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Episode 144: Kris Kristensen - Part 4 | Dying would have been easy. Living is the hard part.


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Hello Parrish the Thoughters. Yes that is a word and you are my groupies. Enjoy your place in the club.

My guest today for the fourth time is my friend ⁠Kris Kristensen⁠. For those that are joining us for the first time or if it’s been a minute, three years ago, Kris was diagnosed with stage 4 ⁠Chondrosarcoma⁠, an aggressive bone cancer in his pelvis and was literally weeks from the disease taking his life. To save him, doctors performed a grueling surgery called a Pelvectomy. Yes it’s as harrowing as it sounds. The entire left side of his pelvis had to be amputated and in the process he lost a perfectly good left leg.

Needless to say his life was forever changed and this interview is part 4 in a series of life check-ins to see how he is often winning the battle to get his life back to a somewhat normal state and also a deep dive into the darkest recesses of his soul where he often ends up while trying to make sense of the why behind this new journey. 

He tells me that dying would have been easy. Living is the hardest part.

Below are links to the previous three episodes of his journey.

⁠Interview #3⁠ - The doctors took my leg and now my career won't have me back...yet.

⁠Interview #2⁠ - 9 months with my new leg and an MBA in life.

⁠Interview #1⁠ - I complained and it saved my life.

⁠Kris' Blog Journey⁠

#⁠Chondrosarcoma⁠ #CancerSucks #Amputee #AgeDiscrimination #DisabilityDiscrimination #CancerIsntADeathSentence #RabbitHole #Perserverance #GOAT #ServeSomeone #WinningAtLife #DontGoDownTheRabbitHole #TheRabbitHole #PhantomPainsAreReal #Rolodex #GoingInAnotherDirection #CancerSurvivor #SickOfCancer

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