Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Let's have a chat with a big arted listener called
Speaker 2: Heidi who sent me an email over a week ago,
Speaker 2: and as soon as I read the email, I thought,
Speaker 2: you need to hear about what Heidi is trying to
Speaker 2: raise money for and I want to do everything we
Speaker 2: can on the show this week to support that. Heidi.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning Christian.
Speaker 2: So Heidi, tell everyone what you do and about an
Speaker 2: amazing woman called Adena.
Speaker 1: I'm a disability support worker, have been for fifteen years.
Speaker 1: I care for a young lady and mum of two
Speaker 1: young children, aDNA, and Adena has got mode and your
Speaker 1: own disease MND. She's had it for three years. The
Speaker 1: lifespan is normally three to five years. The first couple
Speaker 1: of years of her diagnosis, we're in COVID lockdown, so
Speaker 1: she couldn't get out. Now we're allowed out, and Adena's
Speaker 1: made ability has decreased that much that it's actually a
Speaker 1: struggle for her to get transferred by carry in and
Speaker 1: out of a normal car. It's causing a lot of
Speaker 1: distress at the moment. And I had a meeting with
Speaker 1: her in one of her medical team a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago, and it really touched my heart because that
Speaker 1: was all the meeting was about, and trying to raise
Speaker 1: fund to get a visibility support vehicle for her. And
Speaker 1: I went home really really broken emotionally about it. And
Speaker 1: so I went on a mission to try and see
Speaker 1: what I can do to try and raise some funds
Speaker 1: to get a Dina mobile and out in the community
Speaker 1: so she can take her kids to school, and she
Speaker 1: can take them to birthday parties and go and have
Speaker 1: a coffee with a girlfriend, things that we take for
Speaker 1: granted that she can't actually do anymore.
Speaker 2: Well, Heidi, Also, you know you're one of In your email,
Speaker 2: you said, so you're one of ten cares that work
Speaker 2: around the Clockdina and other people I sadly have MMD.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so she's got twenty four seven care now, and yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a whole whole care team that works and we
Speaker 1: make sure all the ships acovered for as much as
Speaker 1: we can because we're there as there. She actually can't
Speaker 1: get out of bed in the morning.
Speaker 2: It's heartbreak. And as soon as I saw your email,
Speaker 2: I was blown away by your generosity because obviously it's
Speaker 2: amazing what you and your team are doing for her
Speaker 2: right and then that you're trying to now to personally
Speaker 2: get involved to raise the money for this disability support vehicle.
Speaker 2: And as soon as I heard you describe it that
Speaker 2: she just wants me to get in the and to
Speaker 2: get in a car and be with the kids in
Speaker 2: the school run to sit in between them. Is like,
Speaker 2: I want to do everything we can on the show
Speaker 2: to make that happen. So how much money does she need?
Speaker 2: Do you guys need them to get this vehicle?
Speaker 1: Well, she's she doesn't want a brand new vehicle. She's
Speaker 1: happy with anything as long as her real check and
Speaker 1: sit between her children in the back. She had some
Speaker 1: one that kicks all the boxes and it's twenty two
Speaker 1: and a half thousand. Yeah, wait a minute, sorry.
Speaker 2: That's okay. You don't need to say sorry. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, to us, we're we're just hearing it. You know,
Speaker 2: you know, you know what this means to the family,
Speaker 2: what you're trying to do for us. So it's yeah,
Speaker 2: they're so close to you in your heart. So that's
Speaker 2: you for trying to actually make a change in your
Speaker 2: life already more than you do day to day.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So yeah, so her day to day at the moment,
Speaker 1: depending on her care and what kind of care has
Speaker 1: she can't actually get out during the day because some
Speaker 1: cares vehicles, we physically can't transfer from a wheelchair into
Speaker 1: a normal car anymore. And it comes down to her
Speaker 1: safety and the care of safety as well. But little
Speaker 1: things like that day that I emailed you. It was
Speaker 1: her son's birthday, sixth birthday the next day, and she
Speaker 1: got me to go and pick up his birthday presence.
Speaker 1: She couldn't go and pick them up like and that
Speaker 1: was my breaking point with her. It's like I said
Speaker 1: to her at the end, I said, a Dinna, let's
Speaker 1: just in fundraising. Let's do a movie night at trivia
Speaker 1: night raised the money, and she actually turned around me
Speaker 1: and said, if I was you, no, I'd rather raise
Speaker 1: money for the M and D Society to help find
Speaker 1: a cure for people in the future. That's sort of
Speaker 1: what the tougher, gorgeous human being she is like. And
Speaker 1: that's when I went on this mission to try and
Speaker 1: raise money to get her a car. So there was
Speaker 1: how long ever we have with a dinna, She's got
Speaker 1: quality of life, like she can go out and do
Speaker 1: the thing she wants with her family on the weekends
Speaker 1: and with her careage during the week Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean we all saw last week the amazing work
Speaker 2: that you know, Neil danaher and his family have done
Speaker 2: and everyone does all over Australia, you know, raising millions
Speaker 2: over the years, and they're actually leading research into M
Speaker 2: and D all over the world. The cutting edge research
Speaker 2: is coming out of the money they raise. But we
Speaker 2: we see the big freeze and we donate. I think
Speaker 2: we often sometimes we're still removed from what it's like
Speaker 2: for people actually that in that situation out I've got
Speaker 2: to be answer. I felt terrible when I read your email.
