Trevor Tamura dove for the volleyball to keep it from hitting the sand.
When he came up, he saw two volleyballs, not one.
He blinked, steadied himself, and tried to shake it off. The double vision had been coming and going for weeks, but this time, it felt harder to ignore. It was a July weekend in Breckenridge, just days before he was set to begin medical school at the nearby University of Colorado (CU) School of Medicine.
When the 24-year-old walked into the UCHealth Emergency Room to determine the cause of his symptoms the following day, the results shocked the aspiring doctor: His scans revealed a cancerous germ cell brain tumor.
"Everything happened all at once," says Tamura, now 25. "I'm about to start med school, I have orientation this week, but I'm getting all this news, and it seems like my life is now being pushed in a different direction."
