Last chance at family memories

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Last chance at family memories - F&@k cancer

Palmerston North, Manawatu-Wanganui

Help Whitney and her wee family make memories while she can…

In Oct 2024 at the age of just 37, Whitney received the heartbreaking news we all dread - a cancer diagnosis.

In the last year she has fought every fight in front of her with huge strength and courage.

She’s been through numerous rounds of chemo, radiation, multiple surgeries with chemo just recently restarting.

After everything she’s been through in the last 17 months, she has received the awful news of the cancer continuing to spread and has been diagnosed as terminal.

Whitney has an 8yo and 13yo daughter she will be leaving behind, along with her husband Ben. We’re trying to make things as easy as possible financially for their wee family to make memories in the last of the unknown time she has.

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Family holidays, bills, planning for the kids future , enabling Whitney to stop working when needed

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Guest Donor on 12 Sep 2026
I’m so sorry Whitney and family, sending you love and courage but most importantly, hope. I have experienced similar with a terminal diagnosis with my mum and I cannot stress enough for your friends and extended family to put everything into researching medical research on alternative methods for your specific diagnosis. Our clinicians are not trained or equipped to provide advice on anything other than current trials or approved treatments. We proved palliative chemo wrong, saw 75% reduction in tumours on palliative chemo with alternative methods - it was only supposed to stabilise, as we were told. It gave us an additional 18 months more than the predicted outcome with our Mum, than palmy oncology anticipated. Everyone is different, yes, but hope where it “appears” to be lost, is so powerful. Believe in your heart that you will remain here in your physical self for as long as your family needs you. With love xx
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This campaign started on 21 Apr 2026 and ends on 21 Oct 2026.