Tim Manley: A superhero goes to the hospital
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2012
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
As a six-year old, Tim Manley has to go to the hospital with a mysterious illness. Fortunately, he has his superpowers and his trusty sidekick -- his mom. "We get to the hospital and I have my own room... like a King!"
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:06.0 | I felt. |
| 0:07.0 | I was so... |
| 0:08.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | ...theid... Hey everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:33.2 | Our vacation is over, and we are now back with new stories. |
| 0:37.1 | This week's story is from Tim Manley. |
| 0:39.6 | The story was recorded in July 2012 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. |
| 0:44.4 | The theme of that night was Medical Misadventures. |
| 0:51.5 | All right, so when I was six years old, I was really small and really scrawny. |
| 0:59.8 | My older brothers' nickname for me was the twig. |
| 1:07.6 | I was also really pale. |
| 1:09.2 | I was the kind of pale that's like so white, it's more like a light purple. |
| 1:13.6 | But the reason I was so pale is that I was sick. For a couple months I'd had this really bad cough, |
| 1:24.6 | and I started getting fevers too, so I kept getting sent home from |
| 1:28.3 | school. But the problem was that my family didn't have health insurance and we didn't really |
| 1:33.7 | have the money to take me to a good doctor. My parents had just gotten divorced and my mother |
| 1:38.9 | had moved my two older brothers and I to this little house in a new town, and we were really |
| 1:43.6 | barely getting by. So I'm kind of sick for a new town, and we were really barely getting by. |
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