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When Your Family Inherits More Than Your Eyes: One Woman’s Journey With PKD · Rock My Finances

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  Speaker 2: Welcome back, y'all, to Rock My Finances. As you can see,
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  Speaker 2: emotional and serious and enlightening. So get your earphones on
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  Speaker 2: and get ready. The title of this episode is when
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  Speaker 2: your family inherits more than your eyes. This is one
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  Speaker 2: woman's journey with PKD. Jen, thank you so much for
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  Speaker 2: being here.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: What the health PKD?
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  Speaker 4: So really a multitude of cysts that attack both of
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  Speaker 4: your kidneys. Currently, there is not a cure for polycystic
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  Speaker 4: kidney disease, short PKD.
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  Speaker 2: Polycystic kidney disease. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Which actually means multiple cysts on the kidney.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. And so tell me, go back to the beginning.
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  Speaker 2: How did you learn that you had PKD? Sure.
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  Speaker 4: I was doing an annual gynecologist appointment and she was
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  Speaker 4: doing her normal, you know, looking around, checking, and she
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  Speaker 4: felt something and she says, now my area, why don't
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  Speaker 4: you check it out with an internist and see what's
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  Speaker 4: going on. I think it should go there. So I
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  Speaker 4: went and he sent me off for an ultrasound. And
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  Speaker 4: while I was there, the hospital is only about maybe
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  Speaker 4: five minutes from where I work. So I did it
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  Speaker 4: on the lunch hour. I went over, they did the
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  Speaker 4: ultrasound and probably about 45 minutes later, someone came in
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  Speaker 4: and said, Hey, did you know your kidneys are enlarged?
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  Speaker 4: And I'm now two kids in and I'm sitting on
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  Speaker 4: the table going, no, what does that mean? And he said, well,
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  Speaker 4: I think that you should seriously see a nephrologist as
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  Speaker 4: quickly as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. That was scary. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. So I went and saw a nephrologist. And back then,
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  Speaker 4: so I was 37 years old at that time. I'm
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  Speaker 4: now 59. They didn't have much. And there really isn't
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  Speaker 4: anything specific for cures for this disease, except for probably diet,
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  Speaker 4: maintaining the normal, watch your salt, don't take too much protein,
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  Speaker 4: et cetera. Up until recently, when I started with a
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  Speaker 4: keto diet with a nutritionist for polycystic kidney disease, which
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  Speaker 4: has really helped blow the process down, but has not
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  Speaker 4: obviously halted or cured.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Oh my gosh. So tell me what it's like.
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  Speaker 2: I know you and I'm healthy as well. So we
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  Speaker 2: connected on no gluten. I was on a big fast
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  Speaker 2: of no alcohol and I can have lots of protein.
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  Speaker 2: She's like, I can't do that. So we started totally
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  Speaker 2: jiving on being healthy and our food. What can you eat?
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  Speaker 4: What can I eat?
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  Speaker 2: What, you know, back and forth with that. So I
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  Speaker 2: know you do really, really well with that. So tell
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  Speaker 2: me what it's like to live with PKD.
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  Speaker 4: So for me, it's almost non-existent as far as feelings
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  Speaker 4: or pain. But inside, you know, maybe more cold faster
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  Speaker 4: towards this. I'm in stage four now. I'm in renal disease.
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  Speaker 4: getting ready to walk onto a kidney transplant list, watching
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  Speaker 4: what you eat constantly, taking care of yourself, exercising, probably
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  Speaker 4: not any more different than the normal person.
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  Speaker 2: The normal person who cares about their health.
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  Speaker 4: Who cares about their health.
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  Speaker 2: And yours is life-threatening.
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  Speaker 4: It's life-threatening. up until they tell you, you have this
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  Speaker 4: kidney disease. You're like, okay, I'm going to fight this.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to take care of it until you're sitting
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  Speaker 4: in front of the doctor. And he says to you,
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  Speaker 4: time to get on the lift.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, how was that?
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  Speaker 4: Scary because the only two possibilities of having a normal
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  Speaker 4: life would be dialysis, which if you know me, I
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  Speaker 4: cannot stand needles and I'm definitely afraid of them. And
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  Speaker 4: that's not an option, although it has to be, it
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  Speaker 4: might be. And then obviously getting a new kidney from
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  Speaker 4: a donor.
