1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:37,560 Speaker 1: Welcome. You are now listening to the Professional Professional. Hey guys, 2 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 1: welcome to this week's episode of the PhD Podcast. This 3 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:43,320 Speaker 1: is your girl at eban A and as always, I 4 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 1: am super excited about this week's episode. Um, before we begin, 5 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 1: you know the routine, let's do a little housekeeping. Please 6 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:53,200 Speaker 1: make sure to follow me on Instagram at the Professional 7 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: Home Girl at the PSD Podcast, and last but not 8 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 1: least at eban a Beauty. 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I don't want to say thank 18 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: you so much for taking the time out to speak 19 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: with me about your COVID nineteen journey and just sharing 20 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 1: your stories with my listeners. I really appreciate it. Thank 21 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: you for having me you welcome. So when did you 22 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 1: first hear about COVID nineteen. What were your initial thoughts, 23 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:46,320 Speaker 1: UM when I first heard about it. Uh was actually 24 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: back in February, towards the end of February when it 25 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 1: really kind of like, I've heard about it, but you 26 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: didn't really have my attention, UM. But my my initial 27 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: thought was, I hope that's gonna come here, but pretty 28 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: sure it's gonna come here. I just hope it's not 29 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: as bad that's what we're seeing on the news saying. 30 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 1: The first time I heard about the COVID nineteen virus 31 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 1: is somebody was telling me how someone from China was 32 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:16,119 Speaker 1: either bad, and I was like, why were they eating 33 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 1: the bad and how do they get the virus from 34 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: the back? So yeah, yeah, that was the first thing 35 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 1: I heard too. And my first thought was the movie 36 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: Contagion that I had seen like some years ago, and 37 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: so I just you know, but the response of the 38 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 1: government is what kind of had me at ease, because 39 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 1: at first they were like, no, it's not that bad, folks, 40 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:38,799 Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. So, I mean, at 41 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 1: first I saw it, but I didn't really think that 42 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 1: it would impact us the way that it is. So 43 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 1: when alarmed, you to get tested like, where were your 44 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:51,640 Speaker 1: symptoms um over three weeks ago. UM. I started with 45 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: a light cough and the next day I had a 46 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 1: mild temperature UM. But I didn't think anything of it. 47 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:01,799 Speaker 1: Living in the South and Louis Yanna, the pollen count 48 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: is high. I have allergies, so I chalked it up to, 49 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: you know, maybe this is just because I get allergies 50 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: so right. And so I was like, well, maybe this 51 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 1: is just why you know, that's why it's allergies. And 52 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 1: then like the next day then I had body aches. 53 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:19,519 Speaker 1: And I'm a hairstyler, so I stand on my feet 54 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: all day Monday through Saturday. I actually worked on Mondays. 55 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: This body ache was completely different than the normal body 56 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 1: ach from working too much. There was nothing that I 57 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 1: could do to relieve it. I couldn't stress it out, 58 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: stretch it out. I even when it bought lighter cane 59 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: patches to put on my back and stuff. It's hurt 60 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: it so bad. I never oh, it was that intense. 61 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: It really feels like um, it feels like you're just 62 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 1: being beat constantly. It's like a constant, like hard throb 63 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 1: all over your body. And so I'm not a sickly person. 64 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:55,119 Speaker 1: I'm thirty six years old. UM, I don't have any 65 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: underlying health conditions. So when my fever didn't break, I said, okay, 66 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: I need to go and he checked out, UM, just 67 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 1: in case, and my doctor treated. By that time, my 68 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 1: temperature had gone up to a hundred point four which 69 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: days later and UM and the body ax which just 70 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: continuing to get worse. And so she UM get an 71 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 1: X ray suave need for the flu that came back negative. 72 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 1: There was no fluid on my lungs or anything like that. 73 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 1: She gave me a breathing treatment because at that point 74 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 1: I was, you know, coughing a little more. And UM, 75 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 1: she sent me home with an inhaler, antibiotics, steroids and UM. 76 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 1: Concert so late did you say if you shop or 77 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 1: you know? To be honest, I don't know because UM, 78 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:42,679 Speaker 1: during that time, I had started like just lightsol spraying 79 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: everything and UM. I would spray the handles of doors, 80 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 1: wipe them down before my clients will come in and 81 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 1: after they need because I have a salon studio, so 82 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:54,359 Speaker 1: it's only me. I'm the only silence in there. Have 83 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 1: one yeah, I only have one baby. Two clients at 84 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: a time. I might have a client under the dryer 85 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: while I'm working with another client, But I did. I 86 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 1: took every precautionary measure that I could to make sure 87 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 1: that I would say something my clients would say. I 88 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,280 Speaker 1: even got on like a step school, and I would 89 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: spread the vents just in case, you know, like all 90 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: the other salon studios are on the same event. I 91 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: sprayed the vents um once an hour just to make 92 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: sure nothing was coming in from anybody else's salon studio. 