Nurse 'sincerely grateful' to mystery person who has anonymously sent flowers to hospital for the past 12 years

Megan Sims
·3 min read
A North Carolina hospital has received a bouquet of flowers from an anonymous sender for the past 12 years
A North Carolina hospital's oncology department has received a bouquet of flowers from an anonymous sender for the past 12 years (Credit: Getty)

Employees at a North Carolina hospital want to keep a mystery alive after a bouquet of flowers has been delivered to the oncology department every Monday for the past 12 years. With no name attached, no one knows who is behind the kind gesture.

Alivia Cozzarelli, a registered nurse at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C. took to Facebook on Feb. 11 to share a post about what has been dubbed “The Monday Flowers,” which always came anonymously from Your House of Flowers, a florist in Candler, N.C., and are given to “the patient on the floor who could use some cheering up the most.”

According to Cozzarelli’s post, there are various theories surrounding who may be behind the flowers.

“Our manager doesn’t know for sure,” she wrote, “but he thinks they are sent from a man whose wife passed away on our unit. I’ve made up so many stories in my head about this person. Like maybe he bought his wife flowers every week and when she died he didn’t know where to send them so he just sent them to the place where she passed away. Or maybe, someone brought her flowers when she was in the hospital and it made her so happy that he wanted to bring that same joy to another person going through a hard time.”

Though the hospital has not received flower deliveries in three weeks since Your House of Flowers closed, the impact of the gift is still felt in the building.

Nancy Lindell, a spokeswoman for the hospital, told Yahoo Lifestyle that she had only learned about “The Monday Flowers” through Cozzarelli’s Facebook post, but after talking with some of the nurses, found out the bouquets were being put to good use.

“They just kind of choose the person that they agree could benefit most from getting the flowers whether it someone who was recently diagnosed, or got some hard news, or maybe doesn’t have any family living in the area. And they find that the flowers really really cheer them up, they bring them a lot of joy and they are just surprised that the flowers could something like that,” Lindell said.

In spite of the many theories about who may be behind the bouquet, Lindell admitted that not knowing is the fun of it.

“We just want it to be a mystery, not trying to figure out who it is,” she said. “It’s just a kind-hearted person, who did a really nice thing and they did it anonymously, so they should just get to be anonymous.”

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