1 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:08,200 Speaker 1: This is Let's Be Clear with Shannon Doerny. Hello, Let's 2 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 1: be Clear family. 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 2: My name is Shana Hurley. You may have seen me 4 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 2: on Love is Blind on Netflix. I am so honored 5 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 2: to be here. A little bit about myself is I 6 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:20,439 Speaker 2: am thirty five years old. I grew up in a 7 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,240 Speaker 2: small town up near the border of Wisconsin and Illinois. 8 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:26,120 Speaker 2: It was about fourteen years end up doing hair and 9 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 2: then I ended up going on the reality show Love 10 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 2: is Blind. It was one of the best experiences of 11 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,200 Speaker 2: my life. And I am now married to my soulmate, Cristos, 12 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,239 Speaker 2: and we have a nine month old baby boy, and 13 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 2: so I'm a new mother and I'm just honestly getting 14 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 2: the hang of it, getting used to it, and I 15 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 2: just absolutely love it. And so I am just honored 16 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,200 Speaker 2: to be a guest host on this episode of Let's 17 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:52,839 Speaker 2: Be Clear, because, as we know, Shannon Doherty was determined 18 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 2: to educate and empower through this platform, and so I'm 19 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 2: just honored to share my testimony and I'm just praying 20 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 2: that it reaches anyone who needs help and that God 21 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 2: has you, and so I'm. 22 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:04,559 Speaker 1: Just excited to share my story. 23 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 2: I ended up becoming pregnant this was June of twenty 24 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 2: twenty three, and we were so. 25 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: Excited over the moon. 26 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 2: We actually had a miscarriage the December before that, so 27 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 2: when we finally were pregnant again, we were just we 28 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 2: were excited, and so we ended up going to Greece. 29 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:25,119 Speaker 2: My husband's Greek, so we go to Greece every year, 30 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 2: and we were celebrating our one year anniversary and it 31 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 2: was a beautiful trip newly pregnant, and I ended up 32 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:36,199 Speaker 2: getting a call from my gynecologist that the pap smear 33 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 2: came back abnormal, and I remember just not having a 34 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 2: good feeling, but kind of putting it in the back 35 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 2: of my head. And so we had a schedule appointment 36 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 2: right away, and the students they could get me in 37 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 2: was September, so I ended up going back. We ended 38 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 2: up going back to the States five days later and 39 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 2: just waiting, and so finally when they had to get 40 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 2: me in for a cole pascopy just to see what 41 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 2: was going down there, my gynecologist immediately told me, she 42 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 2: goes Shana, it's not looking good. And I remember just 43 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:12,680 Speaker 2: trying not to cry because I did have a bad feeling. 44 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 2: And so I got back, told my husband and my 45 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 2: family what the doctor said, and so we had a 46 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 2: lot of people praying that it was fine. 47 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 1: It wasn't what we thought it was. 48 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,640 Speaker 2: And I ended up getting a call the next day 49 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 2: that my doctor called me and she goes, Shana, I'm 50 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 2: so sorry. The lab results came back and you have 51 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 2: cervical cancer. And I don't know why. I kind of 52 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:41,800 Speaker 2: was like not laughing. I don't know if it was 53 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:45,359 Speaker 2: a defense mechanism, but I was just so in shock, 54 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:49,119 Speaker 2: like no way, and so I got off the phone 55 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:54,399 Speaker 2: with the doctor and I immediately start bawling my eyes out, 56 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 2: and I was alone, and I remember trying to call 57 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 2: my husband and he wasn't answering. 58 00:02:58,880 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: He wasn't a meeting. 59 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 2: I called my mom wasn't answering, and I just remember 60 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 2: like freaking out, like no one's answering, and I had 61 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 2: this news and I don't know what to do, and 62 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 2: so I just prayed and I'm like, okay, God, like Lord, 63 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:13,919 Speaker 2: like you, news was going to happen, and I'm not 64 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:14,359 Speaker 2: going to lie. 65 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 1: I was angry. 66 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 2: I asked the question that no Christian really we were 67 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 2: supposed to ask, but I asked. I was like why, God, 68 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 2: you know why? And so finally my dad called me 69 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 2: back and I told him the news. I'm like, where's 70 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 2: mom and he told me or I told him, and 71 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 2: I go, Dad like, I came back, I have cancer, 72 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 2: and he was just a disbelief. We were just all shocked. 