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DELAYED BUT NEVER DENIED HOSTED BY LATONYA MICHELLE · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Good evening, Good evening, good evening. Welcome to another episode
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  Speaker 1: of Delayed but Not Denied the podcast. Tonight, I don't
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  Speaker 1: have a guest, but I did want to share a
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  Speaker 1: story with you guys. But before I begin, let's pray
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  Speaker 1: Heavenly Father, we come to you tonight asking you to
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  Speaker 1: be in the midst of the conversation, asking you to
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  Speaker 1: let it fall upon the ears they need to hear it,
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  Speaker 1: and the hearts they need to receive it. These things
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  Speaker 1: and all other things that we asking your son Jesus name,
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  Speaker 1: we pray Amen. So tonight I want to talk to
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  Speaker 1: you about knowing your body, knowing when you need to
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  Speaker 1: put yourself your pride aside and go seek help. Go
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  Speaker 1: to the doctor, let them help you. A week ago
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  Speaker 1: I spent five days in the hospital fighting sepsis. If
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  Speaker 1: you don't know what that is, let me tell you
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  Speaker 1: what it is. Sepsis is a life threatening complication of
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  Speaker 1: an infection. Sepsis occurs when chemicals released in the bloodstream
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  Speaker 1: to fight and infects your trigger inflammation throughout the body.
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  Speaker 1: This can cause a cascade of changes that damage multiple
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  Speaker 1: organ systems, leading them to fail, sometimes even resulting in death.
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  Speaker 1: Symptoms include fever, difficulty breathing, low blood pressure, fast heart rate,
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  Speaker 1: and mental confusion. Treatment includes antibiotics and intravenous fluids. So, I,
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  Speaker 1: because I was born with spina bifida, I have quite
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  Speaker 1: a lot of issues dealing with my kidneys, with UTIs
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  Speaker 1: and things of that nature.
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  Speaker 2: This time it happened to be sepsis.
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  Speaker 1: I was laying in my bed and I wasn't feeling well,
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  Speaker 1: and this had gone on for quite a few days,
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  Speaker 1: and I was just like, I know my body, I
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  Speaker 1: know what it is. I'll just crease my water intake
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  Speaker 1: and do some granberry juice and I'll be fine. And
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  Speaker 1: that's not the case. So one night turned into two
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  Speaker 1: and I got to a place where I started shaking uncontrollably.
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  Speaker 1: I was hot, I was hot to the touch. My
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  Speaker 1: heartbeat was just pit a pattering really fast. So I
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  Speaker 1: told my daughter in law that I was feeling bad
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't know, you know what it was, And
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  Speaker 1: well I thought I knew what it was, and so
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  Speaker 1: I felt like it was getting worse and I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: take it. So we called the EMS and get me.
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  Speaker 1: We get to the hospital and the doctors and the
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  Speaker 1: nurses they were on me rather quickly. My fever had
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  Speaker 1: spiked to one hundred and three. They did a urine
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  Speaker 1: analysis and I didn't even recognize the color that my
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  Speaker 1: body produced, which was weird because I had never been
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  Speaker 1: that sick before. So they got me in. They ran tests,
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  Speaker 1: they took blood, and then the doctor came in and.
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  Speaker 2: He told me.
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  Speaker 1: He said, you're a very fortunate young lady. He said,
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  Speaker 1: you could have possibly died had you not come when
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  Speaker 1: you came, He said, any later, and it would have
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  Speaker 1: been a different ending. So I say that to say,
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  Speaker 1: whenever you got something going on with your body, no
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  Speaker 1: matter how much you think you know about your body,
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  Speaker 1: because it's your body. If it doesn't feel right and
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  Speaker 1: things feel out of pocket, go get help.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here today.
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  Speaker 3: Because I couldn't take it and I had to go
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  Speaker 3: get help. Had I not gone to get help, I my.
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  Speaker 2: Family would be playing my funeral.
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  Speaker 1: During this hospital stay, I was awakened every few hours
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  Speaker 1: for blood for them to check my temperature and.
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  Speaker 2: My heart rate. My heart rate and my temperature.
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  Speaker 3: Is what.
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  Speaker 2: Caused them to keep me. They said that my heart
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  Speaker 2: rate was.
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  Speaker 1: Up higher than it needed to be and they were
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  Speaker 1: concerned about it and my temperature. I stayed at one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and three for quite a while before anything that
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  Speaker 1: they gave me would break. It was It was crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I have had real bad headaches in my life, but
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  Speaker 1: none compared to what I just dealt with.
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  Speaker 2: What I just overcame.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm reading the comments Travida, I'm grateful that I
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  Speaker 1: got there in time too.
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  Speaker 2: I have so much to live for.