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  Speaker 2: Which is the option that we're shooting for. Yes, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: For sure. Yes. Okay. My goodness. So let me ask you,
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  Speaker 2: what's the hardest part of this? Because looking at you
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  Speaker 2: from the outside, like I was floored when you told me.
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  Speaker 2: So what's the hardest part for you?
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  Speaker 4: I think the hardest part, honestly, is just making sure
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  Speaker 4: that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing to
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  Speaker 4: keep these two little beans healthy as possible. You don't see,
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  Speaker 4: which sounds kind of gross, foamy urine. Like when I urinate,
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  Speaker 4: there's tons of foam in my urine. I know it
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  Speaker 4: started noticing that more now towards the end. I just
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  Speaker 4: thought like someone takes a bubble, like a straw and
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  Speaker 4: blows milk you see all the bubbles that's how.
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  Speaker 2: It is scary right that's.
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  Speaker 4: The release of some proteins being taken through the urine
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  Speaker 4: okay so i'm constantly watching that trying to drink more
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  Speaker 4: water seeing if you can do things but it's just
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  Speaker 4: a filtration it's it's becoming less and less um the
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  Speaker 4: other thing is those around me who i love i
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  Speaker 4: want to be here and living life to the fullest
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  Speaker 4: new grandbaby i i To children that also have PKD
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  Speaker 4: that I hold on to because I feel like I'm
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  Speaker 4: guilty of that. Wow. It's a hereditary disease. Like 700,000
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  Speaker 4: people in the world have this disease. And it's the
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  Speaker 4: fourth leading disease that creates kidney... Sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Transplants are donors. Dialysis. All that.
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  Speaker 4: It causes you kidney failure. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Kidney failure. Okay. So....
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  Speaker 4: Um, I, I think with that, it's no one sees
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  Speaker 4: that it's more of a mental.
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  Speaker 2: Emotional, like it's got to be emotional.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: But, um, when did you find out or your kids
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  Speaker 2: find out that they had it as well? You had them.
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  Speaker 4: So I was 37. They were tested both of one
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  Speaker 4: in their teens. And the other one was about, I
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  Speaker 4: just think turning. And they both were positive. They're both
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  Speaker 4: And so are they in the healthy lifestyle that you're
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  Speaker 4: doing as well? I would say for the most part, right?
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  Speaker 4: The most of them, they were in college at the time.
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  Speaker 4: They're eating probably salty foods and things in cafeterias. My
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  Speaker 4: son is on the current drug, which is called Genarq,
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  Speaker 4: that I've been on since I was 37. He's on.
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  Speaker 4: Nicole at this time is not choosing that path. She's
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  Speaker 4: in her career getting things going and will follow probably
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  Speaker 4: in suit, but they felt like she didn't need to
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  Speaker 4: have it.
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  Speaker 2: At the And what do you feel when you take
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  Speaker 2: that drug? Does it affect you in other ways?
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  Speaker 4: The biggest caveat to this drug is that it makes
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  Speaker 4: you urinate a lot.
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  Speaker 2: A lot.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what it's supposed to be.
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  Speaker 2: And you want it to. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And a lot of people find it very offensive because
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  Speaker 4: if you're in a job or you can't just break
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  Speaker 4: away to go to the bathroom or I'm sitting here
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  Speaker 4: and now I got to go or you're in the
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  Speaker 4: car and whatever it is, it's, it, it can be,
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  Speaker 4: but it tapers after your body gets used to it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: You That's probably the biggest side effect.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. That's okay.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No pain.
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  Speaker 4: No pain.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: No, it doesn't. You know, I'm just watching your blood pressure,
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  Speaker 4: making sure that's probably the next biggest thing because your
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  Speaker 4: heart is a direct hit to your kidneys and the
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  Speaker 4: functioning that it does for it.
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  Speaker 2: Your heart is a direct hit to your kidneys. So
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  Speaker 2: you have to watch your blood pressure. Okay. I would
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  Speaker 2: not have known that. Yes. Yes. And do you take
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  Speaker 2: your blood pressure every day?
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  Speaker 4: I've been taking high blood pressure medicine since I was 37.
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  Speaker 4: Both of my kids are on high blood pressure. So
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  Speaker 4: they're on that medicine. Preventative, really. It's not that you
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  Speaker 4: have high blood pressure, but it's preventative.
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  Speaker 2: But they're keeping it low. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: All preventative.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: All preventative.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 4: Another thing, too, that I don't think people realize is
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  Speaker 4: there's not many medicines. And not that I'm saying I
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  Speaker 4: want to take medicine, but if you want to take
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  Speaker 4: the casual Advil, you have cramps back in the day,
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  Speaker 4: or if you have a headache, you go to Advil.
