Since it’s October — Halloween month — I get to wear costumes on my therapy cat visits! Since we were visiting the big hospital this week, I wore my scrubs. If you remember when I first got them, they are made by a company called Figs. Unless you work in health care, this may not mean anything to you, but literally every single nurse I saw on this visit was SO excited to see me in them!

The first patient I saw was in the Cancer Center. The little room where the infusions are have curtains surrounding the chairs with the patients. So my human and I didn’t see the patient who said yes to me until the nurse pulled the curtains back. My human was very surprised to see a young man, in his 30s at most. But he was an enthusiastic cat person and patient. I was happy to settle down with him and I gave him lots of purrs and happy paws.

Next we went up to Pediatrics. Lately it’s been pretty quiet there, and this time they only had a couple of infants. My human and I were about to leave when a group of about a half dozen students from the Cal State LA School of Nursing walked in. They were thrilled to see me! They petted me and took a whole lot of photos.

Next we stopped by Rehab. We didn’t have a lot of time there before we had to run off to Behavioral Medicine. So I only got to spend real quality time with one patient, but she was a good one! It was an older woman whose son was visiting. She looked over at me and said, “See, I knew it! This morning I had a dream that I saw a kitten.” She was a nice, interesting woman.

Finally, we arrived at Behavioral Medicine at 2 PM exactly. They said that we’d probably only have one patient to see, but two patients came out. One man, and one woman, both of them cat people. So I relaxed in a chair and visited with them, and they chatted a lot with my human about the cats in their lives (the guy was even designing a tattoo of his three cats, past and present).

It was such a fun discussion that we ran overtime. Fortunately my human didn’t have to go anywhere or do anything later so we could stay. It’s important for us to make the Behavioral Medicine people happy because they are really not going through a good time if they are there.

My human worries a lot on the visits to the big hospital because she doesn’t want to run into any ICE people and risk being hassled. But she also figures that the best thing us everyday people and kitties can do in times like these is live our lives and do good. So that’s what we do.

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