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Home Help Hire We help families keep their lives functioning and their households operating smoothly. Trading hours shown are for our administration team.

From disability support to daily household assistance we can offer your family support where it is needed and provide solutions tailored to your needs. The Warehouse is open to our clients any time for access with their support worker. We also open for all people with disabilities and their support workers by booking. Please email admin@homehelphire.com.au or phone us on 0421874435 for any enquiries, or simply message the page.

Tuesday basketball notice:Hi Parents, if today’s heat repeats tomorrow we are not going to take the crew out into the 35...
27/10/2025

Tuesday basketball notice:

Hi Parents, if today’s heat repeats tomorrow we are not going to take the crew out into the 35+degree heat. Rather, send their swimmers and we will wind them down in the pool and play some water ball games :)

If it’s raining and cold (one weather station said 8-21 degrees!!!!) then we will do indoor activities with underpinning ball skills too.

Likelihood of tomorrow’s group being indoors = high

We made it to the ward!!!!!! Yay!!!! A step closer to going home!!!!Lots to work on, some normal daily living skills to ...
21/10/2025

We made it to the ward!!!!!! Yay!!!! A step closer to going home!!!!

Lots to work on, some normal daily living skills to re-learn and adopt again, and a revisit of leaving the environment anxiety which I probably wasn’t prepared for but it makes sense, but such an improvement since the tubes came out!!!

Tomorrow marks 2 very unplanned hospital weeks - not sure when we can come home but we are closer now than we were yesterday.

The PICU team are amazing - excellent doctors and nurses, and so willing to work with my boy’s wiring. If you have a QCH admission coming up reach out, I have some good tips for you which you may now have come across yet.

A little Boston update:After 10 days of ICU, 2 intubations and 2 extubations we are finally at a point where considering...
20/10/2025

A little Boston update:

After 10 days of ICU, 2 intubations and 2 extubations we are finally at a point where considering a transfer to a ward is possible.

He didn’t sleep for over 30hrs in the lead up to and following extubation #2, but the doctors and nurses have been amazing here in keeping all the interventions as minimised and considered as they possibly can.

Finally he fell asleep having our first proper cuddle in 12 days. So we are not moving.

Fingers crossed we can transfer this afternoon. It all depends on his progress breathing wise - we are still on high flow O2.

Sending love and gratitude out to my family who have supported us, Alannah and the team, and Dan. And to all of you for sending your thoughts and prayers.

The close of day 6 in ICU my love, Day 6. Lung secretions, more X-rays, test after test. Antibiotics. Physio. A tube mov...
17/10/2025

The close of day 6 in ICU my love, Day 6.

Lung secretions, more X-rays, test after test. Antibiotics. Physio. A tube move, then bath.

And a lovely music therapist who sang Adele songs to him while he was asleep.

Tomorrow we have been in an ICU for a week. And it’s so scary because I have one of the healthier children in here.

Thanks goes out to Alannah who just picked up why I have had to drop.

My mom and dad and sister who came the moment this all went south, and Dan who shows up when it matters.

It’s been 10 days since this all began. The very day flu just gets a whole lot worse when there’s complex neurological disabilities at play.

Hi HHH Family and FriendsI can’t wait to post about how our kids and clients are progressing, a week of hospitals and I ...
16/10/2025

Hi HHH Family and Friends

I can’t wait to post about how our kids and clients are progressing, a week of hospitals and I just want to be back there, but alas, we are still here.

So here’s how my little love is progressing:

We are still in QCH. Still in ICU, still on ventilation, and Another day for my little love to recover. He had a bit of yellow secretion on his lungs overnight requiring suctioning so they want to do some Physio and get more of it out before removing the tubes. It’s now about getting him to the point where he is not likely to require oxygen masks or any interventions outside of a quick cannula injection when the respiration stops.
He is breathing above the ventilation which is awesome. But when he moves he still requires a bit of oxygen - so we just need to get him so he doesn’t need that at all, or we will likely spiral back into this cycle.

The hospital staff and doctors are amazing, and they can recognise this.

And I can tell you all there is a LOT of work done to ensure his sensory needs are met. This place has been incredible and are well resourced for our kids.

Please reach out if you ever need a hospital plan for your little one - happy to give you some insight.

I just can’t wait to have my little cyclone back to his gale forces…. I miss his little voice terribly.

