Brooke Borel: My dog's heart
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2012
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
A science writer is challenged when her dog comes down with a case of heartworm -- and then the medication goes wrong. "As I'm leaving, the vet says, 'Oh, by the way: Don't go on the internet. It'll only freak you out.'"
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | I felt... |
| 0:07.0 | I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:13.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, everyone. Hey everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to The Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:31.2 | This week's storyteller is Brooke Borell. |
| 0:33.7 | The story was recorded in September 2012 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. |
| 0:38.6 | The theme of the event was Animals. |
| 0:44.4 | So around a year and a half ago, I started freelancing full-time, which meant working from home. |
| 0:50.2 | Now, this had some upsides. I cut my commute time from 45 minutes to three seconds. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm a science writer. I have this nice quiet space to science ride in all day. |
| 0:59.0 | But there's a dark side to working from home I soon realized. |
| 1:03.0 | And part of it is that it's lonely. |
| 1:05.0 | But the other thing is that I was spending entire days without leaving the apartment, |
| 1:09.0 | which was facilitating things like not changing out of my |
| 1:12.4 | pajamas and not always showering. And this hit a low point one afternoon when I was interviewing |
| 1:17.5 | a scientist on the phone, and I looked down and realized that I was wrapped in nothing but a bed sheet. |
| 1:23.2 | And this was the outfit I decided was okay to wear for the day. So I tried to fix this by working from coffee shops and going on errands during the day, |
| 1:32.3 | but nothing really helped until I got a dog. |
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