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The Stranger Who Restored My Faith · The World Knowledge

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  Speaker 1: Well, good afternoon, listeners. Thank you so much for listening
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  Speaker 1: to Lament of Hope podcast. As you guys know, we
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  Speaker 1: are nearing our 300th episode, which is amazing. And so
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  Speaker 1: many people from around the world with different struggles and stories.
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  Speaker 1: And it's all because of you guys and your support.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm super grateful. I feel like I have to
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  Speaker 1: say that every time I start because I just it
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  Speaker 1: always blows me away when I think about it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. Yeah. the doctors were diagnosing me with
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  Speaker 2: strange things and treating the symptoms that I had completely
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  Speaker 2: different than what's standard care for my illness. And, um,
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  Speaker 2: unfortunately they are also, it was so inconsistent. There will
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  Speaker 2: be days where they would skip medications. Uh, I was
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be in rehab regularly. I was unable to
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  Speaker 2: even sit up and, um, they would not show up
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  Speaker 2: to do the rehab. Uh, they would. And part of
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  Speaker 2: it too was, it was during, it was kind of
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the crazy COVID. But if anybody
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  Speaker 2: in the hospital got COVID, then it was like everything
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  Speaker 2: kind of shut down and it was slower. And I
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  Speaker 2: think a lot of the, even the nurses where I was,
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  Speaker 2: they were kind of hesitant to do some things. There were,
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  Speaker 2: I did have a couple of great nurses when they
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  Speaker 2: were on I felt a lot more comfortable and I
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  Speaker 2: knew that I would have a better day, but there
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  Speaker 2: were other ones. I mean, it was, I couldn't go
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  Speaker 2: to the bathroom and, you know, I would have a
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  Speaker 2: diaper and I had, you know, a nurse come in and,
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  Speaker 2: was complaining that she had to change me. And it's
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  Speaker 2: just like the whole time and then brought somebody else
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  Speaker 2: with it. And then they were talking back and forth
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  Speaker 2: about it. And I mean, just these really demeaning, uh,
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  Speaker 2: experiences that can happen. And, uh, It took me a
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  Speaker 2: while to gain enough strength to be able to advocate
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  Speaker 2: for myself and to be able to get out of there.
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  Speaker 2: And we just, again, with the education, teaching people how
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  Speaker 2: to advocate for themselves is something that needs to be done.
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  Speaker 2: And it's so hard when you're facing an illness, when
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  Speaker 2: you're not feeling good, when you're drained of energy, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to speak up for yourself and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you really drained a site and we're just, we're really
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  Speaker 2: lacking in some areas and that could make the difference
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  Speaker 2: in saving hundreds and thousands of lives. I actually got
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  Speaker 2: an email this morning saying that Canada just topped off
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  Speaker 2: over a hundred thousand euthanasia deaths. And just think like
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  Speaker 2: that is, The number of people dying is staggering. And
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  Speaker 2: there are so many patients who outlive a prognosis. You know,
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  Speaker 2: prognosis is terrifying. When somebody gives you a timeline, a
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  Speaker 2: date that you're supposed to die by, that is this
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  Speaker 2: daunting thing that just hangs over you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, and talk about compounding fear.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And when you look at it, a prognosis is an
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  Speaker 2: educated guess. Bless the doctors that try to give you
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  Speaker 2: as much information as possible. That is wonderful. And it's needed.
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  Speaker 2: There needs to be transparency in medical care. But what
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  Speaker 2: people need to realize is that, like for me, my
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  Speaker 2: prognosis is based on like the standards of like path
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  Speaker 2: that the disease will take. But so many illnesses don't
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  Speaker 2: take a standard path. Like I said, things switch like
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  Speaker 2: the flick of a light, you know, all of a
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  Speaker 2: sudden things look so dark. And the next day you're like,
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh,