Interview 594 - Interview with Krisdee Clark!

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Hey, good morning, and welcome to break Through Walls. I
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am Ken Wallason. I'm your host, and today I was
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going to have and then I wasn't going to have,
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and now I'm having the amazing Christy Clark on the
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show today. She is incredible, y'all. I'm telling you, you
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want to share this out. Let's get as many people
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on here as we can. Christy's going to come in
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and tell us her story and how she rose to
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I mean, this lady is the former MISSUS America. She's amazing,
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beautiful on the outside and the inside. So do me
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a favor. Share this out with everybody that you know,
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and stay with us. We will be right back with
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the one and only Christy Clark. Okay, let me bring
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Christy on. Christy, welcome to the show.
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I'm glad I finally got to do it. I mean
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it was put to go there, but I'm here.
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Oh my gosh. You know what though, that's that's what
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makes it keeps life interesting.
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Yeah, we'll goo with that. We'll go with that. That
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power out of just keep life interesting. Can you believe it?
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I Like, I was so looking forward to having you
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on the show that I literally thought it because you said,
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I'm I can do it from my phone in my car,
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and I'm like, I almost said yes, and then I'm like, no,
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it's never worked out. So I'm glad that I'm glad
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that you're here. I'm glad you're here and your powers
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on and everything is golden. So so Christy, I started
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this show about six years ago and have interviewed over
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six hundred celebrities and entrepreneurs. And joke my buddy Joe Ingram,
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it's missus America. Oh he's He's saying he's a former
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Miss America. Leave it up. Leave it up to a Californian.
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I like it. I like it. I like it.
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So so you know, this was really to help people
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have a breakthrough in life. And I think that when
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we hear other people's stories about overcoming hard times and
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how they got through it, it's just it's good for everybody.
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So let's start with you. You telling everybody where you
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were born and raised.
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Yeah. So, actually I am a Carolina girl. I'm from
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South Carolina. I was actually born in Ohio though so
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lived there for a very very short time in my life,
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don't remember it at all. So I consider myself a
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Carolina girl or raised here in South Carolina, which the
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University of South Carolina, and have pretty much lived here
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my whole life, with the exception of just traveling all
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over the United States.
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Wow. So what part of Ohio do you know?
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A little town called Finley?
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Shut the front door. That's where I'm from that area. Stop,
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I swear to God. Well, I'm not from Finley, but
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I just south maybe forty five minutes. Yeah, that's Hancock County.
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I know exactly where you're from.
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Yeah. I was born there and I think I was
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about two. So that's why OA my home.
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That's awesome. So so you so you went to Did
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you grow up in a small town in South Carolina?
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I grew up right outside of Columbia, which is a
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state capital, and so I was about fifteen minutes outside
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of Columbia. So the town was small, but I had
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Columbia right there, you know, capital being down there, all
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the big university everything, So so I kind of had
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the best of both worlds.
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Okay, what was it like for you growing up there?
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Like as a kid, did you Here's here's why I
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asked that. I think that normally there's a person, an event,
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maybe a combination of events or people that kind of
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push us in the direction we go as adults. What
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what do you think of when? When I mean what,
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what do you think? Kind of pushed you in the
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direction you you win as an adult?
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Great questions. So growing up, I always been an extrovert
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and loved the kind of doing the fun stuff in
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the spotlight. I played fast pitch softball. I was a
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first baseman all through school. Absolutely loved it. Loved doing
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that kind of stuff. And then I knew I wanted
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When I went to the University of South Carolina, I thought,
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I'm gonna work in sports. I wanted to actually be
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a general manager of a Major League baseball game. That
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was my dream. That was my goal. I wanted to
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run the whole show. Wow, yeah, it's all like, that's
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what I want to do. A big New York Mets fan.
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Don't ask, we're good this year, but don't ask how
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I got to be. I just love the Mets. So
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I'm a huge Dasall fan. And so I really thought
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that's the direction my life would go. And you know,
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when you know, when you think you know, God laughed
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and said, yeah, it's not the direction you're going. To go,
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and so I actually got a job right out of
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college working for a hockey team. We had the ECCHL here,
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and I liked it. I was in sales, and I
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you know, I liked being around the sport thing. But
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then I got this incredible job working for Centers for
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Medicare Medicaid services. Nothing I ever want to do, like, no,
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except for I traveled all around the country and I
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was doing public speaking, and I was speaking to doctors
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and administrators and nurses and it was just incredible And
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looking back, you can actually see how my life went
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why I started there, and it was complete preparation from
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what I'm doing now.
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Wow. So what do you think That's a huge shift.
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I mean, that's like you couldn't even guess that it
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would be. You'd be better at guessing the lottery numbers
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than that. So why that? Why did you go into that?
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So honestly because it's where I got a job somebody,
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my sister worked for the company, and she was like, Hey,
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there's this great job. You'd be good at it. You're young,
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you're single, you could go on and travel. It would
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be great for you. And I was like, okay, thinking
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I would do it for a little bit. Thirteen years later,
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I was still there and so don't work for them anymore.
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But that's how it happened, and I was, I mean,
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it was just unbelievable. But it gave me such a
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great background in healthcare and clinical type things without having
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gone to school for that, but really knowing thing from
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policy and legislative changes, being on the actual end of
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where those policies are made all the way now to
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what I do now and working for one of the
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largest hospices in the United States and being their policy
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and legislative person. But then my real story of breast
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cancer and what I do as a women's health advocate.
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So it all was just I mean, I feel it
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was divinely just meant to be where I had to
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be there and understand that aspect of things in order
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to be where I am now.
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So okay, so you talk about okay, you did that
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for thirteen years and then what happened? What was the
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next shift for you after? And that was Medicare Medicaid.
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Worked for the CMS, which is now who doctor Oz
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is over and Human Services, so I was working for
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them in policy and legislation. I actually worked for a
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contractor of them and loved it. I mean it was great.
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I was I was traveling everywhere and talking and really
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talking about policies and listening to people talk about the
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importance of policy changes and really seeing those things happen
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to taking a break from that type of work because
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I became a mom and I stayed at home for
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a little bit, which was absolutely epic, and loved it. Yeah,
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all of a sudden coming back into the workforce, but
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deciding that I was going to be on the opposite end.
