My first meeting with you, Mr. G., was such that I simply had to write about it.

There we were, comfortably seated around a table to discuss your wishes, your plans.

But you didn’t seem inspired that day. To help you and make you talk, we resorted to a game: Babbelboost.

As we were asking more questions, ideas started bubbling up. We began by asking how you were, what you’d like to achieve, whom you would like to meet - to make you talk, finally, about your skills, your talents.

According to you, someone with talents was an actor, a comedian. But as our conversation proceeded, you realized that writing an article, listening carefully to people, are also talents - and that you had them.

We then gradually warmed you up to the idea of writing articles for the Gazet of the Council of Tenants at Housing First - and then, together,  we came up with the idea of a book about you, about who you are, about your dreams.

Immediately, you were all for it and suggested titles like “All this misery” or “The story of my life” - and then you realized that you had all the skills needed to write that book.

That was a magical and moving moment, Mr. G. !

You smiled at us - and we smiled back.

  • Gaëlle, Nurse in the My Way team

 

*) We do our utmost to respect the privacy of our patients and our professional secrecy. However, we want to testify to how they must survive and how we are working together to reintegrate them. As a result, the names of places and people are deliberately omitted or changed and real-life situations are placed in a different context. There is no direct link between the photos and the stories above.