Please Help Abe

Our brother Abe, has had a huge impact on the life of our whole family. He got everyone into snowboarding in the late 90's and ever since it's been an amazing adventure and whats turned out to be careers for all of us, having followed Abe's lead. Abe retired from professional snowbaording years ago and started a family with his beautiful wife Gina. They are the proud parents of 2 awesome young boys who adore their dad.

Unfortunately Abe's had a rough go of things lately. He's developed an aggressive form of Basil Cell Carcinoma, a skin cancer that has started on the left side of his face, in and around his left eye. Doctors attempted to surgically remove the growth twice, but, as things go, they didn't get it all, and deformed his eye in the process. The cancer has come back more aggressive than ever and has started to spread over his body. Luckily there are some doctors who still believe it to be treatable and Abe has committed to a treatment program in Vermont. He's focusing on the Gerson program, with the assistance of some specialists as well as our mom Pat Teter, who's an Oncology (cancer) and emergency room nurse, at Springfield Hospital in Vermont.  He's in great hands for this long process.  Abe is determined to beat this, and not to lose his eye or potentially his life. He has a long road ahead of him to become healthy, and go back to being the full time father of his boys, whom he loves dearly and are living in Tahoe with their Mom.
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Abe does not have insurance that will cover the expensive treatment. His medical bills have started to mount, as well as the bills to pay the mortgage on his family's house, while he is in treatment.

We humbly ask for any support you might be able to give and to share this campaign on your social media, should you see fit.  All funds wil go toward Abe's medical treatment fund and related costs.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

-Hannah, Elijah, and Amen
(A recent photo of the cancer growing around Abe's Left eye)

Please see below note from snowboard industry guru Pat Bridges, who wanted to share what impact Abe had on the snowboarding world back in the early 2000's.

"At the turn of the millennium Abe Teter was one of those rare riders who made watching snowboarding more fun than actually doing it. Abe's big air regimen, show stopping tricks and propensity for tweaking blended classic style with an uncommon technicality to make him both a fan favorite and podium regular. In 2001 Snowboarder had the honor of featuring Abe on the cover of our Superpark Issue and the image of his extended frame flying high over Mammoth Mountain mid seatbelt grab with his esteemed peers looking up at him from below became an instant classic. From placing Okemo on the snowboarding map in the late 90's to poaching the US Open in its heyday to inventing halfpipe tricks that have yet to be duplicated the 'Gentle Giant' lit up every scene with his smile and shut down every session with his style."
-Pat (Abe at the US Open in 2000)