Fleur Templeton
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Science, media, writing, communications, environment, health, scicomm. Have #CLL and stage 4 metastatic cancer; Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa/New Zealand
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It is with deep sadness and regret that I inform you of the death of our brilliant Fleur, who passed peacefully in the night on 9 May 2024, following 13 months battling cancer.
I will read out any well wishes to the rest of the family ❤️
Ngā Mihi,
Harry (Fleur’s son)
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Feeling angry and sad as son’s lovely flatmate was assaulted by two absolute thugs last night while quietly heading home from a Sat night dinner in
#Wellington
- off to ED, hospital and now has tested positive for
#COVID19
😞
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Such a dreamy day
@ZEALANDIA
yesterday, managed 12,000 steps in the end 😅 less than a week after 8th chemo treatment
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We went for a visit to the SPCA just to have a look and think about getting another 🐱 some time....and well, look who came home with us 😬 😻
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Been a bit quiet on here after a cascade of bad health news over the past weeks. It’s not good, and may share more as I try to process it all. Happening quickly and head is spinning 😬. For now, please share your best
#nature
or furry friend pics for calm🧘♀️🙏
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Health update: I had a lovely break from
#cancertreatment
over Christmas/summer swimming and eating well, spending time with family and friends, so lucky 🥰but unfortunately the latest scan shows the cancer is back and growing
#oesophagealcancer
#metastaticcancer
#stage4
1/n
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The constant written use of the phrase
#SocialDistancing
for
#COVID
ー19 is niggling me. Think
#PhysicalDistancing
is a better phrase. Just because we need to stay two metres apart does not mean we are socially distant. What do you think?
#COVID19nz
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It’s been a hard weekend watching our dear old Gilbert 🐱 deteriorating. Just got the worst news from the vet - he has a mass in his tummy. He’s been such a big part of our family. Feeling 😞
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It’s my birthday today and I am having the best day - sleeping in, no alarm 😀 listening to the rain on the roof, reading 📚 writing ✍️ drinking coffee, and eating hot chips 😌
#lucky
#favourite
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Today my parents Hannah and Ian celebrated 65 years of marriage. Here they are at their wedding while they were living and working in London, far away from their families ❤️🎉
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Quite proud of myself, four months today without
#alcohol
👏💪 I’m not really missing it and should have done it earlier!
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Gorgeous sunset over the sea and the South Island on the first day of 2022 🌅
#Aotearoa
#NewZealand
#NewYearsDay
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My grandfather was a Jewish doctors in Berlin in the 1920s. When no longer allowed to practise medicine freely (and after reading ‘Mein Kampf’ by Hitler) he fled with his family as far away as they could .... and made it to New Zealand
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Good to be flying on
@FlyAirNZ
again, above the wind gusts looking back down on
@Wellington_NZ
#WellingtonNZ
yesterday
#MasksOn
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52 years ago you couldn’t stand up on these
#Wellington
hills due to strong winds
#WahineStorm
Hard to believe such a tragedy could happen in our harbour. And now we’re in a different kind of storm
#COVID19nz
#lockdownnz
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Health
#Cancer
update - Chemotherapy cycle
#7
today ✅ 💪🤞and now for the fizzing fingers
#neuropathy
and 😴
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Every morning we have a little chat 🐈⬛ on my walk to work down the steps from The Terrace. Always makes me smile but especially today! Becoming a
#P
ōneke
#Icon
#notMittens
#CatsOfTwitter
#StreetArt
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Enjoyed a long walk around Tūī Glen
@ZEALANDIA
yesterday, heard lots of
#birds
and saw Orbell the
#takah
ē 🤩
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Feeling overwhelmed by everything that’s going on, so went for a long walk around Te Whanganui-a-Tara yesterday - some favourite sights and scents
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An exciting thing happened today, I think we had a family of
#titiponamu
#rifleman
feeding in our back garden! They were tiny and flitting round so fast I couldn’t really capture them. Could it be? We live near
@ZEALANDIA
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Feels like blow after blow, but I have amazing supportive whānau, friends, work colleagues, medical team and know I'm lucky to be in a country and a position to get treatment, but....
#cancersucks
There's way more but that's it for now. Will aim to update more soon END 7/n
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Getting out into
#nature
while I can - have no pins and needles just now - even hugged a few trees
#oxygen
#trees
#winter
#green
💚🌿
#Wellington
#TeWhanganuiaTara
#Aotearoa
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Weird how some people can go straight back to sleep 😴 💤 after an
#earthquake
while others of us are 😳 - mostly tweeters🦉
#eqnz
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Mulling over a major personal
#health
issue on this very rainy wintery long weekend
#KingsBirthdayWeekend
here in
#Aotearoa
#NewZealand
still struggling to get my head round it but here's an update thread
#Cancer
1/n
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So now it’s back to smoothies, soups and a new line of
#chemotherapy
treatment. Here's hoping it works. 🙏💪Thanks to my amazing family and friends for incredible support and love through this time.
