Latest / Tom's Hirschsprung's Podcast / Episode 96 - With Sydney Foland
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- 0:02Speaker 1: You are listening to Tom's Hirshbrung's Podcast, a space where
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- 0:22Speaker 1: tuning in. Hello, and welcome to episode ninety six of
- 0:49Speaker 1: Tom's Hirshbrun's Podcast. I am very pleased to be joined
- 0:53Speaker 1: by Sydney this evening or this afternoon where you are
- 0:57Speaker 1: welcome to the podcast.
- 0:58Speaker 2: Sydney, thank you grabbing me.
- 1:01Speaker 1: Thank you so much for coming on. And we are
- 1:04Speaker 1: here to talk about your daughter and her short segment hirsprungs.
- 1:10Speaker 1: I know you said a little bit as well that
- 1:12Speaker 1: she's about a year and a half. Is that right?
- 1:16Speaker 2: Ye? Months today?
- 1:18Speaker 1: Seventeen months today? Oh, happy seventeen month birth. That's not
- 1:22Speaker 1: really a thing, is that? But if you, if you'd like,
- 1:28Speaker 1: you can start from just sort of the very beginning,
- 1:31Speaker 1: if that's okay, yep, I can do that.
- 1:34Speaker 2: So we had a pretty normal bringiancy. Everything was looking good.
- 1:39Speaker 2: Nothing no rank flags, no high risk, nothing, and normal delivery.
- 1:44Speaker 2: She was eating really good. The first two times she breastfed,
- 1:48Speaker 2: was really good, and then she just got like super tired,
- 1:51Speaker 2: and then she started like gagging every time she was
- 1:54Speaker 2: laid flat, and then she started spitting up and spitting up.
- 1:58Speaker 2: So one of the nurses took her and suctioned her out,
- 2:01Speaker 2: and they're like, yeah, sometimes we can just get the
- 2:04Speaker 2: fluids stuck in their lungs and their little stomachs and stuff.
- 2:07Speaker 2: So they didn't really think anything of it, and we
- 2:09Speaker 2: were still like attempting to breastfeed, but she wasn't having it,
- 2:13Speaker 2: and every time she'd lay flat, she'd still just gag
- 2:15Speaker 2: and gag. So finally the Obie supervisor came in on
- 2:19Speaker 2: the second day that we were still in the hospital
- 2:22Speaker 2: and they're like, well, she's still a little na'sn't pooped,
- 2:25Speaker 2: so we're gonna keep you another day like monitor and everything.
- 2:28Speaker 2: And then I told her about what was going on
- 2:30Speaker 2: with her gagging and her puking and the not eating,
- 2:33Speaker 2: and she's like, well, that's weird. She was eating so
- 2:35Speaker 2: good the day before, and so she took her and
- 2:38Speaker 2: suctioned her out again, and then she says, she got
- 2:41Speaker 2: like five milli liters of like just crup cruddy stuff
- 2:45Speaker 2: out of her, and then as soon as she got
- 2:47Speaker 2: done suction her out, she had cuped bile. And so
- 2:51Speaker 2: she called our doctor back in and our doctor was like, Oh,
- 2:55Speaker 2: we're gonna do some abdominal X rays if that's okay
- 2:58Speaker 2: with you, and I was like, yes, please give us
- 3:00Speaker 2: some answers. Absolutely. And this was at a little rural
- 3:04Speaker 2: hospital that we it's about thirty miles from where we live.
- 3:08Speaker 2: And the labor and delivery room floor that we were
- 3:12Speaker 2: on it wasn't even a floor. I guess it was
- 3:14Speaker 2: just a section of the hospital. But there's only three
- 3:16Speaker 2: beds in it, so like it's tiny. And yeah, she's
- 3:20Speaker 2: like the x rays don't look very good. It's not
- 3:23Speaker 2: enough to be diagnostic, but it's enough for us to
- 3:25Speaker 2: send it on to the children's hospital and see what
- 3:28Speaker 2: they recommend. I was like, oh, boy, okay, that's fine.
- 3:33Speaker 2: And at this point, it's like eleven pm at night
- 3:38Speaker 2: of like day two of her life, not even and
- 3:43Speaker 2: so they heard back like right away and they're like, yep,
- 3:46Speaker 2: they want to come get her. They're gonna take her
- 3:48Speaker 2: by airplane. The Children's hospital is like a little over
- 3:51Speaker 2: two hours from us, and so they send their team
- 3:57Speaker 2: by plane to our little rural strip airport that we have,
- 4:03Speaker 2: and then the local volunteer ambulance went and picked their
- 4:07Speaker 2: team up and brought them to the hospital and they
- 4:10Speaker 2: came in and introduced themselves and told us, like what
- 4:13Speaker 2: all was gonna happen. They placed an ivy and an
- 4:16Speaker 2: og tube, and then they switched her to suction in
- 4:19Speaker 2: their little incubator thing, and they're like, we're gonna say,
- 4:22Speaker 2: really good care of your baby. Like when we get there,
- 4:25Speaker 2: we're gonna do like the variant and the X ray
- 4:28Speaker 2: or the yeah, the x ray and do all these
- 4:31Speaker 2: tests to see what's going on. And I was like, okay,
- 4:35Speaker 2: sounds good. Yeah. We didn't get to ride in the plane,
- 4:38Speaker 2: so we had the watch her get wheeled out, and
- 4:41Speaker 2: then we it was like three in the morning at
- 4:44Speaker 2: this point, two or three, and we went out pack
- 4:50Speaker 2: all our stuff up as fast as we could, went
- 4:52Speaker 2: to go get to our suburban, and the battery it
- 4:54Speaker 2: was dead. So our nurse came out, jumped our car
- 4:58Speaker 2: and then we followed the the airplane and our car
- 5:03Speaker 2: and we got up there and As soon as we
- 5:06Speaker 2: are getting to Omaha, which is where the Nebraska Children's
- 5:09Speaker 2: Hospital is, our doctor, one of the doctors where those
- 5:14Speaker 2: called us and told us that they she finally made it.
- 5:16Speaker 2: And then they were getting her in and taking her
- 5:18Speaker 2: down to the enema X ray and it's like okay.
- 5:22Speaker 2: So they took us up to the NIKU room that
- 5:25Speaker 2: she was gonna be in and we got to like
- 5:28Speaker 2: briefly see her as she was wheeled back out of
- 5:30Speaker 2: the room to go down, and then it was just
- 5:33Speaker 2: like silence, there's nothing, and I was like, oh, this
- 5:36Speaker 2: is terrifying. But then they had the surgery team come
- 5:40Speaker 2: up after her enema and we're like, well, we see
- 5:44Speaker 2: something that's really concerning and it kind of looks like
- 5:47Speaker 2: a perforation of the bowl and so we're like bom.
