#52Tuesdays: Turning One Good Deed into Twenty
Gina McGourty took an already GOOD deed and turned it into a GREAT one.
As a part of DO GOOD Week, our sponsor Duke Energy generously gave away a night in their Luxury Suite at BB&T Ballpark to one lucky winner. To be entered to win the contest, you had to sign up for a volunteer opportunity on that given day of DO GOOD Week and at the end of the evening a winner was chosen at random from the list of volunteers who gave their time to GOOD.
The contest winner, Gina McGourty, signed up for two volunteer opportunities that day, already exceeding the requirements of the contest, volunteering to give her time to both ACEing Austism and Classroom Central. When we contacted Gina to let her know the good news, we were shocked by her response.
Gina was excited to have won, but informed us that she is currently a relapsing Hodgkins Lymphoma patient who is in the process of undergoing chemotherapy. Instead of taking this win for herself, she asked if she could instead treat her nurses at Novant Health to the luxury suite at the Knights game and let them take the prize to show her appreciation for all that they do.
We were in awe.
Gina had taken the already GOOD deed of signing up to volunteer, and turned it into a way to reward the nurses that help her through her hard times.
The prize package includes 20 tickets in the Luxury Suite, and Gina saw this as an opportunity to give back to so many of her wonderful nurses by treating them to a night out at BB&T Ballpark. Gina explained, “I just decided to pass them along because the oncology nurses at Novant are so amazing, they always brighten my day when I have to go into chemo, so it was a great way to do something for them!”
Gina’s gift will also appropriately fall on National Nurses Week (May 6th-12th) as her nurses will get to enjoy the baseball game this Friday night, May 11th. We could not be more impressed by Gina’s generosity and selflessness.
*Photo Credit: Dana Gray Studio