Latest / Tom's Hirschsprung's Podcast / Episode 2 - Part 1 of my interview with Kyla Thomson @kylact
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- 0:05You are listening to Tom's Hirshprung's Podcast, where I provide a look into the
- 0:09remarkable experiences of the most inspiring people around Hirshprung's disease and sports. Welcome to
- 0:39episode two of Tom's Hirshprung's Podcast. This is the first episode to feature a
- 0:46very special guest. She's an entrepreneur, a medical man, a content creator,
- 0:53and an all round inspiration for others. She's Kyler Thompson. Kyla,
- 0:59how are you hi? Hi? This is my husband, Lyle. He's
- 1:04just grabbing some he's grabbing some hockey gear, taking our son for a skate.
- 1:08We're from Canada, so playing some hockey today. Yeah, and thanks
- 1:18for that introduction. That's awesome. How is your new You been so far
- 1:25really really great, very typical, not very medical, which has been a
- 1:30nice change for us. Yeah. Yeah. We got to be home and
- 1:36see family and friends and just you know, take it easy and feel relaxed,
- 1:42live a normal life. Yeah. Before we get started into what's happening
- 1:51today, the fantastic work that you do, Bella do, and and your
- 1:55family do, I want to take a short view back to the past into
- 2:00Bella's miraculous medical journey and her three extremely rare, rare conditions. What were
- 2:10they? She had she was born with, but we didn't know at the
- 2:15time, of course, that she had uh hirsh Friend's disease, which eventually
- 2:23was labeled long segment hrsh friend hirsh Friend's disease, as well as no immune
- 2:29system which is called severe combined immune deficiency. That meant she had no T
- 2:35cells and no B cells when she was born, no infection fighters, no
- 2:38virus fighters. And she was also born with dwarphism that is I'm still genetically
- 2:46it's a mystery. She her genetics geneticists in both provinces Saskatchewan and Alberta took
- 2:57two years to diagnose her with Karla chi hypole hypoplagia related to Omens syndrome.
- 3:04And there's still lots of learning about her form of dorphism that is also very
- 3:08rare. So so yeah, so she's very much still a walking medical mystery
- 3:16experiments all of those things, I guess miracle. Yeah, she's she's brought
- 3:24light, I'm most you know, out of the darkness of those conditions.
- 3:30She has helped specialists all over the world realize more about each one of these
- 3:38conditions, and because each one of the conditions she has, she has the
- 3:44most rare form of But there's other forms of these conditions that are less rare
- 3:49and more common, and she's helping kids with those like typical hirshrumps or a
- 3:55different form of immune deficiencies and dwarphisms. So she's like this rare gem that
- 4:02is helping such a like a vast part of the rare disease community that that
- 4:12must give. Does that give you and their enormous sense of pride? I
- 4:17guess as well that yes, you've had like incredibly I guess, unfortunate luck
- 4:26with having so many conditions all at once. I mean, what are the
- 4:30chances? Yeah, but does that give you a sense of pride that you're
- 4:35really going out And obviously we'll talk about all the other fantastic work and you
- 4:42and bell are do as well, but that just by having these conditions you
- 4:46are you are helping people as well. Yeah, I think I look at
- 4:53it as you know, it's bell as ten now, So it's been ten
- 4:56years of picking up pieces of what each of these rare conditions mean and still
- 5:04learning year by year. So the first couple of years you know, they
- 5:10were really dark and scary and unknown. Not just for a month or two
- 5:15till we got a diagnosis. It was over two years till we got full
- 5:18diagnosis of everything. And so it it's for me, it's more like,
- 5:26Okay, now that I understand what each of these conditions actually mean and due
- 5:31to a person that has them, I'm just happy that the knowledge that we
- 5:38have we can help other people with because as far as we know, there's
- 5:43no one out there in this in this world that has a story like ours,
- 5:48but there's lots of people that have stories that are similar, you know,
- 5:53in the medical world. And I'm just happy that we are. We
- 5:59have come out on the other side in a sense that my my child is
- 6:04still alive. Fella's alive, she's thriving, and I'm just happy we can
- 6:10give other people hope. Yeah, for sure, for sure. Yeah,
- 6:15and just for anybody obviously, this this podcast is very much about helping people
- 6:23who do go through Hirshbrun's and other associated conditions. But just to be to
- 6:30be sure there's no signs during pregnancy, nothing was said to no, no,