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  Speaker 4: You can't take any sort of ibuprofen or Tylenol. Tylenol
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  Speaker 4: you can take because it's kidney it's not broken down
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  Speaker 4: in the kidney okay broken down in your liver okay
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  Speaker 4: so um another thing like a common cold right you
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  Speaker 4: know everything raises your blood pressure so you can't take
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  Speaker 4: that or hormonal things you can't take that i mean
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  Speaker 4: there's all kinds of things that you know as we're
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  Speaker 4: getting older we're trying to keep and do healthy things
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  Speaker 4: right but there isn't any cream or medications that you
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  Speaker 4: can even.
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  Speaker 2: Take for pain and there's so many new things that
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  Speaker 2: are coming out like um creatine for our muscles and
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  Speaker 2: collagen for our face. And like, you can't need the
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  Speaker 2: magnesium help you sleep i love my magnesium it's it's.
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  Speaker 4: Another i mean i think there's people that can take
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  Speaker 4: it but for you your stages as you get farther
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  Speaker 4: down there's certain ones you can't bananas i mean there's
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  Speaker 4: just all kinds of things learning about oxalates We've talked
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  Speaker 4: about this. I can't have spinach and almonds anymore, which
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  Speaker 4: I love another level, just little things that you don't
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  Speaker 4: think about every day, but it adds up, but it
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  Speaker 4: adds up.
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  Speaker 2: And how does that work with being married? She has
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  Speaker 2: an amazing husband, Chuck, who's awesome. Does he eat along
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  Speaker 2: with you or do you have to watch him eat
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  Speaker 2: something you can't eat?
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  Speaker 4: I think for the most part, because he has diabetes,
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  Speaker 4: he eats relatively the same as me. So it's helped him.
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  Speaker 2: Very helpful.
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  Speaker 4: But I, Step back a little bit. When Chuck and
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  Speaker 4: I were starting to get together, I actually had him
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  Speaker 4: come with me to see the disease. So you can
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  Speaker 4: do an ultrasound and you can see this within your kidneys.
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  Speaker 4: And if you ever looked it up, they're completely filled
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  Speaker 4: with this, taking over the functions of both of your kidneys.
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  Speaker 4: Because people are always like, well, you have two and
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  Speaker 4: you can live with one.
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  Speaker 2: But they're taking over both. But it takes over both.
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  Speaker 4: And yet we are still working on that cure.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.
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  Speaker 4: So he knew I gave him the opportunity to see
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  Speaker 4: what he was getting into. Like you said, I look
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  Speaker 4: and feel fine, but there is a big step that's coming.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: We both need to talk.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And finding a donor.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where we're at now. And that's why we're
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  Speaker 2: doing the podcast. That's why you're being more vocal about
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  Speaker 2: this private experience.
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Up until now, nobody would really know. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: definitely not looking at you. You would have to be
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  Speaker 2: choosing to share. And I probably wouldn't have either because
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  Speaker 2: it is what it is. But now, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: like to skip that whole dialysis situation and go straight
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  Speaker 2: to a donor. Now, the donor can be we're going
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  Speaker 2: to do another episode on could you be someone's miracle?
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to talk more about the donor at
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  Speaker 2: that point. However, if someone right here is listening and saying, OK,
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  Speaker 2: now I'm going to get teared up. And saying, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I really want to help her, but I might not
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  Speaker 2: be a match. I know you've explained it to me
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  Speaker 2: that you don't have to be a match to get
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  Speaker 2: you higher up on the list. Can you explain that? Yes.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm an all positive blood type and. Lots of
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  Speaker 4: people are not, right? So you can go in and
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  Speaker 4: donate and it would be paired. So that means if you, Jen,
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  Speaker 4: went in and said, I'm going to donate, can't donate
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  Speaker 4: to me, Jen, but we're going to donate to another
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  Speaker 4: family member or someone else that I match with, right?
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  Speaker 4: You would then deliver that kidney. You would give that
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  Speaker 4: kidney to someone else and that would pair me and
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  Speaker 4: provide me a certificate when I am ready.
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  Speaker 2: So they don't, you don't get the certificate until my
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  Speaker 2: kidney is given.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 4: You, you have to do the service of giving life.
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  Speaker 2: And then you get a certificate.
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  Speaker 4: Then I would get a certificate.
