Please help us with Alison’s fight for more time

In February 2020, our amazing mum, wife, nanny and friend Alison Dobbs was diagnosed with Stage-4 Metastatic Lung Cancer with Secondary Cancer in her Pelvis bone.

Alison bravely faced her first attempt at chemo alone at the start of Lockdown in April 2020. This treatment had to be stopped due to renal impairment (kidney damage). She was offered a second attempt earlier this year, but unfortunately, this wasn’t successful.

After being declined the opportunity of trial treatment, her final option is an unfunded immunotherapy treatment that comes at an eye-watering cost of $8,000 - $10,000 per month!! Without this treatment, Alison's life expectancy is 3-6 months.

We are meeting with mum's Oncologist in two weeks to decide which of the following unfunded Immunotherapy option is best suited to mum;

.....1. Pembrolizumab (brand name Keytruda)

.....2. Nivolumab (brand name Opdivo)

.....3. Atezolizumab (brand name Tecentriq).

We will make a page update to let donors know what the treatment is once it has been confirmed.

Alison has fought this battle with incredible positivity and strength, and she wants to keep on fighting. She has conceded that she needs a ‘little bloody help’ (which is not in her nature), and we, her whānau, cannot afford to do this alone, so we’re reaching out.

All of us who have turned up at Alison and Kelvin’s door would have experienced their manaakitanga. This carried over into their work for the community organisations and establishments they dedicated much of their lives to providing hospitality and service. Our hope is, if we spread the word to the countless people who have received their generosity, we can add to the offers of support we have had already to raise as much as we can to pay for treatment so we can all share a little more time with Alison.

By contributing, you are helping us give Alison a bloody good crack at more time, with quality of life, and we appreciate that from the bottom of our hearts.

Thank you.