FARMINGTON — Room 505 is dark and quiet.
A young mother who has just given birth holds her newborn by her pillow while her family sleeps on the cots beside her bed.
The door cracks open and in comes a sprite, chattery lady with an arrangement of flowers.
"It's Make Someone Smile Week," Sylvia Abeyta whispers, placing the pot of flowers on the patient's desk. The mother smiles, and Abeyta slips from the room to deliver more flowers and make someone else's day.
On Tuesday, Abeyta, owner of Bloomfield Florists, handed 100 bright arrangements to everyone from nurses to patients to cafeteria staff at San Juan Regional Medical Center. She and two of her employees delivered the gifts to show appreciation to an underappreciated crowd.
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