If you're in a nursing home and in danger of dying, Oscar the cat would curl up to sleep with you. He'd be the last animal you would touch in your final moments of life.
Meow!!!!
Posted on 02/02/2010 7:07:30 PM PST by myknowledge
WHEN doctors and staff realised that a cat living in a US nursing home could sense when someone was going to die, the feline, Oscar, was portrayed as a furry grim reaper or four-legged angel of death.
But David Dosa, who broke the news of Oscar's abilities in a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2007, said he never intended to make Oscar sound creepy or his arrival at a bedside to be viewed negatively.
Dr Dosa said he hopes his newly released book, Making Rounds With Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat will put the cat in a more favourable light as well as providing a book to help people whose loved ones are terminally ill.
"After the New England Journal article you got the feeling that if Oscar is in your bed then you are dead, but you did not really see what is going on for these family members," said Dr Dosa, an assistant professor of medicine at Brown University.
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If you're in a nursing home and in danger of dying, Oscar the cat would curl up to sleep with you. He'd be the last animal you would touch in your final moments of life.
Meow!!!!
This was a House episode ... he didn’t buy it either.
SnakeDoc
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man, er ah cat. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call “The Twilight Zone”.
Take your pick.
Page 112, sec 45, of the Senate Obamacare bill does provide $4 million to purchase Oscars for every nursing home in the country, in lieu of adequate funding for MRI scans and more physicians......
I read once about a little 5 year old girl who was dying of cancer. When she was a few months away from dying, a stray cat showed up. It went right for the little girl—cuddling up next to her, keeping her company. The little girl fell in love with the cat. Often, the cat helped her bear the pain when the drugs weren’t enough.
It wouldn’t have anything to do with any other members of the family.
When the little girl passed, the cat was at her side. Afterwards, the cat wanted to be let out and was never seen again.
When I first read about Oscar, I did not think of him as a little “grim reaper.” He’s there to help ease people’s passing.
“Twilight Zone” = best show ever!
Can we send him to the white house?
Can we send him to the white house?
hey,hey,hey....be nice now....do you really want biden or pelosi in there???careful of what you say!!!
Both are fictional. House is more interesting.
SnakeDoc
Animals have great senses, it just happens that Oscar has a way of showing it.
Here, kitty, kitty, kitty.
There was a story about a cat like this a few years ago, followed a few months later by another story that the cat was found dead, and a dented bedpan was found nearby.
Nothing supernatural about a cat behaving like a vulture.
The cat was Oscar; the story about his death was a spoof.
The morning before my mother died, (lived in my house and dying of cancer)I went out on the front porch to get the mail and there was a large pure white cat sleeping on one of the porch chairs. Stayed there all day...Mom died that evening, the cat disappeared and was never seen in the neighborhood again..
They will call it a "cat scan".
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