73 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 2: And so I immediately went down this dark hole and 74 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 2: I was on the phone with my mom and I 75 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 2: was angry, and she immediately stopped me and she goes, Shana, like, 76 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 2: I don't know what you're going through, but do not 77 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 2: let your mind go there. The enemy likes to take 78 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 2: captive of our thoughts. He wants to give us hopelessness, right, 79 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 2: but he's not the author God is, and she goes, 80 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 2: you need to really protect your mind right now, and 81 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 2: so she was start thinking him now for your healing. 82 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 2: And so that's what I did. And so right away 83 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 2: a week later, they got me in to Northwestern and 84 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 2: I told Lord. I was like, okay, God, like you 85 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 2: were sovereign, you knew this was going to happen, right, 86 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 2: So I'm praying that you put me into the doctors 87 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 2: of your choice. 88 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 1: Who do you want me to go to? And so 89 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 1: I didn't know how any of this worked. And so 90 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:32,160 Speaker 1: I go in and my doctor comes in, doctor Hitchcliffe, 91 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:32,840 Speaker 1: and she. 92 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:36,479 Speaker 2: Was She immediately made me feel safe, right, which was 93 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 2: hard because I wasn't the easiest patient, and so I 94 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 2: really do think she was patient with me. And she 95 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:47,599 Speaker 2: immediately told me, she goes, Shanna, I'm so sorry that 96 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 2: you're here right now and a time that's supposed to 97 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 2: be happy. This definitely puts like a black cloud over it. 98 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 2: And she basically told me what the protocol. 99 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: Was, right. And so I was three. 100 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 2: Months pregnant at this point, and the tricky thing is 101 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 2: is when you have cervical cancer being pregnant, the cervix 102 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 2: is what holds pregnancy. So it was really tricky what 103 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 2: the next steps were going to be. Usually when a 104 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 2: woman finds out that she has pre cancer cells or 105 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 2: she has cancer cells is they will do the procedure 106 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:28,160 Speaker 2: to cold knife cone. It's where they cut a cone 107 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:30,479 Speaker 2: shape into the cervix to try to get all the 108 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 2: cancer out. That problem being I'm pregnant, cervix is what 109 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:35,600 Speaker 2: the cervix is what holds pregnancy. 110 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:37,040 Speaker 1: And so. 111 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:43,840 Speaker 2: I asked what the risks were with me being able 112 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:47,720 Speaker 2: to carry the pregnancy, and it was a high percentage 113 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:52,279 Speaker 2: that I would lose the baby, and I immediately I 114 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 2: couldn't bear the thought of. 115 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 1: Losing this baby. I don't know if mentally I could 116 00:05:57,760 --> 00:05:58,720 Speaker 1: have handled another. 117 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 2: Miscarriage, and so I ended up turning down that procedure, 118 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 2: which it's tricky again because when they do that procedure, 119 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 2: they could take those biopsies and they can tell you 120 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 2: what stage it is, where exactly it's at. And so 121 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 2: me turning down this procedure, you're going blindly into having 122 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 2: cancer pregnant. So they were freaking out and worried that 123 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 2: we don't know how fast it's spreading, if it's spreading, 124 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 2: and so she told me to think about it. 125 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 1: I ended up telling her, I'm like, I'm not going 126 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:33,720 Speaker 1: to do it. 127 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 2: I did choose the baby's life, which again this isn't 128 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:40,039 Speaker 2: medical advice for anybody. I think every situation is different, 129 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 2: but I really just in my heart had a piece 130 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 2: that I was going to be fine, that the board 131 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 2: was going to sustain me. And so my doctor she 132 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 2: had to go meet with the board because it's tricky, 133 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:53,599 Speaker 2: like they you don't get a lot of people that 134 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 2: are pregnant with circcal cancer. 135 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: It does happen. I've heard testimonies. 136 00:06:56,960 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 2: Too of it, and so they went to the board 137 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 2: and they were just telling me, Okay, we're going to 138 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 2: have some other options. And the other options were to 139 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 2: have a laparoscopic surgery. I had to have it four 140 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 2: twenty two weeks because the chances of miscarachosi I'll even 141 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 2: higher and it's just too risky. And so with the 142 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 2: laparoscopic surgery, they will cut like incisions into your stomach 143 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 2: and they had to go they would have to go 144 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 2: around the baby to make sure it wasn't spreading into 145 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 2: the lymph nodes which you have to be put on 146 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 2: your which is the anesthesia. That's a high risk, right. 