Emily Caudill: Fading Notes
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2014
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Musician Emily Caudill's life-saving chemotherapy treatment causes her to lose her hearing. Emily Caudill is a songwriter and musician from Louisville, Kentucky. In 2011, while she was working in special education, and as a music therapy intern, Emily was diagnosed with metastatic germ cell ovarian cancer. She sustained significant hearing impairment as a result of chemotherapy. Emily believes that life is a song, and the music is composed by our stories. When she isn't writing songs and stories, Emily enjoys playing fiddle on the front porch of her lakeside cabin in Kentucky.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientists the... |
| 0:06.0 | It 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 personal stories about science. |
| 0:30.5 | This week's stories from Emily Caudill. |
| 0:32.7 | The story was recorded in July 2014 at the Boni Adaro Foundation in San Carlos, California. |
| 0:38.9 | It was part of an evening of stories produced in partnership with smart patients, an online |
| 0:43.1 | community where patients and caregivers learn from each other about treatments. |
| 0:52.1 | I remember the first time that I noticed a difference. |
| 0:55.0 | It was after my first cycle of chemotherapy. |
| 0:59.0 | I was riding in the car with my younger sister, Abby. |
| 1:02.0 | I had a list of jokes that I was reading to her from a care package that someone had given me. |
| 1:09.0 | I thought these jokes were hysterical, |
| 1:11.9 | but Abby does not share my sense of humor. |
| 1:14.4 | She was turning up the volume on the radio to drown me out. |
| 1:18.7 | I said, wait, one more. |
| 1:21.8 | What do you call 100 banjos at the bottom of the ocean? |
| 1:29.3 | A good start. |
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