Ali's Alliance

I met David Cowan the other week and was really touched by a website he has created in memory of his wife to help aid cancer victims and their families in finding the help they need during one of the most difficult times in their lives. 

The Ali’s Alliance website will provide geographically searchable database of resources for all who chose to use the portal to locate specific services, relevant news, medical breakthroughs, and personal stories of triumph and loss.  Moreover, the website will list resources which are available to any individual within the parameters of their counties, states, regions, and the nation.  There is no other database that currently exists that can provide this scope of service.  There are hundreds of thousands of individuals who are in the fight against cancer today and many millions more who either have a cancer related career or have been touched by cancer; Ali’s Alliance will serve all of these people.

 I encourage everyone to read David's story below, visit the website http://www.alisalliance.com/, and to share this information with everyone.

David's Story:

"Alison Arnesen Cowan was a 44-year-old litigation paralegal at the top of her career, and an active and enthusiastic member of her church and community.  That all changed the last week of January 2010 when Alison and her husband David J Cowan Sr received the devastating results of a routine diagnostic procedure that revealed a 5cm malignant tumor.  Subsequent imaging showed that the cancer was metastatic. Alison and David fought the fight and rode the roller coaster for eleven months and in the end Alison lost her battle with cancer and passed from liver failure.

 

The Story of the inception and launch of Ali's Alliance began on the evening of January 29th 2011.  This particular evening David was at home after attending a large benefit for breast cancer research in West Palm Beach.  The benefit event was held exactly 56 days after the passing of David's loving and beautiful wife Alison from Mucosal Melanoma.  It occurred to David that all the hopes and plans he had in his life had been built around what  they were going to do and in that moment he realized that fate had completely cleared his plate.  And as bad as he felt, David knew that nothing he could do would bring Alison back to him, but there was an opportunity for him to provide a centralized resource center to reduce the time, energy and anxiety of finding information and support……an alliance in memory of Ali that could help so many people."