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Big Christmas Wish - Mackenzie Schram · Podcast - Big 98.7

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  Speaker 1: Hello, I is Mackenzie available.
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  Speaker 2: This is her.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Mackenzie. This is Gabe Amanda calling from Big ninety
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  Speaker 3: eight point seven. How are you doing this morning?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing good.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have a quick second to talk to us
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  Speaker 3: on the radio? I sure do well, McKenzie. We had
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people reach out to us over the
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  Speaker 3: past week and they're thinking about you. You've got some
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  Speaker 3: really tough news that was dished out to you.
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  Speaker 1: Do you mind sharing what's been going on?
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  Speaker 2: Sure? I was recently diagnosed with breast cancer invasive dextel
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  Speaker 2: carcinoma and am starting treatments here in the next few days.
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  Speaker 1: So Mackenzie, if you don't mind me asking how old
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  Speaker 1: are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm thirty three.
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  Speaker 1: So young.
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  Speaker 3: Can you share with what was going on leading up
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  Speaker 3: to this? Was it just out of the.
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  Speaker 2: Blue kind of in the spring? I noticed a lump,
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  Speaker 2: and I guess in any typical situation, I can just
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  Speaker 2: say if you see it, go get it checked, because
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  Speaker 2: I didn't. And it has metastasized into some lymph nodes
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  Speaker 2: for sure one if not too well no more after surgery.
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  Speaker 2: So right now is just kind of getting the ball
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  Speaker 2: rolling with treatment and playing it by ear as we go.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it just started. I noticed a lump in
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  Speaker 2: my breast and I kind of ignored it, and as
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  Speaker 2: life is busy, and I didn't really think much about
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  Speaker 2: it until I would be like, oh, I still have
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  Speaker 2: that there, And so finally I decided I noticed it
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  Speaker 2: was bigger, and I figured I needed to go get
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  Speaker 2: it checked out. So I got it checked out, and
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  Speaker 2: within three days of a mammogram, I was getting biopsies,
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  Speaker 2: and four days later I got the news that it
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  Speaker 2: was cancer.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, And you're doing what a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people do.
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  Speaker 3: You're busy, You've got a three, five and thirteen year old.
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  Speaker 3: That was probably a big distraction as yeah, yeah, this's
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  Speaker 3: going on, but you weren't really paying attention to it.
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  Speaker 4: You're right, yeah, And this is one of those it's
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  Speaker 4: kind of sad reality diseases that doesn't care how old
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  Speaker 4: you aready hear, you're only thirty three. I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 4: thirty four years old. We probably graduated high school right
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  Speaker 4: around the same time. It really puts an emphasis on
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  Speaker 4: getting checked as soon as you possibly can and things
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  Speaker 4: like that. Right, and so with only being thirty three
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  Speaker 4: years old, what are the next kind of steps as
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  Speaker 4: you go about your your treatments and what's the next
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  Speaker 4: kind of steps in the process here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so they tomorrow morning, I'll be getting my chemo
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  Speaker 2: port in. They want me to do three months of
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  Speaker 2: chemo surgery, whether it's a single or a double mastectomy,
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  Speaker 2: and then possibly continue with three more months of chemo.
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  Speaker 2: We have been looking into some other options as well,
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  Speaker 2: as we know everybody knows how hard chemo and radiation
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  Speaker 2: is on your healthy part of your body, so we're
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  Speaker 2: kind of exploring other options there as well. Based on
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  Speaker 2: how fast growing this was, I think that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: modern medicine is the best way to start, and that's
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  Speaker 2: where we're going to start and just really take it
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  Speaker 2: day by day. I have an some support system, so
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  Speaker 2: that's really really nice.
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  Speaker 1: Well you really do.
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  Speaker 3: I know you're a single mom, like I had mentioned,
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  Speaker 3: of three kids, and I know you're probably really busy.
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  Speaker 3: But we had numerous people, one in particular, Amanda Mowen,
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  Speaker 3: reach out to us saying, not only are you a
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  Speaker 3: busy mom, it is a lot to handle. I think
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  Speaker 3: everybody listening right now can't even imagine emotionally, physically, financially
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  Speaker 3: all of that. But every time somebody meets you, you're
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  Speaker 3: the friendliest, most outgoing person that people could ever meet.
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  Speaker 3: Even with this diagnosis. You wear a smile on your
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  Speaker 3: face and you have a positive attitude, and all of
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  Speaker 3: us listening right now you can just hear that in
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  Speaker 3: your voice.
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  Speaker 1: You're ready to fight this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I definitely think that kindness goes a long ways,
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  Speaker 2: and first impressions are big things.
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  Speaker 3: Well on behalf of Big Idea point seven's Christmas Wish program.
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  Speaker 3: Our friends at Gateway Chevrolet and Hartland Chevy Dealers. We
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  Speaker 3: want to ease a little bit of this financial burden
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  Speaker 3: with your three kids, and we want you to.
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  Speaker 1: Just enjoy the holiday.
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  Speaker 3: I know you've got a big fight ahead of you,
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  Speaker 3: but you can do it, and we want to give
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  Speaker 3: you a check for one thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for sharing your story. I know
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  Speaker 3: it's not easy, but you've got this, Mama. You've got this,
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  Speaker 3: and you have, like you said, an amazing support system
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  Speaker 3: around you. And honestly, the positive attitude that you have
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  Speaker 3: right now, keep that because that's half the battle.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, I've been I've been doing my best. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: so much. This is honestly just life changing, how much
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  Speaker 2: support and like things are just coming out of the
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  Speaker 2: woods work. I can't thank you enough.
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  Speaker 1: You are so welcome and big hugs to.
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  Speaker 2: You, thank you, thank you. Merry Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to you as well