EMMA'S FIGHT FOR LIFE - Urgent Help Needed to Fund Offshore Cancer Treatment

The idea of mortality is a strange thing to process at 30. Unimaginable for most, but something our sister Emma Holden had to confront in 2019.

For over 5 years, Emma has been privately battling an incurable blood cancer; Multiple Myeloma. Most wouldn’t know she has this, despite countless treatments & setbacks, she doesn’t complain & refuses to be defined by cancer. She just gets on & does it.

THE URGENCY

Emma is in Dunedin Hospital undergoing intensive chemotherapy to buy more time for the medical team to navigate the steps offshore treatment. Hence the urgency around your support.

EMMA'S JOURNEY

Emma sits in the 1% of myeloma patients being diagnosed so young at 30. This was particularly devastating as we also lost our Dad, Tom to cancer at age 46.

She has undergone continuous treatment travelling between various hospitals; Melbourne, Auckland, Christchurch & Dunedin

- Several rounds of chemotherapy & radiation

- Autologous Stem Cell Transplant

- Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant

- 2x Clinical Trials for new-age treatments

- Surgery’s

Plus everything that comes with myeloma; fractures, pneumonia, shingles, list goes on

Despite the above she sets an example we could learn from; life's precious, unpredictable & she lives like everyday is a gift, not a given right.

HOW TO HELP

If you know Emma & George, you’ll know that asking for help doesn’t come easily to them. This page represents a deeply private battle made public. This is their biggest fight yet. EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS