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67. Reading out your funny disability stories! · Unbalanced with Cerys Davage

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Hello everyone, welcome back to another episode of Unbalanced
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with me, Kerry Starvage. Hope you're all doing well.
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I'm really trying to because I can feel a cold coming on and
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the weather is Graham outside today.
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I feel like I always start every episode with just a little
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weather update and I can safely say that autumn is here, or as
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you Americans call it, fall. Cosy season is here and as much
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as I hate this time of year, I'm really trying to embrace it and
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trying to be cosy. But I'm going to stall it a
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little bit because by the time this episode comes out,
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hopefully my cold will be gone but who knows.
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But I'll be in sunny Gran Canaria with Tristan so I guess
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I'm just going to be enjoying the sun for a bit.
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But it's definitely going to be a shock when I come back.
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Our GMD awareness day was obviously recently and I can't
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thank you guys enough for the support over on my Instagram for
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all the content that I did for the awareness day and also for
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the podcast with my sisters. The feedback was absolutely
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amazing and I knew you guys would like them.
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It was an absolute pleasure to record with them and I'm just so
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glad that you guys felt the same way about listening to it.
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So thank you so much for all your support.
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I have loved seeing you guys content on LGMD Awareness Day.
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There was so much out there, like honestly, so many people
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sharing their stories for the first time or sharing videos of
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things that they've achieved or things that they've learnt
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growing up with LGMD and it's just been absolutely amazing for
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me to see because most of us grew up in our conditions alone.
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Most of us didn't know anyone else, didn't have anyone else to
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relate to. And now there's this whole
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community that we can relate to and share stories with and just
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know that we're not alone and that's the most important thing.
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So as much as having LGMD is a pain and we all wish we didn't
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have it, and I can't sugarcoat it, it is absolutely horrible
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sometimes, But this LGMD Awareness Day really means a lot
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to me because it's a celebration of how far we've come as a
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community. Just bringing everyone together
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and just showing that we're not alone in this terrible journey.
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Terrible sometimes. And it's also a great way to
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recognise research that's going on for different trials, for
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different cures at the moment, which is really exciting.
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But yeah, I have really enjoyed celebrating with all my friends
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online. So thank you so much for all
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your support as always. And keep flying the LGMD flag
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and keep raising awareness all year round.
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This is the kind of attitude we want to see.
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This is the kind of positivity we want to keep channelling.
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Also very recently was a big thing for me.
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It was a big event. It was the social media
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conference Cymru in Wales. So Cymru is Wales if you guys
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don't know in Welsh and it was a massive social media conference
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full of people working in the digital marketing social media
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world. And I did 2 talks I did one in
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English and one in Welsh about a newbies guide to mastering
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content creation. And it was honestly such a pinch
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me moment because I've always been passionate about social
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media and content creation and looking into analytics and the
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way that different platforms work like that really, really
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interests me. So to be able to talk about that
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in a room full of people either eager to learn or just as nerdy
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as me about these kind of things was just absolutely amazing and
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definitely a highlight for me this year.
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So I want to thank the social media conference Country Team
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Libra Agency for just trusting in me and believing in what I
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have to say. So it was absolutely amazing.
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And I have posted about it online, so definitely check that
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out if you missed the content because I was a bit inseparable
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on that day and it was actually on LGMDONS day.
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So it was a very busy day for me.
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I'm sipping my coffee as we go along.
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But today's episode is going to be a little bit different
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because I know we've delved into some deep topics recently.
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We've spoken about a lot of deep things and gotten real about a
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lot of different subjects. But I thought I just, I loved
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hearing everyone's stories on LGBT Awareness Day.
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And I know that we all have really funny stories when it
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comes to disability mishaps or just funny stories and anecdotes
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to share. And this community is absolutely
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amazing because yesterday, just 24 hours ago, I put up a story
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on my Instagram and a post on Facebook saying does anyone have
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a funny disability story that they want to share?
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And the response has been absolutely incredible.
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I've had so many different stories sent come through.