93 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:27,839 Speaker 1: So I don't know UM. At my church, I'm the 94 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 1: sound engineer. I work in the book, so I don't 95 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 1: come to close contact with any of the any other 96 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: person at church like that. So it but the fact 97 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:38,839 Speaker 1: that you can be asymptomatic and give it to somebody, 98 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:43,280 Speaker 1: there's no telling where you know I got it from. UM. 99 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: I came in contact with two people who did test 100 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: positive for it, but my contact with them was like 101 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 1: the first week in March. I didn't develop symptoms until 102 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: March twelve. So it's possible that I could have gotten 103 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 1: it gotten it from one of them, but I don't know, 104 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 1: and I can't say that for sure because anybody could 105 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: have given it to me. So you went in when 106 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,840 Speaker 1: you will see it when you was as you went 107 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: in for to get tested and your doctor told you 108 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:13,840 Speaker 1: that it wasn't for the ViRGE. You tested negative for 109 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:18,359 Speaker 1: the flud. So I didn't necessarily know that I was. 110 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,919 Speaker 1: I wasn't really going to get tested for the virus 111 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: because at that time they were saying that this is 112 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 1: more common with older people and people who have underlying 113 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 1: health conditions. So I just wanted to go and find 114 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:33,359 Speaker 1: out what was going on because I don't typically have 115 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 1: a temperature, and um, I didn't even know what it 116 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 1: felt like to have a fever prior to this, and 117 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:41,159 Speaker 1: so when I was describing what I was feeling, my 118 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: mom was like, baby, you have a you have a 119 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: song of you have a fever, because like I was, 120 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:48,719 Speaker 1: I was freezing cold, but I was sweating and my 121 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:50,919 Speaker 1: body was hot. I never knew what a fever felt like. 122 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 1: So um, so she treated me for an upper respiratory 123 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 1: infection and she sent me home with the inhaler and 124 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: told me to take tom know and undeprofen um um 125 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 1: alternating it. And so I started doing that to try 126 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: to break my fever. And I was taking the Z 127 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 1: pack and all of that stuff, and then the next day, 128 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: I actually have to use my in haler because I 129 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 1: was short of breath. And you know, at this point, 130 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 1: um and the president had said, you know, no groups, 131 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: no low large gatherings over two fifty. So at my 132 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 1: church we had to um, no, no. At this point 133 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 1: they had dropped it down to fifty, I believe, and UM, 134 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 1: so we you know, everybody's doing their recordings and stuff 135 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 1: ahead of time. So I actually went to my church 136 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: so that I could do the sound while they were 137 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 1: doing everything that they were doing to record for the 138 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 1: following Sunday. I had on a mask, I had on gloves, 139 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 1: but I actually had to use my inn haler just 140 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 1: to do something that I normally do all the time. 141 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 1: And so I'm still not thinking anything. At a few 142 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 1: more days ago, and when I tell you, I was 143 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 1: just feeling terrible. I was coughing. My temperature kept going up. 144 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 1: So I went back to the doctor and at that 145 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 1: point my temperature was one or three point five and 146 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: she was like, oh boy, So they started doing everything 147 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 1: that they did the first time they checked me. At 148 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 1: least went back. Thank God for that. I didn't have 149 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 1: a choice. I didn't have a choice because it was 150 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: like it was just steadily like progressing, and it was 151 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 1: progressing really fast. I have a high tolerance for pain, 152 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: so I probably if I didn't, I probably would have 153 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: gone back like that next day, because when I tell 154 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: you I was hurting, I was hurting. And so she 155 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 1: gave me orders to go through one of the drive 156 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: from testing UM centers, but they're not open on the 157 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 1: weekends and so I would have had to wait till Monday. 