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DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 1_ EPISODE #147_ HOST LATONYA MICHELLE LITTLEJOHN · DA CREW Podcast

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Everybody, Good evening, good evening, good evening, and welcome to
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delayed but not denied the podcast. Tonight, we will be discussing Spina Biffada.
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This Spina BIFFAA awareness month and so we will be discussing ins and outs
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of spina BIFA. I have my co host with me tonight, Miss Notgic
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Scott. How are you hi? I'm good. Before I bring my guests
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on, I would like to go to the Lord in prayer. Heavenly Father,
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we come to you right now asking you to be in the midst of
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the conversation. Allow it to breathe fresh air into the atmosphere. Lord,
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let it touch who needs to touch, and let it be received by those
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who need to receive it. In Jesus' name, I do pray Amen.
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Without further ado, I would like to bring on my guests, Miss Shannon
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and Maddie Garrett. Hi, Hi, beauty, how are y'all? You
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don't mind if you don't mind, introduce yourself and in Madison. Okay.
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My name is Shannon Garrett. We are from Dallas, Texas. I have
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been a mommy of us Final Bit for the Baby for thirteen years. And
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this is my little she bro is what I like to call her. So
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I'm Madison and she so she's in eighth grade and she is a true girl
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teenager. So yeah, I know how that goes. Can welcome you,
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We welcome you, and we're glad to be here here with us tonight.
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Miss Don Ramsey, if you're there, if you could join us? Hello,
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can you all hear me? Yes, ma'am? How are you hi?
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And if you don't mind, miss Don, can you introduce yourself?
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I think her scream may have frozen. Can you hear us? Okay?
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Now I can hear? Yeah, Okay, can you introduce yourself? Okay?
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Sure? My name is Don. I have a channel called Ice Slave
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Spine of I'm from Chicago, forty two years old. I was born with
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mino meninge si spina bifida, and I'm just happy to be here, okay.
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And for those who don't know anything else you want to know, that's
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it right now. Spina bifida is a congenital defect of the spine in which
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part of the spinal cord and it's ninjas are exposed through the gap and the
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backbone, often causing paralysis of the lower limbs. It's not it's also considered
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the snowflake disorder because no two people have it the same. So, Maddie,
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if you would like to answer, how does spin up at your life?
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And if you don't want to answer, your mom can for you,
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like on a daily basis, oh so medicine. She also has the Malama
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nigail. Her effects are mainly her bladder about difficulty, so she does have
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to cathorize on a daily basis. We are on a bowel regiment. She
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fortunately she has heard all her mobility and she has been ool oval since she
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was I think two thinks she started walking at two and a half. She's
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had one, two, three, three surgeries that were geared towards finding biffita.
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So again most of her complications are but batter, bladder and vow.
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So she had a bladder augmentation actually last year, so we are a year
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into recovering from that, and then she also has the VP shunt. Fortunately
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we've never had any revisions to that. So for the most part, her
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biggest thing is just cathorizing stand on top of being independent in her inconsonence issues.
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So kay, and how does find a bit for the affect you.
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I have bladder control issues, vowel issues, I believe. Also it affected
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my vision and that's because I had a history of hydrocephalis. But I don't
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have a shunt. And I was walking. I was kind of like Madison.
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I was walking, but then as I gotten older, it's you know,
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my balance wasn't great and I couldn't stand to walk no more than five
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minutes. And I used to fall all the time too. But I did
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walk with leg braces and crutches. And also I've experienced pressure wounds and I
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lost a limb my left leg and this was recently. So yeah, that's
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about it. That has really affected my you know body. But I tried
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to take better care of myself, you know, and I do it if
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by myself, So which is the awesome thing. I did achieve that,
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right, So that's that's And I also have a learning disability. Okay,
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did you got questions? No, I don't have questions, but I do
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want to let Dawn know that I can kind of relate because I'm also currently
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now dealing with a foot author. Yeah, I agree because my parents was
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told, huh m hm, can you hear us? M can you hear
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us? I don't think she can hear me. She can't hear you.
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May you may have to go out and come back. Oh yeah, she
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definitely gonna have to go out and come back. Yeah, but yeah,
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no, I definitely can relate to what she's going through because who Maddie.
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Yeah, Maddie has gotten wounds and things on her on her feet that she
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won't even know that they're there. Yeah, because there's no feeling there.