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  Speaker 2: That would move you up. Correct.
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  Speaker 4: So even if you were a match right now, they
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't do the surgery, right? You have to keep those kidneys,
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  Speaker 4: native kidneys for.
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  Speaker 2: As long as you can.
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  Speaker 4: As long as you can working because of what happens next.
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  Speaker 2: So even the scary part is you can find a
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  Speaker 2: donor now and then something could be wrong with me
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  Speaker 2: in a year.
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  Speaker 4: Right. And then you can choose to give before. It
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  Speaker 4: could be an H.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I can choose to somebody else.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, you can choose.
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  Speaker 2: Even though I'd match with you, I might want to
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  Speaker 2: get it over with. Right. In case I got sick
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  Speaker 2: down the road or couldn't get donated at that point.
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  Speaker 1: Right, right.
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  Speaker 4: Or maybe like we live in a community that is
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  Speaker 4: 55 and better.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: I have 67, 70 year old people coming to me
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  Speaker 4: and saying, am I too old?
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  Speaker 2: Right. You got a kidney.
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  Speaker 4: They would probably donate to someone else of the proper age.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: The same age. You're not going to put tires on
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  Speaker 4: a car that's 10 years old that are not brand new.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to put it on a 10 year old car.
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  Speaker 2: That makes sense.
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  Speaker 4: It's kind of it kind of works really well. Questions,
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  Speaker 4: any kind of concerns, it would definitely go to the
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  Speaker 4: site that we're going to provide for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, it's scrolling right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, you can find out anything that you need to
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  Speaker 4: about being a donor. And it shares all of that
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  Speaker 4: information with you.
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  Speaker 2: It'll also be below in the description as well. We're
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  Speaker 2: even putting Jen's email if you want to just talk
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  Speaker 2: to her directly. Feel free to email her. And we're
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  Speaker 2: going to give you all that information as well. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so now... So what are, let me see, what stage
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  Speaker 2: were you when you were diagnosed? Because you mentioned you're
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  Speaker 2: stage four now. I referenced that to cancer, so I
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  Speaker 2: don't really know. Is it the same type of thing?
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  Speaker 4: Same type of thing. Okay, so fourth, Gary.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. So what were you diagnosed at, like one or two?
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  Speaker 4: I probably was just one at the time.
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  Speaker 2: And were you, I mean, you were young.
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  Speaker 4: You don't even know. I think it says probably 70%
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  Speaker 4: of the people in the world that have PKD. um
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  Speaker 4: don't really know until their late 30s.
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  Speaker 5: Because you're when there's no time yeah most of the
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  Speaker 5: time there's no signs i mean some of the signs
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  Speaker 5: are like bloating some people do get really bloated stomachs
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  Speaker 5: a lot of back pain blood in their urine i
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  Speaker 5: mean there's a lot of things that come along with
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  Speaker 5: this again saved by.
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  Speaker 4: Grace for all of these i think god has been
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  Speaker 4: so gracious with me and just Maybe because I'm giving
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  Speaker 4: back to my body, trying to be healthy. He's kept
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  Speaker 4: me from those up till now, right? I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I do see that the process moves faster once you
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  Speaker 4: get to a 20 GFR, which really means for those
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  Speaker 4: of us that know, it's a granular fraction of what's
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  Speaker 4: functioning left. I have 21% left.
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  Speaker 2: That's working.
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  Speaker 4: Both kidneys, yes. Once you get to 20, you can
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  Speaker 4: then get on the kidney donation list. Okay. I've been
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  Speaker 4: approved by two hospitals, right? So both Duke and Wake Forest.
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  Speaker 4: So I can have the surgery at both of those places.
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  Speaker 4: It is about six months worth of testing. So they do,
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  Speaker 4: I have been very proactive trying to get myself ahead
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  Speaker 4: of the game because if I needed one next month,
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  Speaker 4: let's just say all of the testing is now done.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's so good. Right. A lot of people would
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  Speaker 2: procrastinate because it's scary.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And we don't like doctors. We don't like hospitals. We
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  Speaker 2: don't want to even come to grips with a disease
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: like this. Or denial. Or denial. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: I could have very well sat across the room and said,
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  Speaker 4: you can't be talking to me because I'm healthy.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: I'm playing pickleball.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: She's a badass pickleball player, y'all.
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  Speaker 4: I play golf.
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  Speaker 2: She kicks my butt.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: And, you know, we have fun, right? We have fun.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: We still have to have fun.
