Marlenes dreams before shes no longer with us doctors say now she cant even dance get a big cuddle sadly

This is my mum Marlene Davies, just under 9 years ago she was diagnosed with breast cancer and after a mastectomy, radiation , chemo she seemed to be on the mend and in remission.

Now suddenly we have found out that she has terminal bone cancer.

Mum has found out her insurance still leaves her with $50,000 to pay off her mortgage due to having no sick pay left and having used all her savings up mum is now burdened with the stress of her mortgage payments due , everyday bills and medication and hospital trips for her treatments is making mums diagnosis even more stressful with the reality of being terminal and the worry of not being able to pay her bills due to her illness.

Marlene has always been an outgoing social, lively person but now due to fact that over 75% of her bones are affected with cancer she suffers now with having to give up working ,the ability to walk without the aide of a walking stick, pain which requires regular pain medication daily and due to the fast deterioration she has started to have to use a walker and simple tasks like picking up her grandchildren she can no longer do .

Marlene has worked 41 years nursing across different parts of New Zealand dedicating her life to care and support, doing a variety of nursing jobs and also worked for st johns. She is a women who is giving, loving ,helpful and has always been there when someone was in need.

Sadly mum now relies on constant pain relief, she requires help and struggles with the frustration of not being independent and not being able to walk across a room without pain and with a reality of her body shutting down and most likely paralysis due to the areas on her spinal cord which have been affected.

Being given the diagnosis and how sudden the severity is matters of an income ,bills finishing her house off and doing her bucket list before she dies has become a concern.

Our mum is our everything and always will be, but if we could help her reach her goals and get her house on the market due to the fact that she can no longer manage the stairs and because she has been renovating her house she does not have funds to finish off simple last tasks due to having to imminently have to resign from nursing and lack of income . If we could fulfill her dream to finish off her renovations, to swim with dolphins, to have a family photo taken before her time comes it would be appreciated.

Mum deserves the world and more, with the amount of love and care she has given to others throughout her years of nursing and being the loving caring person she is if we could make her dreams a reality and take the burden of stress away from her while she is suffering like she is, it would mean the world to us and her to be able to provide her last moments on this earth fulled with happiness, less stress and fulfilling her dreams would mean everything and any help to reach her dreams would always be appreciated.

Mum has also registered with the Medical science team in Auckland so when she does pass she wants to be able to leave behind her body to further educate future doctors of NZ and in hope with the amount of cancer mum has spread throughout her body it can help to further the studies to find a cure for this horrible disease that many suffer and die from. This shows what type of a woman our mum is courageous, loving and giving to others.