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I was going to be on the provider side of
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things and then fight for those policy and legislations. So
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I really have gotten to wear both hats and see
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it from both sides, which which makes it a very
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unique perspective. And then that really catapulted me into my
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advocacy work.
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So so talk about when so you will just go there,
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I mean, so you you're a breast cancer survivor. I
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almost don't even like the word survivor. There's got to
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be a better word, like achiever, kick asser, or something
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like that.
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Driver I'm a thriver, that's the driver.
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There you go. I love that. But so, so you
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talk about the day that you found out that you
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that you had that.
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Was during COVID. Of course, doesn't everything happen during COVID.
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I feel like so twenty twenty, I'm at home, my
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husband is deployed to the Middle East. I'm here with
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my two children. They are eight and five at the time,
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so you know, a lot going on. Were just starting
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to wear the mask, just starting to lock down for
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the two weeks. And I went to get my mammogram
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and when I did, it was they saw something. And
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the doctor came in and said, listen, I see something,
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probably nothing to worry about, but want you to come
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in and do a diagnostic. And so came back and
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then I did the biopsy and I got a call
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that was on a Friday, so I had to wait
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over the weekend, which was absolutely horrible. And then on Monday,
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I got the call that I had invasive lobular carcinoma,
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so I had breast cancer on a second mammogram. I
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probably had breast cancer the first mammogram I had. But
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mammograms are so outdated. It's a terrible way to find cancer.
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That is not at all by saying you shouldn't get
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your mammograms because it's the only thing that women have
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right now for it to be paid for, so at
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least you're doing something. But yeah, it was a slow
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growing cancer, but it was already in two of my
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lymph nodes, which I found out later in the story.
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But that was the day that I was diagnosed, and
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I thought, Okay, so we're doing it. We're going to
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survive this, and we're going to figure out what we're
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going to do on the other side.
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Oh my goodness. So I mean, wow, what happened with
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your your mindset? You seem like a really I don't
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know you very well. We've had a couple of conversations,
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but you seem like a very positive, upbeat, that the
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glass is half full kind of of person when you
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get news like that, though, I would imagine it's tough
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to hang on to that, at least for the moment
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it is.
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But I will tell you, I thank you for saying that,
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and I am that kind of a person. But I
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was also extremely naive. And what I mean by that
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is I really had in my head I didn't know
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anything about breath cancer. I didn't have any any of
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my family that have breath cancer. I did not have
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the brackagen nothing so this was all new to me,
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and I really thought in my head that I was
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going to, Okay, you know what, if they tell me this, okay,
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we'll just go in, we'll do what we need to do,
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and guess what, I will have a MAMMI makeover and
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have implants and all will be well. I mean, that's
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honestly what I thought. So I thought, Wow, we're gonna
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handle this. And then when I heard the words you
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have cancer, no matter how, you sort of think okay,
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they're gonna call me today and tell me you don't.
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You cannot prepare yourself, and it really did hit me.
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And I thought the only thing I could think of
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is I have two children at home. I'm home by myself.
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I have to handle this with grace. And grace became
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my word. It was the word that I used the
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entire year of going through chemo and radiation. I just said,
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I have to handle this with grace. I had to
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show my daughter what women do when we are told
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we have to fight. And I had my son how
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strong women can be. And those were two really really
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good reasons and I and and that's what I did.
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I mean, I just thought, there's nothing I can do.
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So we're gonna do it. We're gonna we're gonna, you know,
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dig down and we're gonna do it.
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Wow, that's that's that's incredible. So and your husband was
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still deployed.
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Yeah, he was deployed and he came back. The Army
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allowed him to come back for my double mastectomy, which
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I ended up having. He was on the last plane
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out of Kuwait before they shut down all the air
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traffic because if you can recall, I mean it's crazy
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to remember that time, but like roads were closed, airlines
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were closed, so all airline traffic. He was able to
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come over two weeks. He was not able to come
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to the hospital with me because of COVID. He was
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not able to stay with me or advocate for me
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in the hospital. I was there by myself for those
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day and a half and it was crazy. So life
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was very different. I had to do my keynotes on
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my own, I had to do radiation on my own
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because of COVID. But it was very weird. But I
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also didn't know any different. It's not like I had
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gone through this, so it's not right different.
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You're your attitude, Holy crap, people need more of that.
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Like I'm serious. Oh my gosh. So so you know,
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because I sit here going okay, knowing what we know
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now about COVID and like, uh but I guess you
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can get get into that that resentment and stay there
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and that's not a fun place to be. But so
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so talk about you know what happened after that. I
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can't believe your husband was only able to come back
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for two weeks.
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was diagnosed with invasive popular carcinoma. They told me it
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was very small. The doctor, the surgeon that I went
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to here locally, did not have a great bedside manner.
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I knew instantly he was not the surgical oncologist for me.
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I just knew it. And that's really where this advocacy
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comes in about not only women's health, which we'll talk about,
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but advocating for yourself. That's the first and foremost thing.
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I was there by myself, and I knew I needed
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to advocate for myself. And I didn't feel comfortable with him.
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You know, he was telling me I went in after
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doing very little research, but enough that I knew and
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I know myself that if I had had a lumpectomy.
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always be very concerned that the cancer would come back.
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So I came back knowing, hey, listen, I definitely want
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to double mess ectomy and he was like, that's radical.
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Let's pause, let's not get ahead of ourselves. Then I
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went for my MRI and it came back that it
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was much larger, which is where the mimography thing comes in.
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you have something going on, sometimes not always. Then you
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go in for your MRI resolve well before that, you
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have your biopsy, but then you go in for an MRI,
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which is really where women need to be at with
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their healthcare and rest health, and that is where it
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really tells you. And we're talking like where he thought
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it was a spec to where it turned out to
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be more like a golf ball, which is in one week,
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you know that it's just that's the discrepancy between mammograms
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and MRIs.
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Yeah, And he said, yeah, it's bigger, so you probably
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want to have at least one, you know, the bilateral
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mass ex or the single mess deect to me and
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I was like, no, I want them both gone, I'll
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have reconstruction, and he was like, okay. By the time
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I had my surgery, so one month from diagnosis to surgery,
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it was actually seven point seven centimeters, so it was
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quite large, and it was in two of my limp
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modes going into a third one, so it was already
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in my letatic system. So you can see already where
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health here it starts for women will say in this
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instance all the way to where in one month. I mean,
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that's a massive difference. You can see where people are
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not detecting what they have or unable to detect what
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they have because we're just so far behind in.