158 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:41,280 Speaker 1: And she said, but if your symptoms getting worse, UM, 159 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: go to the emergency room. And so when I got home, 160 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:47,199 Speaker 1: like they had actually given me, I broke an antillero 161 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:50,319 Speaker 1: at the same time to try to get my temperature 162 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:53,440 Speaker 1: to drop fast because it was like it was, it 163 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 1: was too high, and so UM, when I got home, 164 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: something just said just looking on the CDC website, because 165 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: at this point I'm thinking, oh my god, it's a 166 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 1: possibility that I could have this virus because for my 167 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 1: temperature to be that high, and I hadn't been around 168 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:10,719 Speaker 1: anybody that was kick or anything like that. So I 169 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: went to the CDC website and they said do not 170 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 1: take the new profile. And I was like, oh, I 171 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:21,560 Speaker 1: didn't know that. Yeah, that's one of the things that 172 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you didn't know that. Yes, if you 173 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 1: take I dow profen, I I do profen makes it 174 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 1: worse and it actually causes the pneumonia to be worse. 175 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: Oh my god. It's still on the CDC website. They're saying, 176 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: do not take any kind of unprofen motor and avil 177 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 1: and I was taking those and try to give my 178 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 1: my favorite to break and so um. At that point, 179 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 1: I was like, I was really weak, and so I 180 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 1: had a friend of mine. I said, can you please 181 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 1: setting the lawn for every three hours so I can 182 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 1: take Tyler on? Because I was just that weak that 183 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: I couldn't even like there was no sense of time. 184 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 1: I just laid in the bed. I wasn't eating, I 185 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 1: wasn't drinking, and you know, my mom and my daughter 186 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 1: was trying to give me eating drink stuff of My 187 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 1: mom was looking after my daughter for me. That next morning, 188 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 1: it was the absolute worst. I couldn't stand straight up, um, 189 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 1: and I could hardly walk. I decided to try at least. 190 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:15,160 Speaker 1: I felt like I was gonna feel better if I 191 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 1: took a shower. But I couldn't stand up to take 192 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 1: a shower, so I ran the water. I turned turned 193 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 1: on the water on and my daughter came back. She's like, 194 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:25,520 Speaker 1: the tub's running over. The tub's running over, because I 195 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 1: had fallen back asleep, and so I went to try 196 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 1: to get in. When I tell you, I couldn't even 197 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 1: hold myself up in the tub. You know how if 198 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:35,080 Speaker 1: you try to push your feet against up front of 199 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 1: the tub so that you don't slide on the top. 200 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 1: I couldn't do that. So I had to lay over 201 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 1: the side of the tub. And my my ten year 202 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:43,320 Speaker 1: old daughter was just like, mine, you're only close the door, 203 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 1: And I was like no, because I I just felt 204 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: so bad that I was scared that like if I 205 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: fallen until if I wasn't gonna be able to get 206 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: myself and um, I was able to get out, but 207 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:55,720 Speaker 1: I couldn't really send him. So I literally just got 208 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 1: got out of the tub and came back to my 209 00:10:57,480 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 1: room and just laid on the bed. My daughter had 210 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 1: to help get my clothes on, and so that whole 211 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:06,960 Speaker 1: day I couldn't even drink anything. I was extremely nauseous, 212 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 1: I was lethargic, I couldn't hold my head up. I 213 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:12,200 Speaker 1: couldn't even hold my phone up, and so it just 214 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 1: I couldn't. I couldn't take it anymore. So, um, I 215 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:18,320 Speaker 1: got my aunt to take me to the emergency room. 216 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 1: And by the time she got me to the emergency room, 217 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:25,439 Speaker 1: like I started coughing so bad that it was like 218 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:29,679 Speaker 1: I was literally gonna cough up my insides, and um 219 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:34,079 Speaker 1: and um, she dropped me off at the tent because 220 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 1: nobody else go in the emergency room at all. They 221 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 1: had a tent set up outside. They actually had to 222 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:41,440 Speaker 1: hurt m wheel bring a wheelchair because I could At 223 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 1: that point, I lost all strength in my legs and um, 224 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 1: my oxygen level was gardy just shut down. It shut down, 225 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 1: and when I tell you, it seemed like it happened 226 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 1: so fast and so my my my temperature was one 227 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 1: or three point three and my oxygen level was at 228 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: eighty five. And so they just started working like really 229 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,560 Speaker 1: really fast. They got me into a room really really 230 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 1: quick and got me set up on an ivy and 231 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: started plumping fluids. And it was really scary because, um, 