Done it, my first PAT visit, and it's just like the others said - brilliant. Me an' Jack met Pat - our PAT organiser - at the desk at St. Andrews Hospital, then we went to see the people that sort out visitors so dad could get a badge that means he's like allowed in the place. All the people in the office thought we were really nice.

Then we went to do our real visit. Plan was to go out for a walk with one of the ladies staying here; this was Alice (not her real name of course 'coz that wouldn't be fair) that Mack and Troy met just before Christmas. So off we went, Jack with Alice, me with Dad, then there was Pat and a lady to look after Alice if needs be like. Jack was dead good and walked along nicely with Alice - Pat said he was the perfect dog for her.

The others had said about how it was nice seeing people smile and you could tell Alice was dead chuffed to be out with Jack, and when we got back to the ward she walked Jack in and showed him to everyone and you should have seen the smile on her face; if it 'ad gone any further round the top of her head would have come off she were that happy. One of the nurses took some pictures of Alice an' Jack and me with one of the other patients. We'd love to be able to show you them, but for pretty obvious reasons we can't.

Then we went to see some of the other people there. Some of them wanted to stroke us and some wanted to give us treats; it's dead 'ard work being a PAT dog y'know.

Then we sat down with the boss nurse and she and Pat and dad had a chat. It turns out that this is going to be our ward and we are going to be their dogs - which is cool. Seems they've been wanting dogs to visit for ages and so the plan is we are going to go for a walk with people when we come to visit then go and see the people who didn't come out with that day - wouldn't want them to miss out on the chance to give us a treat now would we?

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