- 5:50Speaker 2: They're like, so we're gonna take her into surgery right
- 5:52Speaker 2: away and do an X lab and see what we
- 5:56Speaker 2: see what's going on. She's like, I'm worried about mount rotation,
- 5:58Speaker 2: I'm worried about the purple. I'm worried about like any
- 6:03Speaker 2: shrinkages or anything. And I was like, Okay, terrifying running
- 6:08Speaker 2: on no sleep and that's yeah, not what you want
- 6:12Speaker 2: to hear. But we're like, yeah, signed all the consent
- 6:15Speaker 2: forms and they had her under general anesthesia just done,
- 6:20Speaker 2: like she wasn't hardly moving or anything, and then she
- 6:23Speaker 2: was wheeled back up. We got a text from their
- 6:26Speaker 2: children's things saying that seargery is done, closing her up now,
- 6:29Speaker 2: and then like we got a follow along that way,
- 6:33Speaker 2: and then they brought her back up and they're like, well, no,
- 6:36Speaker 2: we didn't see any perforation. There was nothing. It all
- 6:39Speaker 2: looked pretty good, but there was tons of maconium plugs,
- 6:43Speaker 2: and so they're like, we kind of like got some
- 6:46Speaker 2: flushed out from what we could, but we they wanted
- 6:50Speaker 2: to do a rectal biopsy then too, but there was
- 6:53Speaker 2: too much maconium so they couldn't even do a rectal biopsy.
- 6:56Speaker 2: So like, we're just gonna let her heal up and
- 7:00Speaker 2: and see if her intestines like wake up a little bit,
- 7:03Speaker 2: because sometimes newborns just need a little bit of time
- 7:06Speaker 2: for them to like wake up. And so she was
- 7:09Speaker 2: like probably the biggest baby in the NIKU floor because
- 7:12Speaker 2: she was a term baby. She's seven pounds and eleven
- 7:16Speaker 2: ounces when she was born, so she never went under
- 7:19Speaker 2: the seven pound mark, which is good. But yeah, they
- 7:22Speaker 2: brought her back up and she was still out from
- 7:24Speaker 2: the anesthesia and it was terrifying seeing her hooked up
- 7:28Speaker 2: to the ventilator and all the ivs and everything and
- 7:32Speaker 2: not even a two day old baby. But yeah, so
- 7:35Speaker 2: then they just like let her wake up on her
- 7:38Speaker 2: own for a little bit, and then they she was
- 7:41Speaker 2: still in PO, so they switched her to TPAN and
- 7:43Speaker 2: lipids and they put her a pick line in her leg.
- 7:49Speaker 2: And so for about how I want to say, almost
- 7:51Speaker 2: a week, she was just on the NPO and the lipids,
- 7:54Speaker 2: and they were seeing it that she would like poop
- 7:56Speaker 2: on her own at all, or like if she'd have
- 7:59Speaker 2: any chain engine. We're like, okay, nothing's happening. But like
- 8:04Speaker 2: her belly never got really distended or anything. So they
- 8:07Speaker 2: were like, I don't know. They didn't do any more
- 8:10Speaker 2: X rays or anything while that was going on, and
- 8:13Speaker 2: then they ended up doing a reftal biopsy bedside, probably
- 8:20Speaker 2: four days after the surgery, and then they're like, hey,
- 8:23Speaker 2: you're gonna get your results in like four to five days,
- 8:25Speaker 2: and I was like, we have to wait that long again,
- 8:28Speaker 2: Like we've been here for so long. You know at
- 8:30Speaker 2: this point, we're just like, we would just want to
- 8:32Speaker 2: take our baby home, Like we have no idea what's
- 8:34Speaker 2: going on. We'd never heard of hirshbums before, and they're like, yeah,
- 8:38Speaker 2: we're just gonna look for this, like hirshbrums disease. So
- 8:41Speaker 2: then we went and you know, dove into the Google
- 8:45Speaker 2: deep dive and that said, you know, one in five
- 8:49Speaker 2: thousand kids, mostly in boys, like sometimes mostly hereditary, and
- 8:54Speaker 2: we're like, there's no way, like, our family has no
- 8:56Speaker 2: history of this, no way, Nope. Yeah, it came back,
- 9:00Speaker 2: but she was lacking the cells in her in the
- 9:04Speaker 2: very bottom part of her rectum, and they're like, huh,
- 9:07Speaker 2: all right, so what do we do from here? So
- 9:09Speaker 2: then then we started irrigations while we were still in
- 9:11Speaker 2: the nickeu. We caught on how to do those pretty quickly,
- 9:15Speaker 2: and then she ended up We started doing feeds by
- 9:19Speaker 2: the bottle and she was doing pretty good about those,
- 9:21Speaker 2: but they weren't happy with the amount she was taking,
- 9:24Speaker 2: so we put an NG tube in so we could
- 9:27Speaker 2: see if her tummy would tolerate the amount of milk
- 9:30Speaker 2: that they would like her to have and then see
- 9:33Speaker 2: if like the irrigations would keep up with that amount
- 9:36Speaker 2: of milk and her tummy, and so she did. She
- 9:39Speaker 2: ended up doing pretty good. We were in the nique
- 9:41Speaker 2: for eighteen days total and then we finally got to
- 9:44Speaker 2: take her home. We did irrigations three times a day,
- 9:48Speaker 2: and then they wanted her to get bigger and stronger
- 9:52Speaker 2: before they did her pull through surgery and so, and
- 9:55Speaker 2: they wanted her first X slap scar to heal, and
- 9:58Speaker 2: so they didn't run into any scar tissue while they
- 10:01Speaker 2: were doing her pull through. And so about two and
- 10:04Speaker 2: a half months old was when we went back to
- 10:06Speaker 2: Children's and we did the pull through surgery and they
- 10:10Speaker 2: ended up taking about twenty centimeters out right up next
- 10:13Speaker 2: to her Sigamore Cohen is where the surgeon said that
- 10:17Speaker 2: it was. And she's like, yeah, you could definitely tell
- 10:20Speaker 2: it right where it ended too, because we got in
- 10:21Speaker 2: there and the one the bad part was all super
- 10:24Speaker 2: skinny and looked pretty dead and she's like, but Taylor,
- 10:27Speaker 2: stuff looked really really like healthy and fleshy, and I
- 10:30Speaker 2: was like, well, that's good. But yeah, they did did
- 10:34Speaker 2: that pull through. They went in and they did like
- 10:36Speaker 2: the biopsies all the way up to where it was
- 10:40Speaker 2: healthy again during the pull through and then they're like, yeah,
- 10:44Speaker 2: it'll probably be like another four to five days day
- 10:46Speaker 2: when you guys have your pull through surgery. So that's
- 10:49Speaker 2: what we had expected. And her pull through surgery was
- 10:52Speaker 2: on a Thursday, and the next day she had already
- 10:56Speaker 2: started like pooping by herself and like doing pretty good
- 11:00Speaker 2: eating again, and so they're like, oh, she's doing really good,
- 11:03Speaker 2: and I was like that's good, like I don't know,
- 11:05Speaker 2: but then she started to get the diaper rash again
- 11:08Speaker 2: and so we were battling that. But the next day,
- 11:11Speaker 2: this Saturday, they're like, yeah, you guys can go home.
