❤️ Remember Debbie From Yesterday? We Have An Update!

Debbie is an extraordinary woman who is still grieving after the death of her husband while being the primary carer to her autistic stepson.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. Well, I think you're talking
about Debbie. Debbie got in touch with us earlier this week.
Her husband had passed away only a month ago, the
seventeenth of March, and because she was nursing him through
those dark days, she didn't get to take her son
to the Easter show and she's wondering if we had
an Easter show bag. That was as simple as the

(00:21):
request was. We didn't have an Easter show bags. They'd
all sold out, But you guys came to the rescue
and through all of this, we have put together a
couple of Easter show bags to go to Debbie and
her son, Christopher.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
The biggest bag in the world now she does.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
And then we got Debbie on the phone and we
heard how tough it is for her at the moment.
Her husband, Thomas, they've only been married a few months,
but they've been together for nine years. These there's two boys,
Christopher and Michael. They are her step sons. Christopher is
thirty one and he's autistic and she's now raising him
and is his primary care. Things are tough, aren't they.

(00:56):
So she's lost her husband and she's now doing all
this other stuff with a lot of love in her heart.
But it's been hard.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
It's been very difficult, and Debbie yesterday didn't want to
go on about it, but we pressed it further.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
I'm going to be Christophers full time care and that's
for now. I struggle in itself, but we won't go
into that.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Well, now let's go into it. The government helping you.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Out with this? No, not really?

Speaker 2 (01:20):
What so that you get to no help?

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Well, it's a long story short. I need to go
and apply for carelessly, which I have done, but I
have to prove supply some other papers, which is a
tediously and tediously and I'm doing it slowly.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
But paperwork, what a thing it is doing? You lost
your husband a month ago, as if you needed to
be doing all of this.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Do you know how many times I've cried up at
the tents Lincoln just I just feel like a real idiot.
Some think and why why am I bothering?

Speaker 1 (01:48):
But a couple of things would like to add here.
The Easter Show. Paul Bowed, head of The Easter Show,
heard what we were saying yesterday. He's going to add
a family pass for the family for Debbie and Christopher
for next year's Easter show, but onto the whole thing
about ndis. What a labyrinth it is to get through
that system. Peter from Inside Care Peter a woman called

(02:11):
in to say that she wants to help Debbie for
free to get her NDIS sorted. This stuff, as we know,
can take years. It is a really tough system to
navigate with your forms, with access, with all of that
kind of stuff. So what Peter is going to do,
as I said, she was from inside Care, she is

(02:31):
going to work with Debbie to get her into the NDIS.
And she put the call out Peter did to all
the people, all the services she knows, and people have
put their hands up, yes, we want to help. She
has a lot of contacts already working behind the scenes,
so she's going to help Christopher get all the services
he needs. So, Debbie, it makes me feel very emotional. Debbie,
the NDIS is being taken care of. We are going

(02:53):
to short circuit the horror that you would have had
to go through to get all of this sorted. Thank
you to Peter at Inside Care. You just lost your husband.
This is the last thing you need to be doing.
So Peter's going to help you and help you with
all the affiliated services that come with that.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Did you just scratch the surface, as you say, there's
young Christopher, a thirty one year old guy, and he's
gonna need care.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
She said. He has sort of the mental acuity of
like a four or five year old. That's so hard.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
He loves his legos, A big fan of the lego.
We should maybe sling him some lego.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
You know what we should do?

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Would you know what?

Speaker 2 (03:25):
We should give him the death star that brought my
son unstuck that your son was meant to complete.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
It's all gray on gray on gray. He struggled with it.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Or maybe we should give that to Core.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Well, you know what lego masters is on at the moment.
Hamish Blake is a friend of ours. Why don't we
get Hamish involved. Let's call Hamish and let's see if
there's something we can do for Christophers.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
So why don't we do that tomorrow?

Speaker 1 (03:46):
All right, But so far this has been absolutely amazing, Debbie,
I hope this takes a weight off your shoulders.