Feelin Good - Giving Back to Mary Free Bed

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good Morning, Happy Tuesday. It's Schmitty getting you feeling good
and you know that you've had a life changing experience
when you want to return to the place that gave
you your life back. That's exactly what professional golfer and
East Kentwood alum Brett White said when he came back
to Mary Free Bed, a place he was once a patient.
Brett figured after a pretty serious illness back in twenty seventeen,

(00:23):
he may never golf again. He explains he was at
a tournament in New Hampshire when he just started to
feel very run down and tired. He was diagnosed with
mono at an urgent care, but unfortunately it got significantly
worse and the virus led to encephalitis, causing swelling of
the brain. He was struggling to walk stairs, he was
slurring speech. That's when he was transferred to Mary Free

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Bed and it changed his life. He credits that beautiful
place with the rehabilitation that has him back on the course.
A documentary crew has now been filming his story and
he was back at Mary Free Bed hoping to speak
to others that are feeling the same way he did.
Working on that next road of recovery. It includes Nathan Ellenboss,

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a former patient who has been recovering from a diving
injury that paralyzed his lower body, tells Wood TV, and
it's just so good to meet someone that gets it.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
How to hear him talk about how he had to
relearn how to do everything, you know, like I did,
whether it's getting dressed or swinging a club. That's just
cool to meet people who know what you went through.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
I realized how lucky I am. You you get a
different perspective. Yeah, it's a very cool story. I've got
it up at West Michigan Star dot com and it
heads up. I'm really excited. This Saturday is the Thrive
Gala benefiting Mary free Bed, So I hope you'll follow
me at Schmidt in the mid so I can post
all of the incredible things that beautiful place is doing.

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Feeling Good is coming up again at nine twenty on
Star win oh five point seven. Feeling Good brought to
you by Overhead Door Company of Grand Rapids, reminding you
to open your day positively on Star one oh five
point seven