To Support Kirstee and her family as she undergoes treatment for stage 3 breast cancer
To support Kirstee and her family as she undergoes treatment for stage 3 breast cancer
Canterbury
Kirstee is a 39 year old mum of two (4 & 11) who found out she has stage 3 breast cancer before xmas, she started chemo in the new year and has been doing cycles every 3 weeks.
The effects are horrendous and it is becoming increasingly more difficult to maintain any sort of normal life.
Soon she will be going on to weekly chemo for 3 months followed by a mastectomy around her 40th birthday and radiation. she needs time to rest and not worry about how everything will be taken care of.
She would never do this for herself but would do anything for other people so I would dearly love to see her get the help she needs to get through this.
All donations will go towards helping Kirstee get what she needs to fight this, including being able to access any holistic and complementary treatments.
These are her own words from her personal FB page
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Six months ago, on my 39th birthday, I jotted down what turned out to be somewhat of a bucket list of things I wanted to achieve before I turned 40.
It started with a half marathon, which I knocked off the list in September, and so began the year of, well, me.
Scattered with other positive, pant scaring, life affirming goals, I was fully at the helm and loving every adventure.
The list didn't include facing my mortality.
Turns out - as much as we take charge of life, life has the blind ability to take charge right back.
Two weeks before Christmas I was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer.
Thirty nine, planning tropical celebratory getaways, life after babies, taking back my me, cue one very determined bump in my road, ready to take me out of life (only for a bit, we've had firm words, I assure you)
I'm a quarter of the way through a six month cycle of fairly rigorous chemo, which will be followed by surgery and radiotherapy.
Then I'll take my life back.
Thank you for all the overwhelming love and support I've received so far. I have incredible people in my life.
Go out. Find your tribe. Love them hard.
Leona Jones' involvement (page creator)
I have known Kirstee for several years after meeting through an IVF group
Latest update
Update 10 March 2016
Kirstee is finding the chemotherapy fairly debilitating, but is trooping on and almost half way through this phase of her treatment.
Soon she starts chemo weekly, in which she is hoping to try ozone therapy which will make the chemo drugs tenfold more effective.
After that, she needs intravenous Vitamin C infusions which hold the scary price tag of a weekly cost between $200-$400.
Neither the ozone therapy nor Vitamin C infusions are funded, so please know all kindly donated money is going directly into much needed treatments Kirstee needs to beat this.
After her chemo treatments, she will have her mastectomy surgery, then daily radiation.
Next year there is more surgery scheduled, with the process (should cancer not throw up any bumps in the road, as it often does) hoping to be complete by the end of 2017.
She sends her love and gratitude to each and every one of you.
As a person, she can't achieve this, as a village, we can...
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