6. Michel Varisco gets real about caretaking and ALS...(but please don't call her a saint)

All The Wiser

Kimi Culp

Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.9 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Part 2 of 2. Mom, wife and artist Michel Varisco, walks us through the day of her husband Steve Gleason's terminal diagnosis, finding out she was pregnant a month later and what it was like to watch a documentary about her life in a packed theater at Sundance Film Festival. She opens up about the pressure of living up to false expectations, the realities of life as a full time caretaker, their decision to have a second child and how her darkest days inspired her work as an artist.

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1:02.1	podcast. For every inspiring interview you hear, we donate $2,000 to charities around the world.
1:09.3	I believe in the power of storytelling to inspire us all
1:12.9	to think differently about the world around us. So I have combed the country for some of the
1:18.9	most jaw-dropping stories you have ever heard, people who have been to the brink and back,
1:24.3	stories of survival against all odds, and whose lives have been changed in unthinkable
1:29.3	ways.
1:30.7	If you listen to last week's episode with Steve Gleason, today is part two.
1:35.7	Today, I sit down with Steve's wife, my college roommate, and one of my all-time favorite
1:41.5	people, Michelle Verisco.
1:44.0	As always, she is raw, she is vulnerable, and never
1:47.6	fails to make me laugh. Michelle talks about the day her husband was diagnosed with ALS and given
1:53.9	two to five years to live. Less than a month later, she finds out she is pregnant with their first baby.
2:02.9	We dive into what it's really like to care for your newborn baby and a husband who can no longer care for himself. We also talk
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