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I haven't even had a chance to read them all out before today.
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I'm excited to read them all out together with you guys and to
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react to them. I'm going to keep them all
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anonymous. And if there are any names
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mentioned, I've changed all the names so that it's so that
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they're fake. But yeah, I have absolutely
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loved this idea and I'm really hoping this works out now.
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And I hope you guys enjoyed this episode.
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I've shared a lot of my funny anecdotes throughout this
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podcast and you know, like times I've been in a club and people
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don't believe me or times that I've fallen over in a really
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awkward way, or times that I've been challenged for not looking
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disabled and things like that. So I thought I'd pass the mic on
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to the disability community today.
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And these are some hilarious stories.
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I think it's really important to laugh at ourselves to have some
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humour when it comes to having a disability because like I said,
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it can suck sometimes. So this is going to be great to
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kind of lighten the mood and but also maybe some of you guys will
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be able to relate to it. So let's go.
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We're starting off with one that is short and sweet.
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The other day I had my friend on my lap because she couldn't walk
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in her shoes. Bad idea to start with, but we
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hit a bump and we both fell out of my chair.
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I can imagine that that is that is hilarious and painful at the
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same time. I love offering for my friends
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to sit on my lap in the wheelchair.
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It's quite funny, but that's usually after a couple drinks.
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But that is absolutely hilarious and I hope you're OK.
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OK the next story. I was once at a busy brunch spot
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as my friends and I were walking out.
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I have LGMD but I'm still ambulatory.
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One of my friends accidentally stepped on the back of my shoe,
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causing me to miss that and trip.
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Of course my body immediately goes into panic and I grab onto
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the nearest thing in front of me.
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I end up grasping onto someone sitting on the table next to me
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as I was walking slash tripping. I held onto this poor man's neck
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and the worst part was that he was bald and I guess my brain
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registered that his bald head and neck was a stairwell post
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Thankfully I regained my balance by holding on and I said sorry
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and continued walking. He just said glad I could help
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and laughed as I walked. He was definitely not expecting
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for someone to have a deathly grip on his neck that morning.
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Oh bless you, I hate that honestly.
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When you trip you honestly grab anyone and anything that's near
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you, even if if it is a bald man's neck.
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OK next one. Back in college around 2017 I
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was out at a bar drinking way too much which was basically
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tradition. I stumble outside seeing triple
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when my left leg suddenly gives out.
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Being there, I tried to stand up but there is 0 power coming from
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the hips. My friend takes one look at me
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like yeah he's cooked, sits me on a stoop and heads back to the
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house. An hour later I decide I'm good
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to make a mile walk home. Mile spoiler I was not good. 1/4
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mile in, boom, flat on my ass. I crawl to someone's front
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steps, pull myself up and keep moving.
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About 3/4 of the way back. Boom again, same drill.
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I finally get one block away from the house, legs completely
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shot, still seeing quadruple, and I go down hard one more
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time. Oh my goodness, that's so many
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falls. I drag myself up the front steps
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like that Wolf of Wall Street scene and exactly the one and
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the next thing I know, I'm waking up on the living room
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floor with a headache, dead legs and a stomach in ruins.
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Oh my goodness, bless you. That sounds terrible.
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And like, honestly my worst nightmare.
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If I go out and have a drink, like I'm really aware, like I
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need to make sure that I'm still, I'm not going to be in
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that kind of state. I can only imagine that you've
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learnt from this experience and I really hope that that hasn't
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happened to you again. Wow, OK, next one.
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I once got invited to watch the England rugby team train and I
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was going towards the pitch in a wheelie because it was easier to
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go on the grass turf that way and one of the players called me
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a show off. I mean, that's kind of a claim
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to fame, right? That you've like had an
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interaction with one of the rugby players?
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I don't know. But that is the flex though.
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I'm still learning how to do a wheelie.
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To be honest. It looks really hard and it
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looks like something you really need to engage your call with.
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I don't know, give me some tips guys.
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Just doing a quick coffee break again.
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OK, let's move on. These are interesting.
