How a woman in hospice got to say goodbye to her horse
They made arrangements with Bittersweet Farm for Courtmanche to visit, then lined up an ambulance to transport her there on July 9 to spend an hour with Bella. The AMR ambulance company heard about the situation, and donated the ride.
Courtmanche was an only child who had been briefly married in the 1970s, but had no children, said Sturwold, 77. “One of her horses gave birth to Bella, so Karina had cared for her since she was a baby,” said Alouah, 76. “She adored her so much that she even had a baby shower for her.”Courtmanche boarded her horses near her Connecticut home, and she’d go riding whenever possible, Alouah said.
“She called me, wondering why her bills kept going up, and when I looked into it, I found out she wasn’t paying her bills,” said Sturwold.Last fall, after Courtmanche injured herself in a fall, her friends helped move her into an assisted-living center, followed by a skilled nursing home – the Mary Wade senior care center in New Haven, Conn.“She has pictures of her horse in her room and a horse painting on the wall,” Walker said.
“She did open her eyes a few times and you could just tell how much it meant to her,” she added. “She seemed really happy in the moment.”
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