Two nurses have been amazed at the kindness showed by strangers as they battle coronavirus on the frontlines.
A shopper in Pontefract insisted on paying for a maternity-ward nurse’s groceries while in Sussex a stranger raised £705 for for an A&E nurse whose car was broken into while she was working.
Luke Welsh, 30, overheard maternity-ward nurse Isobelle Smithson, 24, talking to other customers about her job and offered to pay for Isobelle’s £56.85 groceries at Featherstone Aldi in Pontefract, West Yorks.
After thieves broke into Emily Murphy’s car while she was working a 12-hour A&E shift stranger Adrian Martin raised £705 on a GoFundMe page.
When the maternity-ward nurse said that she could not accept the kind offer Luke put two £20 notes and one £10 in her trolley and walked away.
‘He said: ‘no it’s from me and my wife thank you for what you do’ I was absolutely hysterical,’ said Isobelle.
A shopper insisted on paying for a nurse’s groceries while a stranger raised £705 for for a nurse whose car was broken into while she was working an A&E shift
Emily got out of a 12-hour A&E shift at Worthing Hospital in West Sussex and found her driver seat’s window and her passenger seat’s window smashed with her coat and sunglasses stolen.
She posted about it on social media and Adrian set up a GoFundMe page raising £705 for her after mechanic Steve Coward drove 47 miles from Hastings, East Sussex, to fix her car for free.
‘You’re all incredible, never did I think writing my angry status last night I’d have ended up with the response I have had and the generosity of all of you,’ said Emily.
After thieves broke into Emily Murphy’s car while she was working a 12-hour A&E shift Worthing Hospital in West Sussex stranger Adrian Martin raised £705 on a GoFundMe page
At Aldi Isobelle had told people in the queue that she was a nurse at Pinderfields General Hospital in Wakefield as her NHS card helped her to move further down the queue and get into the store quicker.
‘Something I felt like a right idiot doing but the queue was so big and I had my work card with me,’ said the mother-of-one.
Everybody was happy to oblige and helped Isobelle to move down the queue.
‘I apologised to all the people in the queue but they didn’t mind at all and everyone was so nice and asking where I worked and how it was at the moment,’ she said.
Just as Isobelle had finished her shopping Luke went up to her, handed her £50 and asked her to use it for the bill.
Isobelle said she could not accept it but Luke put the money in her trolley and walked away.
When Isobelle said she could not accept Luke’s kind offer to pay for her grocery bill he put two £20 notes and one £10 note in her trolley and walked away
A&E nurse Emily left her car in a public parking lot with a note that said she worked for the NHS because parking spaces at the hospital was full.
After her shift she found her car smashed up and posted about it on Facebook.
Emily said: ‘Get out from a 12.5 hour shift in A&E to this. I’m absolutely devastated, no words.
‘Let’s just hope I never have to be your nurse.’
After a 12-hour A&E shift Emily found her car with both the driver seat’s window and the passenger seat’s window smashed
The thieves broke into her car to steal a coat and sunglasses even though Emily had left a note saying that she was a nurse
Emily left her car in a public parking lot with a note that said she was an NHS nurse because the parking space at the Worthing Hospital was full so she left a note saying that she was a nurse
Emily’s post got almost 6,000 reactions that were sympathetic and supportive of the nurse including Steve fixing her car for free and Adrian raising hundreds of pounds for her.
Emily thanked everyone who donated online and said: ‘I’d like to either donate into my hospital or keep for my team of amazing A&E staff so when this all blows over we can go out for a massive blow out and laugh again.
‘There is no need to carry on donating you lovely people. I’ll be clapping for Adrian and all of you awesome guys every Thursday too.’
Isobelle also posted about Luke’s act of kindness on Facebook and tried to track him down saying: ‘I can’t even describe what has happened in Featherstone Aldi this morning.
Isobelle posted about Luke’s kind act of paying for her groceries on Facebook which has 54,000 likes and thousands of supportive comments
‘Don’t even know how to describe how I feel I am still so shocked and so very grateful £50 is a lot of money to myself and I just can’t believe it.’
Luke, a primiary school teahcer said: ‘It was literally a token amount to simply say:’you are amazing thank you’.’
The post has over 54,000 likes and thousands of supportive comments.
Barbara Stokes said: ‘I’ve been in tears reading this what a wonderful thing for the gentleman to do for this wonderful NHS worker there definitely are wonderful people out there.’
‘You deserve it along with all the other NHS workers who are currently putting their lives at risk to save others well done to the man,’ said Sharon Bassett.
Emily followed up her original social media post about her car and posted one thanking everyone who helped her.
Emily followed up her original social media post about her car and posted one thanking everyone who helped her
She thanked Adrian for raising the money, the mechanic who fixed her car, every other mechanic who offered to fix her car and her team for sending her flowers.
‘My faith in humanity has most definitely been resorted. I can’t thank you all enough, just know you’ve made a nurse cry for most of her shift out of happiness all day,’ said Emily.
Mia Watson commented: ‘This is incredible.
‘Seeing what happened to your car is disgusting and made me so angry.
‘Glad everyone has pulled together and sorted for you.’
Maz Kirby said: ‘You are a lovely person and deserve all the support you got, hang in there Ems & stay strong.’