{"id":61583,"date":"2012-06-18T15:41:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T19:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=61583"},"modified":"2014-01-17T08:10:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T13:10:56","slug":"the-flower-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/06\/the-flower-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Flower Guy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom: 18px\">[yframe url=&#8217;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dqWhMSy3MmU&#8217;]<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 18px\">\n<p><strong> \u201c<\/strong>We all look forward to the Friday flower guy,\u201d says dermatology clerk Rezarta Xhindole, \u201che\u2019s so sweet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cflower guy\u201d is Robert Wright. After open heart surgery several years ago, Wright developed an unusual rash. Most dermatologists were stumped, until Wright came to the UConn Health Center, where <a href=\"http:\/\/uconndocs.uchc.edu\/Home\/Physician?profileId=Lu-Jun\">Dr. Jun Lu<\/a> took one look and immediately knew what it was and how to treat it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not ashamed to go out now and put my bathing suit on and go to the beach,\u201d says Wright. \u201cThey really took care of it. It cleared it up on me and I\u2019m very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe comes back every week and his phototherapy allows him to feel better,\u201d says Cathy Sonnenberg, clinical practice manager. \u201cAnd then what he does, by doing this very kind gesture, is to make everyone know that they\u2019re appreciated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was married 53 years to my beautiful wife and she just passed away in February and I brought her roses every Friday for 53 years,\u201d explains Wright. \u201cAnd I started coming here, and I just continued doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe calls us his girls, his family. He just brings tears to our eyes a lot of times,\u201d says Diane Flanders, dermatology clerk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>I was in a deep, dark hole. And I started coming here and the girls here treat me like you wouldn\u2019t believe \u2013 beautiful &#8211; and they got me out of the doldrums I was in,\u201d says Wright.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s very special to us here at <a href=\"http:\/\/dermatology.uchc.edu\/\">UConn Dermatology<\/a>,\u201d says Jennifer Cormier, dermatology clerk. \u201cIt brightens our day and he\u2019s just a very special patient.\u201d<span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grateful dermatology patient shows his appreciation by bringing the office staff flowers once a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":61590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1,70],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[45],"class_list":["post-61583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized","category-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 04:39:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61583"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88482,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61583\/revisions\/88482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/61590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61583"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=61583"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=61583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}