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John Arnado

John Arnado

Guest on the "So Let's Be Friends" podcast who shares his journey of living with a traumatic brain injury (sustained as a teenager), seizures, and memory loss alongside his wife Rachel.

Aug 30, 2026

8:13
how do you, in return as a husband, support your wife with her needs and little bit of disabilities that she has?
8:23
Well, I've been trying to help her whenever she needs assistance.
8:29
I'm always there to give her hands.
8:32
I'm strong.
8:34
If she needs help picking herself up, I pick her up.
8:39
And, you know, it's stuff like that that I can do and that she does for me that adds to our relationship.
8:49
And we are, I think, giving God's blessings to go forward each and every day, which I live.

15 MINS LATER

23:31
That's it.
8:38
I think there was just one guy with you.
8:40
Well, not with me, because I hit the tree and I broke my neck.
8:45
It took us on the second time bouncing off that tree, Wimps Highway.
8:53
I ended up on the solid line in the middle of the road.
8:57
And the third time, the car hits the tree and bashes it and bounces off it.
9:05
And when the car stops running forward on me, it stops about six inches from running me over, my own car.
9:15
And the very first person to pass, come see me late out in the road in front of my orange 71 Datsun, was the head nurse for Josephine County Memorial Hospital.
11:09
Before the accident.

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