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Support Dean Bewick's Fight Against Cancer Dean and his family moved to Trinity Beach, Cairns in March 2020 to start a new life. Dean has an army behind him.

They had plans to buy a house to raise their girls in but have since been hit with this. Late August 2021, Dean was given the devastating and heart-breaking news that he has cancer. Specifically a rare and extremely aggressive form of lymphoma known as Burkitt's Lymphoma. Trying to stay positive through his initial diagnosis, whilst attempting to wrap his head around what this all meant, he was hit with more bad news, one after another. Here's a short reflection from Dean himself after spending the last month trying to take his diagnosis that will forever change his life. He posted this on social media to share with his friends as he knew what he was about to endure would require the support from everyone who cared about him . "August 17th 2021 - I present to Cairns E.D with severe stomach cramps. Few hours later and a couple urgent scans I get told something you never want to hear a DR say. "You have a 6cm tumour growing in your bowel, suspected bowel cancer" ...
Three days later, I go for surgery to remove almost 30cm of bowel, the tumour and all the lymph nodes. Fast forward 2 weeks after some pretty intense recovery, while I'm getting 32 staples pulled out, I get more bad news, bone biopsy results returned. We get the formal diagnosis of Lymphoma, NHL DLBCL sub Burkitts, which has now spread to other parts of the abdomen, liver, chest, lung and neck". We have started this page for Dean and his family to provide updates on Dean's journey, raise awareness, and show Dean lots of love and support from

A Go Fund Me has also been set up to raise money to support him, his wife, and kids through this unimaginable time, help to pay Deans medical bills, living costs and help relieve any extra stress as Dean will be unable to work for at least the next four months whilst undergoing chemotherapy and immunotherapy. The link for this Go Fund Me can be found on this page. Due to his weakened immune system Dean has been told that he is restricted to only one hospital visitor over the next four months which must be the same one person. This means that Dean will not be able to see his two daughters Harper (9) and Charlee (7). Please show Dean and his family your support by liking and inviting your friends to this page. We will be starting two movements for Dean to show him our love and support. These include:
- WEAR GREEN FOR DEAN - every Friday
- DANCE FOR DEAN - if you get challenged to 'Dance for Dean' for 10 secs, you must post a video of you completing this challenge + tag 3 friends to you want to challenge OR you are encourage to donate $5 to his Go Fund Me instead. For anyone wishing to send gifts to Dean and/or his Family please contact the page and we can provide you with a postal address.

16/08/2023

Hi Everyone

We havent posted in awhile, so I guess now is a better time then ever.

Its Deans 2 year anniversary, since being admitted to Ed in Cairns for we all now know as Non-hodgkins Lymphoma.

Just a bit of an update from us, Dean is still currently in remission. 16 months of clear results wohoo.

12 months since we have been living in our first home bought, exactly 12 months to the day of Deans diagnosis anniversary.

Dean has been growing out his hair and back playing baseball.

We have been living our life to the fullest since Dean has been home and now has the energy to explore again.

Dean has an oncology appt today, to check on how he is going. But were pretty positive he is all good.

Once again thank you for following our journey!

Please enjoy some 12 months pictures of life for us lately ❤️❤️
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The Bewicks

19/09/2022

Well Dean Bewick and I never imagined this is where we would be 12 months on since sharing our journey...

I guess we can update everyone now we have hit this milestone!

Dean is happily home, in our new house that we have bought exactly 12 months to day of diagnosis.. with our girls and myself enjoying every minute with our family and our life here in Cairns.

Deans diagnosis: Currently he has been reading high markers ( inflammation markers), this has been ongoing for about 1 month or so, which means we are on watch again... but his haemotologist team is happy with his current treatment plan/progression, and just on his maintenance check ups.

Deans physical health has been great, looking at returning to work!

But for now we are happy living everyday as it comes!!!

