Camden

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Cell Out 🦠

2 GoodGymers made their way to help an isolated older person in Camden.

  • Danny
  • Linda
 
Saturday, 28th of January 2023

I joined Linda today as she was back to help Ms. L in Belsize Park.

She’d been to visit with Emily on a previous task to help with some documentation, sorting what to shred, and what to keep. https://www.goodgym.org/reports/shred-it-where-shred-it-s-due Today the ‘keep’ pile needed to make it’s way into the small filing cabinet. We settled round it as a trio and sorted the documents from various government and financial institutions into their correct alphabetised sections. For any that didn’t have a home Linda was able to carefully make labels and create new sections.

We learned that Ms. L had previously been involved in storing stem cells, and that Linda was a donor herself and coincidentally had recently been matched. Stem cells can help people with leukaemia who can’t otherwise undergo chemotherapy, and for whom a donor cannot be matched from their family. Nowadays they can be elegantly harvested from your blood, so perhaps you might consider joining her on the donor register... https://www.bbmr.co.uk/donating-stem-cells/

Since there were quite a few empty files, folders and notepads in the box, what had looked like a daunting task was done carefully but in a brief timeframe allowing us to bid farewell to Ms L for the day. 👋

Great work and good luck with the harvesting Linda!!🚜🩸👏

Report written by Danny


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Emily Oldfield
Emily Oldfield
Saturday January 28th, 2023 14:29

Well done Linda and Danny, sure Ms L is grateful for all the GG organisational skills!

Linda
Linda
Saturday January 28th, 2023 20:03

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Linda
Linda
Saturday January 28th, 2023 20:07

Great report and strong sorting skills Danny! For anyone interested, DKMS and Anthony Nolan are also good ways to get on the register - you never know, you could save a stranger’s life!

Heather Allen
Heather Allen
Monday January 30th, 2023 14:11

This is really amazing!! Thank you to absolutely everyone who has helped Lucy through all her paper work ! She speaks very highly of you all.. Thanks !

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