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Helping Helen at home

Helping Helen at home

Helping Helen at home

Helping Helen at home

Helping Helen at home

Kiriel du Papillon
Kiriel du Papillon
Kiriel du Papillon
Kiriel du Papillon
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Canberra, Australia
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So many people have been helped by Helen over the years, now is your chance to give her a hand. 

 

As you may be aware, Helen has been having health issues for a couple of years now.  These have meant that she is no longer able to work.  She has been managing reasonably well all things considered, but recently things have taken a turn for the worse in her health. 

 

Recently Helen has suffered a few episodes of what the doctors say is not a stroke, but with pretty much the same effects as a stroke.    She has had long periods in hospital while they have tried to figure out what is wrong, and weeks bedridden.   Bouts of paralysis, shakes and troubles articulating speech add to what she has already suffered with her gastroparesis.  

 

Being Helen, she has been pretty quiet about what she has been going through, and she continues to be cheerful (though the problems with her speech are definitely stopping her from being her normal garrulous self).  In a funny example of her continuing good humour, this weekend past she got a lift and came to a lunch with friends.  When it came to people parting ways at the end of the day, Helen raised her shaking hand, reasoning that by using that hand she had it easy as it waves all by itself. 

 

The other thing that you may not know is that due to some ridiculous inefficiency in paperwork by her old employers, Helen still doesn't have access to her super fund.  

 

This means that while the family is managing financially, things like getting someone in to provide a helping hand with things like housecleaning is beyond their means.   

 

So (and this is with Helen's permission) I am putting the call out to you, her friends, to donate just a little something so that we can give back just a little of the support that Helen has given us over the years. 

 

For all those times she has sat on the constables table at an event, or heralded, or cooked, or run and fetched and carried, or chatted to newcomers... all those ways over all the years that she has given completely, cheerfully and generously of her time and help... please donate a little towards giving her a helping hand. 

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