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  Speaker 1: And you can't play with your life. You don't You
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  Speaker 1: don't know when it's your last time. And yes, miss Alma,
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  Speaker 1: I did go and get help. I am supposed to
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  Speaker 1: just be resting, so I am currently in bed. I
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  Speaker 1: know you guys probably see the pillow behind me. I
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  Speaker 1: don't really have the strength to do much more than
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  Speaker 1: what I'm doing at the moment, but God does definitely
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  Speaker 1: keep us when we don't know how to keep ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: During the time that I was in the hospital, I
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  Speaker 1: was also informed that my mom had fallen and she
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  Speaker 1: was rushed to the hospital. I was told that she
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  Speaker 1: had had a heart attack, which happened to not be
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  Speaker 1: the case, but they did put a stint in her
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  Speaker 1: heart to prevent I guess any future instances where a
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  Speaker 1: heart attack could possibly take place My mom is eighty
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  Speaker 1: four years old, and you know, she's just as hard
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  Speaker 1: headed as I am when it comes to doctors.
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  Speaker 2: Just for me.
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  Speaker 1: I can't speak for her, but for me, it's the
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  Speaker 1: way you can go in and they get you by
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  Speaker 1: what they consider to be the worst case scenario. So
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  Speaker 1: if somebody comes in with something worse than what you
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  Speaker 1: got going on, then they're gonna take that person first.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of people don't understand that. There's the
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  Speaker 1: conversation of I was here first, I've been here two
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  Speaker 1: in three hours, nobody is come to check on me.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what you deal with when you go to hospitals,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So unless you have your
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  Speaker 1: own private doctor that you can go to and you know,
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  Speaker 1: be seen like that. But a lot of people who
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  Speaker 1: don't have that, So you know, we have to go
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  Speaker 1: to these hospitals and we have to basically wait our turn,
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  Speaker 1: and most of them are overworked and understaffed. It's incredible
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  Speaker 1: to see how many people you know, are needing emergency
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  Speaker 1: care and there's not enough doctors and nurses to go around.
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  Speaker 1: It's like it's not equivalent at all. The ratio is
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  Speaker 1: just out of whack. But I am grateful. I'm thankful
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  Speaker 1: that God spared my life. He didn't have to do it,
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  Speaker 1: but he did. I was ready to. I guess check
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  Speaker 1: out here. The pain level that I feel now is
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  Speaker 1: nothing compared to what I was feeling while I was
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  Speaker 1: in the hospital.
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  Speaker 2: And yes, I.
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  Speaker 1: Do understand the severity of the symptoms. It determines in
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  Speaker 1: which order you're seen in. And a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: feel like if they go on an ambulance, that's gonna
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  Speaker 1: get them in there quicker, and it's not. It's definitely
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  Speaker 1: not unless you are cold and blue and some other
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  Speaker 1: things like you know that they would consider more important.
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  Speaker 1: So just calling an ambulance, geting your stuff a three
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollar bill just for the sake of and then
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna get first, is uh not how that works.
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  Speaker 1: So again, listen to your body. Allow yourself some grace.
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  Speaker 1: I've been very hard on myself this week because I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I have people that I love and things that I
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  Speaker 1: want to do, and you know, how did I allow
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  Speaker 1: myself to get this bad? I don't know, but I'm here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm making my way back to healthy. This extra weight
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  Speaker 1: that I have gained is driving me bananas because it's
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  Speaker 1: fluid and it feels like it's harder to come off
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  Speaker 1: than regular just weight gain. But I am doing what
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  Speaker 1: I was told and yester vida. That is the reason
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  Speaker 1: why they check your vitals and your oxygen levels and
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  Speaker 1: your blood pressure reading. And my blood pressure was really low.
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  Speaker 2: They said.
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  Speaker 1: And my oxygen, however, stayed at one hundred and my
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  Speaker 1: heart rate was up. I'm trying to think of everything
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  Speaker 1: that they said to me, because it was there is
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  Speaker 1: no way that without God, I would be having this
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  Speaker 1: conversation right now.
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  Speaker 4: Because I waited, I really did. I thought that I
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  Speaker 4: could wait it out. I thought that if I just
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  Speaker 4: laid down and laid in the dark, the headaches would
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  Speaker 4: go away. But then when I started having chills and
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  Speaker 4: my body started convulsing, it felt like seizures. But I
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  Speaker 4: didn't black out or anything like that. But I had
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  Speaker 4: zero control over my body. But again, it has opened
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  Speaker 4: my eyes to pay more attention to what I have
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  Speaker 4: going on. Your health is your wealth, and you determine
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  Speaker 4: how long you stay here. I mean as far as
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  Speaker 4: keeping yourself healthy, listening to your doctor's exercise and walking,
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  Speaker 4: just being careful with what you put in your body.
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  Speaker 4: All of that is very important. And yes, that blood
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  Speaker 4: pressure reading is the very reason I was admitted. And
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  Speaker 4: the high heart rate because they were saying that my
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  Speaker 4: heart rate was high. They didn't want to scare me,
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  Speaker 4: so they didn't tell me how how high, but it
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  Speaker 4: was high, but the.
