Lighting Your Way

Feb 21 2025 90 ep. 32 mins 4
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Podcast featuring exciting, hilarious, heartbreaking, terrifying and joyful stories of real nurse advocates helping real patients get the best healthcare. Each week, Betty Long and one of her colleagues at Guardian Nurses will take you behind the curtain to help you better navigate the healthcare system when you or a loved one is sick or injured.

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9.4 A Happy Ending!

Feb 21 2025 35 mins  
Jim Walsh got a new lease on life thanks to his incredible care team and the fantastic generosity of his son, Greg, who bravely donated part of his liver. It’s a happy story from beginning to end.

9.3 A Frightening Saga

Feb 14 2025 43 mins  
This week, we talk to Emily Koval, whose harrowing journey through the healthcare system could have been much less frightening with clearer communication at every level.

9.2 28 Hours in ER Limbo

Feb 07 2025 49 mins  
When Miriam Rivkin went to the hospital with a detached retina, they discovered another, more urgent problem. Then, failures in communication and chaos in the ER made a bad situation even more frightening.

9.1 Migraine Relief

Jan 31 2025 28 mins  
When the prescribed therapies to treat Lexi Livanos’ debilitating migraines were no longer effective, her doctors dismissed her concerns. Then, with the help of a nurse advocate and a second opinion, she got her voice and her life back.

8.8 New Knee Resolution

Dec 06 2024 36 mins  
In the final episode of Season 8, Patricia Long tells us about the ups and downs of her knee replacement journey and offers advice for those getting ready for the surgery.

8.7: Better Safe Than Sorry

Nov 15 2024 27 mins  
This week, we chat with 27-year-old Jessi Clarke, who went to the dermatologist to get an itchy mole checked out. It’s a very good thing she did — it was cancerous.

8.6 The Third Type of Diabetes

Nov 08 2024 39 mins  
Guardian Nurses’ Andrea Spector, RN, MSN, is back on the podcast, this time as a patient! She discusses her recent diagnosis of Type 1.5 diabetes, a “new” variety of the disease that has elements of both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.

8.5 A Second Cancer Battle

Nov 01 2024 46 mins  
The resilient Crystal Chuck shares what it’s like to be among the 1 in 5 cancer survivors who face a new, different type of cancer later in life.

8.4 Heart and Kidney Transplant

Oct 25 2024 35 mins  
Leston Hall shares his inspiring story of receiving a life-saving heart and kidney transplant after complications from COVID-19.

8.3 Living with Stage 4 Cancer

Oct 18 2024 44 mins  
Stage 4 cancer patient Marc Czarkowski discusses the importance of clear communication with healthcare providers and shares stories of his own healthcare journey.