KEN WAMSLEY SOMETIMES DREAMS that
he’s playing softball again. He’ll be at center field, just like when
he played slow pitch back in his teens, or pounding the ball over the
fence as the crowd goes wild. Other times, he’s somehow inexplicably
back at work in the lab. Wamsley calls them nightmares, these stories
that play out in his sleep, but really the only scary part is the end,
when “I wake up and I have no rectum anymore.”
Wamsley is 73. After developing rectal cancer and having surgery to
treat it in 2002, he walks slowly and gets up from the bench in his
small backyard slowly. His voice, which has a gentle Appalachian lilt,
is still animated, though, especially when he talks about his happier
days. There were many. While Wamsley knew plenty of people in
Parkersburg, West Virginia, who struggled to stay employed, he made an
enviable wage for almost four decades at the DuPont plant here. The
company was generous, helping him pay for college courses and training
him to become a lab analyst in the Teflon division.
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