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Kind World

A Moment Of Kindness From Suzie

Kind World

WBUR

Kindness, Society & Culture, Profound, Personal Journals, Uplifting, Stories

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Suzie Hicks, of Los Angeles, tells us how her "chosen family" helped her one summer when a string of bad headaches turned into a serious medical condition.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everyone. This is Yasminammer, producer and co-host of Kind World. I hope you're doing well and I hope your family's doing well. I really sincerely hope you're finding things that make you happy, that uplift your spirits at this time and I'm in your feed today to bring you this week's moment of kindness.

0:19.3

Remember we'll be sharing these short stories every Friday for the rest of this season.

0:24.6

So if you want to share yours with us, call and leave us a message.

0:28.1

We're at 617 353, 6350. Now, here's Susie Hicks in Los Angeles with this week's story.

0:37.0

It was over the summer and I started getting really best headaches and I didn't know why but I had a choir concert and I really didn't want to miss it

0:46.4

So I still went to my choir concert even though I couldn't stop throwing up and I had a horrible headache

0:50.8

But two hospitals told me that it was a migraine.

0:54.0

So during the concert, I started feeling really, really awful and I went backstage during

0:59.8

an remission and I didn't come back and I woke up in the hospital two days later.

1:04.0

So it turns out that I fell like I fell into a coma, started having a seizure.

1:10.0

My roommate left the concert and went to go find me.

1:12.0

My roommate stayed up till 5 a.m. at the hospital. my roommate left the concert and went to go find me.

1:12.8

My roommate stayed up till 5 a.m. at the hospital stopped the doctors from shaving my head,

1:18.8

uh, watched while I got a lumbar puncture and watched while I physically tried to fight off the doctors and they

1:24.1

stayed with me in the hospital taking shifts every night until my mom got there and then

1:30.1

took care of me for the rest of the week

1:32.6

while I recovered from randomly having viral men and jutists.

1:36.8

And so I'm eternally grateful to them.

1:39.2

And as someone who moved across the country not really knowing what was going on, it felt really nice to have a family of people that weren't blood-related, take care of me in such a critical time.

1:50.0

So that's my story. Thank you so much.

1:52.8

Bye.

1:53.3

Susie, thank you so much for telling us your story.

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