Here is too

12 months since we shared our journey

9 months since intensive chemo stopped

6 months of remission

1 month in our new family home

Love you for ever and a day!

One thing I am enternally greatful for is our journey together, and the love you and I share. We have been through hell and back and still here with our greatest love you and I and the girls!!

Our family of 4 have proven in time, through it all...

One lesson among many thats been taught through this experience is our life is way to dam short to dwell on the negative dramas of life, dont let anyone impact us and how we live our life, and get rid of those who make us unhappy, miserable and forget them... But enjoy the small things, appreciate everything and enjoy our love for us as husband and wife and parents of two incredible girls ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Good vibes only

Love to all who bring us up, not tare us down, who enjoy our excitement and share such special moments with us, who cherish our girls as much as we do, and those who have whole heartedly supported us from day 1 and continue to support us, by just being genuinely kind people and we are very blessed to say we have alot of them in mine and Deans life.

To another 12 months of remission 💚💚

07/03/2022

Just a very quick update as the new year has well and truely begun, Dean is still tracking well with his remission! Dean is still having 4 weekly Heamotology reviews, and 3 weekly blood tests! He officially had his 1st Covid vaccine a few weeks ago, and just as he was due for his 2nd shot, in his Heamo review everything looked good, but unfortunately his bloods showed some low Neutrophils. For those who generally followed our journey would know that with the type of chemo Dean had, it brought his neutrophils down under 1, to reset his body ( this was the danger zone as he has no immune system or a very low immune system) the specialist assured us this is quite common at this point in his healing journey, as his chemo is still in his body and is working! But this being said I am now administering GSCF injections daily until his next blood results and hopefully his neutrophills are up to normal range! This means no second covid jab right now, and once again limiting social visits and contacts! His next review is 4 weeks away. We know some family have expressed visiting over easter, but just bare in mind if Dean is continuing low neutrophills, we may have to limit visitation once again! But we wont make any decisions until after next Monday when Deans bloods are back! Apart from this MRI for neck pain is good, no bad results, and his cancer markers LDH levels are still nil 😊
Our little family are enjoying having Dean home fulltime and love spending every spare moment hanging out and enjoying our life as a family of 4 ❤

14/02/2022

Today was yet another blessed day, we were gifted a very generous donation from kind hearted strangers from all the way in Canada ! You have seen a few posts from Georgia and her friend Jeonghee Lee and they wanted to share their love for us through fundraising and sharing our journey with their church and other kind hearted people. They have felt that through Gods word that this was a way they could help from a distance! And all Dean and I can say is thank you so much, we will be forever greatful for the love, prayers, and strength through your love and the generosity will be forever appreciated! We are so very blessed ❤❤

For everyone who has donated to our go fund me page just thank you, this really helped us through the toughest time of our life and really has helped us out as a family ❤

07/02/2022

Today has been a bloody great day! Alot of you have already messaged today asking about results from Deans latest PET Scan! Well Dean is still in REMISSION! This means no more chemo for him! He is out of the woods!! This means as a family of four we can get ourselves back on track. Dean still has a long way to go, as in 3monthly bloods for 2 years, and 6monthly bloods for a few years after! But give us that over Cancer any day! Dean is still needing to take his time healing and has been advised by his medical team to take it easy and dont rush off to work, as his body needs to heal. But everything else we can start enjoying and getting back to our lives. First and for most Covid vaccines so we can start seeing friends and Family again! Here is a pic to celebrate !!

We have some family that are trying to get up for easter, and planning a June trip to brisbane celebrate our gorgeous girl turning 10! Friends plainning a vacation from Brissy to Cairns and all the rest in between!

Our girls have started year 5 and year 2 today, horse riding lessons this week, and Dean and I are looking forward to all our trips around fnq this year!

Once again to follow, thank you all who supported us, me, the girls and Dean through out this entire nightmare of events, Dean and I have had this challenging time but we would never change it, as this life lesson has taught us faith, hope, love, strength. We were challenged with one of the worst possible situations, our girls, Dean and I never seen it coming, but Dean and I are more thankful then ever, for our lives, the love we share, our girls and able to appreciate all the beauties life has given us and will continue to bless us!

