Posted on 07/12/2023 1:47:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A 79-year-old woman on hospice got her final wish – to see her beloved horse one last time.
Karina Courtmanche’s dying wish was to be reunited with her horse Bella, who lives on a small farm in Bethany, Connecticut.
Courtmanche has owned 30-year-old Bella since the horse was a baby.
Courtmanche is in hospice care with not much time left, her caretakers said.
Michelle Walker, RN Case Manager for Connecticut Hospice, said Courtmanche told her of her wish to see her beloved horse again.
“We were talking with her, and she kept talking about her horse Bella, that she wanted to see Bella,” Walker said.
Walker worked with Courtmanche’s nursing home to grant her final wish. The teams coordinated a way to get her to the farm one last time, including an ambulance ride so she could remain on a stretcher and receive care during the ride.
Once at the farm, Courtmanche got to see Bella again, petting her nose and feeding her a carrot.
“I’m very excited that I’m able to give her this last wish. It’s important to her, so it’s important to us,” Walker said.
Once Courtmanche passes, Bella will continue to be cared for at Bittersweet Farm.
Nice story.
Whoa Nellie. The Hospice staff had the resources to fulfill the dying woman’s wish to see her horse. They arranged the ambulance and caregivers to accompany her. This was really a very sweet story.
They dont always hold in a court of law.
“No one should ever have to ask hospice permission to do anything.”
You belong to the machine.
Wait a minute, Cap. The hospice people who cared for my mom were some of the kindest people I’ve ever met. They have a job caring for patients who are going to die on them, and that right soon. For the reasons stated by the other posters, I think that negative tone in your initial comment is seriously out of place
“They dont always hold in a court of law.”
No; they don’t. It all depends on how they are written, and the intents of the parties; and, of course, the biases of the courts where they are heard. In my professional life (I have been retired for many years now) I dealt with such documents on a daily basis. The devil is in the details.
I went through hospice and look upon it as legalized murder in some respects. So if I have a negative attitude it’s because of my experience.
The hospice caring for my mom in her final days were the same people who had worked with her for some time before. They were impacted as much as the family when she passed. My wife and I made sure to send them an edible treat basket (you would have had to know my mom to understand why that was so fitting) as a thanks for their care. The facility was one that her and my dad picked out. It offered regular residences all the way to hospice care.
Had a cousin go through hospise. He had quite a few things that needed mending before his death. Before he died they helped him come to terms with them. Lots of healing went on with their help.
My neighbor is the sweetest kindness lady I know and she’s a hospice nurse. She takes it all in stride. It doesn’t seem to bother her. She looks upon death as natural occurrence (which it is).
We believe that my FIL’s Hospice nurse led him to the Lord a few days before he died. He had rejected all things spiritual his whole life.
Amen
Open your eyes and read the article bone head.
Thanks for the ping, glad that woman got to say goodbye to her pal.
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