- 11:14Speaker 2: And I was like, wait a minute, like what. My
- 11:16Speaker 2: husband had gone home to work just because he was like, yeah,
- 11:19Speaker 2: you guys are gonna be here till like Monday or Tuesday. Well,
- 11:21Speaker 2: i'll come back and get you that day or whatever,
- 11:23Speaker 2: and so I called him. I was like, they're sending
- 11:26Speaker 2: us home early, like we gotta go home today, and
- 11:28Speaker 2: he's like what. So he packed up and came and
- 11:31Speaker 2: got us and then yeah. Our sergeant was like, okay,
- 11:36Speaker 2: do you like cake? And I was like not really,
- 11:39Speaker 2: and he's like, well, this is gonna be like frosting
- 11:42Speaker 2: a cake on her bottom. She's like, just layer it on,
- 11:45Speaker 2: and that's on one of the one things that I
- 11:47Speaker 2: just remember distinctly him saying, if you like icing on
- 11:51Speaker 2: a cake, just layer it on like your ice and
- 11:53Speaker 2: a cake. When he's like, the less touching of the
- 11:56Speaker 2: diaper and her bottom, the better, and I was like, okay,
- 11:59Speaker 2: So yeah, we her diaper rash got pretty gnarly, but
- 12:03Speaker 2: we ended up getting it figured out and got a
- 12:06Speaker 2: cream that worked best for her bottom. And then she
- 12:10Speaker 2: ended up, like when we had the NNG tube, she
- 12:12Speaker 2: ended up ripping it out herself, and so luckily we
- 12:17Speaker 2: like before we left the NIKU, they trained us how
- 12:19Speaker 2: to place it and do all that, but she ended
- 12:22Speaker 2: up taking her bottles by herself after that, her whole amount.
- 12:25Speaker 2: So we're like, apparently she was just ready, so she
- 12:28Speaker 2: ripped it out, and she'd been growing pretty good. She
- 12:31Speaker 2: just stayed on breast milk, and then we had checkups
- 12:35Speaker 2: like it seemed like every week. I don't think it
- 12:37Speaker 2: was actually every week, but it seemed like every week,
- 12:40Speaker 2: and we have to go clear two hours away do
- 12:42Speaker 2: the children's hospital, and then we had some follow ups
- 12:45Speaker 2: with the rural hospital ones too, so it just seemed
- 12:48Speaker 2: like we were go, go go. But she did really
- 12:51Speaker 2: good and she healed up pretty quick, and that was
- 12:54Speaker 2: like June. June would have been when she had her
- 12:56Speaker 2: pull through surgery and she was staying healthy, really good.
- 13:00Speaker 2: And then August, last August, she got her first round
- 13:04Speaker 2: of interpolitis yeah, and she had her tummy got pretty
- 13:09Speaker 2: swoleen and we were like, oh, this is not good.
- 13:13Speaker 2: Like she went downhill really fast like she had just
- 13:15Speaker 2: started with like a little bit of split up, and
- 13:18Speaker 2: then she just kept puking and kept puking and kept puking,
- 13:20Speaker 2: and she just got like a tiny fever. It was
- 13:22Speaker 2: pretty low grade, but I was like, this is yeah,
- 13:25Speaker 2: she is not not doing well. And then she stopped cooping,
- 13:29Speaker 2: so we're like, yep, we're going in. Like she checked
- 13:31Speaker 2: too many boxes, so we took her in. And then
- 13:34Speaker 2: she had another that was probably three four to day
- 13:37Speaker 2: hospitals day and she had the ivy flagel, the fluids,
- 13:41Speaker 2: the irrigations, the works, and she pulled through pretty quick
- 13:46Speaker 2: and then we were doing good. And then last April
- 13:50Speaker 2: she went through it again when she was puking and
- 13:52Speaker 2: it was because she had rhyovirus and the human meta
- 13:58Speaker 2: numa virus I think ended up knocking her out again
- 14:01Speaker 2: and they were worried she was gonna get intercolitis again,
- 14:04Speaker 2: so we stayed a couple more nights and then this
- 14:09Speaker 2: a few weeks ago. This passed early August. Yep, she
- 14:14Speaker 2: was puking again and it was the same thing. Rhinovirus
- 14:17Speaker 2: knocked her again. But otherwise she's growing really good and
- 14:21Speaker 2: walking around being crazy and sassy. But in her scars
- 14:26Speaker 2: are still there. She's got one in her belly button,
- 14:28Speaker 2: and then there's two little ones at the top two
- 14:32Speaker 2: quadrants of her belly, and then one on the lower
- 14:34Speaker 2: quadron of her belly, and then she's got her big
- 14:36Speaker 2: scarf from her ex lap still but we call her
- 14:40Speaker 2: battle wounds and hopefully she'll show them off with pride later.
- 14:43Speaker 1: But see, yeah, definitely that's it's incredibly interesting story because
- 14:49Speaker 1: it's not the typical know that there is really a
- 14:53Speaker 1: typical hurt bunk story, but it's not. There's parts of
- 14:58Speaker 1: it that are typical, the sort of the vomiting bile
- 15:01Speaker 1: and all of that stuff, but the perforation of the
- 15:04Speaker 1: bowt it is something I've I've not I've only heard
- 15:08Speaker 1: a couple of times before, and did they sort of
- 15:11Speaker 1: give a reason as to why was it just basically
- 15:14Speaker 1: too full or.
