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Doctor repurposes wedding flowers into bouquets for hospital patients A doctor started a nonprofit that repurposes wedding flowers for bouquets for patients at VCU. By: WTVR Staff and last updated 2021-07-24 19:35:26-04 RICHMOND, Va. (WTVR) -- Having to stay in the hospital can really take a toll on patients, but Eleanor Love is brightening up the rooms at VCU Medical Center with beautiful flower arrangements. During her time as a medical student in 2019, Love wanted to find a way to give back to her patients. "At that stage of my medical training, I didn't have a lot of medic...

Neighbors — one 2 years old, the other 99 — found friendship during quarantine Over the last year, Benjamin Olson, 2, and Mary O'Neill, 99, have gone from neighbors to the best of friends. Benjamin, his parents, and his brother Noah live next door to Mary in Minneapolis, and over the course of the pandemic, Benjamin and Mary have grown close from their backyards, separated by a chain-link fence. They've invented a game called "cane ball" – Benjamin kicks a ball to the fence, and Mary hits it back with her cane — and now that he can open Mary's gate on his own, Benjamin regularly comes...

Doctor repurposes wedding flowers into bouquets for hospital patients A doctor started a nonprofit that repurposes wedding flowers for bouquets for patients at VCU. By: WTVR Staff and last updated 2021-07-22 23:02:14-04 RICHMOND, Va. (WTVR) -- Having to stay in the hospital can really take a toll on patients, but Eleanor Love is brightening up the rooms at VCU Medical Center with beautiful flower arrangements. During her time as a medical student in 2019, Love wanted to find a way to give back to her patients. "At that stage of my medical training, I didn't have a lot of medic...

Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images Couples can spend thousands of dollars on flowers for their weddings, without knowing what to do with them when the big day is over. Eleanor Love has a solution: Give them to her and let her team turn the stems into brand new bouquets for patients at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. While attending Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Love, 27, wanted to lift the spirits of severely ill patients. Before starting medical school, Love worked at a florist, and she knew studies have shown flowers and plants in hospital rooms help pat...

VCU medical student repurposes wedding bouquets for hospital patients VCU medical student repurposes wedding bouquets for hospital patients By A.J. Nwoko | April 24, 2021 at 7:25 PM EDT - Updated April 24 at 7:30 PM RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - Here in River City, a graduating VCU medical student is giving new meaning to the old wedding rhyme, “something old, something new.” You’ll often find Eleanor Love and her team of volunteers spending their weekend mornings collecting flower arrangements from wedding venues. It’s probably not the first thing that comes to mind when y...