Please support my beautiful boy & our family in cancer

Hi, my name is Sabina. I’m lucky to have been a mum to George Kuba for the last 25 years. George is his English name and Kuba his Polish.

For the last 5 years, George has been in and out of gruelling cancer treatments for a rare type of bone cancer called Ewing Sarcoma.

Today we know that there are no treatments left which can cure him. The disease is progressing despite all his efforts from the last 5 years. We are focusing on utilising all the integrative and alternative medicine avenues to slow down the progress as much as possible and improve his day to day life experience.

Having spent all the savings and gone into debt as much as we could, I am asking you for help to enable me to support George. Any amount that you can donate, no matter how small, will make a huge difference to us and I will be eternally grateful to you for your kindness.

I am directing all my efforts to create infrastructure to allow Kuba to be looked after and remain at home, in the most comfortable of positions, as this is something he wishes for.

Any funds raised will go towards setting up best palliative care available, medical personnel assistance available at home as Kuba’s needs change, anything and any treatments supporting George’s physical, mental and emotional well-being such as diet, physio therapy, counselling, medicinal marijuana and the equipment needed for its safest consumption, any travel that he can undertake and most importantly time to spend with him.

If you’d like to find out more about George Kuba and his story, read on for more details.

His symptoms started while he was volunteering in Mexico for a rainforest wild howler monkey program and working in a Spanish school in Colombia. My husband Toby and I have moved from London to New Zealand and George was going to join us there after his travels in South America.

But the cancer diagnosis flipped our world upside down.

Since then Kuba has endured countless rounds of aggressive chemotherapy, often with only 2 weeks between beginning of each cycle. He’s had proton beam therapy and radiotherapy in Germany while the pandemic hit and where we had to isolate for 4 months while still attending hospital visits.

With recurring Ewing Sarcoma, the standard protocol is to treat it with incredibly high doses of chemotherapy which wipe out the body’s ability to produce white blood cells and independent function. The only way to come back from it is to have a stem cell transplant. George has endured all of that, all the side effects that come with it and all the countless scans, blood tests, PICC line in the arm for months procedures and more.

If you have had a chance to meet George and spend any time with him, you know how curious he is about the world and all its wonders. His love of travelling and different cultures and languages has taken him into many places around the world. And he has always been proud of his mix heritage and diverse family - Polish grandparents on one side, Iraqi and Welsh on the other, and a link to Japan through his stepmom and his stepsisters. His sense of humour and intelligence have helped me support him in darkest of times.

Great conversationist, he continues to bring joy and laughter to our lives and helps us be truly present in each moment.

From him and from all of us, I thank you for your support from the bottom of my heart.