We will forever be greatful for each other, our children, life, friends and family 💚💚💚

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25/01/2022

Happy New Year !!

Its been awhile since we have posted as our family have really been enjoying being at home together as 4 with nothing but time to enjoy each others company. We have had some fantastic time off with one another and love having Dean home!

Currently Deans health is doing well, stable, with his facial hair growing now chemo has stopped, and him getting stronger and stronger daily with more energy, we are all starting to reep the benefits of Dean becoming stronger.

Dean will have his next Pet scan in Feb, with a follow up with Heamotologist to let us know what his next steps are, if he is still clear from Cancer, and what this means with getting our usual life back on track!

On another note our gorgeous girls are heading into year 5 and year 2, and I have officially started my new job closer to home so I am alot more closer to Dean and the girls! This has made us all happier.

Dean and I are so excited to begin the new year off with joy and love, and look forward to our adventures of a family of 4 together! Dean and I are stronger then ever and we will bring more laughter, love, happiness and great memories for our girls!

08/12/2021

Well well well

I can officially update everyone, Dean, My best friend, My husband, My Favourite person, My boy is officially HOME!!!!!

We took the chance to spend a full day and night to just enjoy our own company.. Dean and I got told that this was it... only to return for two day consults, for what we hope will be the forever last procedures!! Two and only Two more spinal chemos left. Which will happen over the next week or two.

We as a family of 4 have all been given the best christmas present ever, and that is our family back together as a whole!!!.

Like Dean and I, the girls have literally been saying to one another every day, some days all day , to get us through to the next procedure, the next chemo bag , the next day of admission, the next set back... ONE MORE DAY DOWN, DAD WILL BE HOME BY XMAS, ONE MORE DAY BABE!

Everyone asks Dean and I how can we be positive.... well its simple, we just kept talking all day, everyday about all the wants , freedom, wishes, our changes , how much we loved one another, every second of the day pretty much.

We spoke about some really hard things , truths, and in a away this taught us one important thing, is..... our life is our life, our life is short enough, so we need to forget those that have torn us down, dont dwell on those who bring us negativity, or situations that we cant control, let them go.. and lets put what energy we did have left over from fighting cancer as a family too what and how are we going to use this as a way to get what we need in life... well it taught us another incredible lesson, all the things we ever dreamt of, spoke about, and wished upon, dean and I asked the girls the same, we have mapped out what our life moving forward, going on once this was over what did that look like?
I tell you what Dean and I have never been more driven, passionate, excited, filled with joy and love .. this experience has given us our new found love for life, we can see the beauty in life , even in a dark place, how beautiful life is almost magical.. we are all so busy doing our daily grind, we dont get to appreciate the greatness life has brought us, dean and I were forced to see this, as we had to hold onto this through out this entire hairy, dark, sad part of our lives. With that the love grew within dean and I, for us together, our selves individually, our children, any future children we may share as a family, it is our family unit and with that we are ready to explore lifes beauties, lifes adventure, and not sweat the small stuff !! EVER AGAIN.

Thank you all again for truely supporting us, not just Dean, Myself but the girls.

All the love helped us get through.

We have seen this journey bring out the beauty, the ugly, and the scary. In people, our selves, together and apart.

But Dean and I are so thankful, we can share this exciting news, and hopefully put all of this way behind us in the near future!.