Speaker 2: I just you just don't know because it's kind of
Speaker 2: out of sight of what you don't know what that
Speaker 2: really means to a family and a young muma to
Speaker 2: have a diagnosis like that. And when you said, you know,
Speaker 2: three to five years, it was like, gosh, she's at
Speaker 2: year three. I want to do everything we can on
Speaker 2: the show. I don't want to make because I said
Speaker 2: to you, any want to applied quickly and said we'll
Speaker 2: definitely do something, But I can't make promises that we
Speaker 2: can't keep. But I really hope this week we can
Speaker 2: try and raise the money to get her at least
Speaker 2: get at the vehicle so that she can while she
Speaker 2: can just get out of her house and spend some time,
Speaker 2: just try it around with her kids doing stuff You're right,
Speaker 2: we take for granted, like the school run.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right, So this is what.
Speaker 2: We're gonna do. OK, We're gonna, we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 2: rely on the kind people listen to the show, and
Speaker 2: we've been we've been showing time and time again that
Speaker 2: they do want to help. People do want to help.
Speaker 2: And so let's get to that vehicle this week by Friday.
Speaker 1: That would be amazing, like amazing.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much for sending me in the email
Speaker 2: and trusting us as well. I think you're amazing. A
Speaker 2: Dina sounds amazing. You're an angel. Honestly, you and people
Speaker 2: like you and your team are that. The people that
Speaker 2: we don't even know about are just incredible. What you do.
Speaker 2: It's selfless, it's tired as it's hard work, but thank
Speaker 2: you very much. Let's get to the vehicle then. So
Speaker 2: we've set up a go fund me a page, a
Speaker 2: brand new page. It's set at zero. I urge you,
Speaker 2: whether it's five bucks or ten bucks. Every single dollar
Speaker 2: will go towards that twenty two and it's twenty two
Speaker 2: and a half thousand. That's what we need to get
Speaker 2: a second hand one for edema.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all we Yeah, it would change your family's world. Natively.
Speaker 2: We're going to do everything we can on the show,
Speaker 2: and I know that our people listening right now will
Speaker 2: want to donate. So easiest way for define the go
Speaker 2: fund me page then is if you go to our
Speaker 2: Facebook page, The Christian O'Connell Show. Everyone to live us
Speaker 2: on Facebook still these days, if you head to the
Speaker 2: Christian O'Connell Show on Facebook, you can also find us
Speaker 2: on Instagram again, the Christian O'Connell Show, it will be there.
Speaker 2: It's the link to the go fund me campaign. It's
Speaker 2: at zero. We have nothing. I'm asking you to give
Speaker 2: whatever you can. If that's five dollars, great, five dollars
Speaker 2: is amazing. Thank you very very much, Heidi. Let's see
Speaker 2: what happens this week.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, thank you.
Speaker 1: Honestly, this day amazing.
Speaker 2: The least we can do. We're lucky to have this
Speaker 2: show and this platform. It's nice sometimes be a little one.
Speaker 2: Hopefully make a difference in a Deemer's life.
Speaker 1: I hope we can would be amazing.
Speaker 2: I hope we can get that vehicle by Friday. I
Speaker 2: really really do we do all we can. Heidi, thank
Speaker 2: you so much for everything you do. You're you're awesome,
Speaker 2: I mean all of you.
Speaker 1: Thank you for replying.
Speaker 2: Hey, that's all right, listen, let's see what happens this week.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right ya, thanks Sardi, speaking to no worries.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Do only want to get to that vehicle, honestly, five
Speaker 2: or ten dollars. I know you probably think that that
Speaker 2: isn't going to do it. It will. We know so
Speaker 2: many people listen to the show. One dollar will get
Speaker 2: the honesty. If it's five bucks ten dollars, that's all
Speaker 2: you can give right now, that's amazing. If you're not
Speaker 2: able to give anything, just even knowing that you're listening
Speaker 2: and just thinking of somebody else in a really, really
Speaker 2: really hard spot is enough as well. But if you
Speaker 2: can check out our Facebook page, Christian O'Connell's show, you'll
Speaker 2: find us there on Instagram as well. Whatever you can give,
Speaker 2: thank you very very much. Let's get to that vehicle
Speaker 2: this week.
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