Rodney Versus Death
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What do you do in the face of a monstrous disease with a 100% fatality rate? In this short, a Milwaukee doctor tries to knock death incarnate off its throne.
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-Oh, wait, you're listening to Radio Lab. -Radio Lab. -Short! -From WNYC, and NPR. -Hey, I'm Jada Boomeron. -I'm Robert Krollewich. -This is Radio Lab, the podcast. Today on the podcast, a story about death incarnate. -accarnate. -incarnate, I think. -I think incarnate. -incarnate, it was Tim Howard, our producer. -Oh, I'm sorry, am I in here? -No, you're not supposed to be in yet. -You're coming, you're coming. -A story about death incarnate. -And the man who, well, who thought he could beat death. -Yeah. [knocking] -Are you Anne? -Yeah. -Nice to meet you, I'm Tim. Nice to meet you, I'm Tim. -Come to remember, these are Tim Howard, but you're already here, so just start. -Okay. -So, late last year, I took a trip out to Wisconsin. -Best one too. -It was like that first weekend of November when we were out there for the live show, and I met this woman. -Anne Geezy. -To talk about her daughter, Gina. -Do you want to tell me me just like, where are you sitting, what room? -Crazy story. -I am sitting in the kitchen of my home in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. -All right. -So, anyway, back in 2004, in September of 2004, her daughter, Gina, was 15, sophomore. -I remember it was home coming week, so they had all activities each day, and dress-up days, and-- -Gina's a volleyball player, and one morning, she just starts to feel kind of crappy. -She started getting a tingling in her left arm. We thought maybe she had a pinched nerve or something. Thought nothing of it. -Then, she goes to a volleyball game. Somebody, I guess, sets the ball to her to spike,
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What do you do in the face of a monstrous disease with a 100% fatality rate? In this short, a Milwaukee doctor tries to knock death incarnate off its throne.