Help Karen fight Cancer

A loving mother of 2 Alan & Bianca and a doting Nanny to little Max. Karen is our beloved Mother, Nanny, Aunty, Sister & Friend, facing the fight of her life. Battling stage 4 Melanoma that has metastasised to the Brain and Lung.

Karen has spent the majority of her life giving to others having worked as a Personal Carer for over 10 years. She is known for the generous amounts of love and care that she gives to her residents, coworkers, friends and most importantly her family


On 28th July 2018, Karen's world was turned upside down, when she was admitted to the local hospital with an unknown illness, that night she was transferred to Melbourne to undergo further tests. July 29th and we received the news that Karen had 3 tumours on her brain and one on her chest. 2 days later and Karen had surgery to remove one of the tumours from her brain.
The following week Karen spent 2 days at the Peter McCallum Cancer Centre working with the doctors for a treatment plan.
She had 3 days of targeted Radiation which had a 80% chance the treatment would help reduce the tumour and cancer particles. After this 3 day treatment Karen was due to have a few weeks break before commencing up treatment on her chest.

Doctors have stated that Karen's case is rare as they have not been able to find where the primary cancer source is and with having no symptoms prior.

On 28th August Karen attended Melbourne for a routine MRI to assess progress of the radiation she had previously, on her way home she received a phone call from her doctors advising her to turn around and head back to the hospital as her scans revealed she had fluid around her heart and lungs, upon arrival at the hospital she was seen by a cardiologist and then transferred back to Melbourne the next day where she had surgery again to drain the fluid away from her heart.

Her 2nd surgery went well and the doctors drained 750ml of fluid from around her heat, where usually there is only 10-20ml of fluid. Karen spent the night sedated to get some much needed rest.

We are unsure of the fight ahead, but wanting to do what we can to help and support Karen and her family through this hard time. I have pledged to Karen that once we reach a target (yet to be confirmed) I will shave my head and donate my hair to kids with cancer, and all funds raised will go to Karen for her medical and living expenses while she is unable to work.
Please get behind us to help ease some of the financial pressure the family is facing.

Thanks for reading,
Amy