Both Sides of the Bed

There's a moment when the questions stop making sense. When you're living with someone twenty-four hours a day and nothing they do matches who they were, and everyone else sees them for seven minutes and says they look fine. The confusion becomes its own kind of grief—not the shock of the stroke itself, but the slow, daily disappearance of someone you thought you knew. Dr. J. 'Audie' Black is a bo...

Someone woke up one morning and noticed their balance was off. Within hours, their world split into before and after. The room filled with people moving with organized chaos — urgent, precise, purposeful — and a loved one suddenly became a patient in a system designed to save their life in minutes, not hours. Jason Mayberry is the education director and stroke coordinator at Texas County Memorial...

The moment the front door closed behind them, everything changed—not dramatically, but in the small, relentless ways that catch you unprepared. Each day brought something new, something the textbooks hadn't covered. No one had warned them that knowing medicine and living it were two entirely different things. In this episode of Both Sides of the Bed, you'll discover why so many caregivers ask the...