Thanks For Being Here Joe's Essay About His Mom Beth
Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Kelly Corrigan Show
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
From diagnosis to a final, beautiful kiss on the cheek, Joe Lucien reflects on his deeply kind, considerate and loving mom Beth’s breast cancer journey in this poignant college essay. Joe shares lessons learned - how he now knows the hard truth that things in life don’t always go the way you want them to and there are some things you just cannot control. Inspired and motivated by Beth’s strength, perseverance and early guidance, Joe has been able to reach down deep inside himself to strive, to achieve and to keep going.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to Thanks for being here. A short, weekly pod to remind us of the many |
| 0:06.5 | essential and beautiful ways we affect one another. Every Sunday, I'll read a submission |
| 0:12.6 | from a listener of Kelly Corrigan Wonders. Could be wedding vows or about mitzvah toast, |
| 0:18.4 | a eulogy or retirement speech. We believe this is the loveliest way to tap into our better selves, |
| 0:26.2 | and remember our highest values. We encourage you to share this podcast each week with one person |
| 0:32.6 | you love. Maybe someone you miss or need to bring closer. Someone you want to feel your appreciation |
| 0:39.4 | or admiration or both. This is Thanks for being here. |
| 0:48.8 | Hi, everyone. Today's Thanks for being here as a college essay. It was written by a kid named |
| 0:54.1 | Joe Lucian and sent in by his father, Peter. Hi, Kelly. I listen to all your podcast episodes, |
| 1:00.7 | but thanks for being here as my fave. I'm a single parent, and your podcast helps me with my |
| 1:06.1 | parenting skills. So thank you. I hope you'll consider reading my son, Joe Lucian's college essay. |
| 1:12.6 | Joe is a freshman at Connecticut College. Joe's mom, my wife Beth, was a special person. |
| 1:18.8 | Thank you, Peter. Here is Joe Lucian's essay about his mom. |
| 1:24.4 | The summer of 2018 is burned into my brain, which should have been a summer focused on bass fishing, |
| 1:31.9 | swimming at Nahant Beach, and power skating, was instead a daily experience of watching my mom |
| 1:38.4 | suffer. In July, my mom began experiencing back pain. At first, the pain was mild, but quickly got |
| 1:44.8 | worse. On August 12, she began developing a rash on the back of her neck. On September 5, |
| 1:50.6 | my mom was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. The type of cancer that can spread |
| 1:56.6 | from your breasts to your bones, lungs, liver, and brain. She told me her diagnosis but left out |
| 2:03.4 | the survival rate. For her cancer, that rate is around three years. My parents didn't want me or |
| 2:10.3 | my younger siblings to worry. It was early September and we needed to go to school. An English major |
| 2:16.3 | and writer, my mom always pushed us to do our best. The last thing she wanted to be was a distraction. |
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