My husband, we are coming up to our 2nd year wedding anniversary, and to say this year hasnt been a challenge is a dam lie. But ill leave the sappyness for you personally, but i just wanted you to know, there is no way I wasnt going to be doing life with you, you have fought so hard to make sure I was able to post this, to have you home, to let the girls have a dad. And writing this doesnt make it less painful, we can heal, recover and celebrate together. We have come through this so much stronger then I would have ever imagined. I guess this is where the saying " what doesnt kill us makes us stronger" comes from... well gees that hits harder then I could even describe. And im so thankful you and I are here to tell our tale. This has shown us how deep and strong our love for one another grows, and if cancer cant beat us, or tare us apart, no person, situation, health scare will ever be able to! So that I am thankful for, this journey taught us some incredible life lessons and I wouldnt change a thing. Maybe one or two 😅😅...
But your here, you knew you had to be, and you have lived up to your promises and vowls! We can still share our life, our family, and make our life together even more great ❤❤

21/11/2021

We are back for what we are hoping is our last stint of chemo!!! Just in time for chrissy, we have managed to swindle our way in for being on the right track for Dean to be home for xmas!!!

This next 7 days dean and i have both been dreading due to how intense this cycle is! We are dreading the next 4 spinal chemos, but we keep telling ourselves this is it! This is what we need to do, to get dean home in time for chrissy..

Hoping for good easy results with no complications, which means PET scan january with what we are hoping another cancer free scan!!

Here is our video of coming back in to our surpise of pretty xmas decor ❤❤

Dean and I are so excited to be hopefully coming to the end of this journey, though we know we have a long road ahead, the hardest part will be over after this cycle!

Cant wait to have our family whole again, back in place, where the four of us belong!!! We are all so eager to bring and share the new year in, with nothing but love for us, our positive outlooks, our life, our routine and our next chapters being nothing short of memorable and exciting.
We chose to make our life all we can, and this journey has given Dean and I a new lease on life, new outlooks, and have made huge life changing decision which include things that make us better as people and parents, no more negatives, no more sweating the small stuff, setting up our boundaries, and doing whats is right for us and our girls.

We have some brillant people in our lives, and have some truely incredible love surrounding us. We will remain cherishing it all , thank you all who have been the light in the dark, those who have helped positively and supported entirely, those who understood how hard it has been and did nothing but tried to make it easier for us, those who checked in with our the girls, dean and myself , those who have given their own time and money to send us cards, prayers, gifts, cooked for us, cleaned for us, helped me with baby sitting, or just had the girls so I had a minute to myself. Those who have just been their for dean , myself, the girls 100% even if i didnt reply instantly.

We could not have done it all with out those people and more ❤❤❤

And to my hubby who has been my absolute rock, who has held me when times were so dark and hard, listening to all the things that broke me along the way, who literally has had me in the front of his mind every day through treatment, for the guy that has had the world on his shoulders, and was literally fighting for his life, put me first and made sure i was okay! We are so much stronger then i thought we could be, and we have fought this together, we will win this together, with all our tough conversations, and battles not physically but emtionally, this journey came with insecurities, pain, hate, frustration, we have seen this bring out the worst in people, and we have seen this journey bring out the best in those we did not expect it from. But from all of this we have learnt to love more, forgive, appreciate, enjoy what blessings we have, and were able to create our safe place and just to be present with life ❤

I love you

11/11/2021

To Julie and Regis clients again what special words, cards and naughty donations

And we got such a special gift from all of Deans work colleagues from Cairns Private Hospital and the AM team. Just thank you, so unexpected and just so generous and caring! Dean is so thankful and lucky to have such incredible work collegues!

The generosity and kindness this community has shown us in such a short time, makes us realise that Cairns has always been like home, but living here for only 2 years, and the impact you all have had on us makes us realise this is home, always will be our home , such wonderful, kind and caring people we have not only work collegues, community sports teams, we now have extended family 🥰🥰🥰

Love to you all
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10/11/2021

Hi everyone
Just a quick update
Dean has been re admitted back to hospital for 1 month to finish his last cycles of chemo!!! Due to the intensity he needs to be closely monitored.. and ofcoarse the fact that his results where great the team are determined to keep in front of his cancer and are determined to keep the intensity going while he is responding well!!

