5-year-old Slade Thompson has had a pretty rough year for a kindergartener, after undergoing two surgeries within the last few months.
His most recent hospital visit was to have his tonsils removed, a painful and scary procedure for such a young boy.
“He’s been through a lot this last year,” said Slade’s mom, Layla Thompson. “We had been in a children’s hospital, so we were kind of nervous to go to just a hospital to have it done.”
But to the concerned mother’s pleasant surprise, her son couldn’t have been placed in better hands at the UPMC Susquehanna hospital in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
As she nervously waited for Slade to wake up from his anesthesia in the patient waiting room, an unexpected blessing arose in the form of nurse Annie Hager.
A team of nurses had to go check on the boy before Layla was allowed to see her son, but the frightened 5-year-old recovering from his surgery simply couldn’t wait to be consoled.
