Update on Neiko ❤️
13 January 2026
Neiko has completed his 4 week induction to chemotherapy. It’s been a roller coaster of good days and hard days, but Neiko has been incredibly strong and brave. He’s still active, cheeky, eating, drinking, and running a muck whenever he can.
At diagnosis, 80% of his bone marrow cells were leukemia cells. The goal of induction chemo is to rapidly bring that number down.
His biopsy results now show 1.17% leukemia remaining. While remission is classed as 0.01% or lower. This result shows the treatment has worked very well, just not as ideal yet.
Because of this, Neiko remains in the high-risk group & the next steps will be an 8 week , high intensity consolidation chemotherapy. All of which is normal for his cancer treatment. This phase is intended to finish what induction started. After 2 months in hospital care , we were discharged & able to go home for Christmas & New years ❤️ We are now 3 weeks into consolidation chemotherapy where we travel to Starship Sunday - Tuesday & continue daily treatment at Waikato Tuesday afternoon - Saturday. A few ED trips in between but he’s being so strong & happy through it all ❤️
Thank you for the love, support, messages , koha and prayers. We truly believe it’s all carried us this far . This money has taken away so much pressure & has helped us with travel , kai, accomodation, medical costs & everything else in between. There are no words to express how grateful we are ❤️
