Chasing a Cure

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Grief is something we all experience at different stages of life, even more so during this pandemic. But what happens when you must mourn the loss of your own child? CNN journalists Andrew Kaczynski and René Marsh received terrible diagnoses within months of each other: their infant children had brain tumors. Yet in the midst of great tragedy, they found strength in chasing a cure for others. So in honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, Dr. Sanjay Gupta shares the great strides being made in the fight against pediatric cancer through the passionate commitment of parents, doctors and healthcare advocates. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	When I saw him and he was handed to me by the nurse,
0:05.0	something inside of you changes instinctually,
0:10.0	you just become so protective and it really is like
0:15.0	someone hand you your heart.
0:18.0	Like that was the feeling that I had on the day that Blake was born.
0:23.0	That's my CNN colleague, René March.
0:27.0	Like most parents, the day their child is born is unforgettable.
0:31.0	I can definitely say that for each of my three girls.
0:35.0	For another CNN colleague, Andrew Kaczynski,
0:38.0	that unforgettable moment was the first time he and his wife
0:41.0	saw their daughter on the ultrasound.
0:43.0	They fell in love instantly.
0:46.0	I was so happy to see it and I remember commenting on it
0:50.0	that we thought she just looked like a little bean on there.
0:54.0	We just started calling her bean and that morphed into beanie
0:58.0	and then beans and it really just like stuck
1:01.0	and it was so nice to like just have something more fun to call her too.
1:06.0	Blake and Francesca were beans were such happy and healthy babies.
1:13.0	Over the next few months, René and Andrew each got to watch their children grow.
1:18.0	From Blake's first steps.
1:20.0	Okay Blakey, come on.
1:27.0	Blakey, you don't know kids?
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