Video: Smiles for poorly children as city farm animals pay visit to QMC

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A Nottingham farm project brought smiles to the faces of sick children when their animals paid a visit to the Queen’s Medical Centre.

Stonebridge City Farm in St Ann’s brought baby rabbits for young patients to meet on the hospital terrace on Monday.

It was a rare break for some of the hospital’s most poorly young patients and their families, including Andy Smith and his son Isaac, who has cerebral palsy and suffers seizures.

“Bringing him outside just into the fresh air and seeing him look up and smiling – that reaction is just its weight in gold. We’ve been on the ward for the last eight, nine days, for obvious reasons, but just seeing him with wires is not the way it should be.

“It just gives you an opportunity to see a bit of light at the end of the tunnel – not just escaping the ward but towards a discharge home as well.”

Caroline Galloway, a play specialist at the hospital, said: “It’s great to see the children excited and coming out of their shells and just that small stroke of an animal is sometimes a big thing for our children – even those small things can be massive for families and patients.”

 

 

 

 

 

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