13th May 2026
13 May 2026Blake had his stitches removed on Monday.
We had the radiology oncologist appointment today.
We know that the tumour was a Grade 3 Glial tumour its coming from Astrocytes.
This is brain cancer there is no stage 1-4 just grades.
He has IDH mutations which is a good thing.
Blake has a good performance score.
There was a good resection of the tumour and brain.
The cancer is a microscopic disease.
He will start radiation treatment in the next 2 or so weeks daily for 5-6 weeks.
Followed up with chemo tablets afterwards.
Followups of clinical and imaging with imaging likely to be 3 monthly.
Remain on seizure meds.
Driving to be reassessed after 6 months post surgery with no seizures.
Please if you are in contact with our girls remember they do not know about the cancer, they just know dad had a lump removed from his brain and he needs time to recover and heal. We will talk to them when the time is right but they are still settling in to their temporary life currently.
Once our plans and timeframes are properly in place we can start making our bookings to come home, we are hoping to find a house over in NZ by the time we do return, it is tracking for end of July/early August at this stage.
Thank you so much for everyones thoughts, support, donations and kind words, we cannot explain how much it means to us in this scary and emotional time.