Caidens Dream Trip To Blueys World!
Taking Caiden on a dream trip to Blueys world
Sunnyvale, Auckland
Caiden is a 6 year old boy who was sadly diagnosed with a terminal brain stem tumour in November 2022. Since then, Caidens mum and dad have been actively trying to fulfill as much of Caidens bucket list wish list as they possibly can. Most children who are diagnosed with this aggressive brain cancer sadly only live between 9 to 12 months. Caiden is still here fighting 19 months on. For that we feel blessed in the worst situation.
CAIDEN LOVES BLUEY! Everytime he watches the program he begs for his parents to take him to Blueys house. Of course this has not been possible as Bluey is a cartoon.... until now!!!! Blueys world is set to open in Brisbane in November 2024! Taking Caiden here would be a dream come true to him. He loved his trip to Australia recently, and was gutted that Blueys world wasn't open yet. We promised to take him back if we can raise enough funds to help us get there.
Seeing him happy throughout such devastating times is what helps keep us going as parents. Tomorrow is never promised for our beautiful boy. We hold onto hope for a miracle cure every day... and while we wait, we will continue to create everlasting magical memories together ❤️
Thanks to everyone for your ongoing support and love throughout this nightmare we are all living. We appreciate you all so much ❤️
Previous pages for Caiden can be seen here: https://givealittle.co.nz/profile/individual/jasmine-dell/pages
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Airfares, accommodation, holiday expenses
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Caiden has had a rough few days 3 November 2024
Sadly Caidens condition is worsening as his brain stem tumour continues to grow and press on vital parts of his brain. He has had a couple of ambulance call outs this week, and we have increased his dose of dexamethasone to help with symptoms and improve his quality of life that he has left. Finally the drs listened to our days and days of begging for them to up Caidens dose of this medication after he started declining day by day at home. The medical professionals said he "didn't need an increased dose yet". BUT since we have increased his dose he is able to drink from a straw again, swallow tablets again, and he has had no break through head pain all day today. Most days we've been having to top up his daily morphine 2 to 3 times on top of his twice a day slow release morphine doses.... so this is such a blessing.
Because Caiden lost his ability to suck from a straw, swallow tablets and drink safely without aspirating, he had a nasal gastric tube inserted on Saturday. This allows us to give him fluids and medications via the tube if he starts struggling with these things. The last thing he needs is aspiration pneumonia again.
Caidens left side is now weaker. He hardly uses his left hand now as it remains closed. And he is very wobbly with his walking now. But he never lets this stop him from doing the things that he loves ❤️
We still hope to get him to Blueys World next week! 💙 Thank you all for making this dream of Caidens possible 🙏 ❤️
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