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Helping hands where you least expect them.
Byline: Cassandra Spratling
It was an unusually restless night for Anna Smith. She couldn't sleep. So she got up at 2:30 a.m.
Maybe facing the day ahead would relax her, she thought.
It didn't.
Thoughts of the day filled her with fear and apprehension.
Her husband of 49 years, John, would have surgery to remove a tumor from one of his lungs later that February morning.
They arrived at St. John Hospital in Detroit at 5 a.m. for his 7:30 a.m. surgery. It would take between three and five hours, she was told.
So she waited with a niece and nephew in the surgical waiting lounge.
After a few hours, Claudis Methner came in and announced that she was there to offer a complimentary massage to anyone waiting on a loved one who was having surgery.
Smith, 69, watched a few people get massages. Then she signed up, too.
"Well, I just thought it might do me a little good since I was feeling a little tense _ well, a great deal tense, really," she recalls.
Smith leaned into the massage chair, resting comfortably with her face down and her feet up while therapist Methner's hands kneaded her shoulders, neck, back and hands.
"I feel better," Smith says after…
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