I AM MADELINE
autor: marcia doherty AKA Madeline
Najnowszy odcinek
Halloween 2026
Halloween 2026
O tym podcaście
A performer (actress, singer), leader, mentor, & community volunteer with her hands on a number of projects, Madeline(now fully public as Marcia)is a joy to know. She loves gardening & The Sound of Music. Her friends describe her as "effervescent."
She's one of more than 600,000 Canadians living with family of diseases twice as common as Multiple Sclerosis, little doctor education, strong correlation to viral infections, esp COVID-19. She & others face painful deadly deterioration without more government supports.
Petition
https://bit.ly/Marcia_petition
GoFundMe https://gofund.me/6d981312
Odcinki
Najnowsze 20 z 166 odcinków
- Halloween 2026 · 31 minwhere I talk about my Halloween plans and the push me pull you that happens between something that is critical to filling my cup AKA getting to dress up and connect with friends…
- Apocalypse Nightmare · 18 mina month away from running out of GoFundMe. at least that's the amount of money I for sure know gets me to mid-november. I don't know if I can stretch it further especially as I'm…
- Roadblocks and bright spots · 19 minwhere I talk about the push me pull you of me meaning emotional balance versus Health balance and struggling of course with financial deficits that make both of those hard. and…
- Melty Downy · 23 minThe perils of attempting to mask how sick I am and how scared I am about it but at the same time needing to be able to compartmentalize there's a bright light though. we (myself…
- Healing Crisis · 16 minit just realized I didn't really explain in this episode what I mean by healing crisis. for me it's been when a treatment makes some symptoms worse but ultimately improves…
- MASKING · 42 minwhere I talk about masking pain and fear. what masking is how it works. how it can trigger nightmares as it has done this evening. and I talk about how the death of my mobility…
- Grace · 38 minI was already thinking about Grace but then rewatching the documentary #YOU ARE HERE: A COME FROM AWAY STORY about the planes that landed in gander Newfoundland on September…
- I'M BACK · 17 minI'm back . my August hiatus from advocacy (because I was starting to melt down out of the pressure of a difficulty coming from so many angles) is over. although it wasn't a…
- medical instruction REST · 6 minit won't let me post all of what I posted in the GoFundMe update so here's that link if you want to read the rest ( https://gofund.me/6d981312 ) I'm hanging in best I can. But…
- ADVOCACY · 48 minwhere I talk about layers and kinds of advocacy from medical to bureaucratic to systemic. personal advocacy and larger disability and disease advocacy. And also different kinds…
- Music Magic · 8 minalive in the field episode from the music festival I've been talking about. I did manage to make it well hopefully I can do the whole thing. at least I'm here mid-afternoon on…
- I'm scared · 6 minwhere I talk about an aha moment around why not being able to pull my brain together as I describe in the previous episode freaked me out so much. Because if I can't be eloquent…
- blArgh · 5 minThe perils of tired brain and trying to be at magical Ted talk in a volunteer situation(see my project hail Mary episode). le sigh
- my Project Hail Mary · 13 minwhere I talk about my lived experience life and death against seeming insurmountable odds resonance with the movie Project Hail Mary some of the things I referenced today are…
- DOCUMENT done! woohoo · 13 minfinally! The document is done. sent to ministers and ministries here in BC and to the same media we sent the press release for the petition presentation. obviously it was sent…
- *the DOCUMENT* · 32 minIn the home stretch on this document to go with the petitions to the BC ministers of health, social development of poverty reduction and finance as well as the premier's office…
- tired brain is tired · 23 minwhere I document what happened this week. And what it's like to just try to deal with what a euphemistically called brain fog. It's a brutality of tired brain that it's hard to…
- A kind of claustrophobia, disability flavor · 23 minThis is my 4th attempt to try to explain the measure of extra crunchy hard I've been experiencing right now. The best way I know to describe the extremity of overwhelm and…
- housekeeping, deep clean part one · 31 minBecause of the amazing efforts of my friend and the GoFundMe she set up to have my apartment deep cleaned We started today! So I thought I would document that for the donators to…
- the grind · 22 minin which I grind away trying to get things done and the system grinds on me slowly destroying me In spite of my best efforts to wrangle them to logic. I'm sorry I don't have the…
