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Yesterday, in the Deaf community of New Zealand, Deaf people woke up to learn the sad new even shocked to learn one of the favourite Deaf chaps – Shaun, passed away in the early hour of the morning. He discovered that he had got cancer – ‘Stage four without a warning’ three weeks ago. He was 54 years old, and he was an artist of many media: an illustrator, storyteller, painter and graphic designer even a sports player. Now at this hour of the evening I am writing this blog, many people from around the world, who have know Shaun, were shocked and saddest to hear the news of his death.
Due to respect for his family and the Deaf community. Here is one of the clips whom I am talking about.
In our family, we lost our grandmother due to a breast cancer, a cousin due to a brain cancer, another cousin due to a melanoma and there are other cousins suffered as well. Another Deaf with CP man is having an early stage of melanoma as I am a deaf disability support worker for him. But it is an early sign of warning and be safe to have the spot removed.
Looking back when I was a Health Carer for many people who had cancer, living with disabilities and seniors over ten years. One of the patients, I always remember her – Viv and she had a bowel cancer along with Bell’s Palsy, aneurysm, depression and of course a smoker. I was a carer for her for eight years, and we became good friends and a mentor. She worked for the Ministry of Education, a secretary for the councillor and trader for a second-hand shop. She had more than three surgeries on repairing the bowel including replacing the wear and tear ‘bag’ from inside the stomach. When I first met her, she was suffering badly, and I helped her by doing the house cleaning and checked on her medications. From time to time, I noticed that something was not right, one day she asked me to support her by visiting the specialist on the bowel and other organs.
Horror! I saw something was shiny inside her stomach near the bowel and I asked the specialist on that object. It turned out that one of the specialists and the staff left the tool behind during the operation. No wonder! Viv suffered infections from time to time. Viv, her husband and I looked through the paper works from the hospital and the ACC papers. Viv decided to claim the compensation through ACC and have the tool removed as soon as possible. Viv won the battle, and ACC gave her the compensation. Of course, she went back to the hospital to have the infection tool removed. I continue to work for her and her health resume to better than before. However, cancer robbed her life and ability to do anything around the house and driving around Waikato.
On the eight years with Viv, I left the job to focus on my University degree, and she continued to live for another four years. I kept in touch with her when she texted me for a social chat. Viv did not like the new carer since I left the job. One day I received a text message from her daughter to say Viv passed away peacefully – Thank God! this was Viv’s wishes to die peacefully than suffering from very painful and wasting to die. One of her wishes was, do not go to the funeral and I did not go to the funeral.
There were two other people I worked as a carer for five years. One young lady who died just before 24 years old and she was married to a lovely bloke. She suffered two pelvis cancer and unable to have children. The second person was her father in law, and he suffered prostate cancer. Today he is still around and doing well but no longer active in the sport due to his age, not cancer.
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