{"id":26894,"date":"2025-04-08T07:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T05:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=26894"},"modified":"2025-04-08T07:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T05:50:16","slug":"the-therapy-dog-jumped-on-his-bed-and-thats-when-he-finally-spoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=26894","title":{"rendered":"THE THERAPY DOG JUMPED ON HIS BED\u2014AND THAT\u2019S WHEN HE FINALLY SPOKE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had been visiting the hospital with my therapy dog, Riley, for a while, bringing joy to patients. One day, we entered a quiet room with Mr. Callahan, an elderly man who hadn\u2019t spoken in months.<\/p>\n<p>I encouraged Riley to jump onto his bed, and after a moment, Mr. Callahan muttered, \u201cGood boy,\u201d followed by the name \u201cMarigold.\u201d He shared that Marigolds were his late wife Eleanor\u2019s favorite flowers, and she used to bring them to him.<\/p>\n<p>As Mr. Callahan opened up about his life with Eleanor, he revealed that she passed away two years ago, and since then, he had lost the will to care about anything. But Riley\u2019s presence seemed to bring him back to life. He even asked to go outside, where he saw marigolds planted in the garden.<\/p>\n<p>Tears filled his eyes as he touched the flowers, reminding him of his love for Eleanor. It wasn\u2019t just about speaking again; it was about healing, connection, and love transcending even death. Riley\u2019s visit helped him rediscover memories he had locked away.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1-3-240x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26895\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been visiting the hospital with my therapy dog, Riley, for a while, bringing joy to patients. One day, we entered a quiet room with Mr. Callahan, an elderly man who hadn\u2019t spoken in months. I encouraged Riley to jump onto his bed, and after a moment, Mr. Callahan muttered, \u201cGood boy,\u201d followed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26896,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26894\/revisions\/26896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}