Our friend Jen and her beautiful boys
Fundraising for a wonderful friend and mum
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Last year, we celebrated Jen getting the all clear from a shocking breast cancer diagnosis. This year, Jen discovered that she now has stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, with secondary growths in her hip, lymph nodes, and chest wall.
Jen is a single mother, with family over the other side of the world in the states. We, her village, need to support her through her treatment and to provide legacy care for her boys.
This is a hand no one should ever be dealt, and as Jen begins her life lengthening treatment, she is immediately met with hurdles - hospital stays, infections, and reactions to medications. There are so many unknowns, but one thing we can do is help create funds to provide her some financial relief, and to support Noah and Logan, her wonderful young boys to enjoy those moments and make beautiful memories with their goregeous mum.
Emma Matthews' involvement (page creator)
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Use of funds
Making lasting memories, making Jens home comfortable, cost of living travel costs and care for Jen, Logan, and Noah
Latest update
A hard week... 29 March 2026
It's been a tough week. Painful. Feeling pretty awful. At the start of the week my blood counts were too low for me to receive chemo. I got an injection of pegfilgrastim instead which gets your bone marrow to dump blood cells- and also causes a lot of intense bone pain. The morphine wasn't enough to stop that.
But my blood levels went up. Wednesday was surgery to insert a port a catheter that connects to the blood vessels in my neck so that I could receive chemo etc into that as the IVs have become too painful and keep failing. My friend Ruth picked me up for surgery at 7:30 am - prepped by one of my favorite nurses, surgery went through without a hitch, a couple hours in recovery and then I walked upstairs for chemotherapy. A few days of feeling pretty sick after that. Finally started eating again on Saturday. Though my energy has been so low and I've been weak and tired. My friend Eva coaxed me out to the beach to walk and sit in the sun with the boys and the dog- highlight of the weekend. So grateful to live in such a beautiful place. 💕
Kids have been absolutely amazing - helping out in the yard and around the house. We made sushi tonight and played card games and cuddled on the couch watching TV.
But it makes me teary eyed... This is not how I wanted to be a mum. I wanted to have energy and take them on adventures.... hopefully I'll get there again. For awhile. But for now, grateful for this and that I've ended the week feeling a bit better than before.
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Thank you so much!!! I really appreciate it 💕 much love from me and the boys
Thank you Virginia!
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