The Gratitude List: Craig Mackinlay | 10
How Do You Cope?
Wondery
5 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s bonus episode, member of the House of Lords Craig Mackinlay shares the 5 things he is currently grateful for.
Beginning unsurprisingly with gratitude for life itself, Craig explains how, from the moment he woke up from his coma, he was determined to live.
Head to the main episode to hear about Craig’s ordeal with sepsis; from losing both his arms and legs to having to relearn how to walk.
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| 0:49.0 | One hundred. |
| 0:49.4 | Music Welcome to The Gratitude List, the bonus episode of How Do You Cope? |
| 1:04.7 | And I'm still joined by Craig McKinley, Lord McKinley. |
| 1:09.7 | And in our conversation on the main episode, it was clear that |
| 1:14.3 | there are an awful lot of things over the course of your journey that were caused for |
| 1:19.0 | enormous gratitude. So if we could start with the first thing that comes to mind that you're |
| 1:24.1 | grateful for. It's life. Life, no matter how tough it is, is a lot better than the alternative. |
| 1:30.7 | And at what point, going from the first moment you were ill to then realizing the severity of |
| 1:37.4 | the illness, to then seeing the state that your arms and legs were in the amputation, |
| 1:42.0 | at what point did that natural sort of life preservation attitude kick in? |
| 1:48.8 | Do you remember a moment where you thought, |
| 1:50.8 | okay, whatever it takes, I'm going to grab this? |
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