This is the Moth Radio Hour.
I'm Sarah Austin-Geness.
Storytellers find the moth, and we find storytellers, sometimes in strange and curious ways.
One spring day, I got a text from my friend Faith Saley, a former storyteller.
She said, I've just met a man named Jordy Ponsy.
You should talk with him about telling a moth story, but time is of the essence.
So I called Jordy.
Jordy.
Do you remember our first phone call and what were you thinking?
I have been a long time moth listener and to actually meet you, I was shocked.
Jordy and I worked on his story together for weeks and he told it live at our yearly moth main stage in collaboration with Greenwood Cemetery in front of 800 people.
His story gives context for this episode which is called Still Existing and Bucket Listing.
Here's Jordy Ponsy live at the mall.
I'm a psychologist by profession and when I tell people that they either do one of two things they clam up or then they start spilling their guts and I've always been kind of analytical cerebral I like figuring people out I like helping people and so it's been a really good fit for me and in In 2022,
I got the opportunity of a lifetime with a job offer to work at the esteemed Moffitt Cancer Center,
where I would get to help cancer patients go through all aspects of their cancer journeys.
I was so excited.
And about two weeks before my start date, I thought to myself, Jordy,
you really ought to get this stomach ache checked out that has been kind of lingering.
And so I drove myself one morning to an ER because it felt like my organs were about to explode.