#252: The Big C (Kelsey)

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4.6 • 6.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2016

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

My friend Kelsey sat down on a beach on the island of Maui to talk about her experience with cancer. Kelsey got it, beat it, and got it again all in her 20s. It was a very open and honest interview all about what it actually means to have cancer, deal with remission, the feel of chemo... all of it.

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0:00.0	I mean, I was, I had like big black circles under my eyes or completely sunken in.
0:07.0	I looked like I was dying and I was, you know?
0:10.7	I mean the chemo was killing me.
0:12.7	Yeah.
0:13.7	And this is another reason why at that point they decided to stop the treatment because
0:19.2	it was taking over my body and making me really unhealthy.
0:24.4	So but anyway, I remember my dad looking over and grabbed my hand and just
0:29.4	was like, hey, you're gonna make it kiddo?
0:32.1	And I was just like, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna make it.
0:36.4	I wish I could eat your cancer when you're too bright.
0:43.4	Hey, wait, I gotta move no pain forever.
0:51.4	Serious episode.
0:58.4	Sorry, only semi-series.
1:01.3	It's not that dark.
1:03.5	It's not super funny.
1:05.8	All right, so today's episode I'm gonna talk about cancer.
1:10.2	All right, it's not, I wish I'd get into this really.
1:15.1	I don't know.
1:16.1	I mean, the first time I thought about doing a cancer episode was with a everrised friend
1:19.3	with Angelo Bowers.
1:24.0	He had it and he was gonna die and then he went into remission and he was fine.
1:33.3	And I remember thinking like, I wanna know what it's like when someone's about to die.
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