A Surgeon Operates on a Little Kid, Then Sews Up His Teddy Bear Too
A brain surgeon in eastern Canada named Daniel McNeely experienced a career first last Thursday, and photos of it are going viral.
He was about to operate on an eight-year-old kid named Jackson McKie, who had a fluid build-up in his brain. The best news is Jackson’s okay and back home recovering.
But the story is really about a request he made right before they put him under . . . after he brought his favorite STUFFED ANIMAL into surgery with him.
It was an old ratty teddy bear, with one arm that was just dangling by a thread. And he asked if they could fix up the teddy bear too.
So after the surgery, the doctor had a nurse set up a mini operating table with a few surgical tools. Then he used leftover stitches from Jackson’s surgery to sew the arm back on.
He says that when he realized it might make Jackson feel even a tiny bit better, he knew he HAD to do it. And he posted a couple photos of the teddy bear surgery on Twitter.
Patient asks if I can also fix teddy bear just before being put off to sleep… how could I say no? pic.twitter.com/WOKFc5zr91
— P. Daniel McNeely (@pdmcneely) September 30, 2018
