Please Help Māhina Grace Ngāpō Heal from Breast Cancer

Kia Ora Everyone -

Asking for financial help feels like a difficult and vulnerable thing to do but here I am humbly asking for your help . Please x

I have been diagnosed with grade 3 stage 3 Inflammatory Triple Positive Breast Cancer. This type of cancer is considered very aggressive and fast growing especially because of my age.

After some major inflammatory progression I became inoperable last year so did 3 months of chemotherapy and was then able to have a bilateral mastectomy and lymph node removal. Unfortunately there was still residual cancer in my breast tissue and lymph nodes so I then went on to have a month of radiation treatment and am now half way through 42 weeks of another chemotherapy cycle.

I am combining both allopathic and traditional approaches and doing everything I can to be here to see my son grow up.

We moved out of our longterm rental in June last year and are full time housesitting so that we can afford to pay the medical bills but are still struggling to make ends meet.

We've moved 16 times in the last 13 months. Moving so much while managing treatment is really hard but we wanted to do everything we can before asking others for help.

I have learnt so much on this journey and have spent many hours researching and I know that the integrated treatment I am doing is really making a difference - unfortunately it is all very expensive here in NZ.

We would be so grateful for any support at all you may be able to offer. Every little bit makes a difference.