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That right, Wow, so I have.
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So yeah, so I'm diagnosed, I go through all that
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and decide on the double mastectomy. But before that, I
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was like, I'm not I'm not doing it, and this
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guy is not the one for me. And I really
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really strongly suggest to women to always advocate for yourself.
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I went up to Charlotte. That was that was an
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and a half for me in North Carolina. Found an
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incredible plastic surgeon, an incredible surgical oncologist who were absolutely
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wonderful and who I felt comfortable with. I didn't want
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to be a widget in the system. I didn't want
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to be Hey, I don't really like this guy, but
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he's telling me this. I mean, he sent me you
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a reconstruction doctor, and the reconstruction plastic surgeon looked at
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me and said, well, you'll look reconstructed and but that's
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okay because the cancer will be gone.
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Oh my god, I'm sorry.
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What like, there can't be real life. I mean, you know,
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we all watched the box shows. We all watched that
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there's no way that we don't have better classic surgeons,
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and we do. But the difference is is they send you.
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They actually send you to people that do regular augmentations,
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where reconstruction doctors are not covered by insurance. But the
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augmentation ones are wo and the reconstruction ones actually know
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how to do a reconstruy truction for a patient. It's
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much much different than an augmentation.
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Wow wow wow wow. So so Savvi is on here
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saying every woman needs to hear this. My wife is
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on here watching and listening, and hopefully all of them
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are sharing this out because I will guilt you into
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it if you don't. But you know, I think that
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and I'm I'm like that. I'm like, I've I when
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I had COVID. I went into a hospital because my
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oxygen dropped to seventy and this little Indian doctor comes
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walking in literally wearing a space suit and an oxygen
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tank and all this creer. I'm like, what is going on, dude?
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What are you doing? Like he's like, we will treat
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you with retten dizzy via, and I'm like, and you
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will get punched in your face. You're not treating me
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with that? Are you out of your friend in mind?
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And then he's like, and we will give you the vaccine.
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I said, no, no, no, no, I need oxygen and fluids.
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That's what I need. I have double pneumonia. And he's
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and so we got in and I checked. I walked
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out of that hospital. I said, I'm not doing this
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because he was trying to guilt me into letting the
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Musram Dezevere and give me the jab and I said, no,
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I'm not doing it. I'm not doing either one of those.
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And I think that a lot of people like, you're
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saying Christy and is it am I saying your name? Right?
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Is it Chris d or Christy just Christie? So but
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what you're saying is people don't advocate for their own
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health care. They go blindly into any whatever a doctor says, right,
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it's the white coat syndrome. And and I'm like, I
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don't give a crap if you're a doctor, If you're
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giving me advice that I feel I feel in my gut,
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isn't right. I'm out, dude.
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Yeah, And you know you know your body. I mean,
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we all really do. We just don't trust it when
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you go in in a doctor. Listen, that surgical oncologist
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maybe amazing for somebody else, but he was not amazing
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for me. And that was where when you go through
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something that you don't know if you're going to survive
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or no matter what it is in life, if you
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do not feel comfortable, do not stay with that doctor
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there are. You have the ability to go anywhere you want,
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so absolutely shop around, go and get a second opinion.
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In fact, that doctor. The last straw for me with
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that surgical oncologist was when I found so I had
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just gotten my MRI and I was getting the results
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and I had already called up to North Carolina to
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get a second opinion with doctor Turk, and I called
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over there and said, Hi, I'm getting a second opinion.
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I need my MRI results though he can review it.
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And he She went and talked to the doctor and
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came back, and the doctors had told her to tell
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her that then I'm not getting my MRI results and
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then new doctor can just do an MRI and that's
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how they set it to me on the phone.
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What so I had.
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To say, okay, never mind, I won't go to another
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doctor so I could get my m RI results. And
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then I went to the other doctor. But that because
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you become a widget in these systems of healthcare, and
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they just it's great that we have a healthcare system
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that you know wants to you know, sends us, does
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this whatever. They and you don't have to think about
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where you're going. But we're not even thinking anymore for
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ourselves on what is the best the best route for us.
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So so wait a minute, you're saying that this doctor
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tried to strong arm you into staying with him.
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Yeah, told me I couldn't have my m RI results
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if I didn't if I went to get a second opinion.
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And your husband, your husband's military, right, Yeah, he.
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Wasn't in town though, because he wasn't he wasn't back yet.
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This was I had to do all this on my own.
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Nobody could go with me anywhere.
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Did he go talk to that doctor when he got back.
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Because we were so happy to be somewhere else and
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the new daughter was so fantastic. In fact, I kind
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of tested the new dog when I sat there. I
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was like, Okay, I think I'm gonna get another opinion.
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And he was like, absolutely, you go to MD Anderson,
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go wherever you want. Wow, here so you know where
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how I feel and what you should do. Go do
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what you need. And I looked right at him, I'll like,
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never mind, let's schedule the surgery and ready to go.
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I wow.
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He was that confident. That was my guy. Like it
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just it's.
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Crazy, Wow, that's that's insane that if a doctor treated
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my wife. She's on here. She'll tell you if a
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doctor treated her like that, Yeah, he will. He would.
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He would rue the day that he was born. Like
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I'm serious, I'm like that just like so so God,
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I don't even know where to go from there. So okay,
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so you had the surgery. Obviously your husband was he
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there when you had the surgery?
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He got here, he blew in the day before them
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Double messax to me on that last plane out and
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he flew into Baltimore from overseas. So he ended up
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renting a car and driving because he was so worried
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he wasn't gonna be able to make that connection. And
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we were really concerned because at the time, you know,
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we're all buying the COVID stuff. So we're like, okay, well,
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I hate for you to be on any more airplanes
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than I have cancer. And so he drove from Baltimore.
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He said nobody was on the road. They rented him
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a Dodge Charger or Challenge or whatever. I'm pretty sure
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he knows exactly how fast they go. Now, Nope, he
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was on the road and he had to drive to Baltimore,
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so he was out of the last But yeah, in
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time for that, and I went in. I drove up
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to Charlotte. I had to carry a piece of paper
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with me that said that I was having surgery. And
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the police officer pulled us over in North Carolina. What
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you were supposed to be on the roads.
