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#154: Bonus Episode -The Camp Hamwi Series (Part 2) - Bethany · The Healthy Diabetic

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to yet another episode of the Campaign Away series.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, coach Ken Kines, and this is the Healthy Diabetic Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: As always, please remember that nothing that you hear on this podcast should be considered medical advice or otherwise.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: Please always consult your medical team before making any changes to diabetes management.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, a couple things before we jump in with Bethany.
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  Speaker 1: Remember to like subscribe to the podcast, whether you're listening to audio form or whether you're watching on the new video form.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's right, we are video form.
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  Speaker 1: These podcast, these Camp Hamway episodes.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them are not video form.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of the ones with the kids we recorded while I was at camp in July, these ones that you're listening to right now, and some of the ones with the campers, they are not video form, so you will not find them on YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: But a lot of the counselors that I'm talking to, they will be video form so you can find those episodes on YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: There will be links and stuff in the show notes, so please make sure that you check out all the links, because I think there's a lot of them in there now.
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: Check out the links in the show notes and navigate to whatever you want to navigate to.
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  Speaker 1: If you're interested in some additional guidance.
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  Speaker 1: My coaching doors are always open.
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  Speaker 1: It's been so much fun taking people through this more than A1C coaching program.
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  Speaker 1: It's a 10-week program.
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  Speaker 1: We dive into so much.
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  Speaker 1: We dive into the individual's diabetes management style.
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  Speaker 1: We develop a new management style.
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  Speaker 1: We look at nutrition.
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  Speaker 1: We look at the individual's mindset.
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  Speaker 1: We look at what are they doing activity-wise.
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  Speaker 1: We look at how they view themselves with diabetes.
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  Speaker 1: We look at the words that you're using or that they're using when they talk about diabetes, and talk to their friends, their family members, whoever it is, because these things are really important when it comes to developing your own management style.
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  Speaker 1: So you guys always hear me talk about this concept of figuring out what works for you, and that's what this program is all about.
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  Speaker 1: There also be coming soon.
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  Speaker 1: In November, there will be a nutrition course, but it's going to entail some of the things that I talk about in the more than A1C program.
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  Speaker 1: The more than A1C program is more of an individualized program that's going to dive into a lot of these nutritional concepts, but we're going to dive into things like your relationship with food, how you think about food.
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  Speaker 1: We'll look at food labels.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be educated on different types of foods.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to have presentations in there on actual foods that I consume that are super energy boosters for me breakfast, lunches, dinners, snacks, you name it.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about in the nutrition course.
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  Speaker 1: So much really cool information.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really pumped to bring that to you guys.
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  Speaker 1: It's being filmed right now and edited and it will be out for the world here soon.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's get with Bethany.
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  Speaker 1: She is just an incredible young woman.
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  Speaker 1: I was so excited to be able to talk to her, and I was excited when we had all of the campers and we were trying to figure out who wanted to get on the podcast and speak, and I was really pumped that she volunteered to speak.
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  Speaker 1: This is another really good story from another really really cool young woman.
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  Speaker 1: Without further ado, let's get with Bethany.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, bethany, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you doing good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me a little bit about yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Like what do you want to know about me?
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  Speaker 1: I want to know let's start with your diagnosis story.
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's start with your diagnosis story and then we'll go into camp, and how long you been at camp?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so I was diagnosed and I think 2017, that's six years ago right, okay.
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  Speaker 2: And the reason why I was diagnosed was because I already had a thyroid issue and was going to co-peeds, and then I was losing weight very fast, even though I was eating a lot and I was also drinking a lot of water and wetting the bed at night.
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  Speaker 2: We went to my pediatrician and they said to not drink water before bed, but that still didn't help.
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  Speaker 2: And then my mom called my endocrinologist one night and he was like, yeah, you need to come in tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: And my mom searched up the symptoms and she was like, oh no, oh no.
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  Speaker 1: Did she know anything about diabetes?
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  Speaker 1: Nope, nope.
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  Speaker 2: No one in my family that we know of has type 1 diabetes.
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  Speaker 2: They may have further down in our family tree, but we don't know that far.
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  Speaker 2: But my dad did have type 2 diabetes.
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  Speaker 2: So a little.
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  Speaker 2: But my dad never really took care of his type 2 diabetes till I got type 1, and then we started pestering him more.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because I was like dad you also need to make sure your blood sugar's in check.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, this guy set a good example for you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's mostly me setting a good example for my dad.
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  Speaker 1: Good, yeah, awesome.
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  Speaker 1: So what is one thing that you have learned that's kind of helped you at camp, and actually my first question is how many years have you been coming to camp?
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  Speaker 2: I've been coming to camp for five years.
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  Speaker 2: The only year that I didn't come was during the CDL year, when it was all online, so yeah, Nice.
