Ursula Barbara (Michael) Fassbach ( Mum )
July 15, 1907 - May 1, 2001
SHE DID NOT GIVE UP
( nor should you )
When she was baptized Ursula Barbara Michael in 1907 at the Dorseyville Lutheran Evangelical Reformed Church, just over the hill from her farm, no one could have imagined that 92 years later she would be waging a 
winning battle against stage 4 ovarian cancer. She called it "God's Miracle". I overheard her gynecological oncologist at Magee Women's Hospital tell a group of medical students, "Now I will show you my miracle". Please understand, I would never discount the power of God, or the abilities of this prominent doctor. But I want to introduce yet another possible factor.
winning battle against stage 4 ovarian cancer. She called it "God's Miracle". I overheard her gynecological oncologist at Magee Women's Hospital tell a group of medical students, "Now I will show you my miracle". Please understand, I would never discount the power of God, or the abilities of this prominent doctor. But I want to introduce yet another possible factor. Her abdomen had expanded to the size of a woman in her 9th month of pregnancy. (I'm told this is a liquid byproduct of this cancer.) The cancer had spread to other organs. She told us not to worry. God would take the cancer from her body. Her whole life had been lived with this sense of faith. The doctor said that the best he could do was to give a sharply reduced amount of carboplatin chemotherapy because of her age. And the 20%-of-normal dose would only be given monthly, not weekly. Perhaps she would last a few months that way.