232 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 1: it was like watching something off of a movie, Like 233 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 1: I saw no other patients. All I saw was doctors 234 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 1: and nurses and it's like they all just moved out 235 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 1: of the way when they were wheeling me in. And 236 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 1: once you go in, whoever brings you in the room, 237 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:30,960 Speaker 1: they have to stay in the room with you until 238 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 1: they're done doing what they're supposed to do, Like they 239 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 1: cannot leave out and come back. And so it was 240 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: a guy that brought me in and he had to 241 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:39,840 Speaker 1: stay in there while I got out of my clothes 242 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:43,959 Speaker 1: and and yeah, so he was like, are you okay, 243 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:46,080 Speaker 1: sacause I can't leave. I mean, he turned his back, 244 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:48,560 Speaker 1: but it was just awkward, you know. And this was 245 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 1: the guy that worked at the hospital, like a nurse. Yeah, 246 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 1: that was a nurse. You gotta get ned and in 247 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:56,840 Speaker 1: front of my guy, you know. But at that point 248 00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: I didn't care because I wasn't so much pain. I 249 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 1: just I don't even care. He could have whatever you 250 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 1: want to see right here. And so they sent in 251 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 1: the other nurses and they started drawing blood and just 252 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 1: doing the absolute most. And so the scary part about 253 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:14,560 Speaker 1: it was, um each person that I encountered, they asked 254 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: me for my mom's name and her cell phone number 255 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 1: and they wrote it on their gloves. That right there 256 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:24,200 Speaker 1: scared me because that tells me you need to have 257 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 1: some uh next of kids contact information just in case 258 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 1: I don't make it like that was what that said 259 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 1: to me. And so it's really scary. But they got 260 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 1: me in there, they drew a lot of blood, they 261 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 1: had to swap me again, had to they had to 262 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 1: test me again for the for the food. So this 263 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:43,480 Speaker 1: is the third time that I've met tested for the 264 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:45,200 Speaker 1: flood when they came back negative and once he came 265 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: back negative. Um, the doctor walked in and he said, 266 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 1: we're at meeting you. He was like, you definitely have 267 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 1: all the symptoms. We were gonna test you for it now. 268 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: So how did they test you for the virus that 269 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 1: they swabb you? Oh, they swabbed me. That's all testing 270 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 1: that I've been hearing stories about people saying that they 271 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 1: can check for your blood and stuff. That's inaccurate because 272 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 1: the virus lives in the back of your daughter. So 273 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:13,240 Speaker 1: after he you know, told me everything, Um, he asked 274 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: me what happened and I had to go through all 275 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 1: that stuff that I just told you and um, and 276 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:21,840 Speaker 1: he said okay, He said, well, let me have your 277 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 1: mom's number. He looked up at the screen and he 278 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: at the monitor and he said, what's your what's your 279 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 1: mom's number? And her name, and he wrote it on 280 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: his glove and I was just like terrified. Um, and 281 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 1: so he said, we're gonna admitt you, but we're gonna 282 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 1: get you better. And so, um, we're gonna do our 283 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:39,200 Speaker 1: best to get you better, is what he said. And Um, 284 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 1: so they came in and they swathed. When I tell you, 285 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 1: it's like, oh my god. Um. So the ladies that 286 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 1: are listening, it's like getting a pep snaya. So they 287 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: go all the way up in there, they go all 288 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 1: the way in. You can actually google images of like 289 00:14:56,760 --> 00:15:00,480 Speaker 1: what the coronavirus tists looks like. The stick looks like 290 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 1: it's about To me, it felt like it was at 291 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 1: least now it has like a little brush on the 292 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 1: end of it, you know that little brush brush, like 293 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 1: like a baby bottle brush or something like that. But 294 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 1: they stick it so far back and then they had 295 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 1: to twist it and leave it in there for like 296 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 1: ten seconds. They did that in But because I was 297 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 1: in so much pain, I felt it, but it wasn't 298 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 1: it wasn't. It wasn't as bad as I think it 299 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 1: would have been if I didn't have any pain or 300 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 1: anything like that. So, um, they admitted me, and by 301 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 1: the next night, I was because for you to receive 302 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:47,040 Speaker 1: your results, Oh, it's took five days. I was already 303 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 1: feeling I was feeling better before I got The day 304 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 1: that I started feeling better was the day that I 305 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:56,480 Speaker 1: got my problems. So I went in that I went 306 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 1: in that Saturday