A trainee nurse left notes at the hospital bedside of a two-year-old battling a rare form of cancer to help her colleagues comfort him with words of Welsh. Little Morgan Ridler, from Swansea, was awaiting life-threatening surgery at Birmingham Children's Hospital to remove a tumour in his abdomen when the student medic overheard his mum Natalie speaking to him in his native language.
The woman then wrote a series of reassuring phrases in Welsh - things like 'You're okay' and 'You're safe', written phonetically to aid pronunciation - so that whoever was on the ward could help him feel less scared when his family weren't around. It wasn't until a year later, when relatives requested copies of Morgan's medical notes, that the kind act was finally discovered.
"I was skimming through the notes and and one stood out from the rest because of the handwriting," said mum Natalie, 32. "That’s when I found she had put in this entry of some Welsh phrases to comfort Morgan when he was distressed.
