Special Moments

There were two residents playing a card game at a table in the corridor.  They waved from down the hall, calling out for me to

As soon as I walked through the doors of the ED treatment area, a gentleman asked me to stay near this room and play for

As I entered the ICU, I saw a nurse look at me with a huge sigh of relief and smile upon her face. When I

As I pushed the button for the elevator to go to the 3rd floor, a nurse came running and said, “Please don’t leave yet.  Could

The patient and her visitor, who was her brother, were delighted when they saw me approaching with the harp. As they listened to the harp

A patient’s daughter in her 50s was walking out the door as I was entering front lobby doors of hospital. She stopped me before I

As I was in the corridor, a staff member was standing near this room talking with the patient and she turned to me with a

I stood in the doorway and played “‘Til There Was You.” The patient said, “Grazie!” and motioned for me to come into the room. Realizing

Patient sitting up in chair heard me walk thru hallway and said, “Oh! That is so beautiful. The most beautiful thing I have heard here.

A mother walked in with her two young children. One was a very agitated three-year-old and the mom kept yelling at her to behave. The

This 50 year old alert and oriented patient was propped comfortably up in her bed, sipping her coffee as I stopped at the door.  I

A young nurse called me in to play for a patient.  A woman in her 80s was moaning and tossing in her bed.  The nurse

As I came back around again near the nurses’ station, one of the nurses looked up at me with a big smile, thanked me and

I was playing “Greensleeves,” when two young women walked by and one said, “That’s what I’ll remember.”  I noticed both were crying.  I asked if

The patient had looked out into the hallway as I was walking past and she waved me in. The patient was a woman probably in

Just as I was going to go back to the elevator I went beyond and into the other side of the unit. I came upon

This female patient who appeared to be in her 50s was just leaving the nursing station and returning to her room when she heard the

As I neared a nursing station at the corner, an older man was speaking to two nurses. He was trying to be polite, but it

As I passed the elevators, I saw a surgeon sitting at the desk in the waiting area. He called to me and waved for me

I saw in one of the rooms, two daughters in their 40’s to 50’s in a room with an older woman in the bed. One

In the ED, a male patient walked to the door of his bay to tell me how wonderful the harp music was.  He was began

I played the harp softly outside the doorway of the patient on this ICU floor where a male patient was in bed with his eyes

This middle aged woman waved me to come in when she saw and heard the harp in the hallway.  As I walked in, she said,

As I walked into the Cardiac Unit, I saw several visitors sitting in the waiting area.  Two of the women looked up at me with