The Only Child Diaries Podcast
The Only Child Diaries Podcast
Latest Episodes
The Brochure on a Wisdom Tooth
An 8 out of 10 tooth pain will humble you fast. I woke up in the middle of the night with pain shooting through my head, tried Motrin and Orajel, and realized I had to call my dentist the second the office opened. What followed was the kind of ...
Rerelease - The Brochure on our Drunk Driver Crash
Has it really been nine years? September 7, 2017 is a date I still feel in my body. My husband and I were rear-ended by a drunk driver in Las Vegas, and what should have been a simple vacation moment turned into a dramatic, pivotal memory...
The Brochure on a Cardiology Visit
The first cardiology follow-up after a long hospitalization sounds like a simple box to check, until you’re the one figuring out the wheelchair, the car transfer, the heat, the fatigue, and the portable oxygen all at once. I’m Tracy Wallace, an...
The Brochure on Brownie Doing Her Lassie Impression
A house can turn into a mini hospital overnight, and nobody warns you how loud adulthood can get. Between the heat, the air conditioner, and an oxygen concentrator running in the background, I’m trying to sleep while my husband recovers at home...
After 58 Days in a Hospital, Bill is HOME!
They tell you “He’s going home today,” and your whole body finally exhales. Then the plan changes. Then it changes again. I’m Tracy Wallace, and I’m sharing what it actually took to get Bill home after 58 days in the hospital, including the oxy...