Michel Varisco gets real about caretaking...(but please don't call her a saint)

All The Wiser

Kimi Culp

Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.9 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

*Rebroadcast* (originally aired 5/14/19)

In honor of National Family Caregivers Month, we celebrate caregivers around the world including Kimi’s friend, and All The Wiser guest, Michel Varisco Gleason. Today we are re-airing their intimate conversation from 2019. #teamgleason #nationalfamilycaregivermonth

Mom, wife, artist and one of my all time favorite people, Michel Varisco, cozies up with All The Wiser on a couch in her native New Orleans. Michel walks us through the day of her husbands terminal diagnosis, finding out she was pregnant a month later and what it was like to watch a documentary about her life in a packed theater at Sundance Film Festival. She opens up about the pressure of living up to false expectations, the realities of life as a full time caretaker to her husband and newborn baby, their decision to have a second child and how her darkest days inspired her work as an artist.

In this episode:

Learning her husband, Steve, is terminally ill
The truth about care-taking for someone you love
Having her life filmed for a feature length documentary
Creating unexpected and beautiful art in the walls of a hospital

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1:13.6	Today would normally be an episode of A Little Wiser, and we would look back at our episode
1:20.3	with Tom Boulay and share some thoughts, insight, reflections, and advice.
1:26.5	But because that episode is part one of a two-part series,
1:30.8	we decided to take a break and have that episode air after our next interview with his husband,
1:38.5	Ken Cole. For this week, we went back in time into the vault to an interview with one of my favorite people
1:47.6	in the world, one of the friendships I hold most dear, and a woman I love and respect beyond words.
1:57.4	Clearly, I love, love, love her. That person is Michelle Verisco. In 2019, I flew to New Orleans
2:05.5	and I interviewed Michelle about her experience, loving and caretaking for her husband, Steve.
2:13.3	Steve Gleason is a former NFL football player who in his early 30s was diagnosed with
2:20.6	ALS, which is Luke Garrick's disease. In the past decade, Steve has lost the ability to walk,
2:27.2	talk, eat, and speak. November is National Family Caretaker Month. It's the right moment
2:34.0	to go back and listen to Michelle's
2:36.8	interview and reflect on her story and her wisdom and advice. So many of you listening are
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