Please help support a brave mother fighting cancer
Supporting a brave mother, with her fight against cancer and supporting her whanau
Otago, Central Otago District
Recently Kym and her family have received some devastating news that she's been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
Kym Rollo is a 46 year old single mother of two (youngest is 10) and a Gma to two young boys (3 and 2 weeks old) After battling with constant stomach pain for many months and being told by several doctors that she only had constipation and to change her diet she was eventually given an MRI which showed a tumour on her appendix. during the operation to remove it they also found another one on her small intestine Both tumours were removed along with her appendix and part of her small intestine, but unfortunately when the results came back as cancer it shattered Kym and her loved ones. Her operation wound has developed a terrible infection (which has left a big hole in her stomach) due to lack of immunity as Kym received a kidney transplant in 2009 her body struggles to fight infections due to her anti- rejection drugs she's on for that kidney, however those drugs are now feeding her cancer cells and she might not be able to continue taking them which could possibly lead to kidney failure again.
This page has been created for those who would like to help out but aren't sure how - all donations will go towards not only kyms medical journey, travel to and from multiple hospitals as we do not have the facilities in our small region and treatment but also those of her family that will be supporting her through this.
Kendra Macgillivray's involvement (page creator)
Kyms daughter is my sons godmother and I’m a close whanau friend, creating this page is a small contribution to help towards taking the stress and pressure off Kym and her family at this time.
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The money donated will be spent to help with Kyms medical treatment costs and Whānau help including travel costs. (We are unsure at this stage what medical expenses will be covered by ACC. Will update when known)
Latest update
💚 UPDATE ON MUM 💚 2 March 2024
Last week Kym travelled up to Christchurch with family for her first PET scan to assess the severity of mums cancer. All went well and she left in high hopes that we had caught it early.
On Tuesday of this week Kym and the family headed off to Dunedin for a few appointments but most importantly to get her results. All high hopes of catching it early have been cut short as Kym is in stage 4 of “Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma” which is a very aggressive type that can spread in a matter of weeks and has already spread all throughout her large intestines, stomach and up towards her liver.
We were advised that treatments are needed to start ASAP but unfortunately due to her infection that is still ongoing in her surgery wound she is unable to start treatment for at least a couple more weeks or until her wound has fully healed. This has left Kym devastated as she feels she has already lost enough time.
Kyms first chemotherapy treatment will be in Dunedin which will be closely monitored to make sure mums body reacts in a positive way from the chemo due to her low immune system.
We are all continuing to keep our heads high and are very appreciative of those who continue to show love and support throughout this difficult time, we really do appreciate it.
If you can please donate or share this give a little page as every bit of help counts 💚
I will continue to update through out - much love xx
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