#stage4cancer
2/2
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Mōrena! A pot of gold in the middle of Newtown or the South Coast of
#Wellington
#TeWhanganuiaTara
#rainbow
🌈 🌧
#WeatherUpdate
@MetService
@WeatherWatchNZ
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That’s Dad, Ian Templeton in hat on right, waiting in the rain for some good quotes from the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip while covering the 1962 New Zealand Royal Tour for the Auckland Star. Snapped by his great friend, photographer, 📷 Morrie Hill
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This tree in
#Kelburn
#Wellington
was full of cheeky
#k
ākā and
#Tui
today! Magnificent thanks to
@ZEALANDIA
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You funny cat, rescued from a sack by the
@RNZSPCA
you taught us a lot, sometimes thought you were a 🐶, learnt quickly that we only liked gifts of rats and mice, not birds or skinks🦎🦅 You’ve left such a big hole. RIP Gilbert 🐱 Feb 2004 - Sep 2020. A few pics of happy memories
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On this strange day heading into
#lockdownnz
my Dad Ian and Uncle Hugh turn 91. Happy Bday! 🥳Amazing❤️. Dad observed and reported on many major world and NZ events for 60+ years, but said to me today
#Covid_19
‘is the biggest event within my lifetime’
#COVID19nz
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Update: 4th chemo treatment cycle yesterday so wearing gloves and masks today due to fizzing fingers and extremities and lying low 🫖🍲 Unfortunately my head nurse for the week has brought home a lurgy, man-flu 🤞🙏so I am the nurse now 🙄😷
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Purple grey clouds tonight in
#Wellington
but at least a peak of red in there
@WeatherWatchNZ
@MetService
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He came back home! At 5.20 am this morning, he shot in through the cat door at amazing speed and leapt on the bed, purring extremely loudly - he's in strict day/night
#curfew
#lockdown
now
My heart is aching tonight as our little nervy Houdini 🐱 hasn’t come home. He’s prone to escaping but has been missing for 3 nights now, and it’s freezing and very rainy ☔️ outside, perhaps stuck or trapped somewhere 😢
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got some good 😊 news last week as CT scan showed the tumours hadn’t advanced further and some have reduced, shrinking so we’ll keep going with chemotherapy for a bit, while it’s working and not tooooo unbearable 😅
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Health
#Cancer
update - chemotherapy cycle today, tingling and other side effects quite full on especially as it’s so cold out despite blue sky in pic, and I have the good news in the next tweet post ,…whatever….
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Congrats to Dad again on his 60 +++ years of journalism, acknowledged by tomscott cartoon in today’s
@DomPost
and catchup last night with friends and workmates at press gallery Xmas party
@HDPA
@winstonpeters
@barrysoper
@rumpole3
@TrevorMallard
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Sunny and windy in
#Wellington
today - we were nearly blown away but these two
#kerer
ū were holding their own and maintaining
#PhysicalDistancing
#OneGoodThing
#dailywalk
#Day19
#lockdownnz
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Now the
#rain
has started again and after that
#earthquake
there’s nothing for it but to get
#baking
tonight
#eqnz
#cyclonegabrielle
#southerly
#Wellington
#wind
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Red gum is flowering! Bees loving it. My grandmother planted it as well as the huge Miro alongside it.... maybe 50 or 60 years ago!
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Dad’s incredible tomato crop this year 🍅 Soooo tasty 😋👏❤️
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One day off, two days on. That’s
#spring
in
#WellingtonNZ
Some people call it
#NZHellhole
but on days like today you can’t beat it! 😊💚🌟
#WellingtonLive
#WellingtonOnAGoodDay
#EarWorm
#springisintheair
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Think we’ve hit
#peak
#pohutukawa
in
#Wellington
. Look at this fine specimen, sometimes it’s like this in
#February
@MetService
#warmforDecember
#raincoming
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Kia ora Wellington on first day at Level 1
#CovidFreeNZ
Another stunning winter’s day
#whywellington
#lucky
@WeatherWatchNZ
@MetService
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And bit anxious as await scan results, eating now and stocking up just in case
#chemotherapy
treatment can begin again. 🤞🤞This is that yummy toasted muesli which I haven’t made or eaten for a while.
