Dr. Lucy Kalanithi

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808 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Jul

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He ultimately got the news that he had a chest x-ray.

It essentially looked like a cloudy sky.

I mean, it was like dense with tumors.

We both knew what it meant.

I never thought I was going to feel okay.

It was like Paul died and I was like, it's all over.

There's two big questions.

What would be left undone?

And how can I live most fully in the time I have left?

Thanks for having me.

I used to think life was like a mountain that you climb.

Like, I'll follow the path and then I'll get where I'm going.

And now, like, having lost Paul...

having taken our daughter from being a baby to now being a seventh grader, I think of life much more as like a series of moments.

In a way, it's like that my marriage and Paul's illness and even medical school, right?

Those were all mixed together.

Medical school, residency, being married, losing him.

That was like a chapter.

And now I'm in such a different chapter.

It's actually kind of amazing for the opportunity to like dip back in, like to get sort of like

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