Campbell McDonald crafted the pieces as tokens of gratitude for the care he received from staff at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.
A man rushed to hospital with kidney failure has been described as a real-life Mr Geppetto after crafting personalised wooden gifts for the 50 staff who aided his recovery.
He had originally been taken to the Forth Valley Hospital in Larbert, but on seeing just how ill he was, medics sent him to QEUH to receive specialist care. “I just wanted to say thank you, to all of them,” he said. “They’d fixed my leg and got my kidneys to work again – they were all so important to my recovery that I wanted to do something.”
“I have stories for them all,” he said. “In fact, I got pictures of all of the staff to remind me of them, and ticked them off as I went.
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