147 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 2: And then they wanted to do chemotherapy to try to 148 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 2: just get rid of the cancer, which I did deny chemo. 149 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 2: I know other testimonies that they did do chemo and 150 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 2: either the baby ended up death or something, and so 151 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 2: I just didn't want to risk that, and so I 152 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 2: did deny chemo and I did not want to do 153 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 2: the laparoscopic surgery. I just had a feeling that I 154 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 2: was fine because again I had no symptoms coming leading 155 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 2: up to having cervical cancer. 156 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: That's what was crazy. They had gone off in my 157 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: pap smear. 158 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 2: But this whole situation took a toll with me and Christos, 159 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 2: and I'd get from his point of view, it was 160 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 2: out of his control, and so he really he did 161 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 2: kind of put the hammer down and he was like, Shana, 162 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 2: I feel like this is a happy medium. 163 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: He was really encouraging it. 164 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 2: He goes, I want to have this baby, but I 165 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 2: want you here to raise him, and so I there's 166 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 2: a lot of fights with that. I'm not gonna lie. 167 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 2: I did not want to cave. I really felt I 168 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 2: was fine, but I finally agreed to do the laparoscopic surgery, 169 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:44,560 Speaker 2: which was very invasive, and that healing was actually worse 170 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:45,680 Speaker 2: than having a C section. 171 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: But we'll get back to that later. 172 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 2: I caved. I did the laparoscopic surgery. Praise God that 173 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 2: it had not spread spread to my lymph notes, because 174 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 2: if it had that's when it's fatal. So did not 175 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:00,680 Speaker 2: spread to my lymph notes. They got kind of an 176 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:06,719 Speaker 2: idea where I was at because before that, actually when 177 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 2: they were monitoring with MRIs leading up to the laparoscopic surgery, 178 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:12,839 Speaker 2: they had actually found a mass not only in the 179 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:15,679 Speaker 2: where I had cancer in the cervix, but they had 180 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 2: saw a larger mass up higher in the canal. So 181 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:21,840 Speaker 2: that's why they were also pushing the chemotherapy because they 182 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 2: were really worried. And what was wild with that was though, 183 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 2: was when I told my family we had people all 184 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:29,960 Speaker 2: over the world praying for me. 185 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 1: It was insane. I'm so grateful to them. 186 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 2: And after the laparoscopic surgery, the mass was now gone, 187 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 2: so they don't know how, they don't know why, which 188 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 2: I know why. I do one thousand percent believe it 189 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 2: was the Lord. But so after the laparoscopic surgery they found. 190 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:47,439 Speaker 1: Out where I was. 191 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 2: I ended up having stage two cervical cancer, and so 192 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 2: they had an idea and they did strongly keep encouraging chemotherapy, 193 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:00,200 Speaker 2: but I did deny. So my poor doctors, they so 194 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:03,199 Speaker 2: patient with me, and people have to remember, like I'm 195 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:05,319 Speaker 2: their patient first before the baby, right, like I'm the 196 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 2: one who went cancer. So they just wanted me to 197 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 2: be okay. 198 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 1: Right. 199 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:13,079 Speaker 2: But so the decision was we were going to just 200 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:17,320 Speaker 2: monitor me until I was going to give birth with 201 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 2: MRIs just to make sure it wasn't spreading, even though 202 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 2: MRIs aren't the best indicator to seeing all the cancer. 203 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 1: But they agreed at the end of the day. It 204 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: was my decision. 205 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 2: I'm my own advocate, right and so I was being 206 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 2: monitored with MRIs monthly. Finally January I was technically due 207 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 2: March third January COMMS, I go in for my checkup, 208 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 2: I have like four doctors coming to the office and 209 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 2: they tell me that they strongly encouraged me to deliver early. 210 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 2: My doctor wanted me to go at thirty two weeks, 211 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 2: which I just felt that was way too early. I 212 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:12,439 Speaker 2: didn't want my baby to be in the nick you 213 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 2: for eight weeks, you know. 214 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: And so then they came to the collusion, well, let's 215 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 1: try thirty four weeks. 