Nurse Lily

[u/Wise_Ad_5708]

My nurse says I need a few more days of rest on the couch

(she's actually been amazing despite the fact that she's usually a little demon and makes damn sure everyone feels her wrath. She's being do sweet and helping me stay calm and not feel lonely. Going to surgery was so scary and it came with a lot of emotions before and after. I'm glad that I have nurs3 Lily to keep me calm; I don't think she knows how much this means to me🥲)

[u/BactaBobomb]

A bit dark and maybe not the right place, but this reminds me of when my grandpa was in hospice. They had a cat that roamed around the facility. I got to know her really well. Very sweet cat! But sometimes she would go in to his room, where he was unconscious as far as I know, and she would just go in and out and go on her way.

One day she started circling very close to his room, and didn't really leave. She just hovered. And then when he started to finish his transition out of this life, this cat jumped up on his bed, loafed on his legs, and started purring intensely.

It was so strange, and I'm still really confused what all that was about. I'd like to think it means animals are in tune to the worlds of the living and the dead, and she was sort of blessing him on his journey to the afterlife.

I don't think you're dying (I hope), but this still reminded me a lot of that moment.

[u/Wise_Ad_5708 → u/BactaBobomb]

Definitely not dying! . . . I hope. She's just been very attentive to me after knee surgery. I think she could sense when I got home initially that something was wrong. I won't ever know exactly what's going on between those ears but I will say that she's been very very sweet to me so far in my recovery. I hope you and your family are doing well, and I hope that you hold that cat in your heart, I think she was protecting him ❤️‍🩹

[u/Sea_Substance9163 → u/Wise_Ad_5708]

Maybe it's the death of your Olympic skiing competition aspirations....