evening and they saw me that night, 307 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 1: and then that Thursday was the first day of me 308 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: starting to feel better, and that was when the doctor 309 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 1: came here. She said, But it got because at the time, UM, 310 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:15,560 Speaker 1: we didn't have any UM we we weren't there were 311 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:18,360 Speaker 1: no places that were approved to do the testing in 312 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:24,480 Speaker 1: Louisiana and so and so. UM that let me see 313 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 1: that Saturday is when they first tested me. Monday when 314 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 1: they came in UM and they had turned my oxygen 315 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 1: up more. She said, we're gonna test you again because 316 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 1: ULS you just got proved to actually do the testing 317 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 1: here and it's a twenty four hour turnaround. So she said, 318 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 1: I'm just waiting for the test to arride and it'll 319 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 1: probably be tomorrow. And she said I'm gonna do another 320 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 1: UM X ray because that's that following morning of me 321 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 1: being admitted UM. She told me I had the ball now, 322 00:16:57,280 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 1: I had just gotten an X ray that Friday and 323 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 1: it up clear. The x ray the tuesday before that 324 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: had shown up clear, and then that Saturday night, boom 325 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:11,680 Speaker 1: I had. That's crazy how the affection just like progressed 326 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 1: so fast like that once you got in there, it 327 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:17,680 Speaker 1: just like it just went crazy. And I really believe 328 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:21,359 Speaker 1: that ibuprofi made it worse, but that the doctors didn't 329 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:24,240 Speaker 1: know this at the time. You know, if it wasn't 330 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 1: for me reading the CDC website and saying, you know what, 331 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:29,239 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna take till at all, if I had 332 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:31,680 Speaker 1: continued to take ibuprofen or avil, I feel like it 333 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 1: would have made it even even more worse for me. 334 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:37,920 Speaker 1: And so when she told me that Monday, she said, 335 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:39,479 Speaker 1: we're gonna renew your x rays and she said we're 336 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 1: gonna teesch you with me in tomorrow. Um because the 337 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 1: drug hadrops and cloroquine that they've been talking about this 338 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:49,399 Speaker 1: experimental drug. She said, we're gonna have to give it 339 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:51,119 Speaker 1: to you, but we can't give it to you unless 340 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:53,440 Speaker 1: you test positive. So we needially have a positive test, 341 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:56,080 Speaker 1: and your original test hasn't come back yet, so we're 342 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: gonna retest you. Well, they never ended up retesting me 343 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 1: because let me see that Tuesday, Um, they hadn't had 344 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:05,399 Speaker 1: any testing you, and the ones that they did get 345 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 1: they were using to retest doctors and nurses so that 346 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:09,959 Speaker 1: they could go back to work. I feel like I 347 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:11,680 Speaker 1: was gonna die, Like I could not know my next 348 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: question for you to yes, talk you trying to talk 349 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:17,879 Speaker 1: to my family until like I could be talking and 350 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 1: the like within three seconds, I was out. It was. 351 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 1: It was. It was very, very difficult. And you got 352 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 1: to a point where I told my sister to just, um, 353 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 1: get everybody on FaceTime so I can see them and 354 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 1: talk to them. And um, so I was talking some 355 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 1: of your interviewers and I heard you said, because you've 356 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:36,920 Speaker 1: been like very local about your story, which is great, 357 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:39,480 Speaker 1: and I saw what he was like. It was just 358 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:41,440 Speaker 1: a point where you just even talk to anybody no more. 359 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:46,640 Speaker 1: I didn't. And you know, because like you're in constant 360 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:49,159 Speaker 1: pain and they're giving you this medicine, and so the 361 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:51,920 Speaker 1: nurses can only come in like once every three to 362 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:53,919 Speaker 1: four hours because they're at risk and they're trying to 363 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:57,920 Speaker 1: minimize their exposure. And so even even though my tests 364 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:00,479 Speaker 1: hadn't come back yet they were treated even me as 365 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:03,880 Speaker 1: though my thoughtcause actually told me she said, um, both 366 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:06,040 Speaker 1: of them. I had two different doctors. They said, you 367 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 1: have it, like, we don't even really need something to 368 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:11,439 Speaker 1: come back to know that you have it, because you 369 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 1: have all the symptoms. She said, you look like you 370 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:15,159 Speaker 1: had to, You act like you had like you had it, 371 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:17,479 Speaker 1: and so, but they needed the test to come back 372 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:20,439 Speaker 1: in order to give me that drug. But it was 373 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 1: I was in so much pain and I was so 374 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:24,719 Speaker 1: weak and lethargy black. When the nurses would come in, 375 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: they have to do everything that they're supposed to do 376 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:31,680 Speaker 