see they were safe. I printed the digital picture out and took it back to the hospital with me.
That picture did the trick, it is next to Lyn and she can look at it and smile - the nurses are smiling too, seeing her cats has eased the horrendous out of beat noise from her heart. I reminded her the cats also needed a picture and when I left to go back to her house a picture of her went with me. I put it near the cat's basket for them to look at and gave them one of Lyn's sweaters to sleep with. I think the one cat winked at me after I told them she would be okay, I know both purred their thanks. They finally ate as well.
All are doing much better, my brother is there now and I've just gotten back home late last night. Lyn is facing a rather long recovery time but she is looking forward to spending that time at home with her fur babies and with my brother. The strange thing is Lyn does not remember dialing 911 for help, she does remember falling down in pain and a weird dream about a cat bringing her the cell phone. Everyone says that being on pain medication can cause fantasies, but who knows? The cats just smiled at me when I asked them and no one else was there.
Lyn was more then agitated, she was climbing the walls even on medication - her beloved cats were home alone and she was worried about them. She was convinced the ambulance crew had let them out when they carried her out. I took her keys and went to their house to check on them - both were indeed outside sitting on the front step. They have two rather elderly kitties who immediately wound themselves around me demanding attention and asking in that piercing cry cats in distress have where Lyn was. I opened the door and we all went in. The cats listened intently as I told them that Lyn would be fine, deigned to sniff at the food I provided, and sat up to get their picture taken. I knew Lyn would not be quiet until she could see they were safe. I printed the digital picture out and took it back to the hospital with me.
That picture did the trick, it is next to Lyn and she can look at it and smile - the nurses are smiling too, seeing her cats has eased the horrendous out of beat noise from her heart. I reminded her the cats also needed a picture and when I left to go back to her house a picture of her went with me. I put it near the cat's basket for them to look at and gave them one of Lyn's sweaters to sleep with. I think the one cat winked at me after I told them she would be okay, I know both purred their thanks. They finally ate as well.
All are doing much better, my brother is there now and I've just gotten back home late last night. Lyn is facing a rather long recovery time but she is looking forward to spending that time at home with her fur babies and with my brother. The strange thing is Lyn does not remember dialing 911 for help, she does remember falling down in pain and a weird dream about a cat bringing her the cell phone. Everyone says that being on pain medication can cause fantasies, but who knows? The cats just smiled at me when I asked them and no one else was there.