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Mammogram Monday - Lynn · Podcast - Big 98.7

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  Speaker 1: It's Big ninety eight point seven and we're piking Amanda
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  Speaker 1: in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Well, good morning, happy Monday. It's gonna be nice today.
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  Speaker 3: Sunshine High is seventy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it is October. And of course if you've listened
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  Speaker 1: to this radio station for any amount of years, you
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  Speaker 1: know that we do a little something called bras on
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  Speaker 1: Big ninety eight point seven.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for our friends over at DS Beverages and
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  Speaker 2: Corwin Auto Group. We give back every single year and
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  Speaker 2: there are a lot of different ways you can help.
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  Speaker 2: One of course is dropping off a bra over to
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  Speaker 2: Corwin Toyota. They're going to donate ten dollars for every
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  Speaker 2: bra up to twenty thousand dollars, which is incredible.
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  Speaker 1: And it can be in any condition. It's not like
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  Speaker 1: turn it in an iPhone where it's got it's just
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  Speaker 1: any bra. So please ten bucks for any bra. That's
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good deal.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely not to mention if you're out and about.
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  Speaker 2: I was over at Blarney Stone on Friday and they
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  Speaker 2: had the pink mic Ultra on tap. A lot of
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  Speaker 2: participating locations are doing that and of course they're giving
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  Speaker 2: back for not only the tap beers, but if you
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  Speaker 2: go to your local bottle shops that they're also going
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  Speaker 2: to be giving some money from the cases from DSA
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  Speaker 2: Beveragis and we've teamed up them with them for so
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  Speaker 2: many years.
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  Speaker 1: And all the money will be donated to a Centia
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  Speaker 1: Health's Cancer Center. And you can get all the information
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  Speaker 1: at Big nine eighty seven dot com. But it is Monday,
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  Speaker 1: and all month long we're doing something called Mamma Graham
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  Speaker 1: Monday where women will be coming in to share their story.
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  Speaker 1: And here with this now is Lynn. Good morning, Lynn,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: We appreciate you coming in and more importantly, we appreciate
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  Speaker 2: you sharing your story.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just get right to it.
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  Speaker 2: You ended up one day in the shower finding in
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  Speaker 2: something that is every woman's worst nightmare.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, that's exactly what happened. I was in the shower.
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  Speaker 4: It was a Tuesday morning. I'll never forget it. I
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  Speaker 4: just in the shower, did my little swipe with my
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  Speaker 4: washcloth and said, huh, that wasn't there before. I don't
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  Speaker 4: remember that.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: And good for you for continuously doing that, because I
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  Speaker 2: think there's a lot of women that, yes, you feel
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  Speaker 2: like you know your body, but until it's something that's
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  Speaker 2: really enlarged or something that you're you are physically feeling,
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  Speaker 2: you don't even pay attention to it.
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  Speaker 4: No, and it was My husband will tell you that.
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  Speaker 4: He said, I will never get because you said to
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  Speaker 4: me that day I found a lump and I know
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  Speaker 4: that it's something.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: And it goes to show how quickly things can change
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  Speaker 1: because I'm assuming you're showering. You know, I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: every day, but you know frequently and how regularly. It's
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  Speaker 1: not something that just maybe is a slow build, but
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  Speaker 1: one day it's just boom, there it is, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, you just knew something was not right.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, And I called right away that morning, got in
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  Speaker 4: for a mammogram at Essentia and Wapaton that day and wow, the.
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  Speaker 3: Same day, the same day. That's incredible. They were like,
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  Speaker 3: can you be here in an hour? Absolutely?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So I was there within an hour, got called back
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  Speaker 4: the next day. I'm not too many details, but from
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  Speaker 4: the time that I found it in the shower till
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  Speaker 4: until I had my mass ectomy with sixteen days.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, that's how incredible. Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 4: That's how fast the whole team worked. That's how fast
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  Speaker 4: it went from point A to point B.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean in every moment counts, So that's so
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  Speaker 1: great that they're able to move that quickly. So walk
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  Speaker 1: us through. You go in and they did the scan
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  Speaker 1: and immediately it was discovered that it was cancerous.
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  Speaker 4: The next morning. The next morning they called and said
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  Speaker 4: we'd like you'd come back. So I went back and
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  Speaker 4: did another mammogram and an ultrasound and this was wapaton again.
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  Speaker 4: And while I was still on the table with the ultrasound,
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  Speaker 4: they had sent the images up here to Fargo, And
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  Speaker 4: while I was still laying on the table, the radiologist
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  Speaker 4: from Fargo called back and said, we want to see
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  Speaker 4: you here for a biome.
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  Speaker 2: Which is great that we have such a good collaboration
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  Speaker 2: with people in small towns, but more importantly what they
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  Speaker 2: do here in Fargo at their cancer center over at
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  Speaker 2: a Senia, they're amazing. And I know you're going to
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  Speaker 2: speak to that, but they became your second family as
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  Speaker 2: you were going through this process, because then eventually you
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  Speaker 2: ended up doing chemo treatments.
