Dear all

After discussing with Zurich hospital this past Monday, my husband was able to make the informed decision about his chemotherapy treatment subsequently, he finally started chemotherapy yesterday at Hong Kong Adventist Hospital Foundation, it was a all day long hospital for him which was quite exhausing, he, however, handled it very well, minor pain and discomfort he said, other than that he was ok. His siblings arrived on Thursday evening and they came to the hospital to keep him company and keep his spirit up. It was a long missed reunion for them. We came home late at night hence the delayed update.

This morning we attended to our oldest son's kindergarten graduation. My husband was not feeling very well but he made it to the ceremony. During the ceremony, my son was singing "when we grow up" along with his classmates, I could not help myself feeling sentimental when I listened to them. There has been so much happening since the last two months from colonoscopy to confirmation of the rectal tumor with liver mets, followed by resections of rectum and liver, now the chemotherapy. I somehow still find it unreal, like everything just happened yesterday, we run to one thing after another, there was no time to breath.

I thought a lot last night, some people said life is a series of misfortunes, I had a very tough childhood, complicated family background and always have to learn things the hardest way. I learnt not to worry things that are beyond our power, I learnt to make a better life out of my predicament. Here I am today fighting with my husband against his critical illness while watching my three little kids growing up. Feel like it was only yesterday when my oldest was sleeping in my arm after feed.

We are so grateful to have all of you in our journey, helping us in different ways, you might not realize how your kindness and support touch our hearts and heal our pains, but I want to thank you for everything, because of you my husband is able to receive the treatment he needs, because of you he is able to attend his first son's kindergarten graduation, because of you we can grow old together and watch our kids growing up. Whatever may come, we know we have your support and blessing, thank you very much for showing us hope, together we can conquer cancer.

I would like to make a special thank to Jo Soo-Tang, Anna Treier and her husband Sandro, Dani Mijic, Karen Linker, Swiss XI teammates, Swiss benevolent community and Florian's friends from far and near. Your support and love help Florian to go through the toughest journey in his life. Thank you.