I went to the big hospital today. Often my human and I are by ourselves, but sometimes there are one or two more teams. This time Josie, the other therapy cat in the program, was there. Although there are just two cats in our organization and something like 80 dogs, this isn’t that unusual. This hospital is the only one that Josie visits. Plus her human, like my human, keeps his own work hours. So instead of doing visits on the weekends, they both often sign up for the weekday slots.
Other than there being us two cats, it was a pretty routine visit. We started off in Pediatrics. There were three boys and one girl, and Josie and I visited with them all. When there are two therapy animals and not too many patients, we can do that. We do it separately because the protocol requires therapy teams to keep their animals at least 6 feet apart. It avoids any trouble.
After quickly stopping by the residents’ work room (there was only one resident there today), we went over to Labor and Delivery. That is always fun because the nurses make a big deal out of me, and they love Josie too. After a lengthy visit with them, a nurse took us to the one patient in recovery. She had three kids at home and two cats. (She had just given birth to her fourth child.) So she was happy to see us.
Josie and I have completely different personalities. Josie travels in a stroller and is a lot more vocal. I prefer being on my leash. In fact, while Josie was visiting the mom in recovery, I wanted to explore the rest of the room. Both Josie and I snuggle, although today, I was more restless and less snuggly than usual. My human made up for that by showing off my high fives when we were in Pediatrics. I even gave a high five to one of the boys. (Josie doesn’t do any tricks.)
It was a nice visit, although we didn’t have as many places to visit as normal. With the latest Covid surge, we couldn’t go to a couple of areas we would normally stop by. I hope things get better soon so we can return to those areas.
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I’d love to see what Josie looks like! Is she also pretty?
What a terrific visit! I got 2 questions though – do you and Josie hiss? And what kind of cat is Josie?
Me too, Marv. Also, may we see her?
You do such good work uplifting everybody’s spirits.
Sounds like a fun visit! Nice that there were two felines around to cheer everyone up 🙂
How fun that you and Josie got to do a tag-team!
Sounds like a fun visit for both you and Josie!
It’s too bad more kitties arent equipped to do therapy wirk. So many people love kitties. You are a very special girl. Only one Summer Samba on this earth. If I had money Is travel to meet you at an event. I just want to pet your beautiful fur and hear you purr IRL
I guess you are lucky they are still allowing visits with the omicron
surge happening. You are very good to still go out for the visits.
I always love to hear about your therapy visits sweet Summer, I can feel their smiles and your happy paws!
That was a great visit! Our mom is SO sick of COVID! She never gets to see far away friends, like you and and your human!
You look extra cute in that tie. Sorry you couldn’t go to all the places you usually visit.
We loved hearing about you and Josie making so many people happy, Summer.
It’s nice you get to do visits again 🙂
It sounds like a good visit even though you couldn’t visit all the areas. Hopefully this will be the year that Covid comes under control. It has gone on for too long.