Posted on 05/03/2016 2:00:45 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Nora Hall with the family's pet dogs
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A family’s loyal basset hounds have refused to leave the side of a dying baby girl who suffered a major stroke.
Nora Hall’s mother Mary Hall wrote on Facebook: “My daughter had a stroke on April 6. We have been at Children’s Hospital in Minneapolis since then. She is not going to survive.
“They allowed us to have our bassets here in the last couple of days because they are so attached to her.”
“Our hearts are so completely broken. We have been praying so hard for a miracle. We tried so very hard to save her, but it just wasn't meant to be.”
She added the dogs have appeared “very stressed and sad” in the hospital and asked members of the Wonderful World of Basset Hounds Facebook group for advice on keeping them by her bedside.
“I was leaning towards sending them away [from her room] so they didn’t get stressed, but after reading so many comments saying to keep them, then I will."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Reading stories like this breaks my heart, poor baby girl..and poor pooch, he’s losing his best buddy :( prayers for the family
My niece’s dog sleeps at the threshold of her baby’s room. Before the baby the dog slept in the living room.
It will not be long before this little one will be embraced by the One Who loves children Who said “Let the little ones come to Me” and who is to say that He will hold out a welcoming hand to the dogs.
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My first thoughts as well. However, hospitals seem to be less stringent about germs than we think. My son was a preemie and spent over a week in the intensive care nursery before I could bring him to my hospital room. One of the first times I was rolling him in his bassinet to my room we encountered a patient from the children’s unit. She was a sick toddler with an IV and coughing severely all over the place. Her dad had her walking the halls and no one seemed to think it was s big deal for her to go into the OB dept.
I was a tad over protective, but he wasn’t able to go home because he was struggling to breathe and here this kid was sick enough to be hospitalized and was coughing out germs all over. All I could do was try to stand between her and my baby lying in the bassinet.
The nurses just smiled and watched.
jeb! would have pulled the plug already.
NEAR THIS SPOT
ARE DEPOSITED THE REMAINS OF ONE
WHO POSSESSED BEAUTY WITHOUT VANITY
STRENGTH WITHOUT INSOLENCE
COURAGE WITHOUT FEROCITY
AND ALL THE VIRTUES OF MAN WITHOUT HIS VICES
THIS PRAISE WHICH WOULD BE UNMEANING FLATTERY
IF INSCRIBED OVER HUMAN ASHES
IS BUT A JUST TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF
BOATSWAIN, A DOG
WHO WAS BORN AT NEWFOUNDLAND, MAY 1803,
AND DIED AT NEWSTEAD, NOVEMBER 18, 1808.
My miniature dachshund kept licking my face, especially my ears, so that I would stay conscious enough to dial 911. I barely did that.
They said when they found me collapsed on the floor that she was curled up next to my head like she was protecting me.
I got out of the hospital a few days ago. Everything is fine now.
But nobody will ever, ever be able to persuade me that dogs do not have souls. Not after what my dog did for me a week ago.
Now that’s an epitaph. Thank you.
Praying for you , little one.
I love my furry friends (3 dogs, 5 cats, 2 horses). I'll take their instincts over a human's anyday.
I hope your son is more stable now. He’s lucky to have you as an observant, protective parent. I’m guessing this happened before MRSA infections became so prevalent in hospitials. Today, they may have offered that coughing toddler a tiny face mask to block the germs.
He’s doing well and is five years old. Thanks :-)
Hope you stay away from that medicine from now on,
Epitaph to a Dog, by Lord Byron. There’s more verses to it than what was posted.
A friend had some long, drawn out trouble with the law where he had to face the whims of several judges.
His comment after it was over was interesting.
He said that DOGS, not humans, should be the judges
because a dog’s instincts are always right.
He also said he thought that dogs should be on airplanes for security—because a dog could always intuitively smell out a terrorist.
Our dogs seem to my moods without me saying a word or changing my expression.
Thanks for identifying that.
I have known that for years and have it memorized,
but I never knew where it came from.
Evidently Byron wrote it for his Labrador which had just died of rabies.
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