HELP PAGES
Loss of Life
See your Doctor
As soon as you can, make an appointment with your Dr or GP for a general check up of your physical health. In your appointment...
get a general check up and for smoke inhalation, burns and nay other injuries that may have ben sustained.
to replace prescribed medications. These are also available from your My Health record.
- Get some help if you or your family are not coping or if you need support for children.
You may be experiencing shock and even the most simple decision can be difficult to make. If you feel you need help, don’t wait, make an appointment with your doctor.
Help Online- Dr Rob Gordon
Dr Rob Gordon is a clinical psychologist specialising in management of people's emotional response to disasters and has been a psychological consultant to the Victorian State Emergency Management Plan since 1986.
Dr Rob says:
"Remember you have experienced a trauma. Your adrenalin has been activated and may still be high – making decisions is more difficult."
Click here to watch Dr Gordon's helpful videos including UNDERSTANDING the stresses of recovery. Although you are dealing with a fire-affected home, this resource is full of practical advice to follow after a traumatic event. Remember too, there may be extensive water damage when fire fighters put out the fire. This is the USA Federal Emergency Agency and American Red Cross’s book, "Repairing Your Flooded Home".
For more information go to the Help Pages.
“It was crazy. Not knowing what was ahead of us I experienced something like a sense of elation. We were free. Free of all the tasks we’d set ourselves. We were together—really together. How more together would we be all sleeping in the one room at Mum’s? Yet we had nothing.
For one brief moment in time we were able to enjoy and appreciate what had happened, before stark reality and delayed shock set in.
In that brief moment, we had absolutely no idea how this was going to affect us. How our lives would change—our core values, our philosophies—and transform the way we were completely.
I didn’t have an inkling of what lay ahead—the joy, the sorrow.”
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