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  Speaker 2: So I've been coming ever since I was diagnosed.
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  Speaker 2: I first started off going to the day camp, but then I asked Russ about the sleepover camp and he said that there were spots left.
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  Speaker 2: And then when my mom came to pick me up, I was like mom, there's still spots left, can I go to sleepover camp?
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  Speaker 1: So you stayed two weeks in a row, or did you just leave in the camp?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it was junior week that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh gotcha Since.
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  Speaker 2: I was nine years old when.
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  Speaker 2: I was first diagnosed and that was the first year I went to camp.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the first year I got diagnosed I went to camp.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, wait, no, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Though I was diagnosed in the fall, I think yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Nice.
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  Speaker 1: What's something that has been very impactful in terms of you learning about yourself, your diabetes?
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  Speaker 1: Has it been the connections and friends you've made, the education from dietary or medical, or the counselors?
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  Speaker 1: What's been the biggest impact for you over the past?
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  Speaker 2: One thing with gang diabetes is that I've learned is that many people are very ignorant about other people's medical conditions and think they know better than you do, because I've had instances, especially with my grandma, where she's like you can't eat, that you're diabetic.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I love that.
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: See, we all love that.
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  Speaker 1: The audience even loves that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, people, it's interesting when you think about diabetes.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: And then if you don't go into the med, there's a difference in the way you treat it, the confusion between type one and type two.
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  Speaker 1: Even though the mechanisms are similar, they're also very different.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably because in media, type two diabetes is used to make fun of people more, because it commonly occurs with people who are considered overweight and that's why people are like you should eat less if you have diabetes and stuff like that, and you always see advertisements for medicines for type two diabetes and never.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there are some DEXCOM ads, but it's rare to see them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's not a lot of type one advocacy in media right now.
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  Speaker 2: Before I was diagnosed with type one diabetes, I never even knew about type one diabetes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So, Is there anything else that kind of you can think of that's impacted you?
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  Speaker 1: Being at camp or just even being a diabetic and being on social media, learning from other people or whoever it is?
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  Speaker 2: One thing that has impacted me is going to camp and finding people who understand me.
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  Speaker 2: Have been through the exact same things as me and it helps me not feel as alone.
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  Speaker 1: Did you feel alone at first, when you were first diagnosed?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, when I was first diagnosed.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of times I would be like why was I diagnosed with diabetes?
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  Speaker 2: Why did it have to be me?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of us go through that and do you still feel that way?
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes, but I know that I'm not alone and I have other people I can turn to, and there are people that have gone through the same exact feelings and thoughts as me.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Are there specific things that you tell yourself, stories that you tell yourself in your head, affirmations that you tell yourself when you kind of feel like that?
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  Speaker 2: that you can share.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anything that kind of jumps out at you like hey, I say this to myself when I'm feeling down.
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: Well, I do tell myself that I'm strong for being able to push through it.
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: Not a lot of people would be able to deal with needles and blood because diabetics, they have to deal with needles and blood all the time.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of people that I know who aren't diabetic are like how could you ever prick your finger like that, or how could you give yourself a needle like that?
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: I'd be scared to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, were you scared to do it at first?
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  Speaker 2: No.
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: No, that's good, yeah, that's good.
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  Speaker 1: When I my first time every myself a shot, I was in tears, not because of having to give myself a shot, but because of the emotions that I was feeling at that point, and those emotions basically coming out and saying like, trying to figure out, understand, because I had no support.
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  Speaker 1: And this is why I love that you guys are at camp.
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  Speaker 1: This is why I love that I'm here this weekend and being part of your guys' journey is because I didn't have that when I was first diagnosed and, speaking of first shots, I actually never had to go to the hospital for my diabetes.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, good for you.
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  Speaker 2: And I never went into DKA.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Even though when I first checked my blood sugar, the meter was like high Couldn't even read my blood sugar.
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  Speaker 1: Who's the first medical professional you saw?
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  Speaker 1: Was it family practitioner?
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  Speaker 1: Was it?
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  Speaker 2: It was, I think, dr Lozano.
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  Speaker 1: In the hospital.
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  Speaker 2: No, dr.
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  Speaker 2: Lozano, at Copeds.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, that's cool.
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome that you didn't have to go to the hospital and deal with all that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then my brother was with me for the first day and he because my mom didn't think it would be like a full day of school being missed.
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And the first meal I had as a diabetic probably wasn't the best choice.
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  Speaker 2: It was Wendy's, it was chili baked potato and fries.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, probably not the best choice, but okay, I get you Cool, awesome.
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for doing this, beth, and I really appreciate you opening up and talking about your journey and your diabetes.
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  Speaker 2: This has been great, Thank you yeah, thank you, yeah, you're welcome.
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Again.
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• 13:39
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