308: What if they couldn’t wake me up?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Soon after returning from a long trip abroad, Whit Missildine, our creator and host of the show, suddenly blacked out and entered a non-responsive seizure state, but as he woke up to a new reality, struggling to put himself back together again, the gifts from the show itself offered exactly the medicine he needed.
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Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits
Content/Trigger Warnings: seizure, medical trauma, explicit language
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| 0:00.0 | This is actually happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:04.1 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode and for more information about support services. Hi listeners. This episode today is one I never envisioned I be sharing, but as you may know I had a medical emergency about a month ago that |
| 0:24.6 | forced us to take a couple weeks off so I could regroup and recover. So today, as we return, |
| 0:30.1 | I decided to share my own story here of what happened. |
| 0:33.4 | Thank you all so much for your patience as we took time off, |
| 0:36.3 | and for the outpouring of love, support, and messages you all sent over the last few weeks. |
| 0:40.4 | It's been such a gift not only to be alive, but to come back to this beautiful community and this work that means the world to me. |
| 0:47.0 | So here it is, my story for today's episode, number 308. What if they couldn't wake me up? |
| 0:54.0 | When I look back at that initial time, that first waking up, that first really precious hour, two hours, I just keep thinking that feeling is what we're all looking for. |
| 1:15.0 | And I got to experience that feeling. |
| 1:18.0 | And now I get to be here. Here. |
| 1:23.0 | From Wundery, I'm Witt Misleine. You are listening to this is actually. |
| 1:29.0 | From Wundry, I'm Witt Misledyne. |
| 1:32.0 | You are listening to this is actually happening. |
| 1:37.0 | Episode 308. |
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