S4 – EP13 – “You’re Going to Die From This”: Orlagh Reynolds on MND, Parenting and Letting Go
About this episode
Oriagh Reynolds shares her experience of love and loss as she navigates life after her husband Fraser's diagnosis with motor neurone disease.
In this episode I’m joined by Orlagh Reynolds, whose husband Fraser died from motor neurone disease. Their story starts the way so many of the best ones do. A chance meeting in Dublin, a bit of boldness, and a gut feeling that turned into a life. Together they built something full. Australia, travel, work, marriage, and their daughter, Una. And then another gut feeling. This one telling Orlagh they needed to go home to Ireland. Not long after, Fraser was diagnosed with MND. What follows is a conversation about what happens when you are told, in no uncertain terms, that the person you love is going to die, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. Oriagh talks about what the disease took from Fraser, slowly and relentlessly, and how they made a conscious decision to focus on what remained. Their home became a place of care, honesty, humour, and, perhaps most strikingly, gratitude. Not forced positivity, but a daily practice that carried them through the worst of it. We talk about parenting through terminal illness. How you explain something like this to a child. How you include them without overwhelming them. And what it looks like to raise a child in the middle of something…
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