Pictures of a horse decorate the room of Karina Courtmanche whose health has declined in recent months. For the 79-year-old Connecticut woman, those pictures bring back happy memories of the horse she once rode.
Staying at Mary Wade Home in New Haven for over a year now, on July 9, Ms. Courtmanche was granted her dying wish to see her beloved horse, Bella, one last time.
Ms. Courtmanche had owned Bella since the horse was born, according to Connecticut Hospice nurse Michelle Walker.
Once a registered nurse herself, who trotted the globe making a difference wherever she went, Ms. Courtmanche had always had a happy, chatty personality….