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OK? Once I went to a visitation for
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my friend's dad who passed away. The building was old with only
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stairs to enter in front, so we were informed that the handicap
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entrance was in the back. First of all, I'm thinking, do I
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want to enter a Funeral Home through the back door?
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Well we go around back and I had to enter through the garage
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where the house was parked. The garage floor was dirty so
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that's an eel right there. We proceeded through the garage
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and to the back door and there is an elevator.
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I thought great this is perfect. Then I realised the elevator was
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the shape of a casket or Gurney. I could see the basement walls.
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I said to my hubby please press the right button to go up.
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I surely don't want to end up in the basement with a corpse.
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It was crazy. We go up maybe half a flight to
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get to the viewing room and then we had to go through a plastic
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accordion type doorway which was super noisy and the latch was
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kind of stuck. We entered almost directly
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behind my friend's dad's casket where there were tonnes of
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people waiting in line to pay their respects.
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It was awful. Another friend rode down the
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elevator with me so that my hubby could drive the car around
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the back. We were petrified of pressing
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the wrong button and going all the way to the basement.
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We couldn't stop laughing and we were trying not to since there
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was probably someone's loved one lying on a Gurney waiting for
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the turn to be viewed by family and friends.
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This was one of my most memorable mishaps.
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Needless to say, it was embarrassing, humiliating and
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horrifying. It was funny at the same time.
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The things we have to do, wow. I can surely say on behalf of
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all of us listening that that is a unique experience that we
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can't relate to, and maybe that's for the best.
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But wow, that is absolute crazy. I actually can't believe that
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entry was actually by Karen Cole from the LGMD community, who
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said that I can use her name if I want to because she's all
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about spreading LGMD awareness, especially if she can find
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humour in it. And I definitely agree.
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So thank you Karen for sharing that.
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That's definitely a unique experience that I wouldn't wish
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on anyone. Actually, that sounds horrible
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but also hilarious. Like it's one of those times
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where you really want to laugh but you really shouldn't.
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OK, strap yourselves in for another one.
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Life is absurd, so you might as well laugh.
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Oh, this one has a title. OK, on the way home from a trip
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I was determined to have tea from my favourite shop.
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This however would mean a pit stop on the way home for a pee
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break because what comes in must comes out.
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Obviously this bathroom break is no easy task for me and most
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especially my hubby as a non walking wheelchair dependent
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human. We made it as far as the Cove
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and it was time to find a facility.
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There is a brand new rest stop there and so we figured they
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would have family washrooms that would easily fit me, my chair
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and my husband. Turns out, no they didn't.
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With line UPS out the bathroom which contained a row of stools.
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There was no clearing the women's bathroom so my husband
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could accompany me. So we moved on down the road to
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another facility. They had a family bathroom.
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Mercifully. We discovered though that just
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because you can easily fit a machine and two people into a
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bathroom doesn't mean the reverse of that will be easy.
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Oh no, here we go. Once my tea was out of my
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system, we then realised that the grab bar was back too far
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and there was a giant toilet paper holder at the end of the
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bar, preventing me from being able to use it at all.
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Additionally, my husband's range of motion for pulling me up was
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obscured by the sink, which was too close to the toilet.
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So here we are. For what seemed like an
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eternity, we tried to figure out how we were going to manoeuvre
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me to get back into the chair without my husband putting his
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back out or dropping me in the process.
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After a few failed attempts, I was standing holding on to the
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arm of my chair with my pants down, my husband jammed between
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a wall and the toilet. But then we discovered I had
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nothing to hold on to so that I could let go of my chair in
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order for it to be moved behind me so that I could actually sit
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in it. That sounds so like awkward.
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Oh my goodness. Once the dawn of realisation hit
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that my husband was stuck up against the wall and that I was
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stranded in the middle of the floor with my pants around my
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knees and there was no way to get me in the chair, I look at
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my husband and he looks at me and we just both burst out
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laughing. We immediately started wondering
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how we would be found. Found.