- 6:36nothing. There was a couple of clues with her dwarfism and that was
- 6:41it. Our province at the time also did not screen for SKID, where
- 6:47as I think every state in America does. There's more provinces now that do
- 6:53in Canada. But you know, we if there was more testing done for
- 6:59newborn in our in our area at the time, we would have known at
- 7:03birth, but we didn't have that. So yeah, during pregnancy, the
- 7:11only clue to her being little was her doctor noticed that her growth in the
- 7:16womb kind of plateaued around the you know, second trimester, and so my
- 7:21doctor sent me for an MRI. But she was looking great that They were
- 7:30really happy with how she was breathing and looking and like she was like a
- 7:34great baby. She was very active. She let me know she was there,
- 7:39she's ready to party, and they were like, yeah, she just
- 7:43might be little. And at the time, I had no connections with anybody
- 7:47with dwarfism, so I was like, oh, so she'll be smaller,
- 7:51maybe just a smaller human, But I didn't realize that that meant dwarfism at
- 7:55the time. Nice absolute clues at all. I want to talk about skied
- 8:03as well, because it wasn't something that I had heard of at all,
- 8:07and doing the research into SKID. I've noticed there's been a big UK review
- 8:13into SKID around here and it's going through till March twenty twenty four. I
- 8:20mean we've had SKID for for quite a while. Yeah, but it's not
- 8:26it's not everywhere, is it, And it's it's so vitally important, and
- 8:31you want to share some of your experiences around SKIED and why that's so so
- 8:39important to catch early. Yeah, it is so important to catch early.
- 8:45I know through through being and living in the medical world with Bellas immunologists and
- 8:50hematologists you know that have helped her through her bone marrow transplant for SKID,
- 8:56they are much more aware of what screening can do for newborns. If Bella
- 9:03would have been screened at birth, it would have saved us an entire year
- 9:05in hospital. She spent the first two years of her life in hospital consecutively,
- 9:11and a large part of that was SKID was just unknown in our country
- 9:16as a whole, especially our province. Also, having found out she had
- 9:20hershpruns Dissy's at three days old, overshadowed everything else. It was all about
- 9:26keeping her alive because her bowels were so affected. So SKID was like on
- 9:33the back burner. We just you know, we didn't even realize she didn't
- 9:37have an immune system. We didn't we didn't know what SKID was until we
- 9:41got transferred to a hospital in the province next to us, Alberta. And
- 9:46thankfully, our immunologists at the time had dealt with two other cases so far,
- 9:52so Bella was like one of her first in Canada to figure out.
- 9:58And then on top of that, I remember so our immunologists when we found
- 10:05there's a whole story about how we found out she had SKID at eleven months
- 10:09old, but I remember our specialists in Calgary constantly reaching out to specialists in
- 10:18Newcastle. That was like they really knew what how to deal with SKID and
- 10:24they got a lot of their bone marrow transplant learning from from Newcastle, so
- 10:31we have a connection there. So I was really thankful. I learned a
- 10:37lot about how much that that that hospital in Newcastle did for patients and babies
- 10:45with skin. But it was you know, hersh friend's disease. Having been
- 10:52bored with that and that being the focus really kind of overshadowed the fact that
- 10:56Bella was also born with no immune system. And I remember when we found
- 11:01out she had skied. Her specialists told me, and that you don't hear
- 11:05this from a doctor very often, but they told me they don't know how
- 11:09she's alive, and it's a miracle she's survived. That's incredible, absolutely incredible.
- 11:18How what do you I guess it's difficult go right back to that time,
- 11:22But how do you feel at that point when they say, well,
- 11:28we don't know, it's a miracle runs through because I know very similar to
- 11:35my parents when they said to my parents, yeah, we're not too sure
- 11:39how he's going. He's just keeps going. And I remember speaking to my
- 11:45parents about it and they said, well, we didn't really know what to
- 11:48think. So how was that for you? Being told, well, we
- 11:54don't really know what's going on, but she's still here and she's still go
- 12:01in. How does that feel? You know, there's there's quite a comparison
- 12:07with Hirshbrungs and skid for Bella that's always really darkened the Hirshprungs disease. For
- 12:16me, I feel for people that have that because with Hirshbrungs, trying to
- 12:22figure that out for her from three days old was always a hit and miss.
