A Georgia nurse is being hailed for an extraordinary act of love toward a patient she took care of during the woman’s last days alive.
As Kimberly Still tended to a woman in her final days, she got to know the patient’s family and learned how much the woman loved her faithful companion, Jax the Chihuahua. Jax, who had no place to call home after his owner passed away, ended up in a shelter near Atlanta where there was a real chance that he would be put to rest.
For Still, this would be a mistake.
“The only possession she had in life was this dog, and she loved him so much, and he was with her through so much,” Still told Inside Edition. “So, I was like, well, I have to go get this dog.”
Jax was found by Still at the Animal Shelter with the intention of finding him a home.
She didn’t know that the home he was living in was hers.
“The second that they brought him to me at the pound, I was like, ‘I can never get rid of him. he is mine
forever now,’”She spoke.
Jax joined Still’s other dog at home, and the pair get along as if they’ve always known each other.
Even though Still received an award for extraordinary kindness for her last act for her patient, it was all hers.
“It’s been so perfect. She said that she believes we were meant to be together.