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Oh no. Should we do a Jack and rose
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pose where my wheelchair is the iceberg?
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Or perhaps the pose of the protector and the protected as
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those found in Pompeii? How would we get word out to our
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daughter just to start the car and head on home without us?
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Perhaps we should just call out for help.
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With each outlandish idea, we laugh harder and harder.
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We do crack ourselves up, which is very important, and I can
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imagine in that situation you would feel really helpless and
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just you have to laugh. I'm finally able to wiggle my
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toes and fingers enough times to quote, walk my way down to the
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sink. It took 30 minutes to hold on,
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push my wheelchair back, free my husband, get the clothes on and
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get seated. Oh my goodness, 30 minutes.
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I wash my hands but the sink is soaking wet and when the
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automatic taps kick in I find out why.
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Water spray shoots out and soaks me, my shirt and my face.
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The hand dryer isn't working so I have to use toilet paper to
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dry my hands. Oh no.
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As we were exiting the bathroom. I am beet red from the heat and
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physical exertion and so is my husband.
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We both have tears streaming down our faces from laughing and
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now I'm completely soaked with bits of toilet paper still stuck
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to my hands as we sorry. I can just imagine the absolute
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mess and the absolute chaos. As we make our way past the shop
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staff there is a bewildered hush as they could most definitely
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hear the ruckus in the bathroom and I flash a big smile at the
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young pimply faced teen whose jaw hits the ground at the
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sopping dishevelled mess that I am.
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And I wink at him as I fix my crazy hair and I simply say well
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that was fun. With no other explanation I
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wheel right on out the door. Making people wonder is a gift.
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Wow, what a story. That sounds like an absolute
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nightmare. That sounds like chaos and I
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actually can't believe that happened.
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Bless you both. Oh my goodness, the patience you
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guys must have had is insane. Well done.
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Wow. And I love that because I think
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people can easily assume that there are other things going on
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in that bathroom, but there very definitely wasn't.
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And that is the reality behind being a wheelchair user and
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needing the bathroom with someone's help.
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Another little coffee break is needed after that.
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Wow OK moving on, someone said hi Cara's great podcast idea.
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I have several stories over almost 50 years since diagnosis,
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but probably one of the funniest happened back in the 90s.
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A friend and I went to the movies to a small theatre in
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Ithaca, NY. At that time, I could walk with
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a walking cane but had a hard time getting up from a chair,
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especially those folding ones in the theatre.
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After the movie finished, we waited for people in my row to
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leave before getting up to avoid getting bumped by someone and
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possibly falling down. Real relatable.
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It took a while for me to be able to get up, and then when I
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finally did, the lights were suddenly turned off in the
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theatre and we were in the dark. We walked to the entrance hall
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only to find ourselves completely alone and locked
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inside the theatre. We didn't know what to do.
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We didn't have a cell phone at that time, and we couldn't find
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a regular phone anywhere. We were laughing and really
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scared at the same time, discussing whether we could
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survive on popcorn until the next day.
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After yelling for a while and knocking on the door without
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anyone answering, we decided to try the emergency exit.
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We pushed the door and fortunately it worked.
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We didn't hear an alarm, but we were afraid that if an alarm did
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sound anywhere else, we might be taken for burglars breaking in.
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We got out of there as fast as my LGMD legs allowed.
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So not very fast then. I'm joking.
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The moral of the story is if you have LGMD and you walk slowly,
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don't be the last to leave a theatre.
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Oh bless you, that's so sad. Wait so the theatre closed
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because you were too slow to leave the theatre?
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That's that's humbling. That's so sad but also hilarious
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as well. Wow, there was no care for
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disabilities or anything like that.
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The least they could have done before shutting the theatre room
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is to just give the room a quick scan, you know, see if there's
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anyone still there. That is hilarious, so thank you
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for sharing. That was great.
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I'm going to read out two more stories, so bear with me.
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This next one is kind of long, but it's cute because it sounds
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like a first date kind of situation.
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OK, someone said. I do have a very funny story I
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would like to share, so let's go.
