Nashville Songwriters come together for Survival Celebration Benefit Event for one of their own surviving Cancer treatments, Stroke, multiple surgeries last year
Nashville, Tennessee – Greg Wilson is a Nashville singer songwriter married to his co-writer Donna Wilson for 20 years. Last year Greg was diagnosed with bladder cancer. This isn’t really where their medical odyssey began. It began on Christmas Night of 2009 when Greg suffered and survived his first stroke. The Wilson’s had been living in Georgia and commuting to TN for networking with the songwriting community since 1998. After the first stroke they knew they could no longer make their weekend jaunts up to Nashville so they made Tennessee their permanent home in 2011.
In January, 2018 Greg was diagnosed with bladder cancer. He underwent 8 rounds of double chemo and 38 radiation treatments simultaneously. While being taken off blood thinners for a biopsy in August to see if the cancer was dead, Greg developed blood clots in his legs. One helicopter life flight, and four vascular surgeries later, Greg faced an amputation of a toe. While recovering from that amputation, Greg suffered a stroke in 3 areas of his brain. This was just a few days before Christmas. Nine years to the day after his first stroke, the Wilson’s spent Christmas night in St. Thomas Rutherford Hospital recovering from a stroke in 3 areas of Greg’s brain.
Donna refers to her husband as “My Miracle Man.” His surviving 2018 was certainly miraculous, however bills are mounting. The Nashville songwriting community is a tight knit bunch. They are coming together on St. Patrick’s Day to celebrate Greg’s survival. They would like to raise some much needed funds for bills and continued care.
Songwriters performing are: Jill L Sissel, Billy Lee, Jimmy Payne, Jenna Longmire, Jet Taylor, Gary Cavanaugh, Karree J Phillips, John Trentes, Ty Warner, Marc-Allan Barnette, Paul Jefferson, Donnie Winters, Kimberley Dahme, Pete Sallis, Joel Shewmake, Pam Belford, Jerry Foster, Lee Rascone Sr., Mac Elliott, Annie Mosher, Jamie Meyer, James Peters and more TBA.
The iconic Little River Band is going to match all donations given on March 17th, 2019. A GoFundMe has been set up at https://www.gofundme.com/Gregs-Cancer-4-Surgeries-Stroke-Relief-Fund. You can follow their journey at www.NolanWilson.com.
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