Joel McHale: Appreciating life's random miracles
Meditative Story
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4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
As he sits with his wife in the waiting room of the pediatric cardiology unit, actor Joel McHale is struggling to feel anything but helpless. His infant son has been born with two holes in his heart; an operation is underway to repair them. But waiting in that moment, Joel begins to realize the unpredictable journey of parenthood that lies ahead. Life will happen. You just deal with it as best you can. And you love your kids, endlessly and endlessly and endlessly.
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| 0:38.8 | Eddie is on the pediatric cardiology recovery floor for about five days. |
| 1:05.0 | We meet a lot of other parents, we share our children's stories, conditions and diagnosis. |
| 1:10.2 | Now before the surgery, our friends and family would say, stuff like, I'm so sorry this |
| 1:14.6 | is happening to you, I'm so sorry. |
| 1:18.5 | Here on the pediatric cardiology recovery floor, other parents say, and I'm not joking, oh, |
| 1:26.5 | we were hoping that our kid had your kids problem. |
| 1:31.4 | They say it kindly and warmly. |
| 1:35.2 | After months of feeling like we were unlucky, you had a terrible challenge I'm realizing |
| 1:40.0 | that we were the lucky ones. |
| 1:47.2 | It seems so weird because it does seem kind of like luck. |
| 1:51.1 | An elevator goes up and another one goes down. |
| 1:59.9 | Actor Joel McCale rose to fame through his starring role on the long running sitcom Community. |
| 2:06.0 | His wit and sense of irony defied his on screen presence. |
| 2:09.8 | Off screen, since the birth of his first son Eddie, Joel has had to set aside that comedic |
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