KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C. — Ionia Moore, 87, had her dreams come true this weekend with the help of two staff members at Testa Family Hospice House in Kings Mountain.
She got to build her very own snowman, something she’d been wishing for since Thanksgiving.
"She hasn't been able to go out or be out in snow or anything," Moore's daughter, Cathy Stephens, a nurse at the hospice center, told ABC News. "She's had several strokes and the last stroke took the ability for her to walk or feed herself or do any of those things."
Moore also has dementia, but one thing she never forgot was her desire to get out to play in the snow and build her very own snowman.
“She was watching a Hallmark movie before Christmas and I was taking her some medicine and she looked at me and said, ‘I want to build a snowman,’” Becky Beach, one of Moore’s medication nurses, said. “So when they called for snow, I called Cathy and she told us where her warm clothes were to take her out there to build her a snowman.
“She just grinned and giggled the whole time,” she added.
Beach and fellow nurse Melissa Bridges even made sure to place the snowman out Moore’s window when they were finished so she could continue to look at it from her room.
[ FULL STORY ]