216 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 2: And I know a lot of people that deliver at 217 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:24,600 Speaker 2: thirty four weeks, and I understand that people would choose differently, 218 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:28,959 Speaker 2: so again like this isn't medical advice at all. But again, 219 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 2: I just felt that the Lord was really going to 220 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:36,440 Speaker 2: sustain me, and so I denied it, which they were 221 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 2: really not. They kind of put the hammer down, like 222 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 2: really trying to persuade me to deliver at thirty four weeks, 223 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:46,360 Speaker 2: and so I just didn't want to, and they were 224 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:53,079 Speaker 2: giving me all the all the consequences of not taking 225 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 2: the medical advice of like what could happen. 226 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: They were like, you might have to. 227 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 2: I'm not trying to be Teamory, but they were saying, 228 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 2: you might have to urinate out of like a bag 229 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 2: for the rest of your life because it's gonna fect 230 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 2: your inside, like the baby cannot make it, like all 231 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 2: this stuff, and again, like I just really put my 232 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:12,960 Speaker 2: trust in God that he was going to sustain me 233 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 2: through this. Right, we didn't know anything about the cancer, 234 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 2: and so after that, I put my foot down and 235 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm not going to deliver till thirty seven 236 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 2: and a half thirty eight weeks, and so they obviously 237 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:25,680 Speaker 2: they had to comply with that, which wasn't easy. 238 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 1: Again, God bless them. 239 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:32,440 Speaker 2: I wasn't the easiest patient, but I then they wanted 240 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:35,960 Speaker 2: to They were throwing out the idea of giving me 241 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:41,120 Speaker 2: a reectomy upon delivery, which I just was not easy with. 242 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 2: We wanted more kids, and I just felt like it 243 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,320 Speaker 2: wasn't spreading. Let's wait to do the cold knife cone 244 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:53,080 Speaker 2: after my after I delivered the baby, right, and so 245 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:57,680 Speaker 2: I started doing my research about hysterectomies, and again we 246 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 2: didn't know enough about the cancer to go ticket that far, right, 247 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 2: so I denied it and so. 248 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 1: Finally, at thirty. 249 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 2: Seven thirty eight weeks, I delivered a healthy baby boy. 250 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 2: I was immediately in love. I had to have a 251 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:17,840 Speaker 2: sea section, which I wanted to have a vaginal birth, 252 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:18,679 Speaker 2: but I had to. 253 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:19,560 Speaker 1: Pick and choose my battle. 254 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:22,439 Speaker 2: I got this far, so I was just thankful that 255 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 2: I could even have this baby at all. And so 256 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 2: I ended up having a sea section, and I had 257 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 2: a great experience in the hospital. My nurses were amazing, 258 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 2: and so I brought home the baby and everything was great, 259 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 2: but I still wasn't in the clear right. We still 260 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:40,720 Speaker 2: had to deal with the cancer. So the first part 261 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 2: was finally I got my healthy baby boy, and now 262 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 2: I had to wait six weeks after birth so they 263 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 2: could perform the cold knife cone. 264 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 1: And so what had happened even before that though. 265 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 2: I three weeks after the baby was born, I was 266 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:01,320 Speaker 2: going upstairs. 267 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 1: I remember it was pretty late, and I was telling 268 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 1: chrystals like my eyes. 269 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 2: Are like blurry, like my vision's weird, like I kind 270 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:12,199 Speaker 2: of was getting a headache. 271 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 1: I was like, I'm gonna go upstairs and to feed 272 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 1: the baby and put them. 273 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 2: Down, and I was nursing your ghosts, and all of 274 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 2: a sudden like my left arm started going numb, and 275 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:27,040 Speaker 2: I was like, oh, maybe the baby's sitting on my 276 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 2: arm weird, you know, And so I moved him, and 277 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 2: all of a sudden, my whole entire left side of 278 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 2: my body went completely numb, and I just started freaking out. 279 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 2: And I called my husband downstairs and I'm like, I know, 280 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 2: I think I'm having a stroke, and he's like, you're 281 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 2: not having a stroke, you know. 282 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:46,720 Speaker 1: Having a stroke. 283 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 2: And all of a sudden, my left side in my 284 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 2: face went completely numb, and I couldn't like talk barely, 285 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 2: and my head was like going dark, and so I 286 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 2: called my mom. 287 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: Crystals rushes upstairs. 