Cat photos cheer up teen cancer patient

Cat-loving cancer patient Maga couldn't leave her hospital room – which meant she couldn't see her beloved feline, Merry. But doctors and nurses at Seattle Children's Hospital, where Maga is receiving treatment, decided to do the next best thing: a "cat immersion room" where Maga could look at footage of Facebook felines.

An adorable video shows Maga looking touched and happy as thousands of cat photos clicked by, accompanied by an audio track of Merry purring.

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How'd the hospital staff pull it off? They built a custom tent inside Maga's treatment room that arched over her bed, and projected the cat photos – more than three thousand of them! -- onto the tent's canvas. The photos were collected from the hospital's Facebook page; the staff asked the page's "fans" to send in their cat photos to cheer Maga up.

Maga is at the hospital for post-procedure treatment following a bone-marrow transplant – which demands that she remain in isolation to protect her immune system, and obviously won't allow for much visiting of any kind, much less a smuggled-in feline. Maga thanked everyone who sent in pictures, saying it "means so much" to her. "And it makes me really happy to see all these cats, and it makes me think of my cat, and they are all really cute, so thank you."

Great job, internet! Seriously. Well done.

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