60. Surviving a tragedy as a couple
All The Wiser
Kimi Culp
4.8 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
There was no warning nor symptoms when 25-year-old Katherine Wolf had a massive brain stem stroke that nearly took her life. Newly married and a mother to a 6-month old, Katherine could no longer do basic things like walk, talk, stand or eat. But with the enduring support of her husband Jay, together they co-created a new life full of love, meaning, community and purpose.
In this episode, we talk about:
- When Jay and Katherine first met and the early days of their relationship.
- The day Katherine experienced a massive brain stem stroke from both perspectives.
- Katherine’s 40 days in a coma-like-state
- Regaining her abilities and what the next chapter looks like after the hospital.
- Finding strength and hope during recovery.
- Having their miracle baby, John.
- Leveraging their unique abilities and starting Camp Hope Heals.
Stay connected to Katherine & Jay:
Website: www.hopeheals.com
Podcast: Suffer Strong Podcast
Instagram: @hopeheals , @sufferstrong
Book: Suffer Strong
Charity Donation: Hope Heals
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| 0:56.1 | I was so panicked that they would think that my personality, my memories were all gone. |
| 1:04.5 | So I would type, I'm the same on the inside over and over, |
| 1:09.5 | so that they would know that I had not changed. |
| 1:12.1 | It's just I could no longer speak or eat or walk or see, |
| 1:18.0 | but that everything on the inside was exactly the same. |
| 1:23.5 | She was just 25 years old, young and vibrant, |
| 1:35.5 | living her best big city life with her adoring husband, a community of friends, and a new, beautiful baby boy. |
| 1:48.8 | Jay was in law school, Catherine, beginning a career in entertainment, and there was no warning, no symptoms, no family history to explain how one sunny afternoon in Los Angeles, |
| 1:56.1 | Jay stood in front of an on-call neurosurgeon who told him that his wife had a massive brainstem stroke and was probably not going to make it through the night. |
| 2:01.4 | He just for some reason felt really deeply moved to help her. |
| 2:05.5 | And I was holding our baby, you know, and talking to him. |
| 2:07.8 | And I think he just wanted to, he couldn't get the baby out of his mind either, he |
| 2:11.2 | had said, and wanted to give this mom a second chance. |
| 2:13.5 | So he took her to surgery that would be about eight hours to hopefully stop the bleeding and, you know, figure out what's going on and see if he could even do anything. |
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