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A couple of months ago I went on a first date with a guy that I
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really liked. We were talking and having fun
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on DM, so it finally happened. The date we arranged to meet on
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Friday at a place I really like because it's very big and
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accessible. Usually before going out
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somewhere I look for the accessibility of the place, but
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since I already knew the place on honestly I didn't worry too
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much. However, I didn't think about
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the possibility of rain. So they sat us at a table inside
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a palapa, but in order to get in we had to go down some steps
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without railing. Because it was a first date and
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a friend we have in common introduced us, we came separate
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ways. So I was kind of relieved that
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he was not going to see me use the stairs in a funny way and
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make a bad or different first impression.
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Completely real, I get that. So the date was happening, we
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were having a fantastic chat and we were laughing.
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Honestly, we felt chemistry. I honestly don't like to talk
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about my condition on the first date, but I do give some hints
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about me having some issues and how much I struggle to ask for
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help. So Long story short, we had two
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drinks but I didn't think that in order to go to the bathroom I
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needed to use those horrible stairs.
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So I try not to think about going to the bathroom later.
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We kissed and I was so happy and then we kept talking until I
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couldn't anymore. I was really thinking of having
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an accident rather than asking for help.
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I didn't pay any attention to him and I started to hesitate
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that I didn't want to embarrass myself.
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So I finally got some courage and said remember how I said
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that I struggle asking for help? Well I need it right now.
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I want to go to the bathroom but I can't use the stairs.
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Can you help me? He looked at me, laughed and
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said yes, of course. So he took my arm and helped me
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through the stairs and into the bathroom.
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And to my surprise, I didn't feel bad and I really enjoyed
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his good heart. Then he took my arm and we went
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back to our places that day. I use an umbrella like a cane,
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just for precaution. I like that.
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And now that although it was a first date we had some physical
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touch. I was also kind of waiting for
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the kiss in order to ask for help because I thought at least
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while he likes me for me. I like that though, that's a
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good point. Then back in our places we kept
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talking. The date lasted like 6 hours.
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Whoa. I went super late back to my
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house but it was so worth it. We kept talking and on another
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date he also gave me his arm and help me a lot.
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He is such a gentleman. I love that.
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Wait, that's actually so sweet. I actually found that more like
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really sweet than funny. But I'm really glad that you had
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a good experience on a first date because like you said, you
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know a lot of people aren't comfortable talking about their
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conditions on the first date. But just the fact that you had
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casually mentioned something and it turned into him being able to
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really help you out, that's just amazing.
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And I hope it works out between you guys because he sounds like
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a keeper. And I love that you waited for
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him to kiss you first so that you could figure out whether he
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actually liked you. And then you told him about your
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condition and that you needed help.
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And I'm very proud of you for asking for help because that can
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be really difficult, especially if it's someone you really like
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and you really want to like get on well with and for them not to
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see you differently. But you didn't let that stop
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you. And I mean, eventually until
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you're about to wet yourself, but I do that a lot as well.
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I really still go into the bathroom just because I can't
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face it sometimes. But I'm very proud of you.
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OK, one last story, guys and I have changed the name for
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anonymity purposes. We went out for tacos.
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Molly, her husband and I. When we got home, her husband
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left to go to his dad's. Molly always has to piggyback me
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up the stairs to get into her house, so she squats down and I
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get on her back and for some reason we can't control our
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laughter and Molly can't stand up because she's laughing so
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hard. But because I was so low to the
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ground I couldn't stand back up either.
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So I kid you not, we were sitting like that for a few
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seconds trying to calm down and we just burst out laughing
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again. I'm going to pee my pants on
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her. So I roll off the ground onto
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the ground in her garage and we just laugh it out.
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I didn't pee my pants, but I was very close to it.
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We didn't even have margaritas. It was just a really good funny
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day All in all. She got me up and carried me
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into her house after all the laughs were out.
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I love that. I love having a friend that just
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knows you so well that you know they can just carry you around.
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And laughing is terrible if you're trying to like stay
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strong and not be like all week and uncontrollable laughing is
24:48
the worst thing. So that's so cute.
