The doctors allowed the dog to enter the room to say goodbye to his owner – a few hours later, the nurse walked in and screamed in horror

Sometimes compassion means bending the rules. Sometimes the deepest mercy isn’t in medicine but in letting connections—pure, simple, loyal—have their final moment.

For weeks afterward, the nurse thought about Ritchie. About how love, once given wholeheartedly, doesn’t die with breath. It lingers. It follows.Continue reading…