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(M)
RHODE ISLAND'S
EDUCATION
COMMISSIONER IS
GETTING READY TO
RESUME HER ROLE AS THE
STATE'S OVERSEER OF
SCHOOLS -- LESS THAN
TWO MONTHS AFTER
UNDERGOING SURGERY
TO REMOVE A BRAIN
TUMOR.
NOW DEBORAH GIST IS
SPEAKING PUBLICLY
ABOUT HER RECOVERY
FOR THE FIRST TIME, IN A
SITDOWN INTERVIEW WITH
EYEWITNESS NEWS
REPORTER JENNIFER
MOBILIA -- WHO
EXPERIENCED A SIMILAR
HEALTH SCARE HERSELF.
JENNIFER JOINS US LIVE
NOW WITH WITH DETAILS
THAT ARE NEW AT FIVE.
(J-MO)
COMMISSIONER GIST AND
I - ACTUALLY HAD THE
EXACT SAME TYPE OF
BRAIN TUMOR... JUST IN
DIFFERENT LOCATIONS ON
THE BRAIN.
SO SITTING DOWN WITH
HER AND TALKING WITH
HER ABOUT HER
EXPERIENCE, AND WHAT
SHE WENT THROUGH,
REALLY MEANT A LOT FOR
ME.
IT WAS FOUND, FOLLOWING AN
ACCIDENTAL CONCUSSION.
BUT RHODE ISLAND EDUCATION
COMMISSIONER - DEBORAH
GIST - SAYS THE SYMPTOMS
WHERE THERE.
6:10 "I was just having these
stabbing pains and I even joked
in
the office about it one day I
said I
think I have a brain tumor."
BUT IN JULY GIST WAS TOLD,
THIS WAS NO LAUGHING
MATTER... SHE IN FACT, HAD A
BRAIN TUMOR.
6:48 "I think anybody, when they
hear that for the first time,
it's so
startling that you do feel
really
shocked.
COMMISSIONER GIST WAS
DIAGNOSED WITH A
MENINGIOMA.
IT'S THE MOST COMMON TYPE
OF BRAIN TUMOR, THAT GROWS
ON THE OUTER SURFACE OF
THE BRAIN.
THEY'RE TYPICALLY BENIGN.
THE COMMISSIONER'S WAS
LOCATED ON THE SYLVIAN
FISSURE.
11:05 "When you see pictures of
brain and it has that dividing
line, that
real deep grove, that's the
Sylvian
Fissure."
GIST UNDERWENT BRAIN
SURGERY SEPTEMBER 25TH,
AFTER HEALING FROM THE
CONCUSSION. :30 "by th
12:30 "by the time my surgery
came
around I was so focused on
getting it
behind me, getting healthy and
getting back to this work that I
felt
very driven, it was almost like
a
project I was completing.
AND THAT DETERMINATION
WENT A LONG WAY.
LESS THAN TWO MONTHS
AFTER HAVING BRAIN
SURGERY... COMMISSIONER
GIST IS BACK AT WORK.
19:10 I think it just made me
more
determined to get back in here
and
keep doing what we've been
doing. I
don't feel like we've skipped a
beat
since I've been out.
(J-MO)
THE BOARD OF REGENTS
IS EXPECTED TO RE-
INSTATE DEBORAH GIST AS
RHODE ISLAND'S
EDUCATION
COMMISSIONER ON
MONDAY.
COMING UP NEW AT SIX,
COMMISSIONER GIST
TALKS MORE ABOUT HER
EXPERIENCE, THE
SUPPORT SHE'S RECEIVED
FROM THE COMMUNITY...
AND SHE ALSO HAS A VERY
IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR
ALL OF US.
I'M JENNIFER MOBILIA,
EYEWITNESS NEWS.
(S)
TODAY IS TRADITIONALLY