That love and bond lifts me up : Visit from her horse inspires Mayo Clinic patient in Jacksonville As nurses, our hearts just couldn t say no. We are extremely happy that we were able to put a smile on their faces.
Credit: Florida Times-Union Published: 1:09 PM EST January 3, 2021 Updated: 6:04 AM EST January 4, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. A week before Christmas, Anissa Cottongim was hospitalized in Jacksonville s Mayo Clinic. The rare form of cancer the 51-year-old Ocala woman had been battling for a year had worsened. I was really emotional, said Cottongim, who is a horse farmer and breeder. Not in a good place.
Horse from Alabama cheers up Florida Mayo Clinic patient: ‘That love and bond lifts me up’
Updated Dec 31, 2020;
By Beth Reese Cravey The Florida Times-Union (TNS) and Tribune Media Services
Three days before Christmas, Anissa Cottongim was hospitalized in Jacksonville’s Mayo Clinic. The rare form of cancer the 51-year-old Ocala woman had been battling for a year had worsened.
“I was really emotional,” said Cottongim, who is a horse farmer and breeder. “Not in a good place.”
But on Dec. 22, after a week at Mayo, she was treated to an excursion outside in the sunshine. And she was stunned to see a horse grazing on the Mayo campus. A closer look revealed it was not just any horse, but her horse, a 14-year-old German Trakehner stallion named Tatendrang.
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