That's So Chad

Thanks For Asking

Feelings & Co.

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4.7 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Many of us have been forced to adopt a new way of grieving over the past year. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected our ability to properly mourn the way we need to when a loved one dies. We can’t safely gather by the dozens and sit in pain with one another for days on end. Stacy Cooper’s husband, Chad, died last fall, so she knows this all too well. But her grieving process actually started long before the pandemic hit. Support our independent production (and get bonus content galore!) by joining TTFA Premium. We now offer tiers as low as $4.99 / month. Sign up. Our email subscribers get first dibs on ticket sales, new merch, show announcements and more. Join our mailing list here. Nora also writes sad & funny books! You can buy them here. Did you know we’re on TikTok? Yep, it’s true. Follow Nora. You can catch up with TTFA on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook using @ttfapodcast. Nora's Instagram is @noraborealis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.9	I'm Nora McNeerney and this is Terrible Thanks for Asking. In the very beginning of the
1:06.0	COVID-19 pandemic, we made an episode called How's It Going In There? The episode was
1:11.3	filled with voices from our listeners, from you who, reflecting on or venting about what
1:17.1	it was like in your own version of lockdown and isolation. And one of the people that
1:23.4	we heard from was Stacey. Hi, this is Stacey Cooper and I am doing this recording for
1:32.0	The How's It Going In There? That's Stacey in March 2020. Her husband, Chad, was 45
1:39.8	years old. He was isolated in an assisted living facility, while a highly infectious virus
1:45.1	brought much of the outside world to a standstill. Outside of that facility and the bedroom
1:51.7	where Chad was confined, we were all worried, we were anxious, we were desperate people were
1:57.2	losing jobs, losing loved ones, losing connection to one another. And Stacey's visits with her
2:03.8	husband were reduced to FaceTime calls. I'm not telling you anything you don't already
2:10.2	know because you were there unless you're a little baby listening to this podcast in
2:15.1	which case, how did you find a podcast you little baby genius? Go ask your grown-ups
2:19.9	what happened in 2020? It was bad. But before Stacey was spending a few minutes between 10
2:26.3	a.m. and 11 a.m. on FaceTime, looking into her husband's eyes through a screen, she
2:32.2	was a young woman, walking her dogs. Chad and I were neighbors. I lived two houses
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