Dr Huhana Hickey has faced obstacles that would overwhelm many, yet retains a sunny outlook on life that inspires others. However, it took years of struggle before she found the inner strength to turn her life around. “I lived life, but I wasn’t living a life.”
 A high school drop out raised in an adoptive family where she was never expected to achieve, she experienced heartache and struggle before she found the inner strength to turn her life around.
Dr Hu, as she is known to her friends shares with Mike King and Dr Codyre how discovering that her youngest son had ADHD and dyslexia led to her own diagnosis. After he begged to come off medication, the pair underwent behaviour modification therapy together.
“If I was going to do it for my son, I needed to do it for me, and as a result we have never looked back.”
Huhana gained a BA, masters in law with distinction and a PhD. While studying she managed a progressive disability, multiple operations, brain injury and raised a disabled son.
“When Dr Hu came into the studio, we had to figure out how to squeeze her electric wheelchair into the tight space we work in, says series director Marcus Clayton. “It seemed to be a neat analogy of how Dr Hu has managed, against, the odds to make her place in the world when so much has been against her, and with enough story to fill an hour for the show. It is inspiring, funny, tragic stuff: we learned a lot that night.”