How bed is your love?

3 Goodgymers helped an isolated person in Hackney
Gosia Rybacka
Alix Guerber
Beth Hoskins
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Hackney

Wednesday 13th December 2017

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Report written by Gosia Rybacka

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Beth, Gosia and Alix (doing her 1st MISSION ever WOOHOO ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŽˆ) met up in Hackney today to help out Mr W and his wife in rearranging furniture in their flat ๐Ÿข.

The main task was to do whatever is needed to help the couple to put their hospital beds together so they can stay close to each other during the night. The one belonging to Mr W was in a different room and he couldn't move it by himself.

First, we emptied a space in the room, were Mr W's wife sleeps by removing a sofa.๐Ÿ›‹, cupboard and few other belongings. Then, we attempted to move Mr W's bed, overcoming few challenges on the way, incl. plugs, locked brakes and the fact that the bed was too wide to fit in the door (eventually we turned it around to do it and that). Anyway, few graceful moves ๐Ÿฆ‹ and both beds were in the right room.

We worked together with Mr W to adjust the position of the beds exactly as he wanted - making them standing alongside each other, keeping the heads on the same side. Once we all happy with the position, we locked the brakes again and plugged everything in. Mr W tested if the remotes worked fine and they did! Yay!

Just to finish off the task we put the sofa in the room where previously Mr W's bed was placed and it actually fitted great. The job was done and Mr W didn't want to change anything else ๐Ÿ‘Œ.

Before we left, he thanked us few times, and we could sense from the way he expressed it that this was very, very important for him. We were touched and really glad it really didn't take that much time and effort to make this difference for both of them tonight. Goodnight!



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Emma Wilkins

Thu 14th Dec 2017 at 9:29am

Well done guys! What a brilliant mission that will have made a huge difference to Mr and Mrs W.

Nina Mehmi

Thu 14th Dec 2017 at 9:37am

Well done!

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