Help Victor with the added financial stressors during his long & hard journey ahead.
Bay of Plenty
Hi everyone, our 21-year-old son Victor got up Monday morning the 15th of July ready for work and told his beautiful partner Dani that his left eye was blurry, they had a small discussion which involved Dani putting her foot down and taking him to the local GP. The GP noted some haemorrhaging on the retina and referred Vic to the eye clinic at Wellington hospital, the nurse at the clinic then called in the eye specialist who referred him onto a ward for blood tests. The blood results showed haemoglobin 47, RBC 1.4, WCC 2.5, Neutrophils 0.6, platelets 9, monocytes 0.00, lymph 1.7 and reticulocyte 5. Something was clearly amiss. Vic rang us to say he had been admitted on a ward and was about to receive the first of many blood transfusions.
We immediately began the 6-and-a-half-hour journey to the hospital, informed our 7 other children and by the next morning were listening to various provisional diagnosis from the blood cancer consultant on the ward. After a week and a half of transfusions, bone marrow biopsy and blood tests Vic has been given a diagnosis of a trifactor disease; myelodysplasia, aplastic anaemia and paroxysmal-nocturnal-haemoglobinuria. In short, his options are death or bone marrow transplant.
Victor has a long and horrific road in front of him, a battle for his life, every step of the way fraught with life threatening procedures; the chemo designed to annihilate his own marrow, the marrow transplant with all the potential infections that occur when you have absolutely no immune system whatsoever and the months of surviving the emotional, psychological, spiritual and physical onslaught.
Any donations will go toward the alleviation of financial stressors for Victor and support for the donor who has to step out of their own life to hopefully give their own life-giving bone marrow.
Many people who know and love our Vic have asked how they can help, so this give a little page is a way to demonstrate that care and will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Ka nui te aroha kia koutou.
Victor is our youngest of 8 children by George and Janessa Richmond.
The money will go straight into an account created specifically for Victor to use for living and added expenses over the course of his journey (18 months).
Thank You 4 March 2020
Kia Ora everybody, on behalf of Victor and our whanau we would like to thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for all the love and support you have given us throughout this journey. The bone marrow transplant is a success, reaching day 100 and Victor now is his brother Horis bone marrow 100% Victor has to continue with his treatment plan but everything is constantly improving. We are now closing down this page and again we are deeply greatful for the kindness shown toward Bictor and our whanau.
God Bless you all !
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