Trinity's Journey of Bravery through Brain Cancer

‘The mind keeps thinking you’ve had enough, but the heart keeps telling you don’t give up, Just stand up to cancer’

This is just the beginning of a long, hard, tiring journey. Each new day is a blessing. We have Trinity with us she is a fighter.

The type of Medulloblastoma Trinity has is an aggressive mutated form so we need to fight back a lot more aggressively. Meaning high Chemotherapy and Radiation treatment doses and over a long period of time. She will start her Radiation treatments on the 9th of November followed by chemotherapy, all up she will have 18months to 2 years’ worth of treatment.

It’s been 3 weeks since Trinity was diagnosed with cancer. She has had an operation, uncountable doctor/specialist visits, tests and procedures, she has also been going to physiotherapy. And there is a lot more of this to come. We have taken trinity out for one car ride. She gets tired easily and can’t go far without feeling nauseous. All of this and its only been 3 weeks.

Trinity was a very active pre-teen. She loves playing Netball for her bream bay team. And enjoyed the majority of her summers taking part in surf lifesaving. She also has a passion for dance and the love of animals. She is a great role model for her younger siblings, always helping and full of energy.

We come from a small rural, sunny seaside town, Waipu. We are a low income blended family with 6 children between us. Trinity is the oldest child, it has been hard on us not seeing her siblings on a regular basis. Our weekly living costs were minimal. We have been staying in Starship and are currently staying in the Ronald McDonald house which has been great and we are very grateful.

Now with this dramatic change in our lives we need help with fanatically supporting Trinity. All the kind donations will go towards all trinity’s needs, treatments and anything that benefits her. Such as, she had a fertility test and has a 10% chance of having children when she comes out the other side and is old enough to make the decision about having children. So we have decided to freeze some of her eggs so she has that option.

Rent and petrol are another key factor. We would like to move closer to where her treatments will take place in Auckland and they will be multiple times a week. It would be a great weight off our shoulders if our family could all be together. And not have to stress too much with only one low income with unexpected payments needed for Trinity.

‘Do not confuse my bad days as a sign of weakness, those are actually the day’s I’m fighting my hardest’

This poem Trinity finds inspiring.

“Cancer Is Limited’

It cannot cripple love

It cannot shatter hope

It cannot diminish faith

It cannot takeaway peace

It cannot destroy confidence

It cannot shutout memories

It cannot silence courage

It cannot invade the soul

It cannot reduce eternal life

It cannot quench the spirit