August 6, 2018: Thank You

Hi Brad and Brad,

I wanted to thank you both for reading my email on your Episode 53. Despite your first few episodes, you haven't lost me as a listener! I am past Episode 11 now (started listening last Tuesday) and am trying to get caught up in the next several weeks. It meant a lot to me to hear you read my email on my way into work this morning.

One thing I realized after hearing you read my email is that I didn't do enough justice for how miraculous her recovery has been. Without going too much into detail, we live in a third-story walk-up condo in Milwaukee without an elevator. Because of her right-sided paralysis, I was being told that we would likely have to move into a ground floor apartment or house. To make a long story short, that move was never needed. At the end of her inpatient hospital stay, she tried our stairs and made it up without hardly any issues. Now she's hoping to get back into law school at Marquette, which she was half of the way through when this unfortunate event happened to her. I am optimistic for her and am glad I could share my story with you and the rest of the community that listens to your podcast.

A quick story about a PJ experience I shared with her. She doesn't like Pearl Jam, and by that I mean they're not her taste but she does respect them, but agreed to go to the 2014 Milwaukee show with me. Yield has long been my favorite album of theirs and I was stoked when they followed up Brain of J with Faithful. I told her how special it was to me that they were playing my favorite album and that she was the one who got to be there with me for that. i keep the bootleg in my CD player in my car and put it on every now and then to relive that experience.

Regards,

Chris

Comments

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