Caring For My Dying Husband Made Life Worth Living
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Tracy Grant, the former managing editor at the Washington Post, shares the story of why the days taking care of her dying husband were the best 7 months of her life.
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| 0:57.3 | Grant is the deputy managing editor at the Washington Post. She is also the author of the essay that appeared in the post. I was my husband's caregiver as he was dying of cancer. |
| 1:04.6 | It was the best seven months of my life. Here's Tracy to share her story with us. Almost 12 years ago, my world as I knew it, ended. |
| 1:17.6 | My husband of 19 years, the father of my two sons, was diagnosed with terminal cancer. |
| 1:26.5 | Over the course of seven months, Bill went from beating me |
| 1:30.7 | silly on the tennis court to needing my health to go to the bathroom and bathe. It was the |
| 1:39.3 | best seven months of my life. |
| 1:50.8 | Maybe I don't actually mean that, but it was certainly the time when I felt most alive. |
| 1:57.4 | I had lived 42 years before I heard the phrases, we have a problem. |
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