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So we have the experience. That's a good part. That's good. You
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don't really have areas that you should have it. We went on a vacation
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to Orlando and at a water park, I mean she's just running around playing
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and made it back to the hotel and before we knew it, somebody's like,
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somebody's bleeding and it was nobody knew. So yeah, but she's dealt
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with that a few times as well. Yeah. I actually stepped on the
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nail and didn't realize it and started and it started bleeding. It was like,
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okay, Well for me, I also have that same type of spinal
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difita with all the letters. And for me, I started walking about three
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or four. I went from from what I can remember, from crawling to
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pulling myself up on things and and going from there. I had to wear
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like a baby diaper until like maybe third yeah, third grade because of the
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incontinence and things of that nature. And it has definitely been a challenge.
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School has been crazy. So Shannon, my question you, does Madicine have
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to deal with being bullied and picked on because of her circumstances? Oh?
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So she hasn't in a while. I can recall in her younger grade years.
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I remember, I want to say, in kindergarten is maybe when we
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first noticed it and it wasn't more of like a bullying issue. It would
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be. I think one time a little boy like she was going up the
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letter to go down the slide, and a little boy like kind of pushed
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her out away and went in front of her because he said she was taken
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tomorrow. But you know, physically, it just took her longer to get
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up the letter. So things like that, I think her biggest things have
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been like Phil day has not always been fun for her, especially the field
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days where they give awards, and she had issues again in her early years,
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she used to wear pull ups to school as well, and some kids
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would ask her, why do you still having to pull up? I don't
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wear those anymore. So things like that, but not She was in a
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bullying incident in the sixth grade, but it wasn't spin. It was just
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young girls and and yeah, so it wasn't spinning a bit of related.
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But most of hers have just been because she does things a little slower,
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or when she did used to wear her pullups and things to school. So
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okay, since she had her surgery, you not have to wear those anymore.
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No, so she stopped wearing the pull ups to school. I would
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probably say second or third grade, or was the fourth grade? She's saying
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fourth grade. She probably would know better than I would, so no.
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So now with the surgery, nothing really changed besides how often she cathorizes,
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and she no longer takes the bladder medications that she were taking. Okay,
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so it seems like it helps out a lot of ways. Well that's good
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medicine. I want to say to you, you are a beautiful little girl.
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And you know life in itself is hard, but you have the capability
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of doing and becoming whoever you just desire to be. So you know,
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no matter what it looks like or even if you feel like you're different from
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everybody else, you're beautiful and disguise the limit for you. So I want
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you to take that and walk with it and keep your head up high because
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you're beautiful baby. Yeah, and remember remember always and this is what I
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used to quote to myself and I still do. But I can do all
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things through Christ Jesus. That strengthens me. Remember that that your final that
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does not define it, and it does not control who you are. I
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do have a question. Then you got a question? Yeah, I got
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a question for Shannon. How is it being a mother of a spina bit
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for the child from a mother's perspective? Who that's a lot of question.
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So, but a little backstory. When I found out I was pretty m
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manic. I was twenty one in college, so you're talking about I already
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feel like I screwed up because I'm in school, and then I find out
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four months later, like your whole life has changed, So of course it
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started out scary. I think the biggest thing for me is I've had like
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a very very good support system. But I think the early years were a
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lot harder because I just didn't know. So it's like every time we had
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an appointment, I felt like they were saying something else. I'm like,
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look, yeah, I can tell me this last time. Yeah. So
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I think I think her early years were a lot harder. But the older
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she gets, I don't want to say it gets easier. I think I
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just find a way to it just better. And you know, it's one
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of those things like I gotta stay strong if I'm worried, she's gonna work
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right. So uh and a lot of times I still freaku. I'm like,
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what what's happening, Let's go get your stuff, we gotta go to
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the doctor. She'd be like, Mama, I'm fine. So it's been
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it's been difficult, but there has been a lot of joyous times because I've
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been allowed to like see guide work, you know, in ways that I
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probably would have never seen had I, you know, birth this little miracle
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baby. So there has been a lot of difficult a lot of hospital stays,
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you know, a lot of blaming myself somewhere in her, you know.
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But I think for the most part, I've learned a lot from it
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and I'm you know, still learning. It's not over, so yeah,
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but it's it's been a lot of joy in her too. And the doctor
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likes to scare you too much, you know, they like it's not necessarily
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the truth, you know. And I'm glad that you were able to keep
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your child and see that God can do anything. And I mean, she
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is, she is beautiful. I love that girl. She's my sister.
