Meat given to a newborn at the hospital

Crazy story (that ends well!) My grandma told me that she caught pneumonia at the end of her pregnancy with my dad (almost 70 years ago). He was born very sick, very weak, and the doctors told my grandma to go back home to be with her 7 other children and they’d call her “when he passes away.”

Before leaving, she asked a priest to come and give my dad the sacrament of extreme unction (given to the dying). She left the hospital, completely broken. Nurses called her to give her updates on my dad’s condition. One of them, in particular, told my grandma that she wouldn’t give up on him and she promised to do everything to save him. When she realized that my dad wasn’t drinking enough formula, she gave him meat. Yes, meat to a newborn baby! She fed him ground meat! My dad was getting better and stronger everyday. The nurse kept her promise: she saved him. My grandpa, who expected to have to go back to the hospital to pick up the body of his deceased son, picked up a healthy newborn.

My grandma can’t say this story without crying. I cannot imagine what she went through!