- 15:15Speaker 2: Was there I think so. I think that they thought
- 15:18Speaker 2: they saw on the contrasts enema that some of the
- 15:22Speaker 2: contrasts was like leaking into her abdomen, and I think
- 15:25Speaker 2: that's what they thought. They're like, well, you just want
- 15:27Speaker 2: to get her in And I was like, okay, it's
- 15:29Speaker 2: just a honor intestines all little like sew it up
- 15:32Speaker 2: and all good to go. Yeah, Nope, not at all.
- 15:35Speaker 2: But yeah, it was crazy.
- 15:37Speaker 1: Yeah, most definitely. And it's something that again I haven't
- 15:42Speaker 1: heard very often, but he's definitely a warning sign that
- 15:45Speaker 1: they do give you that, you know, if things do
- 15:48Speaker 1: get too full, then it might you know, certain things
- 15:51Speaker 1: might pop and burst and all all that stuff. Yeah,
- 15:56Speaker 1: And it's interesting when you because Hirschbruns wasn't obviously meant
- 16:00Speaker 1: straight away because they've got to do all sorts of stuff.
- 16:02Speaker 1: And then and then when they do mention it, some
- 16:06Speaker 1: hospitals say, oh, don't google it because they don't want
- 16:09Speaker 1: to scare you, and some hospitals sort of leave you
- 16:13Speaker 1: to do to do whatever. But I think you had
- 16:17Speaker 1: the same reaction as a lot of people do where
- 16:19Speaker 1: they go, Yeah, but it's one in five thousand. Yeah,
- 16:22Speaker 1: that's yeah, and especially as you have a daughter as well,
- 16:25Speaker 1: you know, it's I think again nobody knows for exactly certain.
- 16:29Speaker 1: They're roughly one in five thousand. Roughly three out of
- 16:32Speaker 1: every four are boys. So and to have you know,
- 16:38Speaker 1: no family history as well, the chance I mean you
- 16:42Speaker 1: probably sat there and thought, yeah, I mean it's the
- 16:45Speaker 1: same symptoms, but there's no way.
- 16:48Speaker 2: Really. Yeah, it was crazy, yeah, but yeah, when we
- 16:52Speaker 2: got sent to Children's when she was first born, they
- 16:56Speaker 2: just consider it maconium ilias. That's all. They had it
- 16:59Speaker 2: label las. And so we're like, what, like you said,
- 17:02Speaker 2: we will like maconium ilias and you know, like causes
- 17:06Speaker 2: of this, and we're like, well, this big word came up,
- 17:09Speaker 2: but there's no way. And then you know, it says
- 17:12Speaker 2: that sometimes it's linked to like more common and people
- 17:15Speaker 2: with like down syndrome or something like that, and we're like, well,
- 17:18Speaker 2: that's weird. But she got like the sweat test for
- 17:21Speaker 2: cystic fibrosis too, because she had the maconium ilias. And
- 17:25Speaker 2: I guess in Nebraska they say you're supposed to get
- 17:28Speaker 2: them tested for cystic fibrosis if they have maconium ilius
- 17:33Speaker 2: on their newborn screening. So I don't know, but that
- 17:35Speaker 2: was negative too, So we're like, there's no like, what
- 17:38Speaker 2: is this We don't Yeah, weird.
- 17:41Speaker 1: That's interesting cystic fibrosies as well, because there's and I
- 17:45Speaker 1: think I don't know whether that's a worldwide thing, because
- 17:48Speaker 1: there's a few people that say, oh, they have their
- 17:51Speaker 1: baby has had this test, and there's quite a few
- 17:54Speaker 1: that don't. And I don't know whether it's certain hospitals
- 17:58Speaker 1: or certain countries or or I don't know, but it
- 18:03Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be a worldwide thing, and I think
- 18:06Speaker 1: potentially it should because I guess at that stage, you
- 18:10Speaker 1: just you want to rule everything out.
- 18:12Speaker 2: Yeah for sure. Yeah, yeah, they Yeah. The sweat test
- 18:16Speaker 2: was really weird too. It's just like a coil thing
- 18:17Speaker 2: they put on her arm and then they just make
- 18:19Speaker 2: it like a hot pack around it and then they
- 18:21Speaker 2: can just test to see if she had cystic fibrosis
- 18:24Speaker 2: through her sweat. And I was like that it's really weird.
- 18:26Speaker 2: But yep, I came back negative too, and so we're like, yeah,
- 18:30Speaker 2: we're gonna go ahead with the biopsy and get all
- 18:33Speaker 2: that figured out, and we're like, okay, like I guess,
- 18:36Speaker 2: and then she had pooped like by herself after the
- 18:40Speaker 2: biopsy with more like maconium, and they're like, well, she's
- 18:43Speaker 2: pooping on her own, so it's not like it's she
- 18:47Speaker 2: just has to have the contestants wake up and help it.
- 18:51Speaker 2: They just kept waiting and kept waiting, and they're like,
- 18:54Speaker 2: she can, like sometimes it just takes a long time,
- 18:56Speaker 2: and we're like, well, how long is too long? Like
- 18:59Speaker 2: she has on like now like three or four days
- 19:01Speaker 2: without actually pooping, without having like the biopsy, and we
- 19:07Speaker 2: just got tired of waiting a lot of times they're like,
- 19:09Speaker 2: we just want answers.
- 19:11Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you exactly, Like a lot of people
- 19:14Speaker 1: are also, and it's it's the unfortunate thing, especially when
- 19:18Speaker 1: there's no hereditary heir sprungs. They almost go through everything
- 19:25Speaker 1: else first and then say because because I don't know exactly,
- 19:32Speaker 1: but I wonder whether it's potentially because the biopsy is
- 19:36Speaker 1: so invasive, they don't necessarily want to go and do
- 19:42Speaker 1: the biopcy unless they absolutely have to. I don't know.
- 19:47Speaker 1: I don't know if they did they explain anything as
- 19:49Speaker 1: to why, as long as it did.
- 19:52Speaker 2: We wondered the same thing, and then we were like, well,
- 19:55Speaker 2: maybe it's just because she had just had the X lap,
- 19:58Speaker 2: So maybe that's why they were just waiting for things
- 20:00Speaker 2: to heal a little bit more, because I mean, she
- 20:04Speaker 2: was pretty like her incision was pretty bruce for a while,
- 20:07Speaker 2: but they'd still come in and like cook around and
- 20:09Speaker 2: make sure everything was still soft. But they never said
- 20:14Speaker 2: why they didn't do the yops right away. But I
- 20:18Speaker 2: don't know. That's what I would assume, but I'm not hepp.