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Yet, Oh god, he miss that.
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We went through and had my double mass extiny and
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he was able to calm in the hospital to see
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me in like a whole way. I was just I'm
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so groggy, basically, it's like pruful life. And then they
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set me upstairs by myself. So they put me in
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the bed and no kidding, I'm like this in the bed, okay,
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they said. I'm like, I'm laying like this. Oh my god,
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I have a double mess segamy. You're literally bonded, like
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you know, you're you can't move, your arms, can't move nothing.
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They'd cut my limp notes, so like, I have no
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like mobility. So I'm laying there in the Finally, about
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an hour later, a nurse comes in and shooks me
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and she goes, did they put you with that? And
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I was like yeah, And so she gonna get somebody
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to help lift me up so that I was straight
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in the bed and not like God God. Then they
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brought my food and they left it up here, which
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I can't reach me.
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Oh my god.
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But I'll tell you why that happened, and that's because
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during COVID, nurses are so used to having family advocates
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with them. So your husband's with you, your wife's with you, right,
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we don't have anybody. They just leave this stuff wherever
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and they're they're not thinking. Oh, I've literally called my
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husband on a cell phone who was at a hotel
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down the street, and I was like, I can't reach
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my food.
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Oh my god.
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So it was this like hayas with all of it.
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I you know, wow, I'm just sitting here blown away.
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I'm just so blown away. So so how did your
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so was your husband there through your recovery or did
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he have to leave fairly let.
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Weeks he did get to go to the chemo, uh
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discussion like how the chemo would go and whatnot. So
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I ended up needing four rounds of chemo twenty five
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rounds of radiation. So I would go to these eight
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hour confusions once every three weeks. And I got to
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chemo number three, got home, and I was on a
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chemo that can cause anaphylactic shock, so they really they
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give you better drill and they're really kind of watching
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you during it. So I get home and I go
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to sleep, and the next day I'm feeling kind of
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it and that this is this is around three of chemo.
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And I go to the next day and I called
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my husband in the middle of that night because we're
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eight hours difference, and I was like, something's wrong. I
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just don't feel right. And I started having this like
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weird like guttural sound in my throat and all of it. Well,
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little did I know. I put myself in the car
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with my Golden Doodle in the bag. My kids are
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not home. I put that in the bag. It's two
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o'clock in the morning. I'm going over where the on
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call doctor told me to go get some friend of
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zone at a twenty four hour pharmacy. And I decide
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last minute, I'm going to take myself to the hospital.
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And I did, and I was going into anaphylactic shock.
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Oh my god.
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It was literally a fork in the road of going
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to the twenty four hour pharmacy or the er, and
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I chose the er, and thank god they did because
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I'm here to tell about it. Because the doctor said,
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that's it. No more chemo. The next one will absolutely
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kill you because you're already I wanted. I went into
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anel flax instruct twice. They gave me the ebnephrine, went
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to bed, woke up the next day, happened again. So
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that was it. Wow, Yeah, I ended my chemo, finished
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up the twenty five rounds of radiation. After that, and
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then went in for my complete reconstruction surgery, which is
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what I was puting. My fun surgery put me back together,
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and that's where my story really started to develop into
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That's where that's where I thought, Hey, you know, I've
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got a double mass sect to me. I've lost my hair.
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I looked crazy because I'm sick. So let's do a pageant.
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00:28:52.839 --> 00:28:59.079
That sounds great. Let's stand on stage and this one
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suit because.
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Oh my god, So I want you to meet this
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lady here, Kelly Spies Williams. She has the Kelly Williams Show.
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She's very, very heavily involved here in Texas with the
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teen pageants, and she has her own show, the Kelly
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Williams Show, that you need to be on. Y'all would
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love each other, I promise you, so remind me. I
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want to connect you and Kelly because you guys are like,
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you're going to be like instant sisters. She's amazing. Yeah,
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so you cracked me up. Okay, So here you are.
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You said you lost your hair, You've been through all
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this stuff and you decided, you know, now would be
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the perfect time to be in a beauty pageant.
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Right.
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Sounds sounds logical exactly.
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It's so, am I still showing up in my thing?
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Yeah, you're frozen. At least you're frozen with a pretty
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smile on your face.
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Go turn it here, I'll keep talking. I'll put that
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up for a minute.
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There you go.
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So yeah, so crazy enough, I am. I'm not really
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a pageant girl. I know that's absolutely crazy since I
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grew grew up in South Carolina and we are the
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land of pageants down here. But you know, I played
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softball and all that kind of stuff, and and so
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I ended up deciding to start a blog during all this,
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and it was really just for me and some women
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that I knew that were kind of going through a
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very similar thing, because what I noticed in going through
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all of this is that I didn't have people that
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were able to tell me things that I needed to know.
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And what I mean by that is what is chemo? Like?
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What is the Hey, let me let me interrupt you
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real fast, because it's going to be a lot better
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if your video's on. Just all you have to do
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and you'll it'll you'll have to re enter the studio
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and all that, but just refresh the page, Just refresh
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the browser, and you'll come right back. So Christy will
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be right back. She's she Honestly, what happened this morning
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is oh look she's already back. There she is. You're moded, though,
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I think, oh, there you are, You're back, You're back.
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I thought I would never do a pageant, but I
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started this funny blog called The Blonde Bombshell and that
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was a cute name that my husband always called me,
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and it was it was an iron name at the
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time because it was the last thing I felt like
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was a bombshell. So I thought, I'll name it this
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cute little name that he always calls me, and so
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that's what I named it, not knowing that it would
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go viral and people from all over the world will
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contact me about my journey and about questions, Hey, what
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was this like? Or can you help with this? And
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so I thought, how I really have this platform. And
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that's when platform and pageant kind of went together and
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I thought, Okay, well I'm going to do a pageant.
