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  • He rau ringa e oti ai. Ngā mihi koutou! Mauri Ora!

      10 April 2022

    Kia ora koutou, our ability to continue to remain strong and provide Rohatai with critical remedies, supplements and access to health services is possible because of all our whānau and friends (both on this page and in our lives). From the bottom of our hearts we want to thank you all for the generous support. We are going to be closing the page. You will be able to keep updated via the usual means; facebook, messenger, email or a phone call/text - please do keep in touch as so will we. Do not remain strangers. Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari kē he toa takitini. Ngā mihi Rohatai & Pine.

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  • Rohatai's waka update (thank you to everyone for their unfailing support, karakia, aroha, messages and checking in..)

      29 March 2022
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    The Upwind Leg: We have completed another two IVCs. Recent flooding event and a Covid scare with one of the paddlers means we are still aways from the rounding in our Intravenous Vitamin C infusions.

    MK7 calcium +other vitamins along with Maitake mushroom extract are new additions to Rohatai's cocktail of supplements.

    The third round of Doxorubicin chemo is on Monday. Rohatai has a neck to tailbone CT scan booked for the 19th of April which will tell us if we are making progress.

    Physically Rohatai is able to walk slowly. Most days she visits her horses in the paddock for some cuddles. Dr Sarah from Hospice checked Rohatai's rigging and gave her a thumbs up with a watch on her right sail for wear.

    Re-supplying the waka: Yesterday we restocked our pantry with fat/wheat/grain/sugar free foods from Countdown. It took us about two hours to read all the lables and make our selections. Been buiding my reportoise of Minestone / Pumpkin / Parengo soups as Rohatai likes wet kai. Koha like Horiata's venison, Papa Johns tarakihi and Koroumatai's parengo add to our organic local foods

    Nights aboard the waka are pretty tough and long for Rohatai with her sleep, broken by bouts of breathlessness and anxiety. I mirimiri her upper and lower back, under her feet and apply vicks to help her breath. Frequent turning, sitting up, leaning forward are the nightly positions in search of a few winks. When the snoring starts I sneak off for a few zzzs myself. But its not long as another breathless encounter wakes her and we start all over again. We bought a vicks dehumidifier yesterday which worked a treat last night.

    Forecasting: Waiting on a oximeter from Australia to measure Rohatai's oxygen saturation and pulse and a small handheld fan to fill her damaged sails.

    In the coming weeks we will be joined by whanau who will be rolling in and out to paddle Rohatai's waka.

    Nga manaakitanga

    Pine the pilot

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  • Update from Rohatai and Pine

      16 March 2022

    Kia ora koutou

    There are no words that will ever truly describe our humbleness, gratitude and appreciation to everyone that has contributed to us. The Give A Little Page has been an incredible way for people to koha (thank you) and we also want to acknowledge all of the other ways people have shown their love to us. We are blown away, speechless and indebted. We are working to rest, recover and restore (repeat). Pine is back home from hohipera and definitely on orders to take it easy. Let’s share a little of what we have been doing. All of the paddlers,(whānau, friends, neighbours and this community here on the page – ngā mihi. Rohatai’s waka has now started negotiating the troughs and crests of her most difficult crossing.

    Arohanui Rohatai & Pine x

    Our Navigation Update:

    Mainstream funded hoe (paddle):

    • 50% chemo & 100% bone repair treatments started 21 Feb (repeated every three weeks). Rohatai came through her first round very well with minimal side effects

    Complimentary Unfunded hoe:

    • McLelland approach – purchased the book and online programme to immerse ourselves in alternative complimentary medicines. This approach together with the conventional path can kill the foliage and stem cells of the cancer

    • Function Again (Turanga-nui-a-Kiwa based) also administer the McLelland protocol alongside their pyramid of Functional medicine, beginning at the base with diet. The gut flora and health is the foundation of this kaupapa

    • Just before the third round of treatment, a urine sample will be taken and sent to a lab in the US to determine the vitamin deficiencies in Rohatai's puku

    • Other supplements have arrived from Auckland and Hawkes Bay to support the hybrid mito / plant based diet that we are on

    • Functional also provide Intravenous Vitamin C infusions which Rohatai has twelve booked and have completed five. Further bundles of IVC maybe applied later down the track.

    Lizzie's hoe:

    Rohatai's number one teina dropped her life in Taranaki to look after her sister here in Tokomaru Bay over five weeks ago. She has a whanau of boys who have just got on with life while their mother is away.

    Ngā mihi. R&P

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  • A few changes

      12 March 2022

    Kia ora koutou, thank you for following the page and your contributions. I have joined the fab team who set the page up and will be supporting them in the admin space. My name is Jo. Rohatai uses her facebook page in her usual 'life posts' way, we will also endeavour to provide you all with a fortnightly update on her progress and journey. Rohatai and Pine are so humbled and blown away by the contributions here. Thank you everyone - it is a massive contribution. Be well everyone.

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