We will have him home for chrissy at this stage if no set backs or complications arise 🤞 crossed for that!!!

Dean is feeling tired, but motivated to hurry back home to me and the girls... so we are not looking at this like a bad thing but a good one! The quicker he gets through this nightmare treatment the quicker he is home to be with our little family ❤

We have so many great things to look forward to in our near future!! We cant stop now.

Like Dean says himself , its just me and you, we are one day closer baby!
We hold onto all the little joys like our girls accomplishments at school, a sunny day, chrissy spirit, one day closer to being done, good health , no complications that day, and good results, the love we share

We will still remain on high alert with boarders opening up and covid. So just for a few more months we ask everyone to steer clear! Deans my number 1 priority in keeping him from an Icu trip!

We are preparing the girls for a very quiet and relaxing school break at home with dean and I organising home activities for a girls to enjoy over the break. They have been so patient and caring through this entire journey and transition in our life!

Once he is back on track we will set off on our van trip and make our way down to see those we have missed and love!

I will continue to update as we go along, but they are anticipating dean feeling quite lowsy over the next few weeks, please bare in mind that, one I am still working fulltime, two i have a household to run, three balancing our girls, and hospital visits and four the days im quiet its usually because I am being present with my family, supporting Dean, or taking a break myself! But i will give updates when I can 💚

Thank you all again for the love, support, The generosity, the prayers and kindness.

Surrounding ourselves with people who share positivity, love, and good vibes have been the best thing for us, while we have struggled and I truely thank you all, who have contributed to that for me, dean and our girls!

We have a new outlook on life and if this journey has taught Dean and I anything, life is way to short to sweat the small stuff, life is beautiful, stay away from negativity and those who weigh you down, place safe boundaries, appreciate kindness, only wish for love and healing, not hate or anger, and its okay to do what you have always dreamed of and work hard to make it happen!

LOVE YOU ALL
Now here is a photo of our youngest Charlee, she is still achieving greatness at school in such a sensitive time in her life

05/11/2021

Hi everyone
I would just like to post a decision Dean and I have come to.. with all the great news and support we have had, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel! We have decided the generosity has been alot more then we could have ever imagined we are thinking about closing the gofundme page as the response has been overwhelming we would like to just ask for the sharing of the page to stop, as all who have donated our friends, family, kind strangers , community members we will never ever be able to thank you all, from the kindness of our hearts. Honestly this generosity and support has really helped us along the way and it truely is such a sentement to all of the amazing people in our lives. And will continue to help us along the way, whilst dean is recovering and off work.

We can not thank CHELSEA HIRSCHMANN enough for creating the page and sharing our story in such a beautiful way, the time you put into setting it up and sharing!
Thank you 💚
LOVE TO YOU ALL DEAN AND KARI

01/11/2021

Update day 2 of cycle 2 as an outpatient!

Dean is doing extremely well, hoping his symptoms stay at bay, the first night after chemo yesterday was good, minor headaches and nausea! Hoping he can keep up this same momentum going into the next 15 days!!!

I will be bringing him into hospital daily for the next 15 days, with a few shorter admissions for 24hr chemo days, and spinal injections..

Awaiting an MRI this week, to make sure nothing sinister is going on with his on going neck pain and headaches...

All in all he is on the right track!!

He is still very tired and sleeps majority of the days. So when he is up to it, he will reply to messages!

30/10/2021

Shout out to our local FNQ BAKER WILD YEAST, Chris , Alicia and the team at Wild Yeast Trinity Beach dropped off the yummiest care package for our family to enjoy!!! SUPPORT LOCAL GUYS honestly the yummiest freshly made bread, pastries and good coffee...

Thank you guys, our family really enjoyed the cute tasty treats that Brightened Deans, Mine, and the girls day ❤❤❤❤

Wild Yeast FNQ
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All the love tasted soo good ❤🤤

28/10/2021

Hi all i did forget to mention in my previous post.
Unfortunately it has been a medical directive from Dr Avery, that once the boarders are open, no one will be able to come to visit us in our home!!! No family or friends will be able to come up to see us, as he is not going to be protected... and if he was to catch covid he will have a terrible outcome one non of us want....

