A man called Mr Good totally lived up to his name when he came to the rescue of an elderly man.
As reported in the Dorset Echo, taxi driver ‘Nick Good’ answered a call for help from Lynda Wells after her husband Tom – who suffers from advanced Alzheimer’s disease – fell out of his bed in the middle of the night.
Mr Good was just about to collect a customer in Salwayash when Mrs Wells came out of her houseMrs Wells, 71, is the sole carer for her 88-year-old husband.
At around 11.30pm on Saturday night, Mrs Wells heard her husband fall out of bed in the next room but, after 20 minutes of trying, was unable to lift him off the floor.
She went outside to see if any of her neighbours were still up but could not see any lights on in homes nearbyShe was about to call for an ambulance when she noticed some headlights coming down her road, and a taxi services stopped.
She asked the driver, Mr Good, if he could come inside and help her, to which he agreed, and together they helped Mr Wells back into bed.
Mrs Wells didn’t even have time to ask the driver for his name before going their separate ways however, through social media, they managed to reconnect and on Monday she took Mr Good a bottle of wine to say thank you.
She said: “I am so lucky that Nick just happened to be driving down the road at that very moment and was kind enough to come inside and help me – it was like an angel appearing.
“I was out in the street in my dressing gown and wellies so goodness knows what he thought of meI am so pleased that I was able to connect with him on Facebook so I could take him a gift to say thank you.
“If he hadn’t been there I would have had to call an ambulance which might have taken a long time and Tom would have been stuck on the floor, so I am just so thankful he was there.”
Mr Good, a driver for Beeline Taxis, said he was more than happy to help Mrs Wells having experienced something similar with his father.
The 47-year-old said: “My dad suffered from diabetes and he had times when he fell and couldn’t get back up so I knew what she was going through.
“She sent me a message on Facebook saying she wanted to drop something round and that was so kind of her, she really didn’t need to – I was more than happy to help.”