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Healthcare is Hilarious. Continuing Mets Saga. Hospital. Home.

Danny van Leeuwen Health Hats
15 min readJul 12, 2021

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Mighty Casey Quinlan’s #MetsParty returns from the hospital. Worth it. Took control. Alive, cooking, eating, working. Piss and vinegar. Pasta.

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Our friend and inspiration, Casey Quinlan, returns from five days in the hospital. Casey authors and produces a podcast, Healthcare Hilarious. I sponsor Healthcare is Hilarious. Since this bit of fun with Stage IV metastatic cancer, Casey lacks the energy to maintain her weekly delivery schedule, so I’m recording our exchanges. Casey can use them to keep her fans and followers up to date. Listen to the raw, unedited version #MetsParty goes to the hospital here.

Why do I cross-post this dialogue? I never record conversations with people in the throes of their health challenges on this podcast. Why not take the opportunity when it appears? Who has that kind of energy when they’re down? Remember those 2Cs I’ve spoken about in the past? The 3Ts and 2Cs of best health (trust, time, talk, control, and connection). When you feel like crap, control and connection take a hit. By their very nature, hospitals and feeling like crap eat control and connection for lunch.

Let’s check in with Casey.

Enough control to call 911 on me

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Danny van Leeuwen Health Hats
Danny van Leeuwen Health Hats

Written by Danny van Leeuwen Health Hats

Empowering people traveling together toward best health. Pt with MS, care partner, nurse, informaticist, leader. Focusing on learning what works for people

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