George Plym
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On a baseball field one hot summer evening in 1967, eleven-year-old George Plym watched a ball sailing toward him. As the moment approached to make the catch, he couldn’t make up his mind which ball to reach for — Plym saw two balls where there should have been one. His parents took him to an eye doctor, who found nothing wrong with his eyes and prescribed rest. But Plym’s double vision worsened, and he started getting blinding headaches and bouts of nausea. A neurological exam confirmed his parents’ worst fears. A ball of brain tissue the size of an orange was pushing against Plym’s optic nerve. Plym’s neurologist diagnosed a grade-three oligodendroglioma — a late-stage, recurrent brain tumor. When doctors diagnosed Plym’s first brain tumor, they thought he had about a year and a half left to live. Today, at age fifty-three, Plym is a retired sports-car technician who lives in Asheville, North Carolina. He has survived eleven relapses of his brain tumor, and he’s determined to fight his cancer to the death. There’s promise in brain cancer research to slow the march of the disease one day. Until then, survivors pin much of their hope on the will to live. “When I was young,” Plym says, “I had a big space between my teeth, and I was conscious of it. We thought about getting braces to get that straightened out, but the doctors said that I wouldn’t live long enough to have the braces off. Now, in my fortieth year of being a brain tumor survivor, I’m glad I went and got those braces. When I do die, I’ll die with a smile on my face.” George is world known as a long-term brain tumor survivor, being diagnosed in 1967 with an astrocytoma. He went on to have 11 more brain tumors in over 40 years, along with two other cancers. He is the founder president of WNC Brain Tumor Support in Asheville, North Carolina and is also a member of the Wake Forest University Comprehensive Cancer Center Regional Advisory Board Winston-Salem, North Carolina and the WNC Brain Tumor Support advisory board.. You can view his website which is which is very detailed from diagnosis to is current condition. www.wncbraintumorsurvivor.webs.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post a CommentOops!The words you entered did not match the given text. Please try again. 0 Comments |
Please join us at our monthly meetings! Contact number: 828. 691. 2559
Meetings are open to everyone with an interest in brain tumors. Meet survivors, caregivers, family members and providers to share experiences and good times!!
WNC BTS meetings are held the third Thursday of every month, from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m., with refreshments starting at 6:15 p.m.
*Most meetings are at:
Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC)
121 Hendersonville Rd.
Asheville, NC 28803
828-257-4400 (MAHEC ph....NOT WNC BTS)
*There are some events which are away from our normal meeting place. Check our calendar page for changes.
Inclement weather policy
The following procedure will be observed for inclement weather conditions for
WNC Brain Tumor Support functions. We will go by A-B Tech. night class policy.
Announcements concerning WNC BTS (A-B Tech) will be made by 3:30 pm on local radio and TV stations for night classes. A voice mail message will be recorded on the switchboard.
Commuters should exercise personal judgment concerning highway conditions regardless of A-B College announcements, particularly those commuting from outlying areas.
Directions to the NEW MAHEC!
** From I-40 Eastbound, take Exit 50 and turn left onto Hendersonville Road. (Biltmore Ave.)
From I-40 Westbound, take Exit 50B and merge onto Hendersonville Road. (Biltmore Ave.)
Take Exit 50B and merge onto Hendersonville Road. (Biltmore Ave.)
At the first light, turn left into the Double Tree Hotel (Or Friday's Restaurant). Turn left towards the Sleep Inn. Just before the Sleep Inn turn right and go up the hill to the MAHEC Biltmore Campus. #121
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