My therapy cat visit at the big hospital today was a little different from most. When my human and I walked into Pediatrics there were a pair of uniformed officers sitting in the hallway. We’ve seen that before, and my human knew it meant that there was a young patient having a mental crisis.

Fortunately it was a quiet day in Pediatrics — there were just three patients, and one was in isolation, so we were able to spend a lot of time with the patient who needed the officers. She was a teenaged girl and very sweet. She was an animal lover and so excited to see me! My human had me give her paw shakes and I even let her snuggle me. My human let her know I might squirm, but she was very sensitive to my reactions and let go of me before I had to tell her.

Eventually I laid down next to her in her chair while she chatted with my human and one of the nurses. Of course the topic was her pets. She has a dog, and also rabbits. My human knew that this fragile girl needed to have a normal conversation and we stayed with her until it was time for us to go to Behavioral Medicine. It’s a required visit on Thursdays.

Getting there was a problem, though! Towards the end of our visit with the girl, a Code Red was announced. That means there was a fire or smoke of some sort in the building. It couldn’t have been too serious because they didn’t evacuate anyone. They did keep closing down parts of the hospital, including the area we needed to get to for our Behavioral Medicine visit. But we were finally able to make it there.

In Behavioral Medicine we had three patients visiting at first. All three of them were women, two younger, and one old enough to be their mother or maybe even grandmother. Later on we were joined by a gray haired man. Two of the women had pets, and the man had cats. So talking about them was a big part of our visit. It was a very chatty visit, and we wound up running a lot longer than normal. I’m always glad when patients get to spend extra time away from other, less pleasant parts of their stay.

Of course part of my job as a therapy cat is to lift the mood of any patients I’m visiting. But when I’m seeing the patients who are going through a bad time psychologically, it’s especially important.

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