EPISODE · Apr 12, 2026 · 26 MIN
Terrible Tightrope
from I AM MADELINE · host marcia doherty AKA Madeline
where I talk about the push me pull you of my mitochondria requiring rest and any hope of survival by getting governmental change or enough GoFundMe to stay alive being about me doing advocacy and on top of all of that the day-to-day living things of housekeeping and going to treatments. It's all more energy I have and yet it all needs to be done. And trying to navigate the competing needs of these things is like a terrible tightrope Links I talked about in the episodeSick times republish of op-ed March 20th 2025https://l.gourl.es/l/56898fa8ccf060b8bf79b817ad9fabd986f4a62f?u=11010884GoFundMe https://gofund.me/6d981312Email campaign CTV Template https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VD2zqOKxcQp7SUP06mY8slZlH1sXkKHKVPV0IfLo-uI/edit?usp=sharing Full info in gfm update https://gofund.me/6d981312 Housekeeping GoFundMe https://gofund.me/73aeb36e5Petition Open for a second round of signatureshttps://bit.ly/Marcia_petitionTheAtlantic article just came out that includes me(It was a gift link and now that seems to have expired but hopefully you can find a way to see it) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/09/canada-euthanasia-demand-maid-policy/683562/?gift=yKNFI6bZtyj8clr3yQtLYCSwFBjNIwPzg10Axz0GrTA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share by @elainaplott I'm so grateful that they linked to my podcast. For Atlantic readers As it doesn't talk very much about the specifics of my situation or my disease I made a little primer for them https://open.spotify.com/show/0oNLwzI1qZvvZ51bau1aNi
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where I talk about the push me pull you of my mitochondria requiring rest and any hope of survival by getting governmental change or enough GoFundMe to stay alive being about me doing advocacy and on top of all of that the day-to-day living things of housekeeping and going to treatments. It's all more energy I have and yet it all needs to be done. And trying to navigate the competing needs of these things is like a terrible tightrope Links I talked about in the episodeSick times republish of op-ed March 20th 2025https://l.gourl.es/l/56898fa8ccf060b8bf79b817ad9fabd986f4a62f?u=11010884GoFundMe https://gofund.me/6d981312Email campaign CTV Template https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VD2zqOKxcQp7SUP06mY8slZlH1sXkKHKVPV0IfLo-uI/edit?usp=sharing Full info in gfm update https://gofund.me/6d981312 Housekeeping GoFundMe https://gofund.me/73aeb36e5Petition Open for a second round of signatureshttps://bit.ly/Marcia_petitionTheAtlantic article just came out that includes me(It was a gift link and now that seems to have expired but hopefully you can find a way to see it) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/09/canada-euthanasia-demand-maid-policy/683562/?gift=yKNFI6bZtyj8clr3yQtLYCSwFBjNIwPzg10Axz0GrTA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share by @elainaplott I'm so grateful that they linked to my podcast. For Atlantic readers As it doesn't talk very much about the specifics of my situation or my disease I made a little primer for them https://open.spotify.com/show/0oNLwzI1qZvvZ51bau1aNi
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