- 20:21Speaker 1: It's probably one of those things that's after the fact,
- 20:24Speaker 1: isn't it. Now that you know a lot more about
- 20:27Speaker 1: hirshprungs than you know about irrigations, and you know about
- 20:31Speaker 1: what to look for, what what what's right and what's
- 20:35Speaker 1: not right, it's kind of everything's probably seems a little
- 20:39Speaker 1: bit more obvious and thinking well, of course she had hirshbruns.
- 20:42Speaker 1: But at the time, why do is nastly Yeah, at
- 20:49Speaker 1: the time, you're probably thinking, oh, it could be this,
- 20:51Speaker 1: it could be that, it could be the other. But
- 20:52Speaker 1: now you're going, well, of course it was hirshprungs. There
- 20:54Speaker 1: was no you know, there's no reason as to she'showd
- 20:57Speaker 1: a lot of the classic science with the bile and
- 21:01Speaker 1: with the with the sort of not pass it, did
- 21:07Speaker 1: you part not pass myconium.
- 21:09Speaker 2: Now in our first few days of life?
- 21:11Speaker 1: No, so yeah, and that ticks all the boxes or
- 21:18Speaker 1: hirshbrugs it just does, I mean, so yeah. On they're
- 21:24Speaker 1: probably looking back, you probably think, actually it was it
- 21:27Speaker 1: was obvious, but at the time, but especially you know,
- 21:31Speaker 1: especially when people say it's genetic, where it's there's a
- 21:37Speaker 1: lot of schools of thought on that, and I don't know,
- 21:41Speaker 1: I don't know how you think about it in terms
- 21:44Speaker 1: of whether it's genetic. But I mean, I've met so
- 21:47Speaker 1: many people who they have it and their children don't
- 21:51Speaker 1: and they have this one and they and their brothers
- 21:54Speaker 1: and sisters don't have it. I don't know, what have
- 21:56Speaker 1: you done so many much digging into ethics and this
- 22:02Speaker 1: that the other.
- 22:04Speaker 2: No, we haven't done anything with our genetics. But I
- 22:07Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know if like her case, would
- 22:10Speaker 2: warrant it since we really have no no background of
- 22:15Speaker 2: it at all, but we haven't. I meant to ask
- 22:18Speaker 2: a few times, but it always just every time we
- 22:20Speaker 2: go to a follow up, it always just faces my mind,
- 22:22Speaker 2: and I'm like, well, I don't know. Maybe if we're
- 22:25Speaker 2: another kid and the kid has it again, maybe then
- 22:27Speaker 2: we should go and get some testing.
- 22:30Speaker 1: Maybe. But then it's so it's so strange because I
- 22:35Speaker 1: meet so many people who I mean, I've met somebody
- 22:38Speaker 1: who has no Hirshprungs in the family, but her two
- 22:41Speaker 1: sons too. And then I meet people who have no
- 22:44Speaker 1: Hirshprungs in the family but one child does. I mean
- 22:48Speaker 1: not my situation. I'm one of four, but I'm the
- 22:50Speaker 1: only one who's got it, you know. And I was
- 22:52Speaker 1: the second born, so it wasn't like I was the first.
- 22:55Speaker 1: So that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. No, So it's
- 23:01Speaker 1: it's a minefield. And if anyone can come up with
- 23:03Speaker 1: the answer, that would be amazing. On listening, can can
- 23:06Speaker 1: say this that the other. But I want to touch well, Entracolitis.
- 23:11Speaker 1: I know you you your daughters had three bouts of litis,
- 23:18Speaker 1: which is obviously, you know, very very scary, very yes,
- 23:24Speaker 1: And in terms of its probability, I think it's around
- 23:30Speaker 1: I mean, it's a lot higher than I think. Certainly.
- 23:33Speaker 1: I realized that they started about fifty of children born
- 23:37Speaker 1: with hersprungs then contract some form of entracolitis. I don't
- 23:42Speaker 1: know what what doctors. What did the doctors say to you?
- 23:46Speaker 1: Was it kind of she's had the three bouts and
- 23:48Speaker 1: then they are sort of just seeing how she goes
- 23:52Speaker 1: or is it sort of looking for signs or how
- 23:55Speaker 1: how's that sort of working at the moment.
- 23:57Speaker 2: Yeah, So when we got discharged from her pull through
- 24:01Speaker 2: surgery is when they really started like pounding us about
- 24:05Speaker 2: look for these signs. And like I joined the her
- 24:08Speaker 2: sprung Spacebook group and like I joined that right away,
- 24:14Speaker 2: right when I figure out that she had her sprungs.
- 24:16Speaker 2: I was like, I want to learn everything, so I
- 24:18Speaker 2: just like immersed myself in it. And a lot of
- 24:21Speaker 2: it was intercolitis, intercolised intercolitis. So then I was like,
- 24:25Speaker 2: look for these signs the dispension, the vomiting, the fever,
- 24:29Speaker 2: the lethargy, the like grogginess, last appetite, all of that.
- 24:34Speaker 2: So I was like, Okay, we're gonna make a note
- 24:37Speaker 2: of these all the time. And so that's what they
- 24:39Speaker 2: reiterated to us after her pull through because from her
- 24:43Speaker 2: like when we were just doing the irrigations daily, like
- 24:46Speaker 2: it seemed like she didn't hardly get stick out all.
- 24:48Speaker 2: She was doing really good. We just kept everything moving.
- 24:51Speaker 2: It was going really good. And then she started getting
- 24:54Speaker 2: some trap gas like more often. And this was about
- 24:57Speaker 2: a week or two before her first battle of inter politis,
- 25:00Speaker 2: and so I was like, maybe this is just because
- 25:02Speaker 2: she's like growing, and I don't know, sometimes that happens,
- 25:06Speaker 2: and so I just kept monitoring it and kept monitoring it,
- 25:09Speaker 2: and then I would like reach out to her surgery
- 25:12Speaker 2: team and I was like, this is what's been going on.
- 25:15Speaker 2: They're like just monitor if she gets worse, like let
- 25:19Speaker 2: us know. And then she started puking, and I was like, well,
- 25:22Speaker 2: I don't know if it's spit up or like puke,
- 25:25Speaker 2: because at that point it was just a little bit.