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So it was a year after I had not even
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a year after I'd had my double mass actomy and
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my reconstruction and all. That was just a few months
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after my reconstruction that I decided that I was going
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to do the Missus South Carolina pageant, and I did,
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and I was crowned Missus America or crown Missus South Carolina,
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and then went on to the national pageant where I
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shared my story there and was able to be crown
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MISSUS American there, which was absolutely phenomenal. And it was
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really about thriving after life storms, and that's really what
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it was about. It was your journey and how you
576
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are not a product of cancer. That cancers a portion
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of your story. It's just a small chapter of your story,
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and that there is truly a pre cancer you and
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a pose cancer you. And that was a really hard
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thing for me to navigate. Yes, I was a totally
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different person in some ways and it was good, but
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I needed to know who that person was. My husband
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needed to know who that person was. And so there
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there was all these different different things going on, and
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that's where I became this as an American and I was
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really able to do some incredible things. I was able
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to lay the reef at the hum of the Unknown
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on Easter Well. I was able to go up to
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Walter Read and go to the Cancer Ward and talk
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to all the incredible soldiers who have cancer. Yeah, there were.
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And then I was able to speak at mar A
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Lago and share my journey with President Trump and all
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those that were there, and that's where it really catapulted
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me into sharing my story on Capitol Hill with Susan Coleman.
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He note, I've spoken with legislature and Senate congressman, all
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of them about changing the bills that we need changed.
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And now I travel all over share my story and
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MC events and so it's really become a really amazing thing.
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Wow, turning tragedy into triumph. And I think one of
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the most impressive things to me is how you it
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doesn't seem like you ever let it get you down.
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Did you have moments though, where you were like, I
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gotta cry and I'll be right back.
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Yeah, mainly after. So I have my moments like during
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surgery where you know, something hurt or I'd go, oh
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my gosh, this hurts. But but it was really it
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was really after, and it was it was really more
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of the mental side of it. So, you know, I
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woke up on my own after having a double mess
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back to me in a hospital room on my own,
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bandaged completely up, and they come in and They're like, okay,
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well you can leave today because they don't want you
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to stay because with COVID. And so I had literally
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one night in the hospital.
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Oh my god.
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Yeah, and my bag is sitting there and my husband
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can't come in, and I'm sitting here going okay. And
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I walked in front of the mirror and though I
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was bandaged up, I look like I had been beaten
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with a baseball bat.
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I mean, that's what.
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That surgery does. There's just bruises everywhere. And so there
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were moments like that where life was hard, but it
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was really the mental toll and that I talk a
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lot about that about that. You know, this is a
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mental journey too. I mean there really is a pre
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cancer you and a post cancer you, and and it's
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it's getting to know that person and it's but but
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there's so many great things about it. I honestly, I
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know it sounds absolutely crazy, but I wouldn't change a thing.
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I feel like I've been able to help so many
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people and I found my purpose. And who gets to
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say that, you know that they know that that's their purpose,
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and so I'm I'm blessed. I mean that's that's really
635
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what it boils down to I am a blessed person
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that has been able to find their purpose and share
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my journey, which I couldn't ask for anything more.
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00:36:04.280 --> 00:36:09.599
So talk about President Trump like you so you like
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hung out with President Trump at mar A Lago like
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what I've been.
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To mar Alago several times. I have shared my journey
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there several times MC, several events going down on May
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thirty first to MC, the United Doctors of America event
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at Trump International. I just was at Trump draw. I
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love Trump, I mean, you know, but I do. I
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just He's incredible, absolutely one of the kindest human beings
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I've ever had the opportunity to meet. I just can't
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say enough good things about him. I was a fan
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of his before, but when I met him and he
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really he listened, and I felt like I was the
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only person in the room, and it was He's just very,
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very incredible and so and he and he listens about
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the orning that we're on. You know, we are decades
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behind in women's health care nineteen ninety three, nineteen ninety three,
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so you can think back about where you were in
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nineteen ninety three. It was not that long ago. That
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is the first year that women were allowed to be
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in clinical trials for medications.
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Oh my god.
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So what that means is men were given medications and
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they were like, right, it works on him, it will
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work on her. And we know that our bodies are
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completely different, and so we have a long way to go.
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And that was one of the things that I talked
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about with him, and then being able to talk about
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and hopefully be able to talk with Robert F. Kennedy
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Junior in the Home Health AJHS side of things. Yeah,
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really about women's health and about the fact that things
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are not covered for women. I mean I had to
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pay out of pocket for my reconstruction. It was not
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covered because it's considered vanity. It's not wow necessity. We
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have a couple of bills that are currently in legislation
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right now that need to be passed for people to
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have difference if the economic sides to them. So it's hard.
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I mean, unless you're an illegal and you want to
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have a sex change.
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You want to have a sex change, people get all ever.
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But I get my breast removed because cancer and I
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have to pay a pocket for.
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That is so absolutely just I'm gonna swear I better stop.
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I'm gonna, oh my god, what is wrong with this country?
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So well, you know, hopefully we've got we've got the
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leader in place that's that's changing it, for sure.
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He's we do and I think RFK is going to
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do some good things too, and doctor Oz over at CMS.
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There's just some things that really need to change in
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healthcare as a whole, but certainly for women's health care.
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I mean, you know, cancer is the second leading cause
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of death for women. Really, heart disease is the first.
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And there you go with another thing with heart disease,
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so with men and women, so the model has always
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been the man. So hey, men, you get pressure in
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your chest, you have tingling your arm, whatever that, and
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we're all told these symptoms. Women have none of those
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symptoms when they have a heart attack. None. It's a
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totally different symptom for women. But yeah, it's not told
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any of that. Yeah, we're not told any of that.
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And and that is the number one killer of women,
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second being cancer, with breast cancer being one of the
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top along with poll and cancer and a few of those.
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So so women are very behind in health care. I
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have number one. How it's paid. Mental health is another
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huge one for women. We are not. That's hardly covered.
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Very little things are covered. Basically, it's funny, but it's true.
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Women are more expensive to ensure because we have more
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to our bodies to have happened. We have the children,
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we need, the hysterectomies, we get all of these things
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that happen. So women are harder to ensure. We're more
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expensive for the long haul. Men usually don't have issues
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until later. But that's truly what it is, and it's
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just never been changed. And the one thing that is
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the most irritating is the only thing that we discuss
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as it pertains to women's health, especially in the political realm,
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are abortions. And I am so sick of hearing women's
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health and abortion in the same sentence. That is not
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women's health. We are far more than that, and we
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need to be standing up for that and really having
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our voices be amplified.
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I can see how passionate you are. We have right
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now twelve hundred and thirty some odd people watching live.
