Suleika Jaouad
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1,033 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 29 May
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We would answer phone calls in the middle of the night when the panic attacks struck.
We always showed up when there was bad news and there was this shared connection.
sense of understanding that went beyond the strange twist and fate and malignant cells that had yoked us together.
But that was really grounded in something deeper, which was a desire to, like we said earlier, not just survive, but to make as rich and as beautiful and as fun of a life as we could, even within the fluorescence of the hospital.
And one of the young women in that group of friends, her name was Anjali.
And she had no one.
She was an orphan, her only sibling.
She reached out to as a potential bone marrow donor, and he never returned her calls.
She was an immigrant.
She had had a really hard life.
And she, unlike me, you know, after her first bone marrow transplant, learned that it hadn't worked.
And she had a few short months to live.
And I'll never forget that last week in the hospice ward at Bellevue Hospital.
Because she was there and all of us were with her in our varying stages of baldness.
And a hospice nurse turned to me and said, I've never seen anything like this before.
I've never seen a patient who is surrounded by fellow patients in their final moments.
And to me, that's what friendship is.
It's the moment of accountability that all relationships arc toward, which is how we show up in the midst of the hardest things.
And they taught me that in spades over and over again, that even when
Our instinct is to self-protect or to shy away from something that might break your heart.
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