Since he also had a disease that may someday render his arms and legs useless it help him to not focus on himself but to live life well. He understood better what people were going through when their loved one was dying from this disease. He received views on Oscar but he also became a much more empathetic person from speaking with these people. The nurses and aids would try to tell him about Oscar and how he could do this but he took it upon himself to visit families who had Oscar be with them. The doctor was not a cat person, and really was skeptical about this. It wears him out and he sleeps the next day away, more so than what cats normally do. He will stay there until they pass on and the funeral home comes and takes the body away. Then he will come into the room and sniff the air, jump up on the bed and curl up beside the patient. But there are many rooms and he doesn’t stay long….only when the patient is about to die. Oscar has the run of the third floor, his food and water is at the nurses station and he goes about his business visiting. The third floor is the unit that cares for residents with Alzheimers. This facility has three floors, and on each floor there are two resident cats. The author is the doctor in this facility. This book was written nine years ago and the setting is the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in downtown Providence, Rhode Island.
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