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So so when when you so you're an advocate, which
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I think you know when you say I'm an advocate
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for women's health, I guess I didn't realize how broad
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of a statement that is, I mean, that's a that's
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a big broad statement to say. It covers a lot
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of areas. What are the what are your primary focuses,
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what are your primary concerns when it comes to advocating
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for women's health.
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Well, I started out really sharing my journey with breast cancer,
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and that's where I noticed that that was my story,
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but it's not everybody's story, and that we had it
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wasn't just that we had a long way to go
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with breast cancer. I truly believe that we have a
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lot more information than we're told. Big Pharma plays a
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huge role in all of this. Chemo cost about forty
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to eighty thousand dollars a treatment if you're not insured.
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So you can imagine that if we if we found
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a cure for cancer. Think about one person, I did
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four rounds of that. Many people do eight rounds of chema.
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So if you can think about how much that would
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cost per person and what Big Tarma would be missing
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out on, absolutely that comes into play. So it became
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it started as that, and then I started realizing that
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there's it's far more than that. When I found out
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about the clinical trials, when I did my research on
746
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mental health with women and and how that is treated
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in the United States, as well as even maternal mortality.
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I mean, it's insane that we live in the country
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we live in, with the healthcare we live in, and
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we still have one of the highest maternal mortality rates
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among developed nations. I mean, it's crazy. So it started
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as that, and it has become just just encompassing all
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of women's health and wanting us to be better and
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more advanced and have the answers that we need as
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women and not be left out of the discussions and
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of the treatments and of what really works with our bodies.
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Wow. So okay, let's say that we have I mean,
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we have a lot of people watching thirteen hundred now,
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so let's say that there are women watching going through
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some of the stuff that you're talking about. I mean,
761
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you've talked about the the first doctor that you you saw.
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For those that have arrived later, you know, Christy survived
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breast cancer. She kicked its asses what she did, but
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she she But the first doctor was was not he
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was he was a I won't say it. He was
766
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not a good guy. He didn't work for you. Right,
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You're so you're so PC and the way you say it, meanwhile,
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I want to go like punch him in the face.
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But so so for for people that are going through
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this stuff. You're saying, hey, stand up for your what
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your guts telling you about your medical care? Do you
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talk about that from stage? And do you so?
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First and foremost you're your own advocate. I always bring
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advocates with you. Number one, Never go to something alone,
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especially if it is something big like cancer or heart disease,
776
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anything like that, because you retain so little of what
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is actually being told to you about those doctor's appointments.
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Make nodes, bring someone with you all those things, but
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be comfortable with who you're with and seek the second opinion.
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I knew that the second opinion was not going to
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tell me I didn't have cancer. I just knew that
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I wasn't feeling comfortable with the doctor that I was with,
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and I didn't want to just be in this system
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where I was like a herd of cattle following behind everybody,
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and so I came back here to do my oncology.
786
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I really like the oncologist here for the chemo and radiation,
787
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I was great with that, but it was the surgery
788
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that I and I wanted that second opinion because he
789
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was telling me, you can have a lumpectomy, and then
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he was like, well maybe you should have just one
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mestectomy and I was like, yeah, yeah, I knew for
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me in order for the peace of mind, I knew
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that I needed to have a double mass up to
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me and I'm very glad that I did. It is
795
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a radical decision, but it was the right decision for me.
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And you know, you need to be an advocate with that.
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If you don't feel comfortable, you have every right to
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go to somebody else, and you should. You should seek
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out as many opinions as you need before you feel comfortable.
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Cancer moves very fast the treatment of it, so once
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you're diagnosed, you're you're kind of in the system and
802
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they want boom boom boom. So you feel the pressure.
803
00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:43.800
You know, they're like, well you can get one, but
804
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you know, we got to do this and you have
805
00:45:45.440 --> 00:45:47.800
to have this. So you feel the pressure, but you
806
00:45:47.960 --> 00:45:52.199
have time. You really have time. Slow down, take a breath,
807
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meet with the doctors that you need to meet with,
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travel some more like MD Anderson. I mean, this is
809
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your life, this is your health. Yeah, feel comfortable with it.
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Wow, did you consider alternative treatments at all?
811
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I wish I had so. When I was going through
812
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all this before COVID and before my opening to everything,
813
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I was like, Okay, I have cancer, we have double
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mass dectamies, we have chemo, we have radiation. I'm so
815
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glad I had the double mass dectomy. Chemo, it's poison
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in your veins. There are I wanted to live. I
817
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wanted to live for my children. But you know we
818
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laughed earlier. You know, I wear my readers. My eyesight
819
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is shot, and they were like, well, it's probably not
820
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from the chemo. Yes it is, because fine, before that,
821
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I have lots of things that I've noticed that have
822
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changed a lot with me, all because of that, and
823
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nothing that doctors tell you about. These are things. That's
824
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why I started the blog. That's why I started speaking
825
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about it, because like we're all sitting here like, Okay,
826
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does what's happened to you? Because it happens to me,
827
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and then you feel like, oh, thank god, it happens
828
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to you too, So we need these these communities. We're
829
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talking about this stuff, and I wish I would have
830
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sought at least some more treatments that could have been
831
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different where I wouldn't have. I mean, I had gamma
832
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rays going to me. I'd joke with my husband that
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I'm the incredible holds now after I went there, because
834
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I literally had gamma rays going through me exiting out
835
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the back. I had liked it wasn't a whole, but
836
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you know, it was like a bruised type thing where
837
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the where I come out. So I was like, all right,
838
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you know this is what's this is what's going on
839
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in our bodies. I mean, it's yea. So I wish
840
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I had sought other treatments and I and I do
841
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think women are great for doing that.
842
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My yeah, my wife is chiming in her brother. Her
843
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younger brother diagnosed with leukemia at six years old and
844
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lived with it till he was fifty. And you know,
845
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I just I do wonder sometimes if that that, you know,
846
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the vaccine exacerbated it, and I just you just never,
847
00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:09.639
you don't know, you don't know.
848
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Probably won't know. And with big pharma bit the way
849
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it is and the money that they make, But you
850
00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:17.719
can't tell me, you can't tell me that we don't
851
00:48:17.760 --> 00:48:19.159
have more answers than.
852
00:48:19.079 --> 00:48:20.480
We're told we do.
