After everything that we walked through with Mila's birth, the last thing we ever expected to hear was "Stephen has had a large stroke." But we did, less than 4 short years later.

In this episode we tell the full, raw story of Stephen's stroke from the beginning. From playing basketball, to riding in an ambulance, to the operating room, we leave nothing out. You will learn how we coped, what the doctors did (or didn't do), the reason for the stroke, the chaos that ensued, and Rachel's side of the story as his wife and co-survivor. You will hear about the residual impact, Stephen's healing journey, and his prognosis for recovery. You will hear about struggle, heartache, profound loneliness, grief, exhaustion, pain and purpose.

Stephen shouldn't be a stroke survivor, Mila shouldn't be a cardiac arrest survivor. Find out in Episode 4 what happened to Rachel just 30 days after Stephen's stroke.

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In this episode, we tell the story of the day our routine, scheduled induction turned into a stat C-section and a completely different birth than the one we expected.

One moment, everything was calm and planned. The next, our daughter was delivered with no pulse, a Code Baby was called, and we waited in the operating room not knowing if she was going to survive.

We walk through what we remember from those first minutes; what led to a run into the operating room, each of our perspectives, and the shock of hearing afterward about the 30 minutes of CPR, the knot in her cord, and everything the team did to bring her back.

We also share what it was like meeting her for the first time in the NICU, learning about cooling therapy, and trying to understand a completely different start to life than the one we had prepared for.

If you are a medical professional, you might find this story uniquely fascinating or medically rare.

If you’ve gone through an emergency delivery, a traumatic birth, a NICU stay, or have a child with special needs, you might hear pieces of your own story here. And if you haven’t, this is our honest look at how our daughter’s fight began the moment she was born, and how quickly plans can change.

Stay tuned for Episode 3, where we talk about the stroke that turned our world upside down again just four years later.

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In our first episode, we share who we are: a strokesurvivor, a disability survivor, co-patients, and parents to a special needschild.

We will give an overview of the four medical emergenciesthat reshaped our family - a traumatic birth, an unexpected stroke, suddendisability, and our daughter's epilepsy diagnosis.

This episode sets the foundation for what Resurface willbecome: honest conversations about resilience, medical trauma, caregiving, andrebuilding life after everything changes.

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