Sheila Marsh was granted her final wish of
seeing her favourite horse Bronwen just before her death
A cancer patient has died after a final farewell to her favourite horse outside the hospital where she was treated.
Staff at Royal
Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan
granted Sheila Marsh's last wish, by arranging a visit from two of her horses
on Monday afternoon.
The hospital said
the 77-year-old, unable to speak properly due to illness, "gently
called" her favourite horse, who then nuzzled her cheek.
Mrs Marsh, who
used to work at Haydock Park Racecourse, died early on Tuesday.
The grandmother
from Wigan had six horses, three dogs, three cats and
other animals.
But after a
farewell visit from one of her dogs last weekend, she told hospital staff of
her wish to see her favourite horse Bronwen, who she had looked after for the
previous 25 years.
They arranged for
Bronwen and another horse to come to the hospital car park, where nurses
wheeled Mrs Marsh in her bed.
Infirmary nurse
Gail Taylor said: "The horse, Bronwen, walked steadily towards Sheila.
"Sheila
gently called to Bronwen and the horse bent down tenderly and kissed her on the
cheek as they said their last goodbyes."
Hospital staff and relatives shed tears as
Mrs Marsh said farewell to her horses
Mrs Marsh's
daughter Tina said: "It was very important for my mum. She was one of the
most hard-working people that you could meet and she would do anything for
anyone."
Pauline Law,
deputy director of nursing, said staff felt privileged to have been involved.
"This was
obviously extremely important to [Mrs Marsh] and her family and we feel
privileged to have been able to provide this support at this crucial stage of
her care," she said.
"It is
absolutely right that we should pull out all the stops to ensure that our
patients and their families receive personalised, compassionate and dignified
care at the end of their life and this is what we will always strive to
achieve."
The news come from BBC
News Manchester dd 7 November 2014.
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