UK

8 July 2006  

Can you really imagine how it feels when a) you are in hospital, b) its the week of the Scottish Cup Final and C) you and your dad have tickets for the cup final at Hampden involving your favourite team Heart of Midlothian?

Sadly this is what happened to LEWIS GIBSON an 11 year old boy from Edinburgh. Unfortunately the medical staff could not allow him to travel to the football final so he had a quiet celebratory party in the ward.

After the win, John Macaulay, a long-time Volunteer with Radio Lollipop in Edinburgh, contacted Heart of Midlothian Football Club and they agreed that if Lewis can not go to the Scottish Cup then the Scottish Cup should come to him!

Arrangements were made and the Scottish Cup duly arrived in accompanied by a representative of the football club. You can imagine the excitement when Lewis, his brother and not forgetting his dad Ian when they got to hold the cup? A great afternoon in ward 4 was had by all including the nursing staff who also liked to have their photograph taken with the Scottish Cup.

Thanks are extended to Heart of Midlothian football club for all their help in helping Radio Lollipop make Lewis’ stay in hospital a little bit better.