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That's so sweet. It's a funny story where you
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just kind of like accept the defeat and you just, you just
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need to laugh it out. The same person also shared
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another little anecdote. But also one night in college my
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friend was convinced she could piggyback me up these narrow
25:07
fraternity house stairs. And she did, but tripped at the
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top of the stairs and we flew forward and my head put a hole
25:14
in the wall. What?
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You must have flown. Wow and I hope you didn't have
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to pay too much for that damage. I hope that there was some kind
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of like disability like cover. I actually have a similar story
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where I went mini golfing with my friends for my friend's
25:34
birthday and there was a lift in there.
25:38
Weirdly there wasn't a lift to get into the actual place so I
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had to climb up loads of stairs just to get there.
25:45
But then during the golf course there was supposed to be a lift
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but when we got there it wasn't working so and by then I'd had a
25:54
drink or two so I knew I was a bit wobbly.
25:56
So my friend who's really strong, offered to carry me up
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the stairs. And this is not her first time.
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She's climbed me up some stairs before and but by the time we
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got to the top, she put me down so low, too low that I couldn't
26:10
get back up and I fell backwards and I whacked my head on the
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like on a stair. Not the flight of that we had
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just come up because that would have been crazy if I'd fallen
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back down the stairs. She kind of turned around so
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that she was facing the stairs and dropped me and I fell
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backwards and I hit my head on a step that was on the floor and
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it was really painful. But like surprisingly I was OK.
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I really was worried that I was going to get a concussion, but I
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was fine. I think we can all relate to
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funny stories like those and I think just having these kind of
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stories just really lifts the mood and just makes us feel a
26:45
bit better about being able to laugh at ourselves sometimes.
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And you know, we're all human, we all, no one's perfect and we
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all have our silly little moments.
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But I really appreciate you guys sharing your stories.
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It's been an absolute ride to just be able to have a glimpse
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into your funny little mishaps and just crazy stories.
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I mean, I had no idea what I was expecting when I was reading out
27:09
these stories, but I was not let down for sure.
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So I really appreciate you guys sending in your stories.
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If you do have more, please let me know.
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Please keep them coming. I really, really enjoyed them.
27:21
I hope you guys enjoyed listening and I hope that we can
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maybe do a Part 2 sometime if you guys are interested.
27:27
I think it's really nice to just break up the episode sometimes
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and just throw in a funny one or two.
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I would love to know what you guys thought of this episode
27:37
there. There will be a little Q&A box
27:38
underneath this episode asking what you guys thought or on
27:42
YouTube, obviously there's the comment section.
27:44
So please comment and let me know what you thought.
27:47
And please let me know if you have any topics you'd like me to
27:50
discuss. I've been doing this podcast for
27:53
about 2 1/2 years now and I would love your insight.
27:57
I would love your input. I would love to know what you
27:59
guys are interested in hearing more about and obviously, you
28:03
know you guys are the ones listening to it.
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So I want to make sure that I'm giving you the content that you
28:08
want. So please feel free to message
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me anytime. Thank you so much to kill LGMD 2
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I for sponsoring this episode who have actually just announced
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very exciting news that the save the date is out for the European
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LGMD 2 I conference. So if you have LGMD 2 I and you
28:27
are maybe able to come to Europe next year, I would absolutely
28:31
love to see you there. It will be May 22nd to the 23rd
28:35
2026 in Denmark. It will be great to see you
28:38
there. I like I've said before,
28:40
conferences are like the best things ever, you learn so much
28:44
and meet so many people and it's absolutely amazing.
28:46
So of course I'll be vlogging that when the time comes, but
28:50
I'm hoping to do some more YouTube videos in the time
28:52
being. Especially with this changing
28:54
season, I need something to help me get through it.
28:58
So I'm going to document it a bit more when I come back from
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my sunny holiday. But for now, I'm going to go
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enjoy my holiday in Gran Canaria and I will speak to you guys
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very soon. Love you all, bye.