853
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Wee for lots of things, and we have we we
854
00:48:25.199 --> 00:48:28.440
we really need those answers. Cancer is is awful. And
855
00:48:28.480 --> 00:48:30.400
can you imagine when we find out that we actually
856
00:48:30.440 --> 00:48:31.880
have had a cure for a long time and all
857
00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:33.840
the people that have lost loved ones to cancer.
858
00:48:33.960 --> 00:48:37.280
I mean, I mean, think about think about you. I'm
859
00:48:37.320 --> 00:48:41.360
sure you do, of course, but Fauci and and the
860
00:48:41.360 --> 00:48:44.920
the you know, somebody somebody posted on AX the other day.
861
00:48:46.320 --> 00:48:50.039
You know, let me remind you that your grandparents died alone,
862
00:48:50.719 --> 00:48:54.639
you know, and we all we all want to be
863
00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:58.960
so anyway, I better, I better be careful or I'll
864
00:48:58.960 --> 00:49:05.920
go away off the Yeah. Yeah, and Trump's probably watching
865
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because he loves you. So President Trump, good job. But
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00:49:11.119 --> 00:49:16.239
you know, I think that you're a thousand percent right.
867
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And I was one of those people, Christy that I
868
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wouldn't wear a mask. The only mask I ever wore
869
00:49:23.119 --> 00:49:25.280
was when I had to go to the hospital because
870
00:49:25.320 --> 00:49:30.239
I was dying of COVID. The irony and and by
871
00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:32.519
the way, most of the time in the hospital I
872
00:49:32.559 --> 00:49:35.119
had it down. I was like, this is ridiculous. Yell
873
00:49:35.119 --> 00:49:39.440
are crazy. And some of the nurses and doctors agreed
874
00:49:39.519 --> 00:49:42.960
with me by the way in the hospital. But you know,
875
00:49:43.159 --> 00:49:47.119
I think though that when we start standing up for
876
00:49:47.159 --> 00:49:52.559
ourselves and what's right, life becomes better. And there's too
877
00:49:52.599 --> 00:49:54.960
many people you were just saying it, I don't want
878
00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:57.119
to be one of the cattle, one of the sheep
879
00:49:57.280 --> 00:50:01.280
following the herd into the freaking off the cliff. So
880
00:50:01.360 --> 00:50:07.880
to speak, What other advice, what other insights would you
881
00:50:08.079 --> 00:50:11.280
give people? Because I'm sure when you speak you have
882
00:50:11.320 --> 00:50:14.239
a planned speech, and I kind of I do this
883
00:50:14.320 --> 00:50:16.840
so it's not planned and we just kind of roll.
884
00:50:16.880 --> 00:50:19.760
And I love I love doing it that way because
885
00:50:20.400 --> 00:50:24.400
oftentimes you'll hear things that, like, you know, a lot
886
00:50:24.440 --> 00:50:27.760
of people go, I've never talked about this, but what
887
00:50:27.760 --> 00:50:31.559
what other advice would you give everybody watching if they,
888
00:50:31.719 --> 00:50:34.079
you know, really need to stay And maybe it's not
889
00:50:34.159 --> 00:50:36.920
even about their health. It could be just a regular
890
00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:40.719
old life situation, like their power went off at seven
891
00:50:40.760 --> 00:50:41.599
am and.
892
00:50:43.320 --> 00:50:47.400
It only happens here in South Carolina. So that's a
893
00:50:47.400 --> 00:50:52.760
great question, you know. I life advice that that I
894
00:50:52.840 --> 00:50:56.639
really have come to cherish the most is so clearly
895
00:50:56.679 --> 00:51:00.719
I'm a Christian, I'm by faith, I'm rooted even my faith,
896
00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:04.880
and everybody talks about the for such a time as this,
897
00:51:05.000 --> 00:51:07.079
But that really was a verse that was so important
898
00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:09.320
to me, and it was the reason it is is
899
00:51:09.360 --> 00:51:12.079
that I truly believe, just like Queen Esther and I laugh,
900
00:51:12.159 --> 00:51:13.320
I'm like, I don't know if you can see it's
901
00:51:13.360 --> 00:51:15.559
back here my crown and sacks and everything I said.
902
00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:17.760
You know, I had this like alcohol, a faux crown,
903
00:51:17.800 --> 00:51:20.480
where Queen Ester actually had a real crown. You know,
904
00:51:20.519 --> 00:51:23.159
she was a queen and she was she was put
905
00:51:23.199 --> 00:51:26.559
somewhere for such a time as this to change her nation.
906
00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:32.280
And I feel like that I don't know how many
907
00:51:32.360 --> 00:51:34.280
people I will change, or you don't know how many
908
00:51:34.280 --> 00:51:37.800
people you will change, But even if you change one,
909
00:51:38.199 --> 00:51:41.679
that's why God has you here. And so whatever your journey,
910
00:51:41.880 --> 00:51:46.360
whatever your story, if you still have breath in your lungs,
911
00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:50.320
you are still here for a purpose, and that is
912
00:51:50.679 --> 00:51:54.760
that's your purpose. Tell your story, be authentic. You know
913
00:51:54.840 --> 00:51:57.760
you mentioned about having a speech. I don't have a speech.
914
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I actually love speaking public. I have definite points that
915
00:52:02.639 --> 00:52:06.360
I like to touch on, But just like you, I
916
00:52:06.440 --> 00:52:08.679
love to feed off the audience and I love to
917
00:52:08.679 --> 00:52:13.000
get those questions from them because I believe authenticity is
918
00:52:13.199 --> 00:52:17.480
truly what should be the what should speakers should all
919
00:52:17.559 --> 00:52:21.559
be about. If you are not authentic, don't listen. You
920
00:52:21.599 --> 00:52:24.559
know you you need that authenticity. And to me, when
921
00:52:24.559 --> 00:52:26.960
you have a story that's real, when you have a
922
00:52:27.039 --> 00:52:30.719
platform and you have that authenticity, that is what stands
923
00:52:30.719 --> 00:52:34.159
you apart from everyone. And you have a journey. Everyone does.
924
00:52:34.320 --> 00:52:38.199
And so my advice would be, find your journey, use
925
00:52:38.239 --> 00:52:42.239
your voice, amplify it as big as you can. That
926
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could be writing. Some people aren't speakers so right, it
927
00:52:46.239 --> 00:52:49.239
could be helping a neighbor. It doesn't have to be millions.