- 25:27Speaker 2: And like she had had a running nose, and every
- 25:29Speaker 2: time that she gets a running nose, it seems like
- 25:32Speaker 2: it just triggers her and she just pukes a lot
- 25:35Speaker 2: with it. And she just has so much extra like
- 25:38Speaker 2: mucus in her system, and like her irrigations would always
- 25:42Speaker 2: get like really mucasy too if she had a running nose.
- 25:45Speaker 2: And so they were like, okay, she's puking, like she
- 25:48Speaker 2: gets a fever. She stops pooping, bring her in. I
- 25:51Speaker 2: was like, okay, and she did both of those things,
- 25:54Speaker 2: and so the first route, the first bout was the worst.
- 25:57Speaker 2: That was the worst, but she's had it Like when
- 25:59Speaker 2: she was she was puking like the night before, but
- 26:03Speaker 2: it was just small amounts and it just seemed like
- 26:05Speaker 2: spit up and she was still drinking a bottle and
- 26:07Speaker 2: so we're like, they're just like, just monitor and then
- 26:09Speaker 2: the next morning she was still kind of not herself,
- 26:13Speaker 2: but a little better. And then about lunchtime hit and
- 26:17Speaker 2: she just puked and pukeed and puked. And at this time,
- 26:20Speaker 2: I had an in home daycare, so I was like
- 26:22Speaker 2: calling the family that was like, Hey, we're gonna have
- 26:24Speaker 2: to take Loretta into Children's because she just won't stop
- 26:29Speaker 2: puking and they want us to bring her in. So
- 26:31Speaker 2: you guys got to come pick up your kids. And
- 26:34Speaker 2: they're like okay. So my husband stayed with the daycare
- 26:38Speaker 2: kids and his mom came with me to Children's so
- 26:43Speaker 2: I could make sure she didn't like asp right on
- 26:45Speaker 2: any of her vomit. And then that's when it turned.
- 26:47Speaker 2: The vial was in the two hour car ride there,
- 26:50Speaker 2: and so I was like oh yeah, we are staying
- 26:53Speaker 2: like that is bur sure admitted to the hospital and
- 26:56Speaker 2: like her tummy was getting pretty bloated and it seemed,
- 26:59Speaker 2: I don't know, it seemed like a toad that's been
- 27:01Speaker 2: in water too long. That's how I always seemed like,
- 27:04Speaker 2: that's how I always gauge for belly, if it's too bloated,
- 27:07Speaker 2: if it looks like a toad that's been in water
- 27:08Speaker 2: too long. And so they checked her out x ray,
- 27:13Speaker 2: and when they laid her down to do X ray,
- 27:14Speaker 2: she started kuching again. And I was like, yeah, we
- 27:17Speaker 2: are for sure staying and they're like, yeah, she's really full,
- 27:20Speaker 2: like where we're getting her in, We're going to do
- 27:24Speaker 2: the ivy antibiotics, We're going to do irrigations and all
- 27:27Speaker 2: of that. I was like, okay, yeah, that's fine. And
- 27:29Speaker 2: they're like, has she been sick? And I was like, well, yes,
- 27:31Speaker 2: you go a running nose, but not anything that would
- 27:34Speaker 2: make me think she's sick, like I don't know. But
- 27:37Speaker 2: and then so she did really good after that, and
- 27:40Speaker 2: she responded well to the ambiotics and the fluids and
- 27:44Speaker 2: she was good and good and good, and they're like, yep,
- 27:46Speaker 2: just keep monitoring, like just watch for the puking and
- 27:49Speaker 2: all of that. And then that April came and she
- 27:52Speaker 2: had had a running nose again, and so I had
- 27:54Speaker 2: been we were actually in for her like whatever months
- 28:00Speaker 2: follow up from her pull through surgery a week before
- 28:03Speaker 2: she got it, and we had mentioned that she had
- 28:06Speaker 2: a running nose and that she usually like doesn't tolerate
- 28:09Speaker 2: the running nose very good and her body just doesn't
- 28:12Speaker 2: like it. And they're like, hey, if she stops s
- 28:13Speaker 2: pooping again, like let us know, and then if she
- 28:16Speaker 2: pukes again, and she did. She started like she had
- 28:19Speaker 2: a pretty good day, and then that evening she kind
- 28:21Speaker 2: of started getting fussy and whatever. And then the next
- 28:25Speaker 2: day I had messaged her team and I was like,
- 28:28Speaker 2: she puked a few times through the night and like
- 28:31Speaker 2: once this morning, but she hasn't puked since. And they're like, Okay,
- 28:34Speaker 2: that's kind of alarming, but like keep monitoring it. I
- 28:36Speaker 2: was like, well, can I take her to our local
- 28:39Speaker 2: hospital and have her like x ray there and then
- 28:42Speaker 2: just have them send the x ray to U so
- 28:44Speaker 2: we don't have to drive two hours if it's nothing.
- 28:46Speaker 2: And they're like, yeah, we could do that, and then
- 28:48Speaker 2: so on the way there, to the local hospital. She
- 28:51Speaker 2: had star puking again, and I was like, oh, yeah, nope,
- 28:55Speaker 2: this is not good. So we went and got the
- 28:57Speaker 2: x ray and then I didn't hear anything back from
- 28:59Speaker 2: UNTILL or from our local hospital about what the results were.
- 29:03Speaker 2: I was like, uh, guys, like what's going on. And
- 29:06Speaker 2: they're like, yeah, we can't really read the like it's
- 29:09Speaker 2: not a clear picture from what we got from your
- 29:13Speaker 2: local hospital. So and I was like, well, she's puking again,
- 29:16Speaker 2: so I'm just gonna pack up and head that way.
- 29:19Speaker 2: And we ended up missing like clinic time by like
- 29:21Speaker 2: thirty minutes, so we had to go through the ear
- 29:24Speaker 2: and we were in the er for like five or
- 29:26Speaker 2: six hours while she was just puking and puking and puking,
- 29:30Speaker 2: and they finally got us admitted and into a room
- 29:32Speaker 2: and it was the same thing. They suspected, intercolitis, and
- 29:36Speaker 2: then she had rhinovirus and the metaanuma virus and they're like, yeah,
- 29:40Speaker 2: that's probably what caused it. Like that happens a lot
- 29:43Speaker 2: with these kiddos, And this time we were only in
- 29:46Speaker 2: the hospital for two nights and she responded well again,
- 29:51Speaker 2: and then we just do the seven days of Flagle
- 29:54Speaker 2: at home following up with Orally, and they're like, as
- 29:57Speaker 2: long as she continues eating afterwards, Lynd just like goes
- 30:00Speaker 2: back to her normal pooping and stuff, you're good to go.
