This photo of a deer on a stretcher will probably break your heart

Fair warning: The photo below might break your heart.

On Monday, a severely injured deer somehow ended up wandering into the emergency department of Strong Memorial hospital after it had been hit by a car.

Crazy, right?

What's crazier is this photo of the deer being removed from the hospital … on a stretcher. Just look at this photo. It will destroy your soul:

Hush now. Let's all pause for a moment of silence to reflect on the amazingly advance, if not completely coincidental, survival skills of this incredible creature.

Officials told the Democrat and Chronicle that the injured deer made it as far as a corridor near the emergency department, but did not enter a patient care area.

Two Monroe County sheriff's deputies happened to be at the hospital when the deer staggered in. To remove the animal, "they strapped it to a gurney and wheeled it across the parking lot," said Cpl. John Helfer.

The deer was euthanized a short time later.

Here's what we know about how the deer got hurt:

Teresa Hill, an administrator at the University of Rochester Medical Center, said the deer hit the car that her daughter, Carly, was driving on Elmwood.

The deer "literally popped out of nowhere — almost from the cemetery — and struck her car," said Hill. "It happened right in front of the emergency entrance so she pulled in and got out of the car."

Her daughter was very upset and a couple of nurses were there to see if she was hurt, said Hill, but other than a sore neck and broken headlight, she is OK.

No one else was hurt.

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