She Remembers It All
Kind World
WBUR
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2015
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Tragedy brought two women together. Now memories keep them close.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Kind World, stories about the profound effect one act can have on our lives, from |
| 0:06.3 | W-B-U-R-B-B-B-R-Boston. |
| 0:10.0 | One night I was giving my son Nick a bath. |
| 0:12.8 | As he turned his head, I noticed the lump on him. |
| 0:15.6 | It kind of felt like swollen glands, but it was big. |
| 0:19.4 | First thing the next morning, we were at the doctors. He said he has cancer. I just remember like |
| 0:26.0 | falling to the floor crying, you know he's six years old and I said we need to |
| 0:31.1 | get him to Boston. |
| 0:38.8 | We had gotten a call from the ambulance transport that he was coming. I laid on the stretcher and then they put him on top of me and belted us in. |
| 0:43.0 | I remember pacing the floor before he arrived. |
| 0:46.0 | They opened the doors and took the stretcher out. |
| 0:49.0 | I mean to me it felt like there was like a hundred people standing there |
| 0:52.0 | and I remember Melody being there and I remember her just comforting |
| 0:56.1 | me as we got off of the ambulance. |
| 0:58.9 | I didn't realize who she was but I just remembered thinking, |
| 1:02.8 | all right, I'm glad that she's with me. |
| 1:04.8 | My name is Rosemary Jensen. |
| 1:06.8 | My name is Melody Cunningham. |
| 1:08.8 | Melody was Nick's oncologist. |
| 1:11.8 | Nicholas was, he had a hard time adjusting to people and melody he never did. |
| 1:16.0 | He really didn't talk a whole lot at first. |
| 1:23.0 | I think he was just angry and afraid. |
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