Round 2 - Help Cora get off the Cancer rollercoaster...

Despite the challenges ahead, we know through past experience, Cora’s positivity and optimism will continue to shine. But she needs your help.

Cora and her husband Euan's life fell apart in 2014, when Cora (36 years young) was told she had Ovarian Cancer. At this point in their life, all Cora and Euan wanted was a 2nd child, a sibling for their (at the time) 11 month old daughter Niamh, they wanted to complete their family, but now their whole world had fallen apart.

Cora was diagnosed with stage 3C low grade ovarian cancer, within 3 weeks Cora had undergone her 1st lot of surgery, 8 1/2 hours. Then it was chemo!

The next 20 weeks, Cora faced chemo head on, it was a tough challenge for all to watch and Cora to live, she had a baby, she also worked, but she did it. The CT scan post chemo showed "No evidence of disease"! She did it! She won!

The following 16 months, Cora lived life as normal as she could, albeit with 4 weekly blood tests. The waiting for results every 4 weeks is stressful, waiting and praying for good news. Unfortunately, after 16 months the good news ended, her markers started increasing. Cora tried all hormone therapy available, 1 failed and the others gave her 6-12 months grace.

In 2018 Cora had her 2nd laparotomy surgery, this time - unsuccessful. The Surgeon only managed to take a large tumour from her liver, her abdomen now "scattered like pepper" with cancer, so they closed up. Heartbroken, the roller coaster continued.

We believe that conventional medicine and integrative medicine should go hand in hand, they complement each other, it has been shown in many articles researched. With no treatment left in the public sector and NZ being very limited, Cora needs to spread her wings for help.

Cora has always kept her cancer journey close, but has reluctantly allowed me to share her story so that we can show her the love and step up at a time when she needs us the most.

At this point, we aren't sure how this looks, Australia for more surgery or new drugs that have proven to have some success. Even a possibility of a cancer hospital in Germany, Cora is researching currently. These all come with large price tags. It's a fine line between spending all your savings and mortgaging your house to keep breathing another day and leaving your family in debt.

Cora has worked through this entire journey & continues to work through Covid-19, being that her profession is an essential service, she has had to for payment of monthly medicine not covered under medical insurance. Her monthly bills are now climbing as they add in extra medications, both complimentary and alternative, to hopefully put a stop to anymore growth.

Cora suffered a large setback last week when the MRI showed growth & many tumours butting up against vital organs spine, ureters, bladder & bowel.

Low grade ovarian cancer is rare. Rare cancers like low grade ovarian account for 45% of cancer deaths, but receive just 13.5% of research funding. The survival rate for stage 3 ovarian cancer is 22%, for breast cancer it’s 70%. There is an 85% chance of recurrence.