- 12:26It was a surgery, another surgery. Nope, that surgery didn't fix
- 12:31it. We're still having problems. And those problems were graphic and harsh,
- 12:37like I would see my baby from three days old until she was a year
- 12:43throwing up like ten, you know, eight ten times a day, can't
- 12:48keep anything down, and then her bowels being so affected that you know that
- 12:54that was Stuell coming up sometimes and it was really really really hard that first
- 13:00year and nothing was fixing it. She had four bowel surgeries before we found
- 13:07out she had SKID. So that's where the doctors were flabber acid because they
- 13:13had gone in worked on her bowels, exposing her entire blood system to steel.
- 13:18And of course, thank god, like they're so good at what they
- 13:24do. But even like skid the common cold, you know, babies don't
- 13:33survive the common cold when you don't have any meane system like, let alone
- 13:35bowel surgery. So she had gone she had gone septic, and they were
- 13:41thinking, oh, well, she just had bowel surgery, you know her,
- 13:46you know, she's septic because steele got in her blood system. Meanwhile,
- 13:50it's like nor her body legit can't fight it. So that's where they
- 13:54were like, how is she alive? You know, and with the the
- 14:01just going back to how hirshbrungs and SKID are so like, hirshbrngs is so
- 14:07much more difficult to deal with. When we found out she had SKID,
- 14:11they had fixed. They were like, Okay, we know she has no
- 14:16immune system. We put her on the donor registry, we get our donor,
- 14:22we get her a bone male transplant. That's a fix. Hirshbruns,
- 14:26there was never a fix. It was always surgery that didn't work, or
- 14:31treatments or you know, just so many medical procedures to try and help her
- 14:37bowels work until we got to the point where they said she needs a transplant.
- 14:43They need to be completely removed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I
- 14:48just wanted to touch on bone marrow transplant because recently, I think the twenty
- 14:54second December, it was time to give blood I think every sort of four
- 15:00months or so, and they said, do you want to be on the
- 15:01bone marrow transplant list? And I didn't really know what it was. Despite
- 15:09having hirst sprungs, despite going into out of hospital for eighteen plus years,
- 15:13I didn't really know what it was. And I thought, you know,
- 15:16it's really complicated, and you know that I enough to go in and take
- 15:20stuff out your hip and all of this stuff. But I've got the pamphlet
- 15:24here, and really it's it's there's there's now two ways of taking bone marrow.
- 15:31You can do the old fashioned way, the going through the hip and
- 15:35whatnot, but you can have bone marrow through blood blood stem cells. So
- 15:43again, this podcast is sort of all about inspirational stories but also educating as
- 15:50well. And for anybody who thinks, oh, it's going to be really
- 15:52painful, it's going to be really horrible, it's going to be this,
- 15:54that the other all. Now you can give bone marrow through blood stem cells.
- 16:03You take it says here, you take a special drug for four days
- 16:10which encourages the blood stem cells to move from your bone marrow to the bloodstream
- 16:18so it's not as painful or as horrible as it sounds. And then they
- 16:22just take it out your blood on the fifth day. So for anybody who
- 16:26was thinking, oh, it's going to be horrible, it's going to be
- 16:29this, it's going to be that. For me when I signed up for
- 16:33it, all they do is just you take take the blood as normal,
- 16:37and then they just take an extra little little vial of blood. So it
- 16:41really isn't as as horrible as you think it is. It's exactly the same
- 16:45as giving blood. So if anybody's out there and they think and it's a
- 16:48great thing to do, because there will always be people who need bone marrow
- 16:53transplants, and if you're ever on the fence about getting yourself on that list,
- 16:59definitely do it. Definitely do it because it is it is so vital
- 17:03as you will as you well know it's it's so incredibly vital. And if
- 17:08you'll you know, if you're all right with giving blood, and you'll be
- 17:12all right with giving giving bone marrow samples. So that was just an aside
- 17:18really for me that I thought, which is really really important. So I
- 17:23said, with the bone marrow transplant, was about fifteen months into ta Bella's
- 17:29life, is that right, Yeah, So she we found out she had
- 17:33skid at eleven months old, and from there they they they took our blood
- 17:40and realized, okay, neither of you are a match. So just my
- 17:42husband and I we didn't have her little brother at the time, so they're
- 17:48like, okay, we're gonna put her on the National Registry. And it
- 17:52only took about two months to find a donor, so that was relatively quick.
