Summary
The gift a father thought he didn’t want ended up being exactly what he needed.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Kind World from W-B-U-R. I'm Erica Lance. |
| 0:05.0 | Nate Kramer was a tall, quiet college swimmer when he was diagnosed with leukemia. |
| 0:10.0 | His dad, Vince, says it was the beginning of four difficult years. |
| 0:14.0 | Chemotherapy, fungal infection of his sinuses, |
| 0:17.7 | 30 operations, bone marrow transplant, |
| 0:20.7 | some sort of infection of the lawn, |
| 0:22.1 | but he rallied again, he decided to remove his the lawn, but he rallied again, |
| 0:23.2 | he decided to remove his spleen. |
| 0:24.5 | And he rallied from that. |
| 0:26.3 | During these ups and downs, although his health was precarious, |
| 0:29.8 | Nate started working with a music therapist |
| 0:32.0 | from Cincinnati Children's Hospital. |
| 0:34.0 | Here's Nate's mom, Diane. |
| 0:37.0 | Brian would come over to the house. |
| 0:39.0 | Let's see. |
| 0:41.0 | They would play music, they would record music. |
| 0:43.0 | Brian was really teaching him to play his guitar. |
| 0:47.0 | Different rock and roll. |
| 0:48.0 | That's Brian Schreck, the music therapist. For the most part, Nate's parents didn't really know what Nate and Brian were recording. |
| 1:00.0 | When Brian came over, I generally used that time to say, hey, I'm going out for a walk. |
| 1:08.0 | I wanted to give them that private time. |
| 1:11.0 | Nate had only one conversation with his parents about dying, |
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