Hi HHH Friends and Family - a Boston UpdateMy little hell raiser didn’t quite progress how we had all hoped. He couldn’...
14/10/2025

Hi HHH Friends and Family - a Boston Update

My little hell raiser didn’t quite progress how we had all hoped. He couldn’t breathe independently and saturate the oxygen to keep his body going.
And even with gentle sedation he couldn’t tolerate the masks 😢

He was intubated again this afternoon, and is back on ventilation for breathing support.

We are also moving to the big smoke in the ambulance. He would have loved to do that ride again in a less critical situation.

The team in Redcliffe ICU have been amazing. As was the paed ward and ED. The team at QCH are prepped and well aware.

And we have amazing family support, and friend support. Thank you to everyone for the wishes.

Here’s a little skeleton photo of my little skeleton.

I’ll post Warehouse contact details in a separate post in case anyone needs to speak to a person in real time, and to text any changes you need through to Alannah so they can be actioned.

Amanda

12/10/2025

Update for those following:

ICU and the treatments they have provided have done wonders for my boy. His stats have improved, his lung has reinflated, his pneumonia is mending…. And we are planning to remove his ventilator today 🌟🌟🌟

My little superstar 🥰

There is so much safety planning. Not just for him, but for the staff as well. Parents, if you are ever in this situation please really consider your child’s behavioural profile when they are under extreme duress. So far the ICU team have:

Removed equipment that can be removed safely
Are removing non-essential lines like catheter (so he doesn’t just yank it out)
Considering a sedated tube removal - doctors are planning based on his medical progress
Staff are prepping themselves personally - reducing grabable objects like jewellery, hair…
We are preparing a sensory environment that meets his personal preferences - water slides or splashing water in YouTube - things that don’t need his control to change or switch
And they have back up
Plans in place if this fails, which it won’t, my boy is a fighter (on every level ☺️).

Fingers crossed for a safe transition from ventilation to self-breathing.

Boston: you’ve got this.

11/10/2025

Boston Update:
Hi to our extended family, and friends.

Yesterday was a particularly long day. My beautifully defiant O.D.D boy, in his pain and frustration at being in hospital, not only refused food and drinks, but also medication.
And then his ADHD aggressions kicked in as he wouldn’t take his meds.
When his drip failed after Panadol IV for extremely high and long durations of fever there was very little options left but to sedate, put him on ventilation and help him breathe.

What his refusals hid was a partially collapsed lung. His breathing became more and more laboured and his O2 saturation dropped. And he couldn’t tolerate masks or prongs for oxygen….

With the help of my amazing family, some incredible friends and a team of staff who just ran with the changes (meaning I could stay here) - and the medial guidance of a whole team of senior doctors and paediatricians in consultation with QCH as well - we intubated my baby.

He is heavily sedated and on a breathing tube, a stack of IV’s for a variety of treatments.

And in the early hours of this morning his lung reinflated ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

This is working. But gosh I just wish he would have taken his medication.

Needless to say this experience will mean I channel some of my energy into really getting around Oppositional Defiance Disorder and its interaction with both autism and adhd. He is a very complex child underneath.

And I’ll give credit to the healthcare team. They listened.

Update:New antibiotics for the face swelling as well as pneumonia. Another night negotiating with him to please take the...
10/10/2025

Update:

New antibiotics for the face swelling as well as pneumonia. Another night negotiating with him to please take the medicine - to be fair he needs a fair amount, so I get it. And we have surpassed 36hrs of the cannula staying in place - a miracle in play right there.

Fingers crossed this is the right meds and we don’t need to get the ENT involved.

So far the treating team from emergency and paediatrics have been amazing with him at Redcliffe.

They have listened to our experiences and worked with him on everything.

Hopefully he sleeps peacefully tonight and the temp comes down.

Looking forward to seeing all our warehouse kids again, and our lovely in home clients, as soon as we can get out of here and back to our version of normal. But first: return my baby to health.

Hi HHH family and friends,Apologies if you have made contact over the last few days. I am currently in hospital with my ...
08/10/2025

Hi HHH family and friends,

Apologies if you have made contact over the last few days. I am currently in hospital with my own little human - there are some seriously nasty bugs out there right now.

I will reach out and respond to emails etc when I get back to the office. If I see anything urgent I will forward on to those who can sort.

For now my mum hat is on so my little skeleton can recover.

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