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The Bert Show

Meet Bert’s Big Adventure Kid Olive!

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

She may have only been 1 pound, 5 ounces at birth, but twelve-year-old Olive, who has Cerebral Palsy, is growing up fast and could use our help. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, the Bird Show.

0:02.0

Anybody that has had to leave the hospital without your child is going to resonate here with Olive and her family, Heather and Ben and Basil and Remy also.

0:16.0

Man, I'm one of these people that have had to leave the hospital twice and leave my kids behind when they were first born they were both

0:24.0

creamies and I tell you what man is heartbreaking it's heartbreaking and it almost

0:29.0

feel I said a joke with my ex-wife now Stacy that it felt like to me every time we left the hospital

0:35.7

after visiting our sons is like when the rest of the staff at the hospital told

0:40.9

everybody like hey if you have a if you have a kid that's leaving the

0:44.0

hospital today go in front of Burton Stacy because it felt like everybody was leaving at the same time

0:49.0

it does every single day so imagine having a child like Heather and Ben did that had to spend

0:56.0

what 356 days in NICU? Three hundred and fifty six days is the way that Olive was introduced into the world. This is her dad Ben and her mom Heather. Hi guys.

1:08.0

Good morning. Welcome to Burke's Big Adventure.

1:10.0

Thank you. How you guys doing this morning? Great. I cornered Ben yesterday. I was so fascinated by this wheelchair and monitor that

1:20.0

all of uses. Can you explain exactly what that is? She has cerebral palsy.

1:25.5

So explain exactly what that is because she doesn't reach up to touch it, to use it.

1:30.5

She's nonverbal so it tracks her eye gaze movement and where she looks she can also reach up and touch it and say hello

1:40.1

But if she if she looks up and if she looks at a certain point for a long enough period of time

1:46.4

It'll push the button. It's not interesting. Yeah. She has to be patient with it. It's fascinating right? Very. Piece of technology. Okay so how did we get here

1:55.4

Heather as I understand it at 23 weeks all of this you're 23 weeks pregnant, and you end up having Olive in the hallway of the hospital.

2:08.6

Is that right?

2:09.6

Yes, so I had an appendectomy at 19 weeks and it caused my uterus to get infected and then I was rushed to the ER and the doctor said

2:21.6

Basically she was very hot so she had to get out.

2:25.0

So we're going to do an emergency C section.

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