288 00:14:58,040 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 2: I called my mom like, I think I'm having a stroke, 289 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 2: and so she immediately starts praying, and I just went 290 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 2: into survival mode and I grabbed the baby. I'm breastfeeding, 291 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:08,960 Speaker 2: but I grabbed formula, I grabbed baby the diaper bag, 292 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 2: and I just left crystals in the in the house 293 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 2: because I was like in survival mode. He follows me 294 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 2: and he ends up like we rushed to the hospital. 295 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 1: And it's tricky with. 296 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 2: Strokes because sometimes by the time you get there they 297 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 2: can't detect it. If it like passes and so they 298 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,800 Speaker 2: brought me the back right away. This doctor in the 299 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 2: er was like doing all the tests for if I 300 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 2: was if I had experienced or if I experience a stroke, 301 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 2: and she goes your left side is trooping, and so 302 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 2: they kept me were running tests or whatever, and it 303 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 2: was just awful. 304 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 1: And I just. 305 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 2: Remember in that moment though, on the way to the 306 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 2: hospital before we got there, like I don't want to die, 307 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 2: Like I really thought I was going to die. It 308 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 2: was worse than finding out I was having a cancer, 309 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 2: because it was so abrupt of this happening right, And 310 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 2: so I didn't want to do the cold knife home. 311 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 2: By the way, even after the baby, I was going 312 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 2: to maybe go a holistic route and try. 313 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 1: To get rid of it. 314 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 2: And it was just this fear that overtook me when 315 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 2: I was going through the tia, this mini stroke, whatever 316 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:18,920 Speaker 2: you want to call it, that I was like, Okay, God, 317 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:22,560 Speaker 2: I don't care do the surgery. I don't think I 318 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 2: have time to do the holistic route, Like I just 319 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 2: don't want to die, Like I want to be here 320 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 2: to raise this baby. 321 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:28,920 Speaker 1: I don't want to die. 322 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 2: I don't want him going through life without knowing his mother. 323 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 2: And so I was like, okay, God, I'm going to 324 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:36,200 Speaker 2: do the cold night phone, I'm going to do the surgery. 325 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 2: And so anyway, they said it was most likely a 326 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 2: tia so as a precursor. So they didn't know if 327 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 2: it was a precursor for to have a stroke later on, 328 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 2: so they wanted me to come back do all these 329 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 2: brain tests, right. And so it's also tricky because it 330 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:58,359 Speaker 2: could have been they call it some kind of migraine. 331 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 2: It could mimic a stroke, right. They just wanted to 332 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 2: make sure that it wasn't going to be precursor for 333 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:05,879 Speaker 2: a real stroke because that could be fatal, obviously. 334 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 1: And so. 335 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 2: I also want to say that because I hemorrhaged during 336 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:16,639 Speaker 2: my birth with the r ghosts, because I lost so 337 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:21,199 Speaker 2: much blood, right, and so they wanted to give me 338 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:24,199 Speaker 2: this thanks Love and X. It's basically a blood thinner 339 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 2: to make sure you don't have a stroke. I did 340 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:28,800 Speaker 2: deny that because I was like, why would I take 341 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 2: that if I hemorrhaged, right, It didn't make sense to me, 342 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 2: But now I know why. It's because that could happen, 343 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 2: and so I'm sorry to my doctors for that one. 344 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:42,119 Speaker 2: But anyway, so after this whole mini stroke ordeal. I 345 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:44,359 Speaker 2: get back and it was traumatizing because I really did 346 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 2: think that I was going to die, and so I 347 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 2: put my wife flag in the air. I ended up 348 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:57,159 Speaker 2: doing the cold knife cone, so they ended up taking me, 349 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 2: putting me under, and I get out of the hospital. 