1: at that time. So I'm on seven different medications under 377 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:34,680 Speaker 1: medicine going through my IV and I'm having to swallow 378 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:38,160 Speaker 1: like twelve pills at one time, and I couldn't eat, 379 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:40,360 Speaker 1: I couldn't drink anything. And then most of these medicines 380 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 1: have effective naga UM and I wasn't able to go 381 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:48,840 Speaker 1: to the bathroom because I hadn't been eating or drinking 382 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 1: much already. So then they had me on like um, 383 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:53,960 Speaker 1: they had me on laxatives and stuff to try to 384 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 1: give me to go to the bathroom, and it did 385 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 1: not work. Four days at home, laxatives that nothing happened, 386 00:19:57,880 --> 00:19:59,359 Speaker 1: and so on top of all of that, I had 387 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 1: to take zo Rand again. So explain what those two 388 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:09,160 Speaker 1: drugs do well, Um, zoe fran is a nausea medicine 389 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 1: that does not make you drowsy, but Finn again put 390 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:14,880 Speaker 1: you to sleep. And I didn't want to take Finn 391 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 1: again because when I would go to sleep, my uh 392 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 1: it would feel like something was hitting me in the 393 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:21,879 Speaker 1: chest and I would wake up gasping. Even though I 394 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,640 Speaker 1: was on oxygen, I would still wake up gasping for air. 395 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 1: So I was afraid of falling asleep. I'd be afraid 396 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 1: of falling to sleep too. Yeah, so you have the 397 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 1: three different things going on. You have that where it's 398 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 1: almost like a like an anxiety attack type thing, and 399 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 1: then you have the coughing, and then there's the the 400 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:42,359 Speaker 1: whole um just not even being able to inhale and 401 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:46,040 Speaker 1: expand your lungs completely. So it was it was definitely, very, 402 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:48,160 Speaker 1: very scary, and it just got to a point where 403 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:51,119 Speaker 1: I honestly, when they would give me that medicine and stuff, 404 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:52,879 Speaker 1: I just I didn't even want to take it. I 405 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,440 Speaker 1: couldn't even drink water. It was just it was terrible 406 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:57,639 Speaker 1: and so we got some point where I didn't want 407 00:20:57,640 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 1: to talk to anybody because I felt like that was 408 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 1: you know, I felt like I was sleeping away, like 409 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 1: I could hardly even keep my eyes open, and um, 410 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:06,640 Speaker 1: it's just tough to be in a position like that 411 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: when you're used to like like always working and going sick, yes, 412 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:15,640 Speaker 1: very active and never being sick. And then I mean 413 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:17,199 Speaker 1: the only time I've ever been in the hospital was 414 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:18,639 Speaker 1: when I gave birth to my daughter and I had 415 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:21,640 Speaker 1: a C section, you know, and so like the other 416 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 1: than that, I've never been in the hospital before. So 417 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,119 Speaker 1: this experience was like, just oh my god, for my 418 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 1: first time having to be in the hospitals, like Goli, 419 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 1: I have to experience like almost dying the first time 420 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:36,200 Speaker 1: I go to the hospital, and you know, um, it's 421 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:39,200 Speaker 1: really really scary because, um, for a lot of people, 422 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,879 Speaker 1: it gets worse before it gets better. And that was 423 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:45,160 Speaker 1: something that you know, one of the nurses actually talked 424 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:46,960 Speaker 1: about with me. She was like, everybody that goes on 425 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: this path, whether you're going through it in the hospital 426 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:51,760 Speaker 1: or if you're going through it at home, you get 427 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 1: to a very very dark place with this thing. It 428 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,280 Speaker 1: gets really really bad and it's almost like you come 429 00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 1: to a fork in the road. Some people make it 430 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:03,719 Speaker 1: and some people don't. Chi and her exact words to 431 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 1: me when she said, you made it past the hump. 432 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,360 Speaker 1: And so that's my encouragement to you know, people who 433 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:12,640 Speaker 1: are fighting this thing right now, Like it gets bad, 434 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 1: it gets really really bad, but it does get better, 435 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 1: and you have to fight it mentally. Your body is 436 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 1: doing as much as it can to fight it physically, 437 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,400 Speaker 1: but you really mentally have to fight it. Those two 438 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 1: days that were the worst for me, they came in 439 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,000 Speaker 1: both days threatening to put me in I see you. 440 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: They're like, we're gonna have to put you in I 441 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 1: c you. The first thing they did was put me 442 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:32,439 Speaker 1: on bed rist and they were like, we're gonna have 443 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:34,479 Speaker 1: to get you a bedside commemote because we don't want 444 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:37,840 Speaker 1: you walking to the bathroom because your oxygen drops so 445 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 1: bad and it's just completely wiping you out. I would 446 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 1: literally pass out. Take me fifteen minutes to walk to 447 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 1: the bathroom and get back to my bed, and I 448 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:49,080 Speaker 1: would just be completely wiped out because once I got 449 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 1: to the bathroom, the coughing and I just couldn't breathe. 