✨ Do right for the Wrights ✨
Koha for the best
Southland
Kia ora e te whānau
Calling on your magic. Our fave wee fam needs your help.
On Tuesday lat week Shahan underwent some pretty major surgery. A lobe from her lower right lung has been removed to ensure her health and safety. Naturally, she’s a rockstar and is expected to make a full recovery.
Any amount we can gift to Shahan, Hayden, Lacy and Bobby helps take the pressure off and offers them time to be. It affords them help with the kids, time away from mahi and other expenses that will inevitably crop up.
In order to heal properly she’s gunnu need to take it super slow and easy. Any good, yummy, healing juju you can float her way will be super helpful too.
This is a beautiful woman who gives her all to community and now it’s our turn to give back. A way we can help them without overwhelming anyone with an influx of messages etc, is just to give a bit of koha, space and well wishes.
The universe has given this gal a wild lesson in asking for help and I’m sure she’ll holla if she needs more from you.
Ngā mihi nui
Charlie Anderson's involvement (page creator)
Beloved soul sister in my world.
Use of funds
Your contributions will be used to accomodate any help this wee whānau needs in assisting Shahans recovery. Accomodation cost, unfunded healthcare costs (supplements, vitamins, holistic healing sessions and specialist appointments), kai, time away from mahi, childcare etc. The more we can raise the better!
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Timeline of events 17 December 2025
September – November 2024 Recurrent chest infections, night sweats, feeling fluey and some wild weight loss. It felt like I had a graze on the back of my lung (right at the top of the lower lobe, right lung). Different doctors prescribed antibiotics back to back, and I’d get better for a few weeks, then go back with the same symptoms.
December 2024 Chest x-ray, pneumonia, no follow up.
January-April 2025 Feeling relatively good, got MARRIED, started studying, happy days.
May 2025 Fluey feeling came back, found a new doctor at my medical practice who had seen a lesion on my December x-ray that she wanted to investigate further. Another X-ray and then a follow up one in July.
August 2025 Chest CT, lung function tests, then urgent bronchoscopy for biopsies.
5th September ’25 Diagnosis, 26mm bronchial carcinoid tumour, lower lobe, right lung. Stage 1 lung cancer. Thankfully these tumours are slow growing and localised so a lobectomy (ie removing the lobe) should be sufficient treatment. Dunedin hospital’s cardiothoracic team would be looking after me (yahoo Dunedin!!!).
30th September ’25 Successful lobectomy with the most experienced cardiothoracic surgeon in the country, and an amazing team.
10th October '25 Lymph node results back, all clear, no chemo or radiation! :)
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Thank you wonderful humans! Much love back to you both 💝
🙏 grateful 🙏
Ngā mihi ki a korua. That chime you gave us is helping with my recovery, on the daily 😘💚
💜 Love you beautiful whānau 💜
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