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So it's like you just see God doing what he do and doctors everything,
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they don't know everything God knows. And like said, she can be anything
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or whatever you want to be, whatever she wanted to be, long as
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you put your mind to. My mom used to always say, as long
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as you put your mind to, when you can do whatever you want to
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do in life and can't nobody stop you. That's right, that's right.
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Yeah, Shannon, if you don't mind, could you explain the surgery that
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she recently had. So it was kind of bladder augmentation, but essentially what
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they did was they went in and took part of her intestines and attached it
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to her bladder to make her bladder larger. So before she had the surgery,
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I don't remember the exact numbers, but if I was to guess,
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I think she was only holding like her bladder was the size of it was
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still the size of like a two year old baby trying to hold yurine.
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So after the surgery and the way that they elarged it, now she holds
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three times more than the average okay, which can be a good badge because
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it can hold so much that she's fine. And six hours later it's like,
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oh crap, I forgot to go to the bathroom because it wasn't bother
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me, but to the surgery yet. So they took part of her intestines,
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they enlarged her bladder. She was hospitalized for a week. It was
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a six hour surgery, And I think that's that back to the question about
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being a parent's final b if. I think that's the hardest part of sitting
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in the waiting room trying to figure out what y'all doing back there to my
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baby? What is how is she doing? Can somebody come tell me?
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Can I just look through a window? So it was a six hour surgery.
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They kept her in the hospital for a week. She came home with
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drainage tubes and her belly and in her her ladder and she kept those for
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a week, and she also had staples that she kept for two weeks.
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So the way that they did the surgery is they ended up opening her as
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if she had a Sirian she has a bikini cut. They were going to
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do it the vertical way just because he said he needed more space to go
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in or you know, do what he needed to do. But they came
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out of surgery and said, we were able to do a bikini cut because
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by the time we put her on the table, she was so tiny that
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I can get in there and do what I needed to do. So yeah,
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it was like a bikini cut. But the main reason for the surgery
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was because she was having a lot of bladder leakage, getting a lot of
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uties just because her bladder was so small and it was holding on in so
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much bacteria that kept reflecting into her kid knees and she kept she had about
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three or four runs with sepsis and so final minutes actor said okay, so
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it's time. So yep, miss for like three years, so we finally
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said yes, missus Dunn, you said that you don't have a shunt.
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How how how did they go past not having to give you one? Or
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do you know? I really don't know, but I well, let me
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just explain. Because by my parents believing in God, they prayed about the
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situituation, you know, and that what they was telling my parents was I
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needed this shunt or else I was going to die in three days, because
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they gave me three days to live, okay, but they was explaining to
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them that, you know, as I grow, they're gonna have to you
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know, keep placing a shunt in, you know, and they was telling
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them about the side effects and all of that different kind of stuff. And
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my my mom just simply asked, God, you know, either hillo from
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that or take a home with with you, because I guess she just didn't
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want to see me suffer. And that's a lot on a child to keep,
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you know, going in and you know, placing shunts in their head
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as they grow. So, you know, my my parents just believed in
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God. They didn't want that to happen. And so my parents took me
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to church and they prayed over me, and there was no sign of hydrocephalis
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that even though they still say I do have like water in the brain,
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but it's not where it affects me where I would need an emergency surgery.
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It's like it's no build up, it's a little just a little. So
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and you said, okay, and Shanny, you said that Maddie also has
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a shunt. She has a VP shunt and she's had her since she was
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a week old. Okay, Yeah, I've had mine since since birth and
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I've never had to have a revision that I'm aware of. So and yeah,
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we've had some scares, but every time we get there and they do
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like a thorough check, it's like, okay, it's not this, She's
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fine here. So she's never had a revision. There was a point where
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they did think that it was time to remove it because they didn't show much
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usage. But I actually had her nerve surgeon that said, I wouldn't advise
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that she's you know, she told me she removed you know, a shunt
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and it just didn't go well for that particular kid. So she just said,
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if it's not bothering her, just leave it alone. And she she
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never had any issues with it. So I don't. I don't fully know
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if she's using it now. They do check it every year, but she
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hasn't. She hasn't had to have a revision. Okay, Diddy, there's
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a question I see that. I call on you because I know you have
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a brother that yes, so you may be able to. I mean,
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I don't know if it's prevalent in either or sex. But for my my
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background, because my family is from Haiti, and I think that it was
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a genetic thing for us because my parents had had me first, then they
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have my other brother who doesn't have anything wrong with him, and then they
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have another brother who has the same exact spine bit for that I have.
