HeyJaredTurtle Talk - Morgan's Story and the Family's Journey
This is Morgans story of strength, struggle, determination and faith following a life altering Traumatic Brain Injury. The road is hard and the journey is uphill, but the love and faith make this journey remarkable.
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Turtle Talk Ep. 20: Brain Injury Therapy Has No Roadmap (opens the original)
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Brain injury rehab therapy comes with no roadmap — and in Episode 20, Michelle and Tom explain what that really looks like day after day at the rehab hospital. Morgan had to hit therapy goals just for insurance to keep saying yes, which meant every speech, OT, and PT session carried weight far beyond the exercise itself.Michelle talks about researching treatment methods on her own so she could have real input on Morgan's plan, the therapists who thought outside the textbook and built therapy aro
Turtle Talk Ep. 19: The Day Morgan Said "Mom" (opens the original)
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What does brain injury rehab therapy actually look like day to day? In Episode 19, Michelle walks through the season at the rehab hospital when progress came in inches — a laser pointer, a switch, a bubble tube, and one afternoon when Morgan's voice broke through with "mom, mom, mom."Michelle also opens up about the waterfall garden behind the chapel, the place the family went to shut the noise out and pray. She talks honestly about bartering with God, about being angry with Him, and about the g
Turtle Talk Ep. 18: Insurance Nearly Sent Morgan Home (opens the original)
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Fighting insurance for brain injury rehab shouldn't be a full-time job — but that's exactly what it became. In Episode 18, Michelle walks through the stretch at the rehab center where Morgan was finally making real progress, and the insurance pressure that threatened to end it every single week.This one holds both things at once. There's the piece of cake that turned a five-times-a-week speech goal into twelve to fifteen. There's the sensory room with the bubble tube, and the moment Morgan reach
Turtle Talk Ep. 17: Caregiver Guilt After the Miracle (opens the original)
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Caregiver guilt is one of the hardest parts of a long medical journey, and this episode sits right in the middle of it. In Episode 17 of Turtle Talk, Michelle opens up about the weeks after Morgan didn't get her instant miracle, and the questions that followed her into the quiet: did I not pray hard enough? Is she paying for something I did?Rehab life is lonely. You spend your days in therapy rooms and doctors' offices, hundreds of miles from home, living out of someone else's house. What is inp
Turtle Talk Ep. 16: Not All Healings Are Big Ones (opens the original)
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This episode of Turtle Talk goes deep into the brain injury rehab recovery stretch — the months where Michelle and Tom were living in two places, running two households, and trudging through days that just sucked them dry. Michelle reads the CaringBridge post Tom wrote on a night she couldn't find the words herself, about perseverance, resiliency, and learning to embrace the suck instead of fighting it.She also talks about the thing that kept them going: refusing to accept the prognosis. First a
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