298 - Update from the Hospital
The Jen Fulwiler Show
Jen Fulwiler
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
We are back in the hospital. I had an emotional moment as the chemo was getting started last night, and I share it here on this episode. I also talk about:
-- Styling your hair in soft water vs. hard water cities
-- Perpetual stew!!
-- My husband stepped on a rattlesnake
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Jen Fulwiler is a standup comic, bestselling author, and former SiriusXM radio host who has released three comedy specials: The Naughty Corner (2020), Maternal Instinct (2024), and Shabby Chic (2025).
Jen has been featured on Nate Bargatze's Nateland Presents, Where My Moms At with Christina P, Dr. Drew After Dark, the Today Show, CNN, and Fox News. She was featured in the viral articles, "5 Comedians Like Nate Bargatze Who Make Everyone Laugh," and "6 Comics To Check Out If You Love Leanne Morgan."
Jen is a mom with zero domestic skills, and a Catholic who hopes that heaven has an AP exam so she can test out of being a good person. Her stories of failing her way through life will resonate with anyone who doesn't have it all together.
Normally she lives with her husband and six kids in Austin, Texas, but right now she divides her time between Austin and Memphis as one of her children is being treated at St. Jude's Children's Hospital.
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| 0:00.0 | I am back at St. Jude with my daughter Lane and we are back in the hospital. |
| 0:14.1 | I mean, I'm not in the hospital right now. I think they have regulations against setting up an |
| 0:18.1 | entire podcast studio in the actual hospital. Lane is in the hospital. |
| 0:22.5 | My aunt is with her. My aunt has wonderfully come out to stay with us to help us with this |
| 0:27.7 | inpatient round, and we take turns being up at the hospital with Lane. So sadly for Lane, |
| 0:34.9 | she doesn't get early access to the podcast by hearing me yelling here in our St. Jude housing. |
| 0:42.1 | As I've said before, her bedroom is actually the wall that is right behind mine. |
| 0:46.3 | So how blessed is she? |
| 0:49.0 | I mean, you think, you know, cancer is a bad thing, but she gets early access to the Jen Fullweiler show. |
| 0:54.0 | So I mean, |
| 0:54.6 | pros and cons here. As usual, it is, it's, it's a challenge, you know, to just fight through all |
| 1:07.8 | this and see your kid be in a tough situation. |
| 1:12.5 | And so I go back to the hospital shortly after I record this. |
| 1:16.6 | And I've been in the hospital quite a bit. |
| 1:19.0 | And I just pass the time and hang out with Lane and try to get some sleep. |
| 1:25.6 | And anyone who's ever been in the hospital with a kid |
| 1:28.5 | just knows how all of that goes. And I was preparing this podcast episode while I was still |
| 1:39.1 | in there. And I was thinking about what I wanted to say on this one because it's, you know, |
| 1:52.2 | it's just, it's a difficult thing. The reason Lane is in the hospital is because she's |
| 1:56.3 | receiving some chemotherapy that is so crazy and so intense that you have to be fully inpatient in a |
| 2:04.0 | hospital in a bed to receive it. And they, they wear the nurses wear this hazmat suit thing |
| 2:10.8 | to even handle it. I mean, it's a big, it's a very intense kind of chemo. It's not like you've |
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