That there's a photo of my friends, Stu Shostak and Jeanine Kasun. Stu is, among his other endeavors, host of Stu's Show, a weekly Internet radio show that I plug here whenever it's on. Jeanine is the lady in his life and the host of her own show which I probably don't plug as often as I should.
Ten months ago, Jeanine suffered what doctors call a Subarachnoid Hemorrhage — in simpler language, a severe brain aneurysm. She was alone in their mountain home at the time and would surely have died but for some good luck. At the time it occurred, she was on the phone to Stu, who was at their home out in Chatsworth, which is many miles away. Stu was able to call paramedics and that's where more good luck kicked in. They were able to get to her in time…the first of many skilled medical folks who saved her life.
She was in a coma for over five weeks and totally paralyzed for weeks after. Her brain was affected, her vision and memory and motor skills and speech…everything. I was at the hospital several times and am amazed that she's gone from that to what I now see in here, which is about a 90% recovery. It will get even better than that, they say, but just how far she's come in under a year is amazing.
Stu's Show returns today (Wednesday) following a brief summer hiatus and they'll be devoting the entire program to this miraculous story. Stu and Jeanine will tell what occurred — Jeanine, of course, does not remember it all — and they'll be chatting with some of the paramedics and therapists and even a rep from the insurance company that made it all happen. You will want to hear his chilling (but ultimately, happy) tale.
Stu's Show can be heard live (almost) every Wednesday at the Stu's Show website and you can listen for free there. Webcasts start at 4 PM Pacific Time, 7 PM Eastern and other times in other climes. They run a minimum of two hours and sometimes go longer. Not long after a show ends, it's available for downloading from the Archives on that site. Downloads are a paltry 99 cents each and you can get four for the price of three. This is one you don't want to miss.