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4 Thursday <strong>August</strong> <strong>23</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
News<br />
Megan gets over another hurdle<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> has been<br />
following the Hore<br />
family’s bid to get<br />
their daughter Megan<br />
to Disneyland Paris.<br />
Julia Evans reports on<br />
her last chemotherapy<br />
session<br />
TOMORROW will be a big day<br />
for Megan Hore.<br />
<strong>The</strong> plucky 18-year-old will<br />
finally be home after finishing<br />
her sixth and final round of<br />
chemotherapy at Christchurch<br />
Hospital, on Monday, to treat<br />
the bone cancer which she<br />
has been battling for the last<br />
year.<br />
“She’s finished her<br />
chemotherapy and is on hyper<br />
hydration for the rest of the week<br />
to flush it out, they’re saying<br />
we’ll be out of here on Friday,”<br />
Megan’s mother Marilyn said.<br />
When visited by <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> on<br />
Tuesday, Megan said physically<br />
she felt fine.<br />
“But mentally, I feel bleh.”<br />
Megan is the daughter of wellknown<br />
blind organist Richard<br />
Hore who busks at Countdown<br />
in the Bush Inn Centre to raise<br />
money to send her Disneyland<br />
Paris.<br />
<strong>The</strong> teenager has spent the majority<br />
of a year in the children’s<br />
haematology oncology centre at<br />
the hospital.<br />
“She’s holding up okay, but<br />
reality has really hit home. We’re<br />
finished treatment, now we’re<br />
into the recovery phase,” Mrs<br />
Hore said.<br />
Disney-fanatic Megan has<br />
GOOD<br />
SPIRITS:<br />
Blind organist<br />
Richard Hore’s<br />
daughter<br />
Megan<br />
finished her<br />
last round of<br />
chemotherapy<br />
on Monday.<br />
made a bucket list to go to every<br />
Disneyland theme park on the<br />
planet.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y were set to go to Disneyland<br />
Paris before Megan received<br />
her cancer diagnosis and they<br />
had to cancel their flights.<br />
Air New Zealand held the<br />
money and in <strong>23</strong> days the family<br />
is using it to go to Hong Kong<br />
Disneyland. Megan was only<br />
granted special leave from doctors<br />
to be out of the country for<br />
four days.<br />
Also on her bucket list is going<br />
to Oamaru to see penguins,<br />
Hanmer Springs to visit <strong>The</strong> Lolly<br />
Pot store to stock up on candy,<br />
having a functioning body and<br />
enrolling at Canterbury University<br />
to study English.<br />
“I missed out on university<br />
entrance by one credit,” Megan<br />
said. “I want to email them and<br />
say can you just let me in, I’ve<br />
had cancer.”<br />
When back from Asia,<br />
Megan will be back in hospital<br />
for testing to see if the<br />
treatment has done the trick.<br />
Megan will have to undergo<br />
scans and tests every three months<br />
to check for cancer for the next<br />
five years. If cells are found, her<br />
diagnosis will become terminal.<br />
<strong>The</strong> family are remaining<br />
positive.<br />
“We’re not ready to be a threecog<br />
unit, we’re better with four<br />
cogs,” Mrs Hore said.<br />
Mrs Hore said at this stage<br />
doctors had indicated it would<br />
be a “good result.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong>’s article on the cancer<br />
battle shared widely on social<br />
media, and a Givealittle page<br />
set up to help the family raise<br />
money, has been boosted to more<br />
than $10,000.<br />
Disney on Ice hosted the Hore<br />
family at a show at Horncastle<br />
Arena, as well as meeting Mickey<br />
Mouse.<br />
•To make a donation to<br />
help the Hore family get<br />
to Disneyland Paris, go to<br />
givealittle.co.nz/cause/<br />
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