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So I think it's a genetic genetic thing. I really believe it's prevalent in
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Haiti, but I I don't know in other cultures if how prevalent it is
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for men or women. But I mean, being on social media, you
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see both. You see both men and women, you know, so it's
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not I don't think it's a high risk on any sex. To be honest
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with you, I don't believe. And I will say when I had my
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son, they wanted to have him tested for everything. But when I take
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her to her Spina Bit for the events, it's like equal across the board.
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There's just as many young is young girls, So that that's what I
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would believe. Yeah, okay, I think women just fact the events that
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you take her to, do you know that's everywhere or is that just spepecific
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for Texas. So the one that we are a part of it is called
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the Spining Bit of the Association of North Texas. I don't know if they
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have them anywhere else, but she's been a part of it, oh,
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since she was I think we went to the first event when she was one.
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They do Christmas parties, Easter egg hunts, they have a family camp
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that they do every November, but then they age out of the family camp
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and they go to the summer camp where it's just kids, counselors, doctors,
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and nurses. So they do a lot. They have a Spiny Bit
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to walk every year. So she's been doing all of that ever since she
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was too. Wow, that's awesome, that's really great. Yeah, So
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what I want to say to you now, Shannon, is there anything that
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you don't know about spina bit for the that either either of us could say
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to you that you know would help you along along the way with her.
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I'm sure there's a lot that I know. I think. Hm. My
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biggest don't know moments with her is how do you feel about it right?
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Even with school? Like how do you feel going to school? You know,
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do you feel different? Because Madison is pretty quiet and she will she
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to you every everything's okay, mama, you're doing everything right, and it's
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okay. I'm fine, I'm great, I'm happy, and that that could
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they could honestly be the case. But yeah, so I don't know how
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to break through to her to say open up. But I don't know.
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Maybe it'll come and do time. But Spina beff Spina Biffita specifically. Yeah,
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I'm a researcher and that just comes from being in school and then I'm
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you know, I teach at the school, so I research a lot a
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lot of stuff, and then I talked to a lot of people, you
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know, like you guys, and y'all know. I don't mind asking questions,
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but I can't think of anything. It's moment. A lot of my
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questions arise when something with her is different, right, and I'm like,
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we never had this symptom with this, Yeah, I know I'm text d
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D before and I'm like, the doctor said this, have you heard of
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this? You know, things like that. So a lot of minds come
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from when they present something to me that I've never heard. But I'm also
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a part of like a like the Spina Bitch from North Texas group here,
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they have a mom's group on Facebook and so moms will like just throw out
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questions or say I went to the doctor and you know they told me this,
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and so I learned a lot of stuff that that group too. So
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I honestly can't think of anything at its moment outside of how do I make
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sure my baby is okay? So as a mom, I will say just
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keeping the lines of communication open, being available when she needs you, being
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able to listen, not to answer to just be a listening ear. Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, definitely. School for me was hard. Like if
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I could have been a third grade dropout, I would have been done.
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Yeah, And like you know, it's he is a cruel and these kids,
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you know, they're they're different, and you know it's it's not fair
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to go to school too, try to get an education, and you have
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to worry about if you're gonna have an accident or if somebody's gonna pick on
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you and see for me, I walk funny, so they so they tell
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me I don't so know. I've always had people like walking behind me,
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copying the way that I walk, and you know, you can't see that
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something's wrong because it's you, you know. So I'm like, I couldn't
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understand, for the love of God, why I had to get picked on
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so much. And I think that's yeah, I applied. I think that
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the mother that you are, thank you man. And I think that's one
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of my biggest things too. Is Maddie, Like if I don't tell somebody,
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she they don't know, right, and we're grateful for that, but
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I think sometimes it puts her like in a great area, right, she
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always becomes that outlier, so she looks just like you, but she struggles
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with these things, and so I'm hard on her in regards to her independence
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because I'm like, you know, you know the things that you need to
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do, and other kids they don't know and they don't care. So you
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know, you need to go to the bathroom and take care of your business.
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Go to the bathroom and take care of your friends business. Your friend's
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still gonna be sitting at the cafeteria table right when you get right right now.