- 17:56That was good, but since Bella was already extremely immune compromised dealing with
- 18:03hirshbruns in hospital, she was at high risks, so they wanted to find
- 18:08her a donor fast, so that even though it was just two months to
- 18:14find a donor, it was a hard weight because she was she wasn't allowed
- 18:18to eat, she wasn't allowed to risk aspiration, she was surviving off of
- 18:22IV's and yeah, two months set seemed much longer, but in hindsight,
- 18:27it's actually a pretty quick way to find a donor. So they found her
- 18:33donor and set her up for a bone marrow transplant when she was fifteen months
- 18:37old, so that was that was such a such another interesting mind boggling week
- 18:47the week before her bone marrow transplant. So at this point we've been dealing
- 18:51with hirshbruns for a year, a year of her vomiting, having bloated,
- 18:56backed up belly, extreme pain, and as soon as she gets gut rest,
- 19:04not allowed to eat anything. She's only on IV fluids right, so
- 19:07if you think about it, this is gut rest and isolation for about you
- 19:11know, three months and we start the chemo therapy they use prior to bone
- 19:19marriage transplant. So the way our doctor explained it to me, which was
- 19:25really great to understand, is skid is like your body's full of weeds and
- 19:30the chemo is like round up, get in there and kill all those weeds,
- 19:36and then your body is fresh and open for the new stem cells to
- 19:40come in and do their job and give a new immune system and it.
- 19:45You know, so many people are built to be so fearful of chemo and
- 19:51what it can do. Like I remember the discussion saying, like she's got
- 19:55no immune system. We're going to give her eight days of chemo and hope
- 19:57she survives that, then give her the bone marrow. So that week was
- 20:03just like so stressful because you know, like you're you're taking out there completing
- 20:11me system. She doesn't have one already. I've seen her go septic and
- 20:15almost not survived. Now they're telling me they're going to give her eight days
- 20:18of chemo. It was so stressful. Until we started the chemo, she
- 20:26never felt better. It was like they it was like literally like a miracle.
- 20:33They started the chemo and no, she quit vomiting. She had more
- 20:38energy. It was like her body was like finally, like thank you,
- 20:45I have all this junk inside, get it out. So that was kind
- 20:49of strange. It was still scary though, because the risk came back on.
- 20:56You know, they they warned to me, they're like, okay,
- 20:59she has a central line. Those have huge risk of getting infected. It's
- 21:03a foreign body. Now you're giving her chemo. She's we've stripped her immune
- 21:07system completely, and it's like, okay, she needs this line to get
- 21:15a bone maw transplant. Well, two days before the bone male transplant,
- 21:18it got infected. Her body was like I have nothing to fight this.
- 21:22Now you're giving me chemo. Sorry, this foreign body has to go.
- 21:26So that was that was a close call. That was the second time she
- 21:30went septic and we almost lost her before her bone malew transplant. It was
- 21:36a very very very very scary night. And what ended up happening is they
- 21:41had to take that line out immediately, give it twenty four hours, and
- 21:48put in a new line for the bon Marow transplant. And it was like
- 21:51just in the nick of time, right. So that's again another and another
- 21:57headache can do without really yeah, very well, a lot of a lot
- 22:03of Java. Yes, yes, And I think there will be quite a
- 22:07few people that will listen to this, And there's been a fair few people
- 22:10who who've contacted me who've gone through not the same journey, but very similar
- 22:15journeys on that that sort of. And I guess one of the one of
- 22:23the hard parts, really hard parts, is the waiting and the worrying.
- 22:29I mean, I guess you know, for people like me, it was
- 22:32all right because I was asleep, I didn't worry about it, But my
- 22:34parents, I imagine, would would have been up the wall. Were there
- 22:40any tips or because I've watched a video, a really good video of yours
- 22:45on emotional, emotional and mental health tips on children going through or having a
- 22:52children going through hirshbrums or various conditions and diseases, would you happy to share
- 22:59any of those from your from your YouTube channel? Yeah, I have,
- 23:06I have quite a My poor YouTube gets put on the back burner quite a
- 23:10lot now that our TikTok is so massive, But a lot of my YouTube
- 23:15videos are from that first two years in hospital with Bella when she was just
- 23:19a baby, and I keep them up there like it's hard to keep them
- 23:26up because she looks so like we're in hospital. She doesn't you know,
- 23:30she's having a hard time. But there's so much in there that I know
- 23:34can help other moms and dads living in hospital with with their little ones in
- 23:40these conditions or these conditions themselves, and knowing that they can hop over to
- 23:45our TikTok or recent youtubes and see Bella thriving and doing so well, they
- 23:49can see that difference. I would I I would say in those years,
- 23:56I mean, as hard as it is to go back there, and I
- 24:00was a completely different person. It was the years that molded me into being
- 24:03a medical mom. But my background is education. I've been a teacher,
- 24:08you know, since I got out of university, and there was a lot
- 24:14of things living in that environment that helped me. It's the main reason I
- 24:19started my social media channel. We run Isolation for over two hundred days.