- 30:04Speaker 2: I was like, okay. And then this past August was
- 30:07Speaker 2: the same thing. She had a running nose the week before,
- 30:10Speaker 2: and then the following week she was fine all day
- 30:15Speaker 2: and then it hit like supper time, refuse supper, which
- 30:17Speaker 2: is not like her. She likes her food, and so
- 30:20Speaker 2: we're like, oh, that's weird, like why don't you want
- 30:22Speaker 2: to eat? But maybe she was just too tired, and
- 30:25Speaker 2: so she like choked her milk, and then she ended
- 30:28Speaker 2: up puking all over me, and I was like, oh,
- 30:30Speaker 2: maybe you just drink your milk too fast, Like you've
- 30:32Speaker 2: been fine all day, no fever, no nothing. And then
- 30:36Speaker 2: she turned around and we went and washed her up
- 30:40Speaker 2: and washed myself up, and we got in the shower,
- 30:42Speaker 2: and then when we got back out, dressed in our
- 30:45Speaker 2: jammies ready to get ready to go to bed, puked
- 30:47Speaker 2: again all over me, and I was like, oh no,
- 30:50Speaker 2: like this is not good. And then she just kept puking.
- 30:53Speaker 2: Every time she'd move. She would just like dry heave
- 30:55Speaker 2: and puke and I was like, no, we're not even
- 30:58Speaker 2: trying this time. It was like eleven something at night.
- 31:01Speaker 2: I was like, we're going, We're going straight down mahaf
- 31:04Speaker 2: like and so we did. They inmitted us and she
- 31:07Speaker 2: hadn't puked since we left our house, so they're like, oh,
- 31:11Speaker 2: it's last time she puked or whatever, and I was like, well,
- 31:13Speaker 2: it's probably about eleven. But it was a lot, like
- 31:16Speaker 2: she puked a lot and then it had turned like
- 31:19Speaker 2: a dark brownish color and we're like, nope, nope, we
- 31:22Speaker 2: don't like that. And she like every time she gets
- 31:26Speaker 2: like topuke and like that is she just looks like
- 31:28Speaker 2: she goes limp and she just looks like her eyes
- 31:31Speaker 2: just say like help me, Like I don't know, it's
- 31:34Speaker 2: just the look. And then it seems like every single
- 31:37Speaker 2: time that she gets that look, we just know like
- 31:40Speaker 2: she needs help. And so we went in and she
- 31:43Speaker 2: had rhinovirus again and then an interro virus, and so
- 31:48Speaker 2: they did the same thing fluids, antibiotics, but we only
- 31:52Speaker 2: had to stay there from like that night into that day.
- 31:55Speaker 2: We got released like in the afternoon because she resk
- 31:58Speaker 2: wonded super quickly we caught us, but really, and so yeah,
- 32:02Speaker 2: that's pretty much what they told us is just to
- 32:04Speaker 2: keep monitoring and hopefully like as she gets bigger and
- 32:08Speaker 2: she's better about like releasing her coop all the time,
- 32:12Speaker 2: and she just hopefully will grow out of the intercolitis
- 32:17Speaker 2: gipping it so much. But hopefully we'll see hopefully her
- 32:20Speaker 2: immune system gets a little better because she seems to
- 32:23Speaker 2: catch everything.
- 32:25Speaker 1: Yeah, it does seem to be that that cut away
- 32:28Speaker 1: at the moment. And it's I guess as well, with
- 32:32Speaker 1: having hirshprungs, we probably more susceptible. I don't know necessary,
- 32:37Speaker 1: does it does? It does seem to be the pr Yeah,
- 32:42Speaker 1: it does seem to be that we are a little
- 32:44Speaker 1: bit more susceptible to bugs and viruses and and all
- 32:50Speaker 1: sorts of stuff. Really, and then when it affects us,
- 32:53Speaker 1: it really affects us. I think that's that's the other
- 32:56Speaker 1: thing as well, I think, isn't that Yeah.
- 33:00Speaker 2: Yeah, she from nothing to needed to go to Omaha
- 33:04Speaker 2: in like two hours maybe like she goes down quick
- 33:07Speaker 2: when she gets it.
- 33:08Speaker 1: Yeah, most definitely. And that's and that's yeah, and I
- 33:12Speaker 1: guess as well, from parental points of view, it's obviously
- 33:18Speaker 1: just kind of sort of learn as you go and
- 33:21Speaker 1: you kind of pick up cues I guess in terms
- 33:25Speaker 1: of you know, this has happened, or you know, her
- 33:29Speaker 1: tummy looks like this, or maybe like you said, she
- 33:32Speaker 1: wasn't she wasn't eating anything right, something's something's wrong, and
- 33:37Speaker 1: I guess it's it's one of those now that you
- 33:39Speaker 1: you kind of yeah, seven seventeen months in you kind
- 33:42Speaker 1: of you felt as though you can now sort of
- 33:47Speaker 1: tell cues really really quickly.
- 33:50Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and.
- 33:53Speaker 1: Just kind of yeah and just sort of say, well,
- 33:55Speaker 1: this has happened. So we're off to Omaha again.
- 34:00Speaker 2: Right, pack your perry colan and really it.
- 34:04Speaker 1: Being obviously a couple of hours away, that's a fair
- 34:07Speaker 1: old drive. And obviously the do you I guess suppose
- 34:13Speaker 1: we answered this a little bit earlier, But are there
- 34:16Speaker 1: times do you think, actually, I'll take it to the
- 34:17Speaker 1: local hospital or is it most of the time always
- 34:22Speaker 1: to Omaha?
- 34:24Speaker 2: I think most of the time, like I just think
- 34:26Speaker 2: straight to Omaha because like her surgery teams there they
- 34:30Speaker 2: know like what they're looking for, they're looking for like
- 34:33Speaker 2: all the Hirshprung cues, Like when we go to the
- 34:35Speaker 2: er and they admits. I was like, Okay, she's been
- 34:38Speaker 2: puking history of Hirst runs and they're like hirsh RUMs
- 34:41Speaker 2: right away, like they they're like red flag. And I
- 34:44Speaker 2: was like, yup. And so usually we always get admitted,
- 34:46Speaker 2: and I'm just I don't know. I feel like our
- 34:49Speaker 2: doctor at our local hospital is really really good, and
- 34:53Speaker 2: I think that we probably could work with her and
- 34:56Speaker 2: children to like get what she needs there, especially now,
- 35:00Speaker 2: like I know what she needs. I know she needs fluids,
- 35:02Speaker 2: and I know she needs flagil through her ivy, like
- 35:06Speaker 2: that's what gets it going right away, like jump starts
- 35:08Speaker 2: her and then we can do the oral flagel and
- 35:11Speaker 2: she does really good with it. She responds, well, but
- 35:14Speaker 2: I'm always scared of the but what if this is worse?