928
00:52:49.679 --> 00:52:53.599
But no matter what you do, in my amplify it
929
00:52:53.679 --> 00:52:55.599
and do it, do it true to yourself and true
930
00:52:55.639 --> 00:52:57.719
to the word, because that that will get you exactly
931
00:52:57.760 --> 00:52:58.400
where you want to be.
932
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Absolutely love that. I'm I'm putting your website address if
933
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I can get this thing to work right, because I
934
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do you, I mean, do you offer any anything on
935
00:53:13.519 --> 00:53:15.599
your website for people to apparent?
936
00:53:15.800 --> 00:53:19.119
People can message me on there. I love to answer
937
00:53:19.239 --> 00:53:21.519
questions about my journey or about the journey there on.
938
00:53:22.519 --> 00:53:24.320
I'm not a doctor, but I will give you the
939
00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:27.679
advice from from my perspective of having gone through this.
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00:53:28.199 --> 00:53:30.719
I'm also happy to help you with products that have
941
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helped and been helpful for me, and you know, and
942
00:53:35.760 --> 00:53:37.280
then you can go on there if you're looking for
943
00:53:37.320 --> 00:53:40.039
a speaker, or you're looking for an MC for an event,
944
00:53:40.119 --> 00:53:42.559
anything like that. I love to come out and do
945
00:53:42.599 --> 00:53:45.280
those types of things. So would absolutely be honored to
946
00:53:45.320 --> 00:53:48.800
be on more podcasts or shows or up on stages.
947
00:53:48.880 --> 00:53:53.639
So yeah, absolutely, I'm gonna get you on a bunch
948
00:53:53.719 --> 00:53:55.760
of podcasts, young lady.
949
00:53:57.239 --> 00:53:59.280
Up until then, you can see me May thirty first
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00:53:59.320 --> 00:54:02.840
at Trumpeternet for the United Doctors of America. You can
951
00:54:02.880 --> 00:54:05.599
see me at the National Veterans Parade in Washington, d C.
952
00:54:05.800 --> 00:54:08.119
I'm en seeing that with General Flynn. So I'm so
953
00:54:08.239 --> 00:54:11.480
excited about that. So got lots of upcoming things that
954
00:54:11.480 --> 00:54:12.239
we're excited about.
955
00:54:12.719 --> 00:54:17.440
You're amazing, and listen, we can't end this without giving
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00:54:17.719 --> 00:54:22.159
Lindsey Graham, not the worthless senator, but Lindsey Graham, the
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00:54:22.239 --> 00:54:25.360
amazing patriot Barbie, that's.
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My senator right the way South Carolina.
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Oh god, I'm sorry, sorry for you. Yeah, but I actually,
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oh Lindsay a calls she texted me a little bit ago.
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But you know, the patriot Barbie on Instagram and on
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X which is where most people. We have over almost
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sixteen hundred people watching us live on X right now.
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Absolutely incredible And if we see him through this at
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the Moms for America Summit, the twentieth anniversary summit, she's
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credible and we just like instantly hit it off and I.
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Just I love her there. You know, there are a
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handful of women that I would I would classify as
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just absolute badasses, my wife being one of them. Lindsey
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definitely is you are you? You're you just made that
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list for me, you know, I think that that and
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and and what you're doing and what Lindsey's doing standing
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up for women. And we're not talking about the radical
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crazy left kind of burn your brawl women. We're talking
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about standing up for being treated as a human and
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given the same rights as everybody else. It blows me
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away that we have given over the last four years
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illegal invaders more rights in the health sector. At least
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then then women get here in our country, citizens of
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this country. It's crazy.
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It is, It is crazy, but we're going to change it.
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We are changing it.
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So what's the best where's the best place for everybody
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to follow you, Christy follow.
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Me on Instagram at Christy Clark. That would be the best.
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And then I'm on parlor. I need to be on
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ex because Ken, you've already gotten on me about that.
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I never post on it, but I do have an account,
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but I want to start.
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I'mnna start getting back on which is Christy C. I
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think at at at k R, I S D E
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E is Christy and it's C. I believe Christy C
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is your handle on X. Yeah, oh my god, we've
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got to oh my lord, until they decide to listen, I.
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Gotta get back on X. I'm a big Elon fan,
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so you know I need to get right.
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Not to mention, you know, the day may may come
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again when when Zuckerberg's no longer afraid of going to
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prison starts anyway, listen, you are absolutely phenomenal. I'm so
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grateful that and since you're already scheduled for June the
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third again, anyway, we should have you. I'm kidding round two.
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You're amazing and I am so grateful that this worked
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out and we got to have you on today. So
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everybody go to Christy Clark dot com, which for those
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of you listening on the podcast networks. It's it's k
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R I S D E E C l A r
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K dot com. All of her links and everything will
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be in the show notes. So, Christy, is there anything else?
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Pretend for a moment that that all eight billion people
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are listening right now planet Earth. To you, what is
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a you know you got to say something to really
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impact everybody on the planet in a positive way. What
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would that be to everybody listening right now?
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Nothing like put me on the spot with this one.
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Wow, Let's see how good of a speaker you really are.
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Be your best advocate. Don't let somebody tell you where
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you need to be or what your decisions should be.
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You know your body, you know your health, You know
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what is best for you. Be your best advocate. Be
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your most authentic self. More importantly, be brave and be
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bold and go to someone else if you do not
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feel comfortable where you are. This is your body, your health.
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Let's change the narrative with that. With your body, your health,
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no longer abortion. We're flipping it, ladies, to only women's health.
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Amen and amen and amen. Thank you so much for
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being a guest today. You are amazing. Everybody. Please share
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this out and follow Christy. Only follow her on X though,
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don't worry about anywhere else. I'm gonna get her on
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X I'm telling you. But anyway, so I'm kidding, follow
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her everywhere. She's amazing. So Christy, thank you. You're freaking awesome.
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I'm so grateful. Thank you. Yeah, this has been fun.
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So all right, everybody, I'm going to end the live stream. Christy.
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Stay with me if you would, and make sure you're
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following Christy. Go over to her website Christie Clark dot com,
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and have an absolutely amazing day and we will see
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you all later. Thanks so much