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The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

Hit Hard

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

FOX News Radio

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4.1738 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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This week, Martha sat down with Pat McLeod and Tammy McLeod, authors of the memoir, Hit Hard: One Family's Journey of Letting Go of What Was--And Learning to Live Well with What Is. Pat and Tammy share the story of their son Zack's devastating football injury and how they found strength in tragedy. Follow Martha on Twitter: @marthamaccallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The Untold Story with Martha McAllum, exclusive interviews with top newsmakers who share their inspiring

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stories of perseverance, positivity, and more. Now, here's Martha McCallum. In 2008, during a preseason

0:49.3

football scrimmage, 16-year-old Zach McLeod suffered a hit to the head that caused an acute internal brain bleed,

0:56.7

leaving him with severe brain damage. Over the last 11 years, he has had to relearn how to walk

1:02.5

and talk and through it all. The McLeod family's faith has brought them closer as family and stronger

1:08.5

each day. Despite Zach's injury, the family continues to attend

1:12.6

football games and support and socialize with their friends and students, but Zach's mother still

1:17.5

can't help but feel like she has, quote, lost her son to the game. Football safety has been a

1:23.7

growing concern around the country, and with the season beginning in the next few weeks,

1:33.1

the McLeod family continues to fight for change in their new book, Hit Hard. Pat and Tammy open up about Zach's injury and the evolution of grief and gratitude and belief. Pat and Tammy,

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thank you very much for being with me today. It's great to have you here. Tammy, let me just start with you, if I may.

1:46.5

You know, just go back to that day. I'm a parent of athletes and a football player, and we all

1:55.0

know what it's like to be at those games. It's exciting and fun and also always very nerve-wracking

1:59.9

because everybody has the same concern that you experienced.

2:04.4

So we actually weren't at the game because we were at the first meeting of the year for college students of Boston.

2:10.7

We're both Harvard chaplains.

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