- 35:17Speaker 2: And then I want her to be with her surgery
- 35:20Speaker 2: team so they can know like what it all like.
- 35:23Speaker 2: The last time that we got admitted, they're like, well,
- 35:26Speaker 2: we're kind of worried about like when kiddos with this
- 35:29Speaker 2: have like the intestine surgery, that they're susceptible to the
- 35:33Speaker 2: interception or whatever when it gets like sucks back in.
- 35:37Speaker 2: And so that was the first time we had heard
- 35:39Speaker 2: of that too. And they're like, we want to do
- 35:42Speaker 2: a ultrasound on her too, to see if it's done
- 35:48Speaker 2: that And I was like, well, that's the first time
- 35:49Speaker 2: they've done that too. Usually it's just X rays and
- 35:51Speaker 2: so yeah, the last time she got X rays and
- 35:54Speaker 2: ultrasounds okay, and she and all the testing and stuff,
- 36:04Speaker 2: and so yeah, that was new for us. But I
- 36:07Speaker 2: was like, I mean, that's I guess I'm always learning
- 36:11Speaker 2: about more things that could happen with them. But yeah,
- 36:15Speaker 2: it's it's been crazy.
- 36:18Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely. And for audio listeners, Loretta has just joined us.
- 36:21Speaker 1: Hello Loretta, she sigh on earth? Is this strange guy
- 36:29Speaker 1: on the screens? I've never seen it before. We are
- 36:33Speaker 1: talking about you, by the way, Loretta. Just just so
- 36:36Speaker 1: you know, in terms of future as well, I know
- 36:47Speaker 1: it's very difficult to predict with her sprungs and you
- 36:51Speaker 1: never know quite what's quite around the corner. And obviously
- 36:54Speaker 1: I hope for everything being absolutely fine, But in terms
- 36:57Speaker 1: of future things like both of medical and non medical,
- 37:03Speaker 1: what do you see for Loretta's future?
- 37:08Speaker 2: Well, hopefully pretty good. We uh, We're down to like
- 37:12Speaker 2: every six months we go in for her surgery hollow
- 37:15Speaker 2: ups and they just do like just another X ray
- 37:20Speaker 2: and make sure everything's still healing good and everything. And
- 37:23Speaker 2: after her pull through like well, when they finished up
- 37:26Speaker 2: that procedure, they did get her photos in section and
- 37:32Speaker 2: she hasn't had to have any follow ups with that,
- 37:34Speaker 2: but that was one thing that they mentioned that we'll
- 37:37Speaker 2: wash for if she like slows on her pooping or anything,
- 37:39Speaker 2: she starts having problems, we can do another bhotox injection.
- 37:42Speaker 2: But she's done pretty good with that. Hopefully we'll do
- 37:47Speaker 2: I think our next hurdle will be the potty training
- 37:52Speaker 2: or that's not gone so well with other people, but
- 37:55Speaker 2: I'm hopeful that she's doing pretty good that we'll be
- 37:58Speaker 2: able to do that pretty good. She just can't have
- 38:00Speaker 2: couts milk. That's the only thing that we found dietary
- 38:05Speaker 2: wise that she can't. It's pretty bound that. So we
- 38:07Speaker 2: just do plant based milk and she does's fine with that. Yeah,
- 38:13Speaker 2: but others hopefully pretty normal.
- 38:20Speaker 1: I think that you're right with I think when it
- 38:22Speaker 1: comes to potty trading, especially in this face face with groups,
- 38:26Speaker 1: I know they're a bit of a mixed bag. The
- 38:28Speaker 1: Facebook groups, there's some some some people can write the
- 38:31Speaker 1: worst case scenarios. Some people get right, you know, everything's
- 38:35Speaker 1: going really really well. I suppose for most people they
- 38:38Speaker 1: don't necessarily go on those groups if everything's going great,
- 38:42Speaker 1: if you see what I mean, Yeah, they do tend
- 38:45Speaker 1: to write, you know, this is terrible, this is bad,
- 38:47Speaker 1: this is and I guess if you spend if you're
- 38:51Speaker 1: quite new to it and everything, it possibly can scare
- 38:55Speaker 1: you witless a little bit and you think, oh no,
- 38:58Speaker 1: everything is just going to be dreadful and horrible, and
- 39:01Speaker 1: you know, yeah, I think, yeah, it's one of those
- 39:03Speaker 1: is possibly the worst case scenario. Yeah, but yeah, no,
- 39:08Speaker 1: that that's that's really good to hear, especially every six
- 39:11Speaker 1: months as well. That that sounds obviously the further away
- 39:16Speaker 1: time they wanted to see her, that's the better, I guess.
- 39:19Speaker 2: Yep. But she seemed to manage to fill in those
- 39:22Speaker 2: of the actual's hospitals days, haven't you. Yeah, But yeah,
- 39:26Speaker 2: it's been pretty good. She's done all things considered, she's
- 39:30Speaker 2: done pretty good, excellent.
- 39:32Speaker 1: That's really really good to hear. It's see if they're saying,
- 39:36Speaker 1: you know, I want to see you every month or
- 39:37Speaker 1: every two weeks, you think not boruck, but every every
- 39:42Speaker 1: every sort of six weeks, six six months is yeah,
- 39:47Speaker 1: is excellent news. And I guess you're probably starting the
- 39:50Speaker 1: whole walking, walking, walking stage as well, running olaver right, yeah, yeah, excellent.
- 39:58Speaker 1: Oh well, that's fantastic and I just want to say
- 40:01Speaker 1: thank you so so much for joining me. It has
- 40:04Speaker 1: been such an interesting story and I wish, obviously you
- 40:11Speaker 1: and and Loretta and your whole family just the very
- 40:14Speaker 1: best for what's to come in the future, both sort
- 40:17Speaker 1: of medically and it's obviously trying to touch would stay
- 40:20Speaker 1: out of hospital as much as possible then term. And yeah,
- 40:24Speaker 1: just just for for everything else, the party, trading in
- 40:27Speaker 1: the and the walking stages. Yes, thank you, thanks so much.
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