350 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 2: I wait a couple of weeks and my doctor calls 351 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:14,159 Speaker 2: me and she tells me, I'm so sorry, Shana, like 352 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:18,120 Speaker 2: the surgery was not successful. It is higher than we thought, 353 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:21,439 Speaker 2: and so we're going to have to schedule you for 354 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:25,399 Speaker 2: another cold knife comb surgery six weeks from now. So 355 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:33,560 Speaker 2: at this point, I was getting pretty depressed because I 356 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:35,439 Speaker 2: at that point, I'm like, okay, Lord, I don't know 357 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 2: what you're doing. Not that this was a god because 358 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:40,440 Speaker 2: I know God doesn't do this, but he allows it. 359 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 2: And so at that point I was like, okay, I'm 360 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 2: going to have to just completely thrender the situation. And 361 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:52,160 Speaker 2: so I healed for six weeks and I immediately had 362 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,480 Speaker 2: to go back in and my doctor comes in before 363 00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 2: surgery and she tells me and she goes, Shana, I 364 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:01,680 Speaker 2: know that you don't want to do chemo, you don't 365 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:05,280 Speaker 2: want to have a hysterectomy, but if this surgery doesn't work, 366 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:07,400 Speaker 2: We're gonna have to go down that rope. 367 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 1: I'm gonna I would lose. 368 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:14,160 Speaker 2: My hair, I would maybe never have children again. And 369 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 2: in that moment, I was just like okay, God, Like, 370 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 2: if that's the route that I'm going to have to go, 371 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to be okay with it, which was 372 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:24,120 Speaker 2: really hard. 373 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 1: And so I go in, they put me under, I 374 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:29,199 Speaker 1: wake up. It was awful. 375 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 2: The pain was so awful, the recovery was awful. It 376 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:41,159 Speaker 2: was about a month of straight bleeding. Just it was painful. 377 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:49,240 Speaker 2: And so finally my doctor calls and the surgery was successful. 378 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 2: So I just remember hearing those words my baby. I 379 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:58,199 Speaker 2: was laying in bed, my stepdaughter's in her room sleeping, 380 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:00,960 Speaker 2: my husband's sleeping, my baby sleeping on and I didn't 381 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:03,080 Speaker 2: want to wake the baby, right, and so I'm just 382 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 2: like quietly sobbing, like thanking the Lord, like I can't 383 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 2: believe this is real, Like I'm finally hopefully cancer free, 384 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:16,200 Speaker 2: Praise God. And so when everyone heard the news, everyone 385 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 2: was just so ecstatic and yeah, and so it was 386 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 2: hard because again this wasn't medical advice, but I just 387 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:29,359 Speaker 2: felt like no woman should have to choose between saving 388 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 2: her baby and saving herself right, Like I felt like 389 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 2: technology is so advanced these days, like how do we 390 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:39,879 Speaker 2: not have a cure? Right? And so I just my 391 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:43,280 Speaker 2: heart goes out to the women that weren't as fortunate 392 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:46,959 Speaker 2: as I was. And I can't have sympathy for myself 393 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:51,679 Speaker 2: with this experience because a lot of people don't have 394 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,199 Speaker 2: the outcome that I have. Most people, a lot of 395 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:55,080 Speaker 2: women don't make it. 396 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 1: A lot of. 397 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 2: Babies don't make it and or they have to have 398 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:02,879 Speaker 2: the hysterectomy or they have to like they had to 399 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:05,879 Speaker 2: have the miscarriage, you know. And so I'm just so 400 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 2: thankful and grateful every day that this was the outcome. 401 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 2: I don't know why God allows us to go through 402 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 2: certain things, but maybe he did allow it so I 403 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,199 Speaker 2: could be on this platform and share my experience and 404 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:21,159 Speaker 2: give hope to another person out there going through the 405 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:21,680 Speaker 2: same thing. 406 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:36,399 Speaker 1: My journey wasn't over yet. 407 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 2: So two months ago, I ended up having really bad 408 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:44,920 Speaker 2: abdominal pains and I still looked kind of pregnant. 409 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:46,639 Speaker 1: I didn't know what was going on. I knew my 410 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:47,879 Speaker 1: hormones were going out of control. 411 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 2: It had like five surgeries in six months, and so 412 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 2: the pain was so bad, I had to go to 413 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:57,600 Speaker 2: the er again and they did some tests and they 414 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:01,359 Speaker 2: realized that the cervix, a scar tissue from having all 415 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:05,959 Speaker 2: those surgeries, healed shut and so I had accumulated a 416 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,879 Speaker 2: lot of blood that was building up in my body. 417 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:11,520 Speaker 2: So they had to do an emergency surgery to get 418 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:16,359 Speaker 2: the blood out, and so that healing was awful. But 419 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 2: I woke up immediately pain free, so it was great. 420 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 2: This experience definitely tested my faith in ways that I 421 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:25,760 Speaker 2: never knew. 422 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 1: I was raised Christian my whole life. 423 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:33,919 Speaker 2: My grandfather was a pastor, and I always believed, and 424 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,680 Speaker 2: I've had other experiences where I just knew God was real. 425 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 1: But through this it definitely tested me. I was shaken, 426 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: but I was not pushed. That makes sense. 