Help Glen Honeybone fight Multiple Myeloma
Please help this absolute legend of a bloke, husband & dad of 2 amazing girls fund a much needed cancer drug & all related expenses.
Wigram, Christchurch
Glen Honeybone is one of the most wonderful people you will ever meet. If you know Glen, you know he is humble, kind, and an all-around fantastic guy.
Late last year, Glen received the most difficult news of his life: he was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, a relatively rare blood cancer.
Things moved quickly from there, and Glen began the treatment he urgently needed. From chemotherapy to a blood transplant, it has never been an easy journey.
Recently, we learned that a new treatment is urgently needed: a drug called Daratumumab. Unfortunately, this drug is not publicly funded and comes at a significant cost of approximately NZD $10,000 per month.
This is not a cost that anyone can absorb on their own. We kindly ask for your help in raising funds for Glen and his family so he can receive this much-needed treatment.
Glen has the best support team beside him — Sarah, Isla, and Sienna are with him every step of the way. Your generous support will mean the world to the entire family and will help Glen in more ways than we can imagine.
Glen O'Brien's involvement (page creator)
Have been best mates with Glen for over 20 years.
Use of funds
Funding for a drug named Daratumumab which costs around NZD $120,000. Daratumumab will significantly help Glen as it activates the immune system to kill the abnormal white blood cells.
Latest update
The Next Step 4 February 2025
This is what $10,000 in a vial looks like. Today is my first round of treatment with Daratumumab, I'm a little apprehensive but also looking forward to getting stuck in to this next phase.
Having the opportunity to go ahead with Dara gives me a much better chance of holding off my Myeloma and, with any luck, a period of remission.
Today's visit is about 5 hours – the jab only takes 5mins but I need to hang around to make sure I don't have a reaction (unlikely as Dara is generally very well-tolerated). I'll be back once a week for short visits for injections over the next 8 weeks, from there it's fortnightly then down to once a month.
I owe a huge thank you to you all for your support, and I can't express enough how much that means to me, Sarah and our girls.
Ngā mihi maioha 🧡
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