#baking
#books
and walks in
#nature
help with
#scanxiety
🧘♂️END
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So excited to get this beautiful lampshade delivered and made by the very talented
@TheSewphist
today. Thank you - we love it! 😊
#k
ākāriki
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Very excited to see and hear this rare
#korimako
- or
#NewZealand
#Bellbird
@ZEALANDIA
today. Hard to get a pic but here’s a short video
#kiakaha
#Aotearoa
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@alwaysheapstodo
Yes, but it’s a double blow as surgery now can’t happen till he’s recovered from Covid. Random violence like this is not ok at any time, but especially cruel during a pandemic.
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A full-on procrastibaking and cooking day! For lots of reasons - firstly, I can and am eating a much wider range of foods again (thanks to radiotherapy treatment) not just bland soups and smoothies. 🎉Here is Lamb Haleem with lentils, a Mauritian dish 1/n
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For anyone feeling worried about everything just now
#Omicron
#red
#trafficlight
#COVID19nz
here’s some pics of exuberant George trying to keep us calm and happy 🐶
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Timeline cleanse: Houdini a cat of many unusual yoga poses, says it’s time to stretch and relax.
#CatsOfTwitter
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Two done ✅
#vaccinatenz
so very efficient, organised and welcoming, kia ora
#pipiteamarae
#ng
ātiponeke thank you
#Aotearoa
Tired now, 💤 pō mārie, good night
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No Vacancy sign is up at our wētā hotel today! They like huddling together like this but the hotel was empty before Christmas
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Got
#fomo
on writers’ week and events like The Beths and The National tonight as part of the International Arts Fest but still able to do a fantastic walk on
#Wellington
waterfront, saw sting ray, buskers, Taniwha Time Machine and 🐬
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Such strong
#wind
gusts in
#Wellington
tonight - Just blew out and smashed our bathroom window into a thousand pieces 😬 😢 going to be a drafty night.
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I love you
#Wellington
but today you are pushing the limits! Too windy for a proper pic
#horizontalrain
#likeahurricane
#nzhellhole
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Amazing lunchtime experience seeing so many dolphins in Evans Bay, Wellington NZ
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In some personal news, earlier this year I finished my
#knowledgeexchange
role
@healthierNZ
#nzscichallenge
after 5 1/2 years, and 7
@otago
Hard to leave, but feel lucky to have been part of this whānau, doing extraordinary
#research
and teamwork. Thank you, I learnt so much!
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Back in at Bowen Icon centre for PICC line clean and dressing and more bloods taken. Slowly improving, not yellow🤞Houdini 😼 now featuring on the pet wall🥰❤️🌸
#cancerupdate
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There’s very little traffic noise tonight, just the odd empty bus, and it’s comforting to hear the beautiful
#ruru
(morepork) calling to each other from the trees across the road but somehow sounding a little mournful tonight.
#lockdownnz
#Covid_19nz
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Mōrena! Great to have our lovely daughter back down here for a break from work welcomed by a chilly but spectacular midwinter sunset over
#K
āpiti
#proudparents
😍❤️
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Another calming thing to watch if you are feeling stressed and anxious about
#Covid_19
is to watch these beautiful creatures
#albatross
guarding their chick
#RoyalCam
@AlbatrossCentre
@docgovtnz
#COVID19nz
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Great swim, beach is deserted, is everyone else still shopping?!Quite windy but very sunny and warm in.
@MetService
@WeatherWatchNZ
#hightide
#favourite
#SummerSolstice
#kapiticoast
#kapitiisland
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First
#SweetJane
#camellia
popping out to brighten a bad week so far. 💞💕🩷 Have high temperature, possible infection, so second cycle of
#chemotherapy
had to be postponed 😔
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That time when maybe it’s time to leave Twitter/X and try other social platforms (too many!) but a quick check of the TL and there’s some news, significant tweets 👏 ❤️and still good connections here 🤷♀️
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Love watching this
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Nearly missed
#DailyWordleClub
again. And yet this was my best and fastest effort so far, doesn’t support my early morning theory! 😀
#Wordle
200 2/6 -
🟨🟨🟨⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Rainy Sunday
#Cancer
update after an intense rollercoaster week. No further chemotherapy or immunotherapy treatment possible for last two weeks due to high temperatures and feeling unwell 😔 Given antibiotics in case of infection. 1/5
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Looked west and just caught a last minute view of the striking sunset sky in
#Wellington
#TeWhanganuiaTara
tonight. It was so
#pink
💕
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