It is time for a nice heart-warming story
over here at Downtime...
A 16-year-old cancer patient named Maga
Barzallo Sockemtickem is currently residing within the Seattle Children's
Hospital for treatment. Due to her very weak immune system, she has to stay isolated
from friends, family and even her kitten, Merry.
However, staff at the hospital have managed
to bring kitten comforts to her thanks to technology.
The nurses at the hospital asked Maga's friends
to post their favourite cat pictures onto Facebook and, with the addition of
some photos of Merry, they created a video of all the pictures, along with a
purring audio to project onto the walls of her isolation canopy.
They have called it the cat immersion
project and plan to give such comfort to other patients in the future as part
of the hospital's creative arts campaign for children with cancer.
For a video of the project, check out the
story from Wired here: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/07/cat-immersion-project
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