Help needed to fund Teina's treatment for rare cancer.

Kia ora e te whānau,

From the bottom of my heart I want to say thank you to you all for the love and support. My family and I have been absolutely blown away by people near and far supporting us as we navigate this thing. My heart is full and while the cancer might be trying to have its way in my body, pages like this prove it has no place in my heart and mind.

Yesterday was a great day - I started KEYTRUDA and we sent an eviction notice to this cancer, something that wouldn’t have been possible if wasn’t for all you amazing humans.

The other reason that yesterday was amazing? My bad ass Dr wrote to PHARMAC for a special exemption to the funding and yesterday they replied. By some miracle that they have approved the funding of 4 rounds. This is not something they normally do and was a complete surprise to us all.

The fight is still on. We don’t know what the future will hold, but what we do know is we have an absolute army of love behind us.

We are so humbled and grateful for the immense generosity from family, friends and people we haven’t even met.

Arohanui,

Teina, Jayden, Arty and Daniela xo