Heather Ausman (GoFundMe photo)
“My plan, God willing, is to live long enough to see my children grow up and have families of their own.”
I don’t know Heather Ausman personally, but I do know cancer.
My aunt Loni (who, was in many ways, a fairly ornery lady) had a doctor tell her family that, if they had a priest, they should call him in because she had hours left.
She then sat up and slapped the doctor (or so the legend goes) and fought the ravages of cancer for another 25+ years.
They weren’t always easy years, but, as I said, she was ornery and didn’t go out easily.
Ausman, a Coupeville mother of three young girls, is in her third battle with stage four breast cancer.
I hope that, deep down, she is as ornery as my aunt, and lives to fight on for many years.
We as a community, as a family bound together by our claiming of Cow Town as our residence, can, and should, do everything possible to help her in that fight.
For her, and for her girls.
Ausman has set up a GoFundMe account, and the link to that is below. Anything you can part with will help her family to deal with what are overwhelming medical costs.
Also, two Coupeville businesses — Brett’s Bread and Whidbey Isle Yarns, Gifts and Teas — have issued a challenge to other businesses in town to donate 10% of their Saturday, Jan. 24 sales to help Ausman.
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