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She's had gratefully. Maddie has had friends in fifth, sixth, and
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seventh grade who will whisper to her, I think you had an accident,
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and she'll go to the bathroom and take care of business. But that's not
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always the case. She's been to a birthday party and they in the bounce
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house and somebody's like, ooh, what's that. It's sinks in here,
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and she's had an accident, but they don't understand, and you know it
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doesn't bother her. But I'm like, stay on top of it because you
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know, I don't want you to be in that position. So I'm gonna
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support Maddie, and I'm gonna say, listen, I fully understand it,
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because you want to be as normal as possible. So I get Madison,
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I fully understand that you like, I don't want to be time to go
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to bath. You know, it's a struggle at at our young age.
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We know we're supposed to do it, but we want to be normal,
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you know, So it's kind of hard to like. But I mean,
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I understand you telling her, and she gets it. But she's like,
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why can't be normal type scenario? You know what I'm saying. Yeah,
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with you just stealing at her and talking to her, that helps her because
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for me, I always carry on like I'm good when in actuality I wasn't.
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Yes, So it's good that you're keeping that communication because nobody would have
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been able to tell for me, Madison is quiet. I was not quiet,
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you know what I'm saying. So everybody thought I was good when the
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actualety I wasn't. So I get what Madison is same way. She don't
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want I don't want to have to keep going with my friend. But yeah,
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she gets old that she's gonna realize I gotta do this and she's gonna
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set herself up. But I understand it. I get it. Yeah,
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I get it. At that young age, you just want to be like
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everybody else. Yeah, that's hard a kid. And yeah, bah that
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we started this thing a couple months back, just because I know she's not
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a talker in regards to stuff like that. And so I said, okay,
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so on a sheet of paper, write down everything you want to say
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to me, and you can give it to me and say, Mama,
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don't read this till you get to work or read this when I go to
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school, and I'm like, you know, it can be you know,
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the way that you said this to me made me feel like this, right,
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whatever you don't feel like you can verbally say to me, write it
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to me. So I think the very first letter had me interiors at work,
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but it was helpful, right. So we try to way to where
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you know, we can communicate. And I've noticed over the past few months
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like she started to verbally open up about some things that she wouldn't have last
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year. So I think we're getting somewhere. As long as you keep that
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line of communication open, she knows she can come to mommy, and that's
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ass and that's a blessing in itself. I'm not saying I didn't have that,
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but I, you know, didn't want to put that weight on my
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mom, you know what I'm saying, because she was already taken care of
34:30
me and all the other stuff, So I didn't want to put that weight
34:34
on her. But for you to have that communication on her is a blessing.
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I'm telling y'all both my sheroes both of y'all. Thank you. Absolutely,
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that's my girl. It's a blessing to have parents. It's a blessing
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to have parents that is very supportive family as well, you know, because
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I have a great support of family and honestly them the people that I trust,
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you know, especially when when you're dealing with bladder issues in my case
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I've had, I've been teased all my life, but it still goes on.
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And I'm adult, you know, people is just crueling and ignorant and
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that kind of makes me not one. It kind of makes me not want
35:34
to date. You get what I'm saying because of that situation. I'm like,
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I'm cool. Let let Jesus Christ be you know. That's the type
35:46
of attitude that I had on because I mean, you show me your attitude,
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I'm gonna show you man, I'm gonna trust God, you know.
35:58
And so I'm still dealing with it. Yes, it's difficult to explain.
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It's difficult to have to explained because when you see me, you don't know
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the inner of me. So yes, right approach that situation of explaining,
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well, I have this I deal with, and I have this I deal
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with. That's a little that's that's a little hard to kind of do.
36:19
Yeah, it is. Yeah, I get it. It is so with
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me. I I I deal with abandonment issues because I was adopted in things
36:31
of that nature. So now when I meet new people, I lead with
36:39
with everything. I have spina benefita, I have hydrocephalis, I had an
36:45
ulcer on my gun and I had to have all my teeth removed. I
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mean, the only way you're going to get to know the real need is
36:54
for me to be able to. I mean, here's the thing. If
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they're gonna run, they're gonna run, they're gonna say, they're definitely gonna
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stay, and nothing that goes on with you will make them run. So
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you know, I don't. I don't hide nothing from nobody no more because
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I mean I just don't anymore either. But I think what Billy come out,
37:20
what really made me come out of my shell mm hmm is when I
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started this my YouTube channel. And uh so when I started, you know,
37:40
talking about spina biffea and things like that. Now I'm very blunt,
37:45
like, Okay, I have this problem because of spina biffea. And then
37:51
I find ways to help others that is going through like leakage. You know,
37:55
sometimes we can't find the hygiene products in the regular stories. We can't
38:00
use that because it'll knock off our pH balance. So what can we find
38:07
to help our pH balance in our hygiene? You know? So, I,
38:15
you know, review different products, and now I found something that would
38:17
that really helps me, you know so, And and then I show them
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what's in my bag? What do I carry in my bag? I know,
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right I may have to share that. I can share it right now.
