ROTARY CLUB MEETING

MAY 10, 2016

    The Rotary Club of Ville Platte, today (Tuesday) heard from Rotarian Eric Gil discuss what happened when he and his family discovered that his daughter, Sophie, had a brain tumor. He told club members when you start feeling sorry for yourself, go sit down in the lobby of a cancer hospital.  “It will humble you in a hurry” he remarked.

    He shared how technology advancements are assisting in the war against cancer treatment. One example is proton radiation that was in the beginning stages only five years ago and now in Houston it is being used as a form of treatment.

  Gil said “Early detection and treatment is still very important.”

   He explained how he believes in the power of prayer. He shared how the doctors told the family that his child’s tumor was located right behind the right eye and the best they could hope for in the surgery was perhaps remove 50% of the tumor. A special prayer was held by family members and hundreds more back home. He said the next day after the 8 and a half hour surgery, the doctor called his wife and him  in and said “I don’t know how we did it, but the tumor was just hanging like a grape. We snipped it off. We got it all.”

   Gil said his daughter will graduate next week and will start at U.L. in the fall to be a nurse.