Warning this episode discusses suicide, violence and psychosis, if you need help, call 988 suicide and crisis hotline.Jenn and Tek go to a cheery holiday party on Christmas night. Tek’s mom (Loretta) calls and says she wants to die and threat

Jenn and Tek talk about Losing Our Religion

Dec 12th, 2023 1h 24m

Jenn and Tek discuss how going through near death experiences have changed and not changed their religious ideologies.

Jenn and Tek Die Hard: Old Habits Die Harder

Dec 5th, 2023 1h 6m

Jenn and Tek discuss that weird feeling that happens when the engrained routines used to deal with past crises are no longer needed in everyday life.

Jenn and Tek talk about Being Bewildered by Business

Nov 28th, 2023 1h 25m

Jenn and Tek discuss terraforming on other planets to escape the immorality of capitalism now that Tekla has been fired for having leukemia.

Jenn and Tek talk about living in the Tiny House of Obsolete Objects

Nov 21st, 2023 1h 6m

Tek is bummed that their house is in messy shambles from living away at the hospital. Jenn discusses, how getting bitch-slapped by mortality, has changed her perspective on materialism. Megachurches, cults and charlatans really get Jenn's goat

Jenn and Tek talk in the Trauma Closet

Nov 14th, 2023 27m 54s

Tek's usual positive attitude takes a turn for the worse and she wishes someone would just push the easy button. Making appointments get's so hard Tekla starts to take it personally. Meanwhile Jenn is in a bit of shock about how to support Te

Jenn and Tek talk about Mom's Dementia

Nov 7th, 2023 1h

Tekla's mom Loretta is struggling with dementia. The rest of the family is struggling with her struggles. Jenn and Tek wonder what they can do to help, while they are still recovering from their own cancer trauma.

Ghosted Part 2: The inconvenience of accommodations

Oct 31st, 2023 36m 33s

Jenn and Tek talk about how the inconvenience of accommodating Tekla's new disabilities has cost them friendships.

Ghosted Part 1: Tek talks about how dying is not the scary part

Oct 24th, 2023 45m 42s

Tekla struggles to accept her body with its scars and disabilities, while being rejected by dear friends for those same scars and disabilities. She tries to wrap her head around the fear that is still with her from her near death experience.

Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Jenn and Tek have an Indulgence Day

Oct 17th, 2023 1h 9m

Jennifer and Tekla celebrate Tekla being bionic and able to walk again by drinking beer in a closet.

Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Jenn and Tek talk about how AVN stands for scarier words (Avascular Necrosis)

Oct 10th, 2023 1h 14m

The hits keep coming as Tekla is diagnosed with two more disabling (Avascular Necrosis), and near fatal diseases (Thrombotic microangiopathies or TMA) and how they can bounce back.

Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Jenn and Tek Say Gay

Oct 3rd, 2023 51m 22s

Jennifer and Tekla discuss the happiness they felt the only time Tekla’s Mom acknowledged they were married, the hard parts of hospital life, loosing hair from chemo, and the longest haircut in the world with contraband scissors.

Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Jenn and Tek talk about Graft Versus Host Disease and almost dying AGAIN.

Oct 3rd, 2023 52m 16s

Jennifer discusses the pain of watching her wife go through pain and thinking she will die. Bone marrow transplant complications turn out to be different than what they worried about.

Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Jenn and Tek see and hear scary looks and sounds

Oct 3rd, 2023 54m 19s

Tekla is awakened by the scary sound of someone drilling into her bones, but it’s okay, she doesn’t mind. Jennifer and Tekla discuss how severe facial bruising from vomiting can make even the toughest doctors scared of looking at her face. Tekl

Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Jenn and Tek have High Anxiety

Oct 3rd, 2023 57m 6s

Jennifer and Tekla discuss how taking a shower gets scary and complicated for both of them. Covid hits hard and forces them to separate and wonder if they will ever see each other again.

Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Jenn and Tek talk about listening to their own story to heal from cancer trauma

Sep 27th, 2023 1h 5m

Jennifer and Tekla, gobsmacked that they both made it through the past two years, discuss the emotional toll of being faced with death as an every day part of life.

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