Cherie’s Hard Fight

Cherie has had a very tough life, overcoming so much from surviving being hit by a bus and losing her leg, domestic abuse and numerous other life challenges but her toughest fight of all begun December 2022 when she had a fall and become temporarily paralysed.

Once in Invercargill’s Emergency Department she was sent for numerous test and was told the heartbreaking news she had rare and mutated form of an incurable Stage 4 Brain and Lung cancer, she was then flown to Christchurch Hospital where they operated on her brain to remove as much as the tumour as possible and release the swelling.

Cherie now has continuous immunotherapy every three weeks and has had 2 rounds of radiation therapy with more to come, her doctors have said these treatments will not remove her cancer but hopefully make her time left with us easier.

During her most recent appointment she was told they found more tumours in her brain and that she possibly won’t be with us for the new year, so we want to make this time she has left with us the most enjoyable, stress free and try to complete with her all the things she’s always dreamt to do while she still can.