Surviving The Unthinkable with John Ulsh

About this episode

John Ulsh shares his harrowing experience of surviving a devastating car accident that changed his family's life forever.

A family drives home from a swim meet thinking about Christmas plans and seconds later everything is unrecognizable. Our guest, John Ulsh, walks us through the head-on collision that nearly killed him and his entire family, the other driver’s death, and the recovery that followed: massive internal injuries, an induced coma, a nursing home stay, paralysis, and a long list of surgeries that kept coming for years. We also talk about the parts people don’t see when they hear a “survival story” h...

People in this episode

Host: Brad Weisman

Guest: John Ulsh

Topics covered

• survival
• family
• accident
• recovery
• trauma
• resilience

Keywords

• car accident
• survival story
• family trauma
• recovery journey
• internal injuries
• paralysis
• surgery

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