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  Speaker 2: We have a blast.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: But you have an amazing attitude and I want to
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: credit like you were saying, God first and your relationship
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: with God. And then I piped in and said, well,
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: my belief is you have to have love for yourself
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: before you can love God. Yeah, love myself. God loves me.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: And it's all coming around to that. I believe we
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: need to have whatever your strength and whatever your beliefs are.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Everybody's beliefs are different. And that's great. I love how
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: it's helping you to be proactive and helping you to
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: love the others around you and enjoying every day.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: Story story that it brings that um life yes right
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: i'm looking for an extended life spend here in my
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: retirement year yes with friends that i have made because
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: we have.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: A good time y'all and we need jen here we
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: absolutely need jen here okay we have about five minutes
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: left so we're going to wrap up with some some
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: um anything else that you might want to say we
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: are going to have another episode could you be someone's
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: miracle but is there anything else you want to say
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: about you personally like how's chuck with this like he
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: met you with this but now it's moving on does
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: it hurt you to see him hurt or does he
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: keep that private.
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  Speaker 4: Um i think he probably keeps it more private than
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: he's always like a happy guy too he keeps every
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: he keeps and i think he does it just to
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: keep me positive too like he doesn't want him to
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: know but but we have this pack right um I
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: need to stay healthy for him and he needs to
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: stay healthy for me. We're a team.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: We're a team. And I, I want to, I have
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: to be thankful for grandbabies and I have children and
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: I have a wife, you know, here that, you know,
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: that God's given me and then to give back yet.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: I still have one.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: So I, it's hard to be in this chair asking for,
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: when I know everyone is out there fighting for their
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: own life, right? And trying to keep themselves healthy and
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: keep their families healthy. So it's a big ask.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: It is a big ask. And we talk about money
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: all the time on Rock My Finances. And this, like
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I always say, it's not about the zeros because it
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: has nothing to do with about the zeros. And this
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: doesn't either. It's always the effort, right? The feeling behind it.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: But if you are felt called to serve and to
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: give life, then you're feeling it right now, right? You're
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: feeling it. You're feeling all the feels as my daughter
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: would say, and it can make a difference to someone else.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: And it really does not impact our life. We have
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: two kidneys. If you don't have any kidney disease in
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: your family, genetic, I mean, they wouldn't even let you
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: do it if you did, right? So if you did
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: qualify for it, that means that your body is strong
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: enough to be able to help someone else. And I
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: know I'm a donor when I passed, So it's something
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: I actually want to look into as well, which I
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: haven't because to be honest, it's scary. Like it's all scary.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Talk about needles. I don't do hospitals. Like my mom
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: fell last night and I'm not going to the hospital.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: I'll see you today. I'm like, she's all good. She
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: bruised her knee. She's home and she loves hospitals. Like
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: she loves them.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: No, I know.
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  Speaker 4: Nope.
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  Speaker 2: Don't. I'll be in there as short amount of time
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: as possible, please. Yeah. I love everybody that works in
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: hospitals because they're so kind and giving and caring. And
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: I love that. And I love everyone that does that.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: And they make me feel really good if I have
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: to be there. Usually visiting other people, just saying God.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Any parting words? It's hard for you to ask for life.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: You know what? I'm just thankful for you so that
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: I have an opportunity to share with you. If nothing else,
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: you learn about the disease and how it affects so
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: many people. Prayers. right there was somebody i mean i
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: didn't even know what pkd was right and now i
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: talk to people and they're like oh so and so
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: my cousin has it or my mom had it or
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: my dad had it or my aunt to have it
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: or she passed from this and here's what we learned
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: and so i'm just again evaluate you if you're interested
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: in donating life check.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Out the site yes please take a look.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: At it um If not me, maybe somebody else. You
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: can be anonymous. You don't ever have to tell the
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: person who you are or what you do. But to
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: think about, you know, where I am today and where
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: five years might put me. I might not be able
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: to just get up and work and spend time with
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: my beautiful grandchildren or be with my friends or spend
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: time with my husband or even promote or fund finding
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: a cure so that my children and my children's children
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: don't have to deal with the point that I am.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: At right now.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: It's generational. It's generational.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Please, y'all, check out the websites and then see the
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: next episode. Could someone be your miracle? Thank you so much.
• 21:42
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• 21:44
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• 21:50
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• 21:55
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• 21:58
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• 22:02
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• 22:06
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• 22:11
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