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Back in September, Paul Haines, an Australian sf/f/h writer was diagnosed with bowel cancer. He had surgery and then chemo for six months and it was gone...or seemed to be. He recently was told that there are spots on his liver. The thing is, although most of his care is covered, he's written this--
He [his oncologist] still wants to wait a couple of months (ideally he wants even more than that) to see how the cancer in my liver is behaving. He also understands our fear, our need, to not be sitting around waiting to do nothing. So in those couple of months we will try the other two forms of chemotherapy for cancers like I have and to combine that with a monoclonal antibody called Avastin. Chemo fights the tumour, the antibody fights the blood vessels feeding the tumour. Unfortunately, Avastin is not part of Medicare or the private health system's funding at this stage, so we're having to come up with $20,000 to do it. Our parents have said they will help us here, which is a great relief.
You can read his blog here:
Paul Haines lj
And if you have a few extra bucks to throw in, you can donate here:
update Sunday the 27th from Cat Sparx:
"thank you to all those kind people who have made donations to help the Haines family. You guys rock. We've passed the $6,000 mark which means we're nearly a third of the way there. If you haven't donated yet but would like to sling a few bucks in the pot, click http://girliejones.livejournal.com/ and do the Paypal thing.
Some people have been extraordinarily generous, but every little bit helps. I am deeply humbled by the love in this community. That cancer of Paul's doesn't stand a chance."
He [his oncologist] still wants to wait a couple of months (ideally he wants even more than that) to see how the cancer in my liver is behaving. He also understands our fear, our need, to not be sitting around waiting to do nothing. So in those couple of months we will try the other two forms of chemotherapy for cancers like I have and to combine that with a monoclonal antibody called Avastin. Chemo fights the tumour, the antibody fights the blood vessels feeding the tumour. Unfortunately, Avastin is not part of Medicare or the private health system's funding at this stage, so we're having to come up with $20,000 to do it. Our parents have said they will help us here, which is a great relief.
You can read his blog here:
Paul Haines lj
And if you have a few extra bucks to throw in, you can donate here:
update Sunday the 27th from Cat Sparx:
"thank you to all those kind people who have made donations to help the Haines family. You guys rock. We've passed the $6,000 mark which means we're nearly a third of the way there. If you haven't donated yet but would like to sling a few bucks in the pot, click http://girliejones.livejournal.com/ and do the Paypal thing.
Some people have been extraordinarily generous, but every little bit helps. I am deeply humbled by the love in this community. That cancer of Paul's doesn't stand a chance."
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