450 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:55,399 Speaker 1: And so but in my mind, I don't want to 451 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:59,359 Speaker 1: be confined to this bed because I feel like if 452 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:00,880 Speaker 1: I get stuck in it's bed, I'm not gonna get 453 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 1: out of it. And so I was like, no, I 454 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:04,879 Speaker 1: can keep walking, and the doctor said, she said, no, 455 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,919 Speaker 1: you can't exercise this. This is not something that you 456 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,840 Speaker 1: can make better by by moving right now. Your oxygen 457 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 1: levels are too low. We need you to stay in 458 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:17,320 Speaker 1: this bed. And she's so she actually she put her 459 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:19,360 Speaker 1: foot down. She said, you're either gonna get a bedside 460 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,640 Speaker 1: come out, or a bed pan. I side. I take 461 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: the bedside right because I don't want my bed pan, 462 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 1: you know, but in my mind, like I want to 463 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 1: still be mobile, you know, even though my body couldn't 464 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 1: do it. In my mind, that's what that's where where 465 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,880 Speaker 1: my where my head was. And um, so when they 466 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: were talking about I CU, I was like, no, I 467 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 1: gotta fight this thing. I really have to fight it 468 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:41,920 Speaker 1: because if I go to I c U and the 469 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:43,920 Speaker 1: end up putting me on the ventilator, I was terrified 470 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:48,880 Speaker 1: of not being definitely not coming out. And so thankfully 471 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 1: go ahead. Thankfully I didn't have to go to I 472 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 1: see you. They didn't have to give me more oxygen 473 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:59,119 Speaker 1: I was only on two leaders of oxygen um and 474 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 1: because the first day they said, well if you if 475 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,920 Speaker 1: you end up needing six leaders, we'll have to put 476 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:05,400 Speaker 1: you in I c U. And then it came back 477 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,719 Speaker 1: and said, no, if you if you get to four leaders, 478 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 1: we're gonna have to put you in IIC you and 479 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 1: I never have to get more than two leaders. I 480 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:16,919 Speaker 1: literally fought this thing mentally and have my family and 481 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,320 Speaker 1: friends like encouraging me and like praying and stuff. I 482 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 1: had a whole army of people praying and I had 483 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:25,439 Speaker 1: no idea. And that's really what brought me through because 484 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 1: that Thursday morning, I just it was like somebody switched 485 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,439 Speaker 1: the light on and I felt better. So where are 486 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 1: you at now? Are you at home? I am at home. 487 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 1: I am still in quarantine. Um what are you? I 488 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:45,160 Speaker 1: am on day with today? Today? Today is day So 489 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:48,880 Speaker 1: what is what? Today is day from the first day 490 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:52,639 Speaker 1: of symptoms. But today is day twelve of my fourteen 491 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 1: day quarantine. I had two more days left and then 492 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:59,400 Speaker 1: after those two days are over with, what's next? So 493 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 1: after those two days are over with, they the CDC 494 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:08,840 Speaker 1: assumes that you are safe. Um, my daughter has asthma 495 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,439 Speaker 1: and and I lived. My mom is here, she's sixty 496 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 1: one years old. I'm not taking that risk. So um, 497 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 1: because you can be asymptomatic and give this to somebody 498 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:22,160 Speaker 1: and even though you feel better. They treat the symptoms. 499 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 1: They treated the symptoms of pneumonia, and they treated the 500 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,400 Speaker 1: symptoms of COVID. There's no cure and there's no vaccine 501 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,280 Speaker 1: for COVID, so the virus can actually still be in 502 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 1: your body. You can still be harboring the virus even 503 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,119 Speaker 1: though you feel better, which means you're just like the 504 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:40,560 Speaker 1: asymptomatic people, meaning you can still give this to somebody else. 505 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,640 Speaker 1: And that's the scary part about it is because there 506 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:45,679 Speaker 1: are people who got it and they're at home and 507 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,359 Speaker 1: able to fight it off. I had to go to 508 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 1: the hospital. There are some people who are getting in 509 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,920 Speaker 1: their dying. So with the whole that shelter and place 510 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 1: thing is not just about protecting yourself, it's about protecting 511 00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 1: other people because you don't know how their body is 512 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,399 Speaker 1: going to find to it. So is it safe to 513 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:05,520 Speaker 1: say that you are now immune to it? So there's 514 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,159 Speaker 1: the only way to actually know if you're immune to 515 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 1: it or not is to be retested again. Um. They 516 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 1: they assume it's unfortunate, but because of the limit of testing, 517 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 1: a lot of doctors aren't