Thanks For Being Here Katie and the Fireman
Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Kelly Corrigan Show
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Listener Katie Niemeyer shares a poignant story from her time as a 16-year-old patient in a burn unit, battling a severe reaction to a depression medication. Katie recounts how a fellow patient named Kerry, a fireman recovering from his own traumatic burns, brought light and support to her darkest days. Despite his own suffering, Kerry showed up for Katie consistently, forming a lifelong bond that transcended age, color, and gender.
Please note: this episode references suicide.
(In case you missed it, here's the link to Kelly's TED talk on the occasional need for extraordinary bravery in family life -- please post or share with every brave and loving person you admire.)
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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 essential |
| 0:06.0 | and beautiful ways we affect one another. Every Sunday I'll read a submission from a listener |
| 0:12.3 | of Kelly Corrigan Wonders, could be wedding vows or about |
| 0:15.5 | mitzvah toast, a eulogy or retirement speech. |
| 0:19.1 | We believe this is probably the loveliest way to tap into our better selves and remember our highest values. |
| 0:26.2 | We encourage you to share this podcast each week with one person you love, maybe someone |
| 0:30.9 | you miss and need to bring closer, |
| 0:33.0 | someone you want to feel your appreciation or admiration or both. |
| 0:38.0 | This is thanks for being here is quite different. It's written by a listener |
| 0:52.2 | named Katie Nehemier looking back at a time in her life when she was suicidal and the man who came to help her through. |
| 0:59.0 | She says, hi Kelly, I discovered you about three months ago and fell in love with everything about you including your voice, your wit, and the topics you speak on. |
| 1:07.0 | I wanted to share a story from my time as a patient in the |
| 1:15.0 | Burn Unit at age 16. Thanks for sharing this, Katie. Here we go. |
| 1:18.0 | Carrie was the patient in the room next to me |
| 1:20.0 | and he would pass daily to go for his own dressing changes down the hall. |
| 1:25.0 | How you doing today, Katie? |
| 1:27.0 | I'm wrapped like a mummy. I cannot see, I cannot talk. |
| 1:31.0 | It's too painful to move. Keep fighting girl. |
| 1:35.4 | Carrie was a fireman who had to jump from a burning building because he caught fire. |
| 1:40.3 | He was only eight months out of the fire academy when this occurred. He was scared and thought he was going to die. |
| 1:46.0 | Despite all of this, Carrie brought a light to the burn unit darkness as he joked with the nurses |
| 1:52.3 | Flirted with the staff and walked with the back of his gown |
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