Aase's Cancer Surgery & Treatment
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Cancer is not a welcomed word for anyone or at anytime, yet it has found its way into our life story. My wonderful wife of 30 years, is in need of surgery, radiation and chemo-therapy in order to evict this uninvited presence in her life.
I do not want to the tell the story of her cancer as much as I do of this amazing woman, Aase Owens, and humbly ask that you join me in her fight against cancer.
She is 100% Norwegian, born in Sandnes Norway, and was orphaned as a young girl living in Norway. American missionaries took her in and sent her to college in Mid-West, United States. That is where we met.
She feels like "bad luck" follows her:
* Her parents died when she was young
* The American missionary that took her into his home sexually abused her for years. (This came out 22 years after we were married)
* Her type of skin cancer rarely enters the lymph nodes or goes internal, her's has.
* Her type of cancer is normally slow-growing, in her case it is growing extremely rapid.
For all that "bad luck" (and that was the short list, that does not include a botched knee replacement), she is an amazing person, amazing wife and super amazing mother.
She has lived her adult-life serving others, especially children and at-risk youth. Much of her life has been spent in Mexico, living in the desert as we developed a camp ministry for youth. From there we moved further south and lived near one of the largest cities in the world, Mexico City. Here is where our lives and hearts were turned towards the 15 - 25 year olds living on the streets of Mexico City. I have watched Aase become a loving and caring mother to these youth, many even calling her "momma Aase".
All the while she was serving others, in conditions far below the comfort and health standards of what she could have enjoyed had she stayed in Norway, she was being an engaged and wonderful mother to our 3 daughters. (If you want to know if investing in Aase's health and life right now is a good investment; look at her daughters, the tree is known by its fruit.)
For the most part of our married lives, our life work has not afforded us great salaries, benefits, savings or retirement plans. If we have "extra" it has typically been put right back into the ministry or lives we are helping.
We find ourselves, at this moment in life, in the makings of financial storm - first grandchild, youngest daughter's upcoming wedding, and now Aase's cancer battle.
I am ever-learning to cast all my cares upon my Lord and Savior, and ultimately my confidence is truly in Him and His promises, which I know, from past experiences, that they are true. Yet many friends and co-laborers have strongly urged us to ask for help and have expressed that they want to help as well. So with that insight into how God seems to be working through other's lives to minister to and help care for my wife at this time, I am asking for help.
I need your help to pay the increased and above normal medical bills that we are incurring as we face this new challenge of Aase's cancer. August through December will have some finacial responsibilities that the Doctors and Hospital want met up front.
The financial responsibility between now and December 31, will more than double, and even if I were to get a 2nd job tomorrow, the urgency to deal with this rapidly growing cancer, has brought me to this place of humbly asking for help now.
We would much rather be the ones giving help to someone else, but this is the story that God is writing in our lives at this time. We look forward in the near future to using our story to encourage and help others, just as we are being loved on and supported through our journey.
I am willing to work another job or whatever else I have to do to take care of this financial responsibility of mine for my wife, but the urgency of the cancer treatment does not afford me a margin of time to earn these extra funds and save them for the necessary care.
Her cancer has already grown alarmingly fast, and I love her too much to delay her getting the treatment that she needs, because I am too prideful or stubborn to ask for help. Therefore I am swallowing my pride and admitting that I cannot do this without help.
These funds will help us get the chemo, radiation and even surgery that is needed to shrink, remove and irradicate the cancer in her head and neck.
If you need more information please do not hesitate to contact me.
Aase's Husband,
-allen
P.S. Aase, sounds somewhat like "Oh-Suh"
I do not want to the tell the story of her cancer as much as I do of this amazing woman, Aase Owens, and humbly ask that you join me in her fight against cancer.
She is 100% Norwegian, born in Sandnes Norway, and was orphaned as a young girl living in Norway. American missionaries took her in and sent her to college in Mid-West, United States. That is where we met.
She feels like "bad luck" follows her:
* Her parents died when she was young
* The American missionary that took her into his home sexually abused her for years. (This came out 22 years after we were married)
* Her type of skin cancer rarely enters the lymph nodes or goes internal, her's has.
* Her type of cancer is normally slow-growing, in her case it is growing extremely rapid.
For all that "bad luck" (and that was the short list, that does not include a botched knee replacement), she is an amazing person, amazing wife and super amazing mother.
She has lived her adult-life serving others, especially children and at-risk youth. Much of her life has been spent in Mexico, living in the desert as we developed a camp ministry for youth. From there we moved further south and lived near one of the largest cities in the world, Mexico City. Here is where our lives and hearts were turned towards the 15 - 25 year olds living on the streets of Mexico City. I have watched Aase become a loving and caring mother to these youth, many even calling her "momma Aase".
All the while she was serving others, in conditions far below the comfort and health standards of what she could have enjoyed had she stayed in Norway, she was being an engaged and wonderful mother to our 3 daughters. (If you want to know if investing in Aase's health and life right now is a good investment; look at her daughters, the tree is known by its fruit.)
For the most part of our married lives, our life work has not afforded us great salaries, benefits, savings or retirement plans. If we have "extra" it has typically been put right back into the ministry or lives we are helping.
We find ourselves, at this moment in life, in the makings of financial storm - first grandchild, youngest daughter's upcoming wedding, and now Aase's cancer battle.
I am ever-learning to cast all my cares upon my Lord and Savior, and ultimately my confidence is truly in Him and His promises, which I know, from past experiences, that they are true. Yet many friends and co-laborers have strongly urged us to ask for help and have expressed that they want to help as well. So with that insight into how God seems to be working through other's lives to minister to and help care for my wife at this time, I am asking for help.
I need your help to pay the increased and above normal medical bills that we are incurring as we face this new challenge of Aase's cancer. August through December will have some finacial responsibilities that the Doctors and Hospital want met up front.
The financial responsibility between now and December 31, will more than double, and even if I were to get a 2nd job tomorrow, the urgency to deal with this rapidly growing cancer, has brought me to this place of humbly asking for help now.
We would much rather be the ones giving help to someone else, but this is the story that God is writing in our lives at this time. We look forward in the near future to using our story to encourage and help others, just as we are being loved on and supported through our journey.
I am willing to work another job or whatever else I have to do to take care of this financial responsibility of mine for my wife, but the urgency of the cancer treatment does not afford me a margin of time to earn these extra funds and save them for the necessary care.
Her cancer has already grown alarmingly fast, and I love her too much to delay her getting the treatment that she needs, because I am too prideful or stubborn to ask for help. Therefore I am swallowing my pride and admitting that I cannot do this without help.
These funds will help us get the chemo, radiation and even surgery that is needed to shrink, remove and irradicate the cancer in her head and neck.
If you need more information please do not hesitate to contact me.
Aase's Husband,
-allen
P.S. Aase, sounds somewhat like "Oh-Suh"
Organizer
Allen Owens
Organizer
Tomball, TX
