Grandkids
1 March 2026
Mum had all her grandchildren visiting her, Thank you for the kind donations. Going home this week.
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Aroha for our Nanny K, Aunty Kari (Karina)
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The Ripple effect a cancer diagnosis isn’t just a moment in time.
16 February 2026It isn’t a date on a calendar, a scan result, or a doctor’s app. It’s a rock dropped into your life & the ripples never stops.
It hits your body, invasive, undeniable. But it doesn’t stop there. It spreads into your relationships, your faith, your sense of safety, the plans you thought you had, & the nights you lie awake wondering what if….
It reaches people you love. Some carry fear quietly, some try to fix what cannot be fixed, and some vanish because its too heavy to hold.
It changes the way you see joy. Ordinary mornings feel sacred. Birthdays feel louder. Sun rise feels like a blessing
In remission The ripples don’t stop. Waiting rooms, bloodwork, follow-ups they are all subtle reminders that your story didn’t end when treatment did. You live in a constant tension between gratitude & grief, between relief and, between the desire to move forward and the shadow of what could come back.
But here’s the part people rarely see: cancer teaches you how deep you can feel & still keep going. It shows you who stays, who’s there & who rises. It makes ordinary moments feel extraordinary. It carves out gratitude from the hardest grief. It forces you to confront your fear, and sometimes, you discover resilience you never knew existed.
It rewrites the way you love, the way you trust, the way you breathe. the ripples, never fully fade. Sometimes they sob. Sometimes they sting. Sometimes they remind you how fragile life is.
& sometimes, they remind you how undeniably alive you still are!
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