286: What if you were born without a hand?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Being born without his right hand, man’s resentment and monstrous self-image deepen as family and doctors intervene to fix his condition, leading him to question what would truly make him whole.
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Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits
Content/Trigger Warnings: medical trauma, amputation, explicit language
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| 1:46.6 | The doctors chose the surgeries that I was undergoing. My parents chose to go along with |
| 1:58.3 | that and then by the way they were framing it above all of them at the top tier of the |
| 2:02.9 | decision making process. God had chosen to put all of that in place to begin with and |
| 2:07.8 | all the way down at the bottom of that stack with no agency whatsoever I was the one dealing |
| 2:11.8 | with all the consequences of all those cascading decisions. |
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