Blink is intended for mature audiences as it discusses topics that can be upsetting, such as drug use, sexual assault, and emotional and physical violence.

Content warnings for each episode are included in the show notes.

Resources for drug addiction and domestic abuse can be found in the show notes and on our website, blinkthepodcast.com.

The testimonies and opinions expressed by guests of the show are their own and do not

necessarily reflect the views of myself or affiliates of this podcast. Any individuals mentioned

in the episode are presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law unless explicitly stated otherwise.

Imagine being told you have six months to live. You have a terminal progressive disease that's

eating away at the white matter of your brain. You'll soon lose your ability to speak, walk,

feed yourself, and eventually, you'll slip into a coma and die.

No one has ever survived this. Surely you won't either. As the months progress, the doctor's

warnings come to fruition. You slip into a pseudo-coma, laying there in total darkness for months.

The nurses chat about their bad dates in front of you, flip through television channels,

and discuss the certainty that your death will soon be here.

They don't know that you can hear them.

They're certain you're no longer in there.

Friends and family visit less and less.

Now your only visitor is your wife,

a wife who is certain you'll never recover,

and who begins to whisper strange admissions in your ear.

It is here, helpless in your hospital bed,

that you realize what may have gotten you here in the first place.

The scariest thing in your room is no longer the potential of dying, but rather the person sitting right next to you. The

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