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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNeurosurgeon stitches up stuffed bear at young patient's request: 'How could I say no?'
But it was a first for him when an 8-year-old patient had a specific request as the child was being wheeled to surgery while clutching his stuffed animal: My bear is ripped. Please stitch him up.
McNeely, who works at IWK Health Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, assured the boy he would, and he took the task seriously. After McNeely performed surgery on the boys brain, he placed the bear on a table, put on blue gloves and used leftover stitches from the childs surgery to repair an underarm tear on the bear, which is named Little Baby.
More by Allison Klein at the Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2018/10/04/neurosurgeon-stitches-up-stuffed-bear-young-patients-request-how-could-i-say-no/?utm_term=.fa89d98112f8&wpisrc=nl_optimist&wpmm=1
tblue37
(65,477 posts)FSogol
(45,514 posts)zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)Otherwise the bills will be huge.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Therefore both the boy and bear are covered under single payor Medicare. No bills.
Rebl2
(13,539 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,396 posts)The bear will be economically, o.k.
FSogol
(45,514 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)FSogol
(45,514 posts)Botany
(70,552 posts)n/t
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)They'll help anyone!
That photo is too cute for words. lol
rurallib
(62,433 posts)Last edited Tue Oct 9, 2018, 03:14 PM - Edit history (1)
The boy knows the bear will be able to breathe during the surgery
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)that the doctor placed a face mask on him.
I say "if" because when I had my surgery, I remember seeing a needle going in the back of my hand -- and the next thing I knew, I was in the recovery room!
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magicarpet
(14,160 posts)Solly Mack
(90,779 posts)mcar
(42,366 posts)thucythucy
(8,086 posts)We wouldn't want the bear to suffer during the procedure.
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)Last edited Sat Mar 2, 2019, 03:00 PM - Edit history (3)
Operating without anesthesia? Talk about a malpractice suit just begging to happen!
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mcar
(42,366 posts)Moostache
(9,897 posts)I am so depressed about the state of the country and what I know in my heart is still coming down the line at us that I find it hard to breathe at times and snap at people in completely inappropriate ways. Anyways...thanks for the moment of joy in a bleak period for me and many others.
FSogol
(45,514 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,188 posts)FSogol
(45,514 posts)onecaliberal
(32,882 posts)OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)We must resist, maybe even boycott (the purse, our biggest power over evil politics along with the vote) Propaganda selling perversion and violence in concert with consumer brainwashing both driven by heartless greed that has too many under its pernicious spells.
We are good!
marieo1
(1,402 posts)This brought tears to my eyes. Glad to know there are people out there 'with a heart'. I'm sure the child will get better faster with 'Little Baby'.
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)Last edited Thu Oct 11, 2018, 02:41 PM - Edit history (3)
And apparently quite beneficial:
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JDC
(10,130 posts)I need more stories of kindness and decency in my life. Thank you.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)If a three-year-old hands you a toy phone, you hold it up to your ear and say, "Hello?"