Helping the Vu family with medical bills.

This is Nghia Vu, my brother-in-law, along with his wife Duong and son, Minh. He's a warm and caring father and husband, doting older brother and son, and a great brother-in-law.

Nghia recently had to go to Ho Chi Minh City to have a barrage of tests run to check the severity of the brain tumors in his head. It is happening as I'm writing these words, and we're all praying for a positive outcome, but he's in a lot of pain. Everyone is. It's all very out of the blue. He was experiencing a great deal of fatigue, which prompted a doctor's visit, and...well...here we are. My wife is in shock. His wife and son are distraught. The whole family is.

My name is Zach McCrary. Just recently my new wife, Lieu and her son moved to the United States to begin our lives together. But before then, I went to Vietnam on two occasions to spend time with her, experience her world, and to meet her family.

I was, of course, extremely nervous to meet all these new people, almost none of whom could speak English, and my Vietnamese was rudimentary at best. One of the first people from my wife's family that I met was her brother Nghia. We went out to dinner and over the course of a dozen bottles of Tiger beer he befriended me, made sure I was enjoying the food and wanted me to feel comfortable and welcome. Both times I visited he always made sure to make time to see me, sing karaoke, have a few beers, and chat using Google Translate. He really helped to make me feel welcome, accepted, and part of the family. That's the kind of person that he is.

My wife's family used a great deal of money to help make the move to the United States possible for her. None of us are wealthy people, and people from both our families helped make it happen. But now, suddenly, there is a great need for money that isn't there because of us.

That's why I'm here to humbley ask for help. Surgeries of the magnitude he may need are not cheap, and the costs for care afterward won't be either. This is not a family who comes from money. The Vu family are normal people just getting by like the rest of us, and their coffers have already been drained because they wanted to help one of their own come to the United States.

That's how their family works. Everyone helps one another with anything they can do. I experienced it first hand. The Vus are loving people, and this is a dark hour for them where they could really use some kindness and some light from across the world.

If you could share this campaign it would be greatly appreciated, and if you can give some towards helping Nghia and the Vu family, we would forever be in your debt.

It's a big ask, I know. I don't even know if what I'm trying to raise will be enough. A brief Google search showed that $30,000 is the lowest end of brain tumor surgery, with $100,000 being the high end. But, at least this could help alleviate some of the stress that the Vu family is experiencing right now.

Full transparency, GoFundMe has no option to send money directly to them in Vietnam, and so the funds will be coming to me to wire to their family in the town of Thuan An, Vietnam. Before my wife came to America I sent money to her quite often, so the task is pretty easy for me at this point.

Thank you so much to anyone who helps in any way.

-Zach McCrary-