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Help Laine on her cancer journey.

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Please help us on Laine's Cancer journey.

Christchurch, Canterbury

Hi there and thank you for taking the time to read.

Back story, last February 2025 I married the girl that makes my heart skip beats. A month after our special day she received some bad blood test results, which leads us to this point. Unfortunately today after many MRIs CTs and xrays, we seen the urology specialist who informed us that Laine has kidney cancer.

Although it wasn't the news we wanted we both know that it could have been a lot worse, as it hasn't spread to any other organs.

The urologist is very optimistic that with surgery he will be able to remove the tumor and hopefully save the kidney. This should be in the next two months.

We are not financial and basically live week to week. Laine who normally works over 40 hours a week has had a significant amount of time off over the past six months as she has obviously been very unwell, this has left us in a bad spot financially.

Never in either of our lives did we expect to come cap in hand and ask for people to help us.

Laine is lucky enough to have heath insurance through her employment that she has been with for 15 years. This is obviously paying most of the medical bills but our weekly bills are falling behind and adding extra unneeded stress.

Also there is a recovery time that will push us over the financial edge.

If you can please help us we will be forever very grateful.

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We are married.

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Week to week living costs.

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Harsh reality   19 September 2025

Laine was in for another scan today ..

Molecular radiology scan..

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Robyn on 17 Sep 2025
Love you and miss you friend xx wishing you a speedy recovery. Thinking of you lots
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This campaign started on 29 Aug 2025 and ended on 29 Sep 2025.