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  Speaker 2: Blood pressure.
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  Speaker 1: Was below normal, and so they were like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna keep you and we're gonna give you antibiotics
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  Speaker 1: through the IV. And I'm like, okay, I'm gonna just
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  Speaker 1: be here for overnight. Maybe overnight turned into the next
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  Speaker 1: night and the next night and the next night, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, so this is really bad that they're
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  Speaker 1: keeping me, having to keep me this long. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still dealing with the whole breathing breathing apart. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like there's something holding my lungs and just squeezing
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  Speaker 1: from time to time. So I won't be before you long.
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  Speaker 1: But again, I just want you all to take care
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  Speaker 1: of yourself. Listen to your bodies, Listen to your doctors.
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  Speaker 1: They have a PhD for a reason. You know. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of crazy to go to a doctor and tell
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  Speaker 1: them what you think you got going on or what
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  Speaker 1: you're not gonna do and stuff like that. When they
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  Speaker 1: went to school to help you, they you know, some
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  Speaker 1: of them learned a little bit more than the others,
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  Speaker 1: and there's some that didn't learn anything. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: God ahead, God has a way of weeding them out.
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  Speaker 1: So just take care of yourself, watch what you eat.
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  Speaker 1: If you're drinking sodas, because I'm guilty. Cut it out.
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  Speaker 1: Cut it out, Cut it out, Cut it out, especially
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  Speaker 1: dark sodas.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Pepper is.
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  Speaker 1: Like the greatest thing on the man for me, But
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  Speaker 1: I realized now that it did me more harm than
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  Speaker 1: it ever did me any good. So I have no
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  Speaker 1: qualms with not drinking it anymore. I don't even want
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  Speaker 1: to drink it from time to time. Time to time
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  Speaker 1: is the reason I'm in the situation i'm in now.
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  Speaker 2: And just being just.
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  Speaker 1: Knowing that if I had waited, I could have died
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  Speaker 1: like I was literally on my depth of bed and
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  Speaker 1: didn't know it. It's surreal to experience that close to
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  Speaker 1: not having your life, and the peace in it just
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  Speaker 1: is crazy as well, because when you're at peace and
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  Speaker 1: you've made peace with everything you it puts you in
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  Speaker 1: a different place, in a different headspace. And I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm grateful. I'm happy that the Lord loved
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  Speaker 1: me enough to keep me here longer. I'm grateful for
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  Speaker 1: the love that I have been shown. I have a
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  Speaker 1: almost five year old granddaughter that prayed for me, and
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  Speaker 1: between her and d D and all of my other
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  Speaker 1: friends and family that prayed.
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  Speaker 2: That believe on my behalf on days where.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes I didn't know if I was going to be
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  Speaker 1: able to make it through, believed that I could on
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  Speaker 1: my behalf. I am so, so, so so appreciative. I'm
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  Speaker 1: appreciative for those who check on my mom, those who
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  Speaker 1: reach out and ask me, you know how she's doing,
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  Speaker 1: praying for her because we're in two different states. She's
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  Speaker 1: in North Carolina, I'm in Georgia, and just knowing.
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  Speaker 2: That we both.
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  Speaker 1: Like stretched out pretty much is just a crazy, crazy,
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  Speaker 1: crazy feeling. But like I said, I wasn't gonna be
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  Speaker 1: before you long, and I just wanted to jump on
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  Speaker 1: here to say why I've been quiet. I haven't had
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  Speaker 1: a lot to say in the last week or so,
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  Speaker 1: just trying to get my bearings together, and I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to thank everybody that reached out and prayed for me.
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  Speaker 1: Called a check on me, that got mad at me
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  Speaker 1: and trusted me for not going to the hospital when
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  Speaker 1: I first started feeling bad. I appreciate you. I appreciate you,
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  Speaker 1: and I love you for that. If your friends don't
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  Speaker 1: fuss at you, they don't care about you, get some
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  Speaker 1: new ones. Mine gonna fuss. They gonna fuss every time.
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  Speaker 1: And I appreciate that. I appreciate knowing that God places
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  Speaker 1: people in my life that love me and they want
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  Speaker 1: me here and they care about my well being.
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  Speaker 2: And you know just and I love y'all. I love you,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm not gonna cry.
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  Speaker 1: So before I do any of that, I am definitely
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  Speaker 1: about to hop up off of here, but I would
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  Speaker 1: like to ask you all to consider me and your
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  Speaker 1: prayers tonight my mom as well, and before I go,
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  Speaker 1: I always tell you, you know what what's meant for
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  Speaker 1: you will always be for you. It may be delayed,
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  Speaker 1: but what God has for you will never be denied.
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  Speaker 2: Unto you. Until next time, have a nice knight.