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  Speaker 4: Yep. Absolutely, And even when I went through the biopsy
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  Speaker 4: and then there wasn't in my lymph nodes, we were
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  Speaker 4: all very excited. It was great so I came up here,
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  Speaker 4: did the biopsy, and then the next day got the
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  Speaker 4: phone call that said that it was cancerous. And then
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  Speaker 4: they sent me right to a surgeon and that surgeon
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  Speaker 4: was doctor D's and he was amazing and awesome and
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  Speaker 4: I was set up within six days from there for
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  Speaker 4: my bilateral mass sectomy.
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  Speaker 3: Is what we had decided to go with.
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  Speaker 1: You, I mean, you talked about it when you told
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  Speaker 1: your husband that something was wrong, like that moment had
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  Speaker 1: for both of you just had to be terrifying, right
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  Speaker 1: it was.
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  Speaker 4: And I will say the worst part of all of
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  Speaker 4: this was having to tell my kids.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we have four grown kids, and it.
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  Speaker 1: Was how'd they do with it?
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  Speaker 5: You know?
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  Speaker 4: They did pretty well. My daughter hung up on me
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  Speaker 4: when I first told her. She didn't want to hear it.
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  Speaker 4: So then she waited and called me back, and then
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  Speaker 4: we talked about it.
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  Speaker 3: And it was my one son.
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  Speaker 4: He just looked at me and said, huh okay, and
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  Speaker 4: then he laughed right away. I got a thing on
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  Speaker 4: my phone and it was like the link to is
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  Speaker 4: it Sean Mullens the lullaby? Yeah, And he said, this
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  Speaker 4: is the song that popped up.
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  Speaker 3: Into my head.
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  Speaker 4: The minute you told me you had cancer, mom, So
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  Speaker 4: I'm just gonna believe that everything's.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna be Everything's gonna be all right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So even doctor d'ss awesome team at Essentia played me
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  Speaker 4: that song when I went in for surgery.
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  Speaker 5: Wow as my theme song. So that is so cool
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  Speaker 5: and they were amazing and uh like the song says
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  Speaker 5: everything is going to be all right. And here we
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  Speaker 5: are a year later, right, and can you give us
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  Speaker 5: an update on how things are going?
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  Speaker 3: Really well?
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  Speaker 4: I uh just started my reconstruction on September eleventh. I
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  Speaker 4: had told my doctor when they first told me that
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  Speaker 4: I had cancer that I said, Okay, I've my plan
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  Speaker 4: has always been to live to be one hundred and
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  Speaker 4: three and I'm fifty three. So I'm going to give
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  Speaker 4: you one year of my life to make it totally
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  Speaker 4: miserable and then I'm going to take it back because
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  Speaker 4: it's going to be over. And I've almost made that.
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  Speaker 2: So just meeting you today, I think some of the
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  Speaker 2: fight is just in your your energy and what you're
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  Speaker 2: putting to it. Because so many people when they hear
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  Speaker 2: the cancer word, they shut down and they don't have
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  Speaker 2: a support system, and they get so scared, but it
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  Speaker 2: seems like you had the exact opposite, and that's why
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  Speaker 2: you're still moving forward every day.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: You just you can't a choice.
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  Speaker 1: You can't.
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  Speaker 3: You just can't stop.
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  Speaker 4: And like I had said, we called this project bing
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  Speaker 4: Bang Boom because it just it just has gone so fast,
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  Speaker 4: and we hit it so fast and so hard, and
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  Speaker 4: I can't think essential enough for my fantastic team that
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  Speaker 4: I've had.
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  Speaker 2: They were there's people listening right now and it is
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  Speaker 2: Bras on Big ninety eight point seven.
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  Speaker 3: We want to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: This year long of course with women going in and
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  Speaker 2: getting their mammograms.
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  Speaker 3: But for people listening right now, what would you tell them?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I will tell you to go get your mammograms,
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  Speaker 4: but the all also my big thing is is you
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  Speaker 4: need to throw away your big puffs in your shower.
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  Speaker 3: Not only are they the loofahs. The loofahs yeah pretty gross.
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  Speaker 4: So I thought it was my husband and he said,
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  Speaker 4: you know what, those are really kind of gross. Like
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  Speaker 4: I think we should just switch to wash class so
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  Speaker 4: we can wash them, you know, after every shower whatever.
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  Speaker 3: And I said, there's the personal hygiene aspect of it.
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  Speaker 3: But then also of course.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just how everything kind of ties together and
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  Speaker 4: then all of a sudden, like I was in the
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  Speaker 4: shower and if I would have had a puff or
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  Speaker 4: a loofah whatever between my hand and my body, I
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  Speaker 4: would have never felt it. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Never.
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  Speaker 2: You know, all of the donations that were electing for
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  Speaker 2: Asentia Health Cancer Center and their foundation this month goes
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  Speaker 2: directly to people like you. You were out of town.
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  Speaker 2: They're able to give gas cards. If you lose your hair,
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  Speaker 2: they can do a wig. There's so many different things,
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  Speaker 2: and those dollars really do matter when you're in the fight.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, and they I was offered the wig. I was
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  Speaker 4: offered hats.
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  Speaker 1: You were in the right place of the Centia and Lynn,
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  Speaker 1: we appreciate you sharing your story. I know it's not easy,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a good one to hear, So thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you,