For my son Kobie

on 25 Dec 2021

Lorraine asks

This is not so much a question as a suggestion. My heart breaks for you and your family.

My husband is receiving Keytruda for an unfunded condition. We had sold our house in Auckland and bought a little transportable and invested the larger part of the capital in regular dividend producing NZ companies because I had a premonition of life events not aligned with our wishes.

We cashed in a sizeable amount to fund Keytruda and are happy together in our little house.

This is the second time things have forced a financial rethink. The first being 2000 when we sold our business and home and moved into a large caravan.

My experience is you have nothing if you haven’t got your health and the love of your family. You will get well Roy and you can live a diffent life, not necessarily lesser.

Love to you and your family,

Lorraine.

We have donated albeit a lesser amount than we would have wished.

Roy

It is something I have thought long and hard about and may still do in the furture. I am very much a planner and have set goals to hopefully raise money to have first 10 month of treatment. I guess it is a fine balancing act which when I start treatment will give me a better guide on which way to continue. I thank you for your kind words and thoughts because as you are well aware it is not easy to stay focus and realizeleaving you family finaical stable or having you can sometimes get a little bit mixed up as you are right being here for as long as possibleb is the most important thing.