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  • Wingspan and remission still going gangbusters

      8 August 2025
    Posted by: Nicole Vipond
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    Hi everyone, going gangbusters in remission.. here's a pic from a visit this week on the way to Rotorua for treatment to Wingspan - and yes it was a bit chilly on Tuesday.. Did the 'meet and greet' with Arohaki a male Karearea. very cool and an amazing rehab place for karearea, ruru and others!! Hope winter is treating you all well.. :-)

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  • Back in remission !!

      8 July 2025
    Posted by: Nicole Vipond
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    Hi everyone I got some great news last week that I've gone back into the remission with the new cancer drug.. of course fingers and toes crossed... no change to treatment, keep going two weekly, then hopefully monthly from September... just awesome.. thanks for all your support.. here's a pic of me getting monthly antibodies and bone strengthening infusion on Monday just gone.... still on that conveyor belt .. :-)

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  • Winter in the tron

      19 June 2025
    Posted by: Nicole Vipond
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    Hi everyone.. hope you are all coping well as we approach the shortest day. yay!.. treatment is ongoing for me, and targetting the monthly treatments instead of two weekly (2 months away) assuming all goes well. As much as I enjoy visiting Rotorua for treatment, be great not to! Uni semester finished .. exploring next study options. Staying as fit as I can as well. here's a pic on the coldest morning in the 'tron yet this winter - walking around Hamilton lake with my mate Anna. Wrap up everyone.. cheers Nic

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  • Semester nearly done

      21 May 2025
    Posted by: Nicole Vipond
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    Morning everyone, it's my first week off chemo now that it's shifted to every two weeks which is fabulous! And as the uni semester one is coming to a close what better picture to post than the clock tower at Auckland. No papers planned for the semester tour as things look a bit messy and up and down with treatment but plan to pick this back up again and submiss the one next year with my favourite papers biological archaeology which weren't offered this year are on the schedule for next! A friend of mine Stu who has myeloma also who I met first when meeting the medical team from a Shanghai private hospital in February is unfortunately needing urgent treatment and he and his wife left yesterday to go to Shanghai for car-t cell therapy. Give it heaps Stu!

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  • It's antibody boost day! and international nurses day (of course!)

      12 May 2025
    Posted by: Nicole Vipond
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    Hey, monthly antibody boost today at Waikato. and bone strengthening.. . grateful for whoever donates these beauties that then get processed and made available.. a beaut day here in the 'tron.. oo. and it's international nurses day. thanks to all the fab nurses that are doing tough - here and around the world ..mwa mwa..

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  • Week 6 (I think)

      30 April 2025
    Posted by: Nicole Vipond
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    Hi everyone.. delighted to say it appears my blood results are improving - highly likely as a result of the new drug .. feeling much better along with the improvement in biochem..!

    Frustrated at not being able to get on my bike due to frozen shoulders.. have had a wee go on a recumbent.. at Cambridge Velodrome last Monday. Even got to see some nz olympians training. how cool was that!.. exploring volunteering at the velodrome... what a facility..never a dull moment here in the 'tron

    thanks again everyone for your support..

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  • Week 6 - Rotorua Treatment

      22 April 2025
    Posted by: Nicole Vipond
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    Hiya everyone thank you indeed for your support. awaiting blood results in next few weeks to understand how things are shaping up. feeling better being off standard chemo and on the 'good' stuff :-) Today was a good day.. headed after chemo to the Redwoods for a walk.. always beautiful!!

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  • Dressed for autumn in Rotorua

      9 April 2025
    Posted by: Nicole Vipond
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    Hi everyone.. week 4 of Daratumamab (yeah these drugs always seem to have difficult names to write/say/remember) .. popped down to the Rotorua lakefront in between showers after lunch with my cousin.. having spoken to the specialist last night will ideally see improvement in my blood results in another month or so.. in the meantime, I am tolerating the drug well which is great -as standard chemo brings a lot of challenging side effects which have meant we have jettisoned one, and reduced another from the regime! Those of you in Welly, with the difficult media, and the topsy turvy economic environment - may you be strong, but not so much the wind..

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  • Week 2 of Daratumamab

      27 March 2025
    Posted by: Nicole Vipond
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    Hey everyone.. thanks so much for your kindness and generosity..I am on week 2 of the Daratumamab in Rotorua.. no long wait after the injection this week.. headed to Tarawera - where my gran used to live.. water's still warm enough to swim (as evidenced by needing to wade in to the water three times while having lunch to retrieve things of mine that the wind blew in..).. it's a lot easier to manage side effects wise than the standard chemo. That stuff has been knocking my immunity down into its boots, so hoping it's on the rise this week and can get out and about with a bit more confidenceabout. Keep riding all you gals on bikes... I was out today for 30 minutes.. third short escapade in 18 months due to the shoulder issue.. have missed it so much..

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    • 27/03/2025 by Vera Champion

      Yay you figured out the tech and how to add updates :) great pic of Tarawera - and yay for a bike ride