Feeling Bad

The family said that the old man had never shown his interest in lottery tickets and they were expecting him to come back from the midway. They were apprehensive that he would seriously buy the lottery ticket, so they didn’t accompany him. Everyone including the hospital staff was feeling bad for the old man and wanted to console him but there was a physician’s assistant, Kristine Trotter who came up with an idea that was surely going to put a smile on the old man’s face. What did she intend to do?