Kei aku rangatira Tena koutou katoa 20 march 2014 Kia Ora whanau whanui. How are we all? I hope were all enjoying each other's companies and loving the life each day brings us. Yet again you all continue to amaze me in every single way. This has exceeded way past the $20,000 dollar target so just proves money is just a reason to express the true support and love that is out there in this world no matter what's going on. I've been getting a lot of questions but one that stuns me the most is ""Chase whats on your bucket list?"". To be honest it's hard to answer that. 1. Because I've never thought of a ""bucket list in that way"" 2. I've found it confusing to add what I want to do in the future on my bucket list. I've even asked myself. ""Is that appropriate to put that on a bucket list"". Cause I've always thought a bucket list is to tick off the activities I have always wanted to do in my life. Then again thinking about it properly it is what I want to do in my life. So to you all I would love to share personally with you and of course my whanau whanui deserve to know what I am doing now in my life and also in the future. So here goes...firstly my bucket list is not what many would think because I have not given up the fight and I never have. I am doing a private natural therapy treatment and have been doing that for three weeks now. Because it is private this give a little program you have all contributed to little or big, is paying for that so I cannot even begin to start the treatment let alone continue it on. So you are helping me in the biggest way. I will always appreciate that and can only be so grateful for. One person will forever be in debt with a lot of people out there. This is a honest and true way of showing support when needed. While I have been on treatment many family friends have noticed a lot of improvement. In my weight gain, my skin colour and also my lung results have been improving. My lung specialist had two X-rays of my lungs one being from the day I was recieved the bad news in Rotorua Hospital 17/2/2014 and the other X-ray was up dated to now 20/3/2014 . He informed me that what was being said that day in Rotorua he would not say that now or never can he say that. My lung specialist is seeing a huge improvement although he mentioned the disease is still there he can see some patches have cleared. Which means the treatment is working. I go in for private treatment three times a week for the next six weeks and after that I will be re-assessed. I feel so humbled as I know there are so many others out there that need help to but have not been blessed with this windfall of money like I have been. So my bucket list has changed. It's not about doing things before I leave this world. I want to live and I am doing everything I can to do this. With your donations I can be on this programme for a year. I have a dream/goal and that would be be to encourage the young and old to believe in themselves with whatever goals or dreams you have set for yourself in life and to know that only you can achieve that just like me. Home will always be home and just like support, that will always be there to. So thank you so much for all you have done for me. I will leave you with a poem to read as this one is from a great Friend a true Brother that defines his life well and I have created a bond so true. He has always lived by this and considers it as me. This has helped me when I'm in my struggles and pulls me out of the shade and into the light. Meant to be. The Guy in the Glass Poem (Man in the Mirror) When you get what you want in your struggle for self, And the world makes you king for a day, Then go to the mirror and look at yourself, And see what that man has to say. For it isnft a manfs father, mother or wife, Whose judgement upon him must pass, The fellow whose verdict counts most in life, Is the man staring back from the glass. Hefs the fellow to please, never mind all the rest, For hefs with you clear to the end, And youfve passed your most dangerous, difficult test, If the man in the glass is your friend. You can fool the whole world down the pathway of years, And get pats on the back as you pass, But the final reward will be heartache and tears, If youfve cheated the man in the glass.
