404: What if you were stricken with the flesh-eating disease?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
After suffering from necrotizing fasciitis, a soccer coach sets out to rebuild his body, his identity, and the life he thought he had lost.
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Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Aviva Lipkowitz
Content/Trigger Warnings: child abuse, domestic and family violence, severe illness, medical trauma, hospitalization, coma, sepsis, amputation, disability, depression, suicidal ideation, grief, and divorce, explicit language
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| 0:00.0 | Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of This Is Actually Happening, |
| 0:04.3 | ad-free right now. |
| 0:06.4 | Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app. |
| 0:09.4 | This Is Actually Happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:13.7 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode, |
| 0:17.0 | and for more information about support services. |
| 0:29.6 | If you can imagine a really scary roller coaster where you're tick, tick, tick, tick, all the way to the top, and then when the rush happens, |
| 0:33.6 | that's where something new in my life was about to go on. |
| 0:40.3 | From Audible Originals, I'm Whitnesildine. |
| 0:51.3 | You're listening to This Is Actually Happening. |
| 0:58.0 | Episode 404. |
| 1:01.4 | What if you were stricken with the flesh-eating disease? |
| 1:28.3 | What if you were stricken with the flesh-eating disease? A lot of who I am, I can look back upon my parents, especially my mother. |
| 1:31.5 | She and her mother didn't get along extremely well. |
| 1:33.5 | She ran off and got married at 16. |
| 1:37.3 | This was in the early 1940s. |
| 1:41.2 | So after Pearl Harbor, he joined the military. |
| 1:42.5 | He went in as a paratrooper. |
| 1:48.8 | He came home once in 43, I believe it was. He went back. |
| 1:56.3 | He was a paratrooper, D-Day, made it through Normandy, and three months before the end of the war. |
| 2:03.1 | He was killed by a sniper through the helmet in Germany. I don't know if he ever found out she was pregnant, |
| 2:08.5 | but he never was alive to experience my half-brother to be born. |
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