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Big Christmas Wish - Paige & Ron Tollefson · Podcast - Big 98.7

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  Speaker 1: Hello, Hi is this Ron?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Hi Ron, This is Amanda and Game from Big
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  Speaker 2: ninety eight point seven.
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing this morning?
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  Speaker 3: Fine?
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a second to chat with us on
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  Speaker 1: the radio?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Sure, I know, little hesitant, you're probably thinking, what in
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  Speaker 2: the world are you guys calling about?
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  Speaker 3: What? Yeah, what's going on?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 2: Ron, we heard from a little birdie that you have
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  Speaker 2: been going through just a rough few months with your
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  Speaker 2: wife Paige.
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  Speaker 1: Can you kind of fill us in with what's been
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  Speaker 1: going on?
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  Speaker 3: A sure? So randomly. Apparently Paige has some gene mutations
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  Speaker 3: that we didn't know about that a couple of years
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  Speaker 3: ago ended up with her, unfortunately, throwing up buckets of
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  Speaker 3: blood one morning. Thanks, and yeah, that's that's Amazingly, it's
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  Speaker 3: the quickest way to get into a room at the
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  Speaker 3: EERS when you show up with a bucket of blood.
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  Speaker 3: I can imagine we been living with a couple of years.
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  Speaker 3: Every now and then she would throw a blood, we'd
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  Speaker 3: go to the hospital for some endoscopy. In a couple
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  Speaker 3: of days we'd be out. But unfortunately, there was a
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  Speaker 3: few more things started happening. She started having a lot
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  Speaker 3: of fluid in her stomach area, and pretty soon that
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  Speaker 3: stomach all that fluid got a massive infection, and they
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  Speaker 3: actually didn't know what was going on, so they just
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  Speaker 3: started throwing every antibiotic they could onto an IV pole
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  Speaker 3: and just kept going for a couple of weeks, and
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  Speaker 3: unfortunately the whole time, Page was actually in quite a
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  Speaker 3: lot of pain, getting lots of pain medications and opioids
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  Speaker 3: and whatnot through an IV and just kind of trying
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  Speaker 3: to have to live with it for a couple of
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  Speaker 3: weeks to see what was going on.
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  Speaker 2: And oh my gosh, right now, Page is very young.
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  Speaker 2: She is only what thirty one?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's only thirty one years old, and
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  Speaker 3: having to deal with this completely random. It's apparently what
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  Speaker 3: happens is with gene mutation. It's just completely random. There's
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  Speaker 3: nothing that says in your family history just can happen.
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  Speaker 2: It was an emotional rollercoaster because every time you thought
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  Speaker 2: she was getting better.
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  Speaker 1: I mean there was a point where she was put
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  Speaker 1: on hospice.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was the weekend before I thought she was
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  Speaker 3: doing great because she wasn't taking as pain medications as often,
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  Speaker 3: and I was thinking we were finally around the corner.
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  Speaker 3: And then it was the Tuesday after that weekend, all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden something happened. The pain got worse and
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  Speaker 3: it won't go away, and so they finally did another
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  Speaker 3: CT scan and they thought after everything that a portion
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  Speaker 3: of her small intestine had died. And unfortunately, with what
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  Speaker 3: the gene thing she has, she has two blood clots.
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  Speaker 3: And they say, yeah, we can go in and fix
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  Speaker 3: the portion that may have died, but that clot will
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  Speaker 3: just keep killing more intestines. And we checked with Sandford
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  Speaker 3: and Mayo and University of Minnesota, and no surgical team
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  Speaker 3: even wanted to try because to try to physically remove
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  Speaker 3: that cloud had a mortality rate of about ninety eight
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  Speaker 3: percent and they told us she'll probably bleed out on
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  Speaker 3: the table, and so surgery was palliative and they said,
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  Speaker 3: we're sorry. The only thing we can really recommend is
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  Speaker 3: hospice care and make you comfortable for however many days.
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  Speaker 1: Where are we at now with her progress?
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  Speaker 3: So she was in hospice and we learned that the
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  Speaker 3: doctors were actually only estimating about three or four days
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  Speaker 3: is how long she would have to live. Oh but
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  Speaker 3: on yeah, that one was a very big surprise. But
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  Speaker 3: on day twelve of hospice, she was doing better and
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  Speaker 3: stuff was starting to kind of return to normal. So
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  Speaker 3: we talked to the doctors again and they're like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we think there might have been a mistake of everybody
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  Speaker 3: looking at the CT scans and we don't think maybe
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  Speaker 3: that there's any dead portion of intestine, and they want
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  Speaker 3: and they wanted to run more tests. So she revoked
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  Speaker 3: hospice and went back into inpatient care, and they did
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  Speaker 3: more scans, more tests, and they said, hey, the portion
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  Speaker 3: we thought had died seems to have resolved itself. It's
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  Speaker 3: it's mostly gone away. There's still lots of things going on,
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  Speaker 3: but the portion that was bad is almost back to
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  Speaker 3: normal now and it's good again. And then they're like,
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  Speaker 3: all right, we'll start on some medications again and wait again,
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  Speaker 3: sit and wait, see what happens. And we were only
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  Speaker 3: back in the hospital for about six days and we
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  Speaker 3: managed to come home.
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  Speaker 1: I have been to some incredible amusement parks. I've never
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  Speaker 1: been on a roller coaster ride like this one right now.
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  Speaker 1: What a story. Yeah, just emotional, to say the least.
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  Speaker 2: I can't imagine feeling like you're saying goodbye to your
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  Speaker 2: wife and then having all of this hope, of course,
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  Speaker 2: and then it actually coming true. So now you've been
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  Speaker 2: by her side through all of this, I can only imagine,
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  Speaker 2: And it's the last thing you want to think about
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  Speaker 2: is doctor Bill's and everything like that.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, in the back of your mind those
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  Speaker 1: are adding up.
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  Speaker 3: Yep. Yeah, I've been opening a lot of letters from
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  Speaker 3: our insurance company with the explanation of benefits of how
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  Speaker 3: much everything costs, and.
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  Speaker 2: You know what, that is the last thing you need
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  Speaker 2: to be worrying about. And that's why we're calling you today.
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  Speaker 2: Ron On behalf of the big ninety eight point seven
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  Speaker 2: Christmas Wish program, Gateway Chevrolet, Heartland, Chevy Dealers, and your
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  Speaker 2: guys's friend Sabrina Jenks. She wrote in to just talk
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  Speaker 2: about Page and how she is a beautiful thirty one
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  Speaker 2: year old not only mother, wife, daughter, cousin, niece, friend,
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  Speaker 2: but just somebody who has a loving husband like you
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  Speaker 2: by her side. And what you guys have gone through.
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  Speaker 2: I think everybody listening right now can't even imagine. And
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  Speaker 2: we want to ease a little bit of that burden
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  Speaker 2: through this holiday and give you a check for one
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, and it's very appreciative.
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  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, You're so welcome, and it doesn't even feel
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  Speaker 2: like it's you know, much given everything you've gone through.
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  Speaker 2: But we want to just bring a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: happiness to you guys through this holiday and hopefully you
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  Speaker 2: guys can just enjoy what you can and honestly just
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  Speaker 2: be so grateful that it has turned around this way.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. It means a lot to know how many
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  Speaker 3: people have just it's been ridiculous steam out of support
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  Speaker 3: we've gotten from friends, family, relative people we don't even know,
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  Speaker 3: and it's just been amazing.