427 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 2: I had to walk by faith and not fear for 428 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 2: the first time, and I had to be okay if 429 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:52,639 Speaker 2: I wasn't gonna make it. 430 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:53,880 Speaker 1: And that's what was the hardest part. 431 00:22:53,960 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 2: I just remembered journaling throughout my pregnancy, like Lord, if 432 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:05,000 Speaker 2: I don't make it, like He's sovereign, right, And so 433 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 2: I remember just the whole pregnancy. Psalm ninety one would 434 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 2: always come to me, and it's he that dwells in 435 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,360 Speaker 2: the secret place of the Most High shall abide under 436 00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:20,040 Speaker 2: the shadow of the Almighty. So I just remember not 437 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:24,159 Speaker 2: only going into survival mode, but hiding in that secret 438 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 2: place with God just to sustain me, because I don't 439 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:30,200 Speaker 2: think my mental health was strong enough to be able 440 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:33,359 Speaker 2: to like really put my wrap my head around what 441 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 2: was going on, right, And so I think this only 442 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 2: strengthened my faith. 443 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 1: And again I don't know. 444 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,399 Speaker 2: Why He let me have the outcome that he did, 445 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 2: but I'm just grateful and through him, regardless of your outcome, 446 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 2: he is there and he never does leave you. And 447 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 2: so ever, since I was declared cancer free, I had 448 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,160 Speaker 2: my PET scan a month and a half ago as well, 449 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,440 Speaker 2: and I have no cancer in the body, no sign 450 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 2: of HBB, nothing, which was amazing. And so each day 451 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:14,639 Speaker 2: I just have this gratitude that life is so short 452 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 2: and the things that we worry about are so minuscule 453 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 2: and just nothing compared to what really matters. And I 454 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:31,320 Speaker 2: really do believe health is wealth. And since this whole experience, 455 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 2: like from doing my own research, it made me even 456 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:39,199 Speaker 2: take my health more seriously. Where what we're putting in 457 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 2: our bodies food wise, makeup wise, clothing wise. It just 458 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 2: makes you more aware and just to be grateful every 459 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,440 Speaker 2: single day that we're here because life is so precious 460 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 2: and we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, but 461 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,159 Speaker 2: we do know who holds the future, and just to 462 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 2: completely put your. 463 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 1: Trust in God. So my advice for anyone who was 464 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:04,879 Speaker 1: pregnant and worried about their own health is go in, 465 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 1: go get checked. 466 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 2: At the same time, I also believe that you are 467 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:15,160 Speaker 2: your best advocate. Know all the facts what's going on. 468 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 2: I did go to the non traditional route, which is 469 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:19,400 Speaker 2: not medical. 470 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:25,120 Speaker 1: Advice, but do your research then make the decision. 471 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:30,160 Speaker 2: Because again not a knock to the health industry, but 472 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:30,800 Speaker 2: if I. 473 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,960 Speaker 1: Did listen to the doctors of what they wanted to do, 474 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,159 Speaker 1: I don't know if my baby would be here. I 475 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 1: don't know if I would be able to have more children, 476 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,080 Speaker 1: and so I did what was best for me. 477 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 2: You need to do what's best for you, and if 478 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 2: that is having the hysterectomy, if that is not going through, 479 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,400 Speaker 2: if you know what I'm saying, like I do, advocate 480 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 2: for you, do what's best for you. And so my 481 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 2: advice is just to do your own research. Find the 482 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:02,199 Speaker 2: best doctors you trust that you just feel safe with. 483 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 2: That would be my best advice. 484 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:05,880 Speaker 1: And so. 485 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:09,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, I just want to thank you all for letting 486 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 2: me share my story on Shannon Doherty's podcast. You could 487 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:17,840 Speaker 2: follow me on Instagram at Shana dot Hurley. God bless you, 488 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,200 Speaker 2: Take care and thank you for listening. 489 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,119 Speaker 1: I appreciate it. 490 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 2: And I just hope that this finds someone that needs 491 00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:27,159 Speaker 2: to hear it, that there is a way out, that 492 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:28,920 Speaker 2: God has you and you. 493 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 1: Are so loved. Thank you, Take care.