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Big Christmas Wish - Wendy Cowan · Podcast - Big 98.7

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  Speaker 1: Oh, hi is this Wendy. It is hi Wendy. This
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  Speaker 1: is Gabe and Amanda on Big ninety eight point seven.
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing today?
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  Speaker 2: Pretty good? How are you guys good?
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  Speaker 1: Wendy? Is it okay if we chat with you real
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  Speaker 1: quick on the radio?
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: The reason we wanted to call you is because your
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  Speaker 1: daughter Morgan had reached out to us and you shared
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  Speaker 1: that you are going through a really tough time. Do
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  Speaker 1: you mind taking a minute to tell us what you've
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  Speaker 1: been going through these last couple of months.
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  Speaker 2: I was diagnosed with stage four cancer, colon cancer. It
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  Speaker 2: went into my liver and found out it was pretty
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  Speaker 2: much all over my cavity. Mm.
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  Speaker 1: And when did you get this news, Wendy?
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  Speaker 2: Oh geez, right before Thanksgiving?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. And up until that point had you
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  Speaker 1: felt a little off? Was this a regular routine appointment
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  Speaker 1: or what had happened?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't feel nothing. There was nothing wrong with me.
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  Speaker 2: And then I went out. We're kind of remodeling our home,
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  Speaker 2: so my husband and I went out and got a
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  Speaker 2: beam that was in our quantt outbuilding and I carried
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  Speaker 2: it up with him. It's about nate foot beam, okay,
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  Speaker 2: And I sat down and I'm like, h I didn't
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  Speaker 2: really want to eat anything. So I had a few
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  Speaker 2: bites of something and I told my husband. I said, well,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just going to take a shower. And this was
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  Speaker 2: in the morning, and so took a shower and before
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  Speaker 2: I even finished, I had a really painful it's hard
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  Speaker 2: to explain. I told my husband. I said, I'd rather
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  Speaker 2: have twins and teeth pulled with this pain. And it
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  Speaker 2: just stabby feeling, and I don't know, it was a
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  Speaker 2: weird feeling. And I'm like, I couldn't talk, I couldn't walk.
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  Speaker 2: And I got out of the shower and I looked
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  Speaker 2: to my husband. I'm like, Hugh, I just pointed, got
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  Speaker 2: to go. So went in and found out there is
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  Speaker 2: pretty much a fist full of cancer in my liver.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, So Wendy you at this point, I
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  Speaker 1: mean a million things, And I think women do this
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  Speaker 1: all the time. You're going through your head, you're talking
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  Speaker 1: yourself out of all the things you don't automatically go to.
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  Speaker 1: It's something terrifying. When they told you this news, your
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  Speaker 1: world had to have been crushed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think for everybody else but me, I'm like, nope,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I'm gonna I'm fighting it. You'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: fight it?
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  Speaker 1: Well, of course you doing, Wendy. That is the energy
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  Speaker 1: that you bring. And for people listening right now, they
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  Speaker 1: might go her voice sounds familiar. You are the owner
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  Speaker 1: and operator of Jazzy and Mumbos, which is a huge nonprofit,
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  Speaker 1: and you you volunteer your time, you give back all
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  Speaker 1: the time. You've done this for so many people and
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  Speaker 1: our community, and it's just really important that you know
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  Speaker 1: that people are thinking about you in this time.
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  Speaker 2: I hope too, really hope.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I can only imagine also, Wendy, when you had kind
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  Speaker 3: of mentioned for everyone else it might have been heartbreaking,
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  Speaker 3: and for you you kind of just took this thing
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  Speaker 3: head on. I know there's a lot of people who
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  Speaker 3: you know, get news like this, and it's just really
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  Speaker 3: you never the people around you, I think always are
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  Speaker 3: a little more sad, frightened, heartbroken than maybe you yourself.
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  Speaker 3: What was that like, kind of having to share that
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  Speaker 3: news with other people and how did you go about
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  Speaker 3: doing that?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I have my family that spread it all out
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  Speaker 2: for me anything, And.
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  Speaker 1: You know I should tell you because that is something
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  Speaker 1: when you're used to giving back to people. I think
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  Speaker 1: one of the hardest things is asking for help, and
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  Speaker 1: that is something that is so hard for so many.
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  Speaker 1: But you do have a wonderful family. How many kids
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  Speaker 1: do you have?
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  Speaker 2: I have three kids and five grandkids and one on
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  Speaker 2: the way, so I'll have six in a few months.
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  Speaker 1: So and they took the news hard, yep, harder.
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  Speaker 2: Than I did.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about your next steps.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I've already done one infusion. Okay, I go back
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  Speaker 2: in uh it's a week next Tuesday, I go back
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  Speaker 2: and for the second they gave me two years to live.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what, that's just that's a prediction.
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  Speaker 2: And you exactly, you know, coactly, I'm like, nope, nope,
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  Speaker 2: not doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh gosh. And that attitude, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: I have too much to live for for for that diagnosis.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to fight. That's what we do, yep, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And that's it. Take it day by day. I know,
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  Speaker 1: before Thanksgiving hearing this news. There's never a good time
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  Speaker 1: for any of this. But it's just got to be
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  Speaker 1: sitting there in the back of your mind going through
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  Speaker 1: the holidays when you have a beautiful family and all
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  Speaker 1: you want to do is celebrate this joyous season, and
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  Speaker 1: we want to give you thanks to your Morgan for
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  Speaker 1: sharing this story, and our friends at Gateway Chevrolet and
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  Speaker 1: Heartland Chevy Dealers, and of course big Christmas wish. We
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  Speaker 1: want to give you a check for one thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: to spend however you want to just make the holidays
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  Speaker 1: a little brighter.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, guys.
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  Speaker 1: You're so yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Whether you use it on Bill's gifts, maybe just a nice,
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  Speaker 3: big giant vacation, all right, you can do it with
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  Speaker 3: one thousand dollars, whatever you want.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Keep fighting, okay, stay strong.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna I know you are.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Wendy, thank you so much for sharing your story,
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  Speaker 1: and have a very merry Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you you well, guys,