Kerry's Story Part One: The Invisible Scars

The Medical Detectives

Soft Skills Media

Society & Culture, True Crime

3.6 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This episode lays the groundwork for our very first two-part case. Kerry was a fearless hockey player who felt invincible when her cough started, but what began as a minor inconvenience spiraled into a terminal diagnosis. Tune in, stay hopeful, and get ready to come back next week for part two—you won’t believe where this rabbit hole goes.

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0:00.0	Hello, Erin.
0:10.4	Hi.
0:11.6	Before we get into this episode, if you guys did not know, Aaron's book officially came out yesterday.
0:16.5	So, Erin, I have taken a quote from your book before we even get into this episode because I feel like you need to know about this quote.
0:22.9	So it's on the back of her book, I believe.
0:24.9	And it says something like the best drug is hope.
0:28.2	I might have paraphrase that wrong.
0:29.8	Yes.
0:30.5	Or hope is the best drug or something like that.
0:32.5	The most powerful drug is hope.
0:35.3	Yes.
0:35.8	Okay.
0:36.3	That I actually have written in the note section of my phone this is true
0:39.5	and some days i get frustrated with my body i think we all do and i think about that because if i sit in
0:48.8	that frustration and i'm mad at my body and upset and i lose sight of the future because I'm focused on the now.
0:56.2	I'm only doing myself a disservice. So I wanted to tell you that. That is 100% true. And it is,
1:03.0	I think, a great phrase for any of you that are looking for something to remind you why to not get
1:08.5	caught in the doldrums. Overall, your book is a lot of that,
1:11.6	but that specifically is something that I have personally taken into practice because it's
1:16.8	really easy to get frustrated. Right now, it's been really easy to get frustrated in the progress.
1:22.5	No, I mean, you know, part of why I even wrote this book was to show people the examples of hope
1:32.0	and that hope can take so many different forms. And obviously the main story is my brother
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