Belinda and Russell Leary: Time for Others

Intro [Music] the extraordinary power of giving is a big thing not many people can give it but if you give it it makes you feel so good and warm inside i've always taught my children what you give in this world is what you get Belindas Story alexa was a pro triathlete it was a saturday morning training ride going down a hill at 70 to 80k an hour she clipped the wheel tumbled hit her head and got a traumatic brain injury to the point that we didn't know whether she was going to make it on the way from the sunny coast hospital down to the royal brisbane well the biggest experience is that the day you're heading down there where do you book your accommodation where do you eat that night how do you get to the hospital where is she so many questions that we had no idea we're in the dark i've never been through anything as stressful as this in my life thinking you're going to lose a child and now you know working out the new normal come on by christmas ben then i'm looking around the hospital you know i see a lot of patients with no people with them we felt then that if we could start up a donation or a raising money page off move for lex that we could help others Move for Lex the instagram page move for lex was started by my eldest daughter madison it was just originally just so the family could actually have an update [Music] hey lex jimmy barnes here wanna wish you a happy birthday and i'm joining everybody who's gonna move for lex and i'm gonna think about you when i walk tomorrow okay Gofundme people wanted to we're setting up gofundme pages for us and we were like no we don't want to take other people's money and russell's like you know we could actually do it for the robberies in hospital Moving for Lex i was always playing on my mum's phone when she was in the hospital when i just was never i never realized move for lex was a thing i feel proud because my parents have done a lot they've done all for it is awesome so yeah [Music] it was very unfamiliar the whole scenario to us nothing felt normal at all it was everything was fine so organise your accommodation now organize the food packs there's enough stress without having more stress to find where to go and where to stay and where to eat [Music] and the improvement in the last eight months is just she's coming along in leaps and bounds her memory is improving amazingly she just makes me proud every day just the person she's becoming are you william yes i never thought i'd have the gift of time to have much more time with my daughter and now you know i have all the time in the world with her which is just the best gift ever it's a little spread the extraordinary power of giving i think from what we've been through and what i've seen the way the surgeons and the neurosurgeons and what they give they give up so much of their life to save lives that's to me was that's extraordinary in its own so you've got to be able to give back to make it even give everyone else at least a happier life than they're having at the moment