So until he is able to be immunised unfortunately no one will be entering our family home, he will be undergoing treatment through out chrissy anyway...

Those who come into contact with our girls or myself, they will need to be fully vaccinated... and i will be getting my third injection (booster) to protect dean as best as i can... due to his immuno compromise. Its only a few short months and we will all be able to celebrate once he is able to be immunised and no longer under going treatment.

Deans health is my number 1 priority.

Thankyou all 💚

28/10/2021

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY

One hell of an update to share

Yesterday we got some incredible news , we had an appt with Deans head heamotologist yesterday Dr Avery, and she gave us the most incredible news DEAN IS IN REMISSION..

This has been the best news I have been able to type and scream to the top of my lungs!!!

We have still got such a long road ahead still 3 months of the same intense chemo treatment that has put Dean in remission, this is all precautionary and to make sure no nasty surprises creep up on him , in 3 months. We should have Deans last chemo post in January 2022...

Hopefully we can do the majority of his next cycle as an outpatient, and manage him well at home. This means hospital trips daily but so much rather that then have him away again... he will have small intervals of admission with some parts of his treatment needing to be monitored 24hrs post chemo but apart from that he should be able to have these done daily at the liz plummer center and then be home at night..

Our family can see the light at the end of the tunnel, in only a few short hard months Dean, myself and our girls are running towards it.

We know Dean is going to have a rotten few months but it already has paid off as he is in remission... Dean has been so strong, brave and truely is the walking definition of a fighter/warrior.

Through out this whole journey Deans determination to beat this has been incredible, he has mentioned to me on multiple occassions his motivation comes from 3 special girls in his life and he wasnt ready to let go of us, me and our two incredible girls just yet. His motivation to be home with us to live the happily long and healthy life, we set out to make for ourselves 11 years ago. We will now officially be able to get back to!!!

Dean and I have been through hell and back, and he will another 3 more times before this journey ends... but this has taught us, patience, strength, appreciation for the finer things like our jobs 😅, cleaning the house and ofcoarse the love him and I share, for each other and our girls have been brought to the surface, but we feel so much more deeply now.

You dont realise how much someone means to you, until your faced with uncertainty , and the possibility of a go fund me page , being a funeral fund....

Dean and I both thought this...
BUT we will not have to anymore , this has been the best news for all!

Thank you to Deans incredible medical team and Cairns base hospital, Liz plummer Center
Dr Avery, Dr Noy, Dr Stuart, Dr Powell , Dr Bavishy and all consultants who all had such a huge impact on Deans care, treatment and now remission...

Thank you to Chalie Bewick deans dad for literally staying with us every week to help us all out, we would be lost with out you ❤❤

To all our community, friends, and family you have all given us incredible strength in this journey and it would have been a different journey for us all if it wasnt for all your love , prayers, well wishes, support

Now here is a picture of Deans first PET SCAN all the white is his cancer, second PET scan taken on monday with no Cancer....

The white in his kidneys and bladder and brain is normal !!!!

28/10/2021

Today was my first Donation day!
Dean has already had 2 blood transfusions and platlet transfusion, and he has only really just begun his treatment, who knows how many more he will need before he is in remission. I thought to myself there are so many other people just like Dean who need these types of treatments to save their lives! I will forever be donating from this day forward. This was my way to support not only my husband but to all the other Australians who unfortunately are fighting for their lives just like Deans.

Today i saved 3 peoples lives giving plasma

I am booked in for 2 weeks time for my second donation.

In cairns we unfortunately can only give plasma due to transport issues with covid, but they make alot of blood products with plasma ! It is just as needed as blood if not more!

Its as easy as registering online, and booking in :)!

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