What if your doctors weren’t allowed to help you?
2/10/20261 hr 7 min
After a lifetime of striving for control, a woman is thrust into unimaginable loss when a potentially catastrophic twin pregnancy collides with restrictive laws, forcing her to rebuild her life from the ground up.
Today’s episode featured Helen. Helen and her husband, Zach, began The Marigold Foundation, whose mission is to lead the way in providing financial aid to families that are facing a complex medical diagnosis or the loss of an infant or neonate. To learn more or to donate, please visit themarigoldfoundation.org.
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First 90 secondsHelen· Guest0:00
[upbeat music] ... And I think that was the worst of it, this feeling of not understanding what was happening, and not understanding why it was happening. Just this kind of awful quiet of, "No one's coming to help me."
Whit Missildine· Host0:28
[gentle music] From Wondery, I'm Whit Missildine. You're listening to This Is Actually Happening. Episode 393: What If Your Doctors Weren't Allowed to Help You?
Helen· Guest0:51
[gentle music] I was born in June of 1988. My sister was six and a half, and my parents had been living in northern Illinois for a couple years. My parents met at college. My dad had recently gotten out of the Army and was going to college, and my mom was there