- 24:26Living in hospital for over two years straight, my only way to the outside
- 24:32world was Facebook, Instagram and now TikTok, and I found that if I
- 24:41could be a little bit more vocal about what we were going through in like
- 24:44a respectful way, not just I found the more I complained, the worse
- 24:48I felt, because living in that environment, I saw other parents with their
- 24:56little ones as as horrible as the things we had to go through were.
- 25:02I always saw someone else go through something worse. And I think that trained
- 25:07my mind to think, Okay, complaining is not helping you. Pick something
- 25:12else. Like the screaming, the crying and the stress out typing like,
- 25:18it's not helping you, it's not helping anybody else, So pick something else.
- 25:22And so then I really leaned on my face, and I leaned on
- 25:26other people in the you know, the internet social community. Yeah, I'm
- 25:37still like showing my age because I'm like, wait, what do you tell
- 25:40this interweb? You know? I found like if I could even if I
- 25:48typed like something short or something I needed help with, if I could just
- 25:52get over that hump of asking for help, it made a world of difference
- 25:56in my life and Bella's life. I found being quiet in the corner,
- 26:02being sad about how my life was going, watching all my friends have their
- 26:07healthy children and me living in hospital was so mentally and physically challenging. I
- 26:15knew that if I didn't train my mind to think positive and speak positive and
- 26:21ask for help, that it wasn't going to get better. So that took
- 26:25a lot of work, but I knew that's what I needed to do if
- 26:27I was going to live in that environment for a long time. And thank
- 26:30goodness because it's been ten years now, and I mean it didn't come without,
- 26:36you know, seeing my doctor, talking to a mental health nurse and
- 26:41making sure I made that happen for myself because I needed the energy to be
- 26:45by my daughter's side and help her through. Yeah, for sure, I
- 26:52think that's that's incredibly important. It's right what you said, you can.
- 26:56It's really really easy to focus on the negatives. Yes, there are,
- 27:00you know, with anybody goes through hirsprungs or goes through through any illness,
- 27:03there are there are lots of things, lots of hurdles to get over,
- 27:10but it is important to focus on the positives. And I guess the there
- 27:18are also just through doing some work and some study on this, that there
- 27:23are some parts of hirsprungs that are positive. It doesn't seem so certainly at
- 27:32the time. But one thing that I've found personally and through other people I've
- 27:36spoken to, is the resistance to pain that you end up because you go
- 27:41through so many surgeries when you're really really young. I've tended to find that,
- 27:48you know, I can be hit with various things and it doesn't hurt,
- 27:52and it probably should do. But it's things like that that you kind
- 27:56of take and it seems a bit strange in a way, but I think
- 28:00that as a positive as opposed to like a negative or it should be careful
- 28:04of this or that or the other. So yeah, I think that's really
- 28:07really important and it's right what you said with having contact with other people.
- 28:14Part of the reason why why I set this up is to contact people like
- 28:17yourself, people who can share incredible stories, who can have gone through hirshbruns
- 28:26and letting people know that they're not alone. They're definitely not alone, and
- 28:33that there will be lots of inspirational stories out there, and yeah, and
- 28:40just letting people know really that yes, you have hirshbrungs. Yes this lots
- 28:47of things associated with that, but that doesn't necessarily stop you from achieving great
- 28:53things. And on that subject, tell me a bit about Bella as a
- 29:02person, that she is so smart, and you you made me think back
- 29:11to you know, well, I've had a lot of parents worry about how
- 29:15the effect of being in hospital will have on their kids. And I A
- 29:19positive story that I always mention is with Bella, Like she's outgoing as a
- 29:26kid, and you would think the opposite, having the start to life that
- 29:30she had living in a hospital. But you know, I think because she
- 29:36didn't leave the hospital until she was too two two years old in one week
- 29:42is when she left hospital, and so it's all she knew. She was
- 29:48born there and she lived there for the first two years of her life,
- 29:49and you you would think that, but it's also like her baby years,
- 29:56they really do forget that. It's I'm still dealing with the fact that the
- 30:00trauma has altered me and I'm grieving my mental health that I had prior to
- 30:07that trauma. But I'm so thankful that my child, you know, her
- 30:11age, it didn't affect her, and in some ways it had a positive
- 30:17effect. If you think about, you know, a new mom who brings