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I can share it right now. Are you I use loon me Louy
38:45
has helped me a lot. Oh wow. And it actually lasts for seventy
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two hours, even though I still take my showers. I'm not gonna test
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it, but from what I from what I've I've experienced with Louie. Wow,
39:06
it's like twelve hours after I took my shower. I still smell good.
39:12
Even when I start, you know, stelf capitalizing myself, I still
39:17
smell good. Listen, say to pull it up. You know what I'm
39:22
saying. Yeah, yes, you can use a lot of over the counter
39:34
stuff because it irritates her or bacteria. So that's something I'm struggling with.
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Yeah, I'm trying. It worked, no problem because you know, I
39:49
wear pull ups, you know, and when it gets hot outside and you
39:53
know it's all sweaty and stuff, you can smell it. But lou Me
40:00
has blocked that like it blocks the older. It doesn't hide the older,
40:04
it actually blocks the older. And the person that evented evented that it is
40:10
actually uh ob gang. So I was happy about that. I'm questioning that
40:23
I thought about it. I'm in closing. I was gonna tell miss Done
40:35
if you can. I know that you crocheted. Do you sell your work?
40:40
Oh? Yeah, I sure do? Yes? How can people find
40:47
you? How can people find you? I show my work on YouTube.
40:54
I also have a TikTok that's I slay spinding it for that as well,
41:01
and Facebook and also Instagram. I'm blessed seventy eight eight, so that's how.
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And you know I also tell it. Post your link, post my
41:23
link in a chat. I don't know if I can do. Let me
41:30
see if not. Right now, when we get yeah off, you can
41:36
go back and do the comments. Yeah, and I'll tag you so that
41:43
you're able to okay that. But yeah, I'll do that. And how
41:45
can we not a problem? How can you? How can we help Maddie?
41:54
What can we do to support Maddie. I don't know, man,
42:00
what what? What? What? What can they do to support you?
42:08
Can they like answer questions that you're not comfortable asking me? They were her
42:21
regardless. Yeah, yeah, I would just say keep sharing because a lot
42:29
of stuff, like I said, I learned through through platforms like this,
42:34
because because she's young, so a lot of stuff I don't know yet,
42:37
and it's it's good to know, you know what adultthood may be like for
42:40
her. So keep sharing, keep answering all my questions. Even we got
42:45
on on to know, I got you. We got you, regardless of
42:51
whatever you want to know we got We don't have this type of system when
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we were growing up, so to have somebody else to give no, we
43:00
did. That's a blessing and a testimony for us. So oh, whatever
43:06
you need any time of the day, you let us know and we appreciating
43:13
it. Does not even matter, that's right. We absolutely adore you.
43:21
And I intended to wear my my Maddy T shirt, but the weather here
43:27
is delusion. But she grew out of her camp. If you sell more
43:34
T shirts, wow, So you know we're we're here to support you.
43:40
We're here to answer any questions that you may have. Like your mom said,
43:45
if you don't feel comfortable talking to her, just expert our numbers.
43:53
M hm, yeah, we're here right, Yeah, definitely. And in
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closing, I always say that this has been delayed, but not denied.
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Where you may be delayed, but what God has for you will never be
44:20
denied unto you. I'll be back on October thirtieth with my guest, missus
44:28
Lukeisha Trim and we will be discussing domestic violence. So if you're not doing
44:35
anything, come check me out. And I do. I thank you all
44:40
for being here, d D. I thank you for being my co host
44:44
tonight. You're always there when I need you to yell, to step in
44:50
and help out, and I appreciate it. And don I appreciate you on
44:57
absolute while don iiate you as well. I'm happy that I met you absolutely,
45:06
and I do plan to have you back again. So okay and okay,
45:12
no problem, no problem, and thank you for having me. Yeah,
45:16
we would love to have you back again as well. So I want
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to thank you all again for watching and for tuning here. It's important.
45:25
It's find a bit for that awareness month and and I will see you guys
45:32
later, all right. Thank you you're welcome, sweetheart, And for Friday
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of each monthing,