Lifespan: Stories of Illness, Accident, and Recovery By cover art

Lifespan: Stories of Illness, Accident, and Recovery

By: WOUB Public Media
Listen for free

  • Summary

  • On Lifespan, you’ll hear stories about encounters with the health care system. Each show contains stories bound by a common theme – a person’s personal journey through a particular type of medical trauma. The stories are deeply personal. Some stories reflect a person’s response to treatment and other stories simply reflect on the aftermath of an illness. Even when multiple people are describing their experiences with the same disease, condition or treatment, each account is unique. If the subject of this podcast interests you, please subscribe to Lifespan wherever you access your podcasts. You can also listen to Lifespan at WOUB.org/listen.
    2018 WOUB Public Media
    Show more Show less
activate_primeday_promo_in_buybox_DT
Episodes
  • “Kidney Failure”

    “Kidney Failure”
    May 2 2024
    Dylan lives in Tennessee. He’s a magazine editor. He has a wife. He has a young daughter. And he has Alport syndrome, a hereditary kidney disease. In this episode of Lifespan, Dylan describes his years on kidney dialysis, how a kidney transplant recently transformed his life, and the uniqueness of being part of an extended family with so many members affected by an inherited illness.
    Show more Show less
    48 mins
  • “Alzheimer’s”

    “Alzheimer’s”
    Oct 3 2022

    Larry and Carol have been married for 66 years. About 17 years ago, Carol began to show signs of memory problems. She has since been diagnosed as having Alzheimer’s.

    In this episode of Lifespan, Larry, and his daughter, Madeline, who are both physicians, talk about Carol and the difficulties that Alzheimer’s presents to everyone touched by the illness.
    Show more Show less
    44 mins
  • “Benign Tumors”

    “Benign Tumors”
    Mar 8 2022
    When someone suspects they have a tumor, the first thing they think about, and fear, is cancer. So, when their biopsy comes back as “benign,” they’re relieved. But the word “benign” can be deceptive. In this episode of Lifespan, our guest, Deidre Naughton, describes her experience with painful, recurring, non-cancerous tumors.
    Show more Show less
    28 mins
Physical Illness & Disease Hygiene & Healthy Living Science
Show more Show less

What listeners say about Lifespan: Stories of Illness, Accident, and Recovery

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.com reviews

Amazon reviews
No Reviews are Available