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)
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
😞
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🧘♀️🙏
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
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
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 😞
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
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 ❤️🎉
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
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
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
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
I’ve been quiet here this week, still in shock after some family trauma and hours in ED. Will write some proper thanks soon to all the amazing people but too tired now to write, read or even bake! Pls send any soothing pics x
#birds
#nature
#dogs
#cats
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
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
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
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
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 🙄😷
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 😢
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 😅
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….
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
@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.
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
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 🐬
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
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
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
😍❤️
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 😔
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 🤷♀️
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 -
🟨🟨🟨⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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
Remember this day so well. As we battled high winds to get to school, my Dad Ian Templeton, then Wellington correspondent for Akld Star and
@guardian
managed to get through to Seatoun with great photographer Morrie Hill to report on the tragedy as it unfolded
#wahine50
#wahine