My wife Denisa and I sat down for a few minutes today and created our own Faix Family Care Group. It is our group of people who we will help if they get struck by Covid-19.
We strongly believe that together we are stronger than the pandemic and if we take care of each other people who need medical care will get it because we don’t overwhelm the hospitals or spread the virus while we’re sick.
We thought people may be interested and inspired when they read about our own journey of how we created our care group list. It was something we’ve done for the first time in our lives (we never lived through the pandemic before) and it was interesting to observe our own reasons who we will invite and who not and why.
Here is our list of people who made it to our list and the reasons why we’ve selected them to be part of our Care Group. This list is in order of how we compiled it.
1/ Martina and Frank – our only family in Perth. They are family, we love them and care for them. It is a no- brainer for us to select them as our first people. We teach our children that family comes first and we’re living it without any hesitation.
2/ Luke and Heidi – our friends who have family in Victoria and they have quite a number of children. In fact it was Heidi who inspired us to start the Care Groups. At the recent get together Heidi was very concerned if something happened to her or Luke who would look after their children. Without hesitation my wife replied with a reassuring voice to her – call us. Just call us and we will take care of them. I loved her response and this event helped us to understand that many people in WA have families far away and they are here alone.
3/ Dharmesh and Sally – Dharmesh is my close friend and we spend a lot of time together. I would do anything for him and his wife. I know a lot of people, but I have only a handful of friends. If you consider yourself as my friend and you did not make it on this list, know that I know that you have plenty of relatives or friends around you that will help you so you will not need me. However, you also know that whenever you call me and ask me for help, I will be there – list or not.
4/ Fiona and Joe – our wonderful neighbours. They are closest to our house and if they need help we can easily help them without any extra effort.
5/ Jeff and Trish – our wonderful neighbours from the other side. Same reasons as above.
6/ Ray – we don’t really know Ray apart from just seeing him at the bus stop in front of our house from time to time. Ray is a retired older gentleman. He is alway kind in a great spirit and lives not far from our house. Since we never saw him with anyone else we thought that he is alone and could use our help if needed.
7/ Rebecca – is a single mum and is Denisa’s friend. As a single parent it would be very hard for her to take care of her child if she gets struck with Covid. We’re prepared to look after her child if she gets sick.
8/ Sahar – same story as Rebecca. Even though Sahar does not live in our neighbourhood we know that she is looking after two small children just by herself and doing it tough. She also does not know many people so strain on her would be enormous. We feel compelled to help her.
9/ Kim – the most hated man in our neighbourhood. He has dobbed us to the council that our children are making noise. Later he reported that the fence between our properties is not compliant. After we changed the fence he has never paid. And the list goes on. So why did we choose him? Besides that he lives alone and that he is an enormous pain in the ass and has the unique ability to train us in our patience we think that our love can change him. His loneliness and sadness is his way to get some attention. He may have been hurt before – we don’t know. Maybe it is just to live our values and not letting him change us for who we are. Who knows.
So that’s our list.
We hope you’ve enjoyed reading this letter and one or two people came to your mind who may make it to your own Care Group.
We hope that we helped you to decide and inspire you for action. If we did then it was worth our time writing it.
Please don’t wait for the last minute – set up your own Care Group now, well before you will need it.
Thank you for reading.
With much love,
Paul & Denisa
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