- 30:19their baby home and they're so alone at home for the first year of their
- 30:23life, like in Canada we get a whole year of maternity leaf and it's
- 30:29really quite lonely for a lot of first time moms. Here. I'm a
- 30:33first time mom and my baby and we see fifteen to twenty people a day,
- 30:37and my daughter hears adult conversations by her bedside all day long because that's
- 30:42me and the nurses and the doctors, and so her receptive and expressive vocal
- 30:49abilities like to speak and to understand we're in like the ninety six percentile when
- 30:55she was eight nine months old. She was saying her first words at ten
- 31:00months old and she had about five to ten of them. And I remember
- 31:06this speech therapist because I had so many therapies coming in thinking, Okay,
- 31:08this family has been in hospital like like six months now, looking for another
- 31:14looking to another year because of her bone marrow transplant. And I remember a
- 31:21lot of them coming in, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, social
- 31:27workers, you know, mental health, and they were all focused on Bella
- 31:30and a lot of them would be like, she's doing amazing. She's doing
- 31:36better than kids for age mentally cognitively. So that was a really that was
- 31:42really a positive light for me and such like a hard dark time as a
- 31:48first time mom. And and that's still Bella today, that she is very
- 31:53vocal, she's not shy, she's really confident and and I have a lot
- 32:00of people tell me they're like, whoahoo, like you need to like that's
- 32:04you mom, Like Kyla, you did that, And I often I forget,
- 32:08like it was a big worry of mine that with her dwarfism, with
- 32:15being in hospital and all the procedures that, you know, having an ask
- 32:17to me having a central line, having a G two button. I was
- 32:22like, Okay, I want to build her confidence because when she gets out
- 32:25of here and is in public and meets friends and goes to school, she's
- 32:30got to do that in a whole different light than the average kid. And
- 32:35so I really my main focus was, Okay, build her confidence so that
- 32:39she'll have the ability to deal with to deal with anything that might, you
- 32:45know, really scare the average kid going back into like a public environment.
- 32:52So I'm happy to say that that's stuck with her. She is not shy.
- 32:54She is still very vocal. She's constantly asking me to tiktoks and sing
- 33:00online and sing like on the stage and Dad's and she goes to school and
- 33:07she's got she's in fifth grade. She's got sixth graders like three times her
- 33:12height, and the lockers beside her and she's just like hey, like it's
- 33:15just like not worried, worried, Like, Okay, now do I need
- 33:21to teach you what you should be worried about? Like, so, that's
- 33:25fantastic, that's absolutely fantastic. Yeah, no, that's absolutely brilliant. So
- 33:32it's not not afraid, not worried. You said that she was very much
- 33:37into into singing. I've seen some tiktoks and so shows some people he's seeing
- 33:43tiktoks and instagram of her singing. Yeah, you said I think she was
- 33:50into fashion as well. I think you said, oh yeah, she hops
- 33:53around in the arts so much. She's she really loved the last couple of
- 33:59years. She loves sewing. Now she's in the pottery. She's always loved
- 34:04dance. Dance is like number one, and now singing. She's really like
- 34:13discovered her well I shouldn't say discovered. She's just like she wants to be
- 34:16more professional about it. She's always loved singing, but now she's like,
- 34:20okay, like for Christmas, She's like, I want a professional mic stand.
- 34:25She has taking some singing lessons in the past, but we're gonna get
- 34:29some more of those going soon. Always into fashion, very much into fashion
- 34:35designing, but also wearing fashion. Yeah, well, that's absolutely brilliant.
- 34:45Yeah, fantastic. No, that's really really good. This would be sort
- 34:52of the end of the first episode. I want to lead in to the
- 34:57second episode with the big moment that we'll tell in the next episode. So
- 35:06just to give people a flavor of what happened to you and Bella in August
- 35:12twenty twenty three before we do a bit more of a deep dive into it,
- 35:16what would you say is as a flavor for episode two coming out in
- 35:22a couple of weeks. I would say, in that moment, in that
- 35:27time, I it was life changing in a sense that everything on my mind
- 35:36before that day was me fighting against the thoughts of how I'm going to manage
- 35:42the death of my nine year old child, and that day changed everything and
- 35:47I don't have to think that way any longer. Fantastic. Well, thank
- 35:53you very much, and we shall see you in the next episode. Thank
- 35:59you so much. Thank you for listening to the podcast. Find us on
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