Estevan's Jeff Lukye and his family received some exciting news yesterday when they learned the Saskatchewan Government will cover Jeff's life changing colon cancer treatment. Jeff's wife Keri is thrilled with the news, but wasn't sure if the request for financial help would be accepted.

 

She says, "honestly we were a little bit surprised, we have almost resigned ourselves to the fact that it was maybe not going to happen for Jeff, but we still wanted to get his story out there, so that other people can maybe learn from our experiences or if we could be support for somebody else down the road. We were needless to say more than thrilled."

 

Jeff and Keri will now travel to Rochester next week to begin the early stages of his treatment. They expect to return to Estevan in January. The cost for the treatment is roughly $300,000.