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Holiday on Hold


Cora and I headed out to Mayo today thinking it would be a slow day, everyone would be gone for the Memorial Day holiday.  One thing wrong with that, Cancer doesn't take a holiday.  So when we arrived we found the parking lot full and two waiting rooms with hardly an empty chair.
 I took a deep breath but Cora immediately started to make her way to greet her friends one by one.  "Oh, the greeting dog is here", I overheard one woman say to her friend.  The two ladies who had been sitting quietly, now beamed with smiles on their faces.  Cora instinctually sat in front of the woman who was waiting for her radiation treatment.  "Does she know that I'm sick?", the woman asked.  I paused for a second and replied, "She knows that your special and besides, your sitting next to the basket of crackers!"  The ladies laughed and reached into the basket to offer Cora a piece of cracker, which she gladly accepted.  As the woman was petting Cora she said, "You know, I wasn't feeling that well until you came in with your dog".  "Cora you made me feel so much better".  That's why we are there, Cora and I, trying to turn a simple gesture into a few moments of comfort.  That's a Therapy Dog!

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