Help Karen to fight aggressive Ovarian Cancer - Accessing treatment asap and ongoing costs involved.
Auckland
If you know Karen, you know she’s the kind of person who can make a room laugh with her unfiltered and riotous personality. She’s our radiant, funny, big-hearted friend — and now she’s facing something no one should have to deal with; Ovarian cancer.
After a whirlwind of tests, Karen has recently been diagnosed with aggressive Ovarian Cancer, which has metastasised through her peritoneum and beyond. It is so aggressive, it can spread within weeks. She has been told that it is up to a 2 month wait to see an oncologist and get treatment within the public system - time she doesn't have. Given the aggressive nature of the tumours she urgently needs to access the private system to start treatment, as only quick action will give Karen the chance of survival.
Every dollar raised will help to get her started in private health care, so she can fight this fiercely. It will also help with any ongoing expenses and financial burden faced in her journey.
If you can spare any funds, anything at all, it would mean the world. Let’s rally the laughter, kindness, and generosity that Karen has given all of us over the years, and help her fight this with the same sparkle and sass we all love her for.
Thank you for standing with her. Let’s get her back to making trouble, cracking jokes, and living life loud — right where she belongs.
Long time High School Friends Tanya and Paula
Accessing unfunded treatment asap and ongoing living costs involved
Goal added for treatment/medical costs 10 December 2025
Now that things are a bit clearer, we have added a goal which will help with treatment and medical costs going forward, and a small amount to help with living costs, while Karen can not work. Karen has been told that she can not transfer into the public system once she has started in private ( something she is fighting )She had no choice but to start in Private as the wait in public was too long even as an urgent case. Let's get behind her as much as we can - every dollar helps!
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