The Third Act [Rebroadcast]

Wonder Cabinet

Wonder Cabinet Productions

Society & Culture, Wonder, Philosophy, Ttbook, Knowledge, Interview

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

If life is a play, what happens during the last act? What’s it like to live knowing you have a limited amount of time left? This week, we’re talking about how to face, and in some cases, embrace your third act, whenever it arrives. Whether you’re looking at retirement, a late-life job change, an illness or just a lot of birthday candles on the cake — how do you live differently when you reach what’s likely to be your final act?

Guests:

Sabrina Frey, Daniel Pink, Maureen "Ma Dukes" Yancey, Martin Amis

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's to the best of our knowledge from PRX.
0:06.0	I'm Anne Strange Champs.
0:08.5	If life is a play, what happens during the third act?
0:16.0	It was January of 2013.
0:19.6	I was about to take my kindergartner, Harper, who was five at the time to the bus stop.
0:25.6	This is my neighbor, Sabrina Fry.
0:30.1	I noticed that I had a giant inferior blind spot, so I couldn't see anything below my pupil.
0:39.5	So I called the clinic, and I said, well, it sounds like you have a retinal detachment.
0:42.8	Why don't you come in right away?
0:43.9	We have an appointment at 10.20 this morning.
0:46.3	And they knew on exam.
0:48.6	I had my appointment at 1020.
0:49.9	By 1040, they're like, you have a melanoma in your eye.
0:55.0	It's an ocular melanoma.
0:56.0	It wasn't even like, oh, we think you might have this.
0:59.0	It was a, this is what you have and this is what we need to do.
1:03.0	It was bad.
1:04.0	Really bad.
1:07.0	It's very, very rare.
1:08.0	You know, that's four to six in a million every year are diagnosed.
1:12.6	Ocular melanoma metastasizes about 50% of the time, usually to the liver where it's incurable.
1:19.6	The median survival time without treatment is two to eight months.
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