wanting to retest, and so 518 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,080 Speaker 1: they're just saying quarantine for fourteen days and then after 519 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:27,440 Speaker 1: that you're okay, but you're still practice uh social distancing. Well, 520 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 1: because my daughter has asthma and my mom is sixty 521 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,399 Speaker 1: one years old, I'm not taking that risk. So I 522 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 1: actually contacted my doctor yesterday and um and and asked 523 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 1: to be retested, and her superior said no. So she 524 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:47,120 Speaker 1: went above her superior and you know, found a way 525 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,680 Speaker 1: for me to be able to be tested. Because that's 526 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 1: the unfortunate part about this is there are people who 527 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,960 Speaker 1: have tested positives and then after their fourteen day quarantine, 528 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 1: they got retested and it was fel positive even though 529 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:05,359 Speaker 1: they had no symptoms. M So it's it's just like, 530 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,159 Speaker 1: like you know, I was saying before, it's just like 531 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 1: being asymptomatic, not knowing that you have it because you 532 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 1: don't have any symptoms, but you're just spreading around to everybody. 533 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,240 Speaker 1: That's why it's still spreading, not necessarily because people who 534 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 1: have symptoms, but the ones who don't have symptoms and 535 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:22,399 Speaker 1: who aren't staying home mhm. Earlier, I know that you 536 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 1: mentioned that you had a tenure daughter, so I can 537 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,119 Speaker 1: only imagine how difficult that was for you not to 538 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: physically be there with her. It's the it's difficult I 539 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 1: have not UM. I haven't been able to hug or 540 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:38,639 Speaker 1: hold my daughter in twenty nine days, actually thirty days, 541 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:42,639 Speaker 1: because the day before I started having symptoms. UM, I 542 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:44,840 Speaker 1: actually hugged her on my way out of my salon 543 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:50,000 Speaker 1: and took a picture, and I was like, when I 544 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 1: went back through my phone, was like, oh my god, 545 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,680 Speaker 1: I forgot I took this picture. And that was the 546 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:55,640 Speaker 1: last time that I was able to hug her. Because 547 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 1: once I started having those symptoms, I just played it 548 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:00,919 Speaker 1: safe anyway, even though I thought it was just allergies. 549 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:04,000 Speaker 1: I just wanted to be safe because I couldn't imagine 550 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 1: giving this to my kid and then something happening to her. 551 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,920 Speaker 1: So it's been thirty days and so she she loves 552 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 1: to draw. She draws me pictures and slides on the 553 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 1: boor we face time with each other, and a couple 554 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,960 Speaker 1: of times she's um knocked on my window outside and 555 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 1: we talked through the window. So it's very very difficult, 556 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 1: and I am counting down the days um until I 557 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,880 Speaker 1: can hug her again. You know. Um, she's right down 558 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,439 Speaker 1: the hall and I can't even I can't even touch her. 559 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,240 Speaker 1: It's kind of hard. Do you think that this virus 560 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,960 Speaker 1: is gonna slow down any time soon? With with there 561 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 1: being so many uncertainties? Um, I honestly don't really think so, 562 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:46,920 Speaker 1: especially because people aren't staying home like that. I really 563 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 1: feel like the only way to just absolutely flatten the 564 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 1: curve is to do what the other, um, the other 565 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: places did and just do a complete lockdown. That's the 566 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,120 Speaker 1: only way to really just stop it. And and and 567 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 1: even still it'll it'll still spread some because of how 568 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 1: contagious it is and how easily it spreads, which is why, 569 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:09,960 Speaker 1: like when people were trying to compare it to the flu, 570 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 1: they were like, you can't compare it to the flu. 571 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 1: Number one, because there's a vaccine for there's there's a 572 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:17,080 Speaker 1: cure for the flu. And then number two, it's not 573 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,240 Speaker 1: it's easier to contain the flu than it is to 574 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 1: contain this one. Like I was explaining to my mom, 575 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 1: I said, if you walk on the bread out in 576 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 1: the store and you cough and you keep walking. Somebody 577 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 1: can come five ten minutes later down that same out 578 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 1: and inhale the air while they're walking, and that the 579 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,440 Speaker 1: the that viruses in the air. They can breathe it 580 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 1: in that way because it lasts for three hours in 581 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:48,880 Speaker 1: the air, so you don't even have to be close 582 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 1: to the person when they cough. If they cough in 583 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,960 Speaker 1: their their mouth is not covered and they just cough 584 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,760 Speaker 1: into the air. And you come and you walk down 585 00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 1: that same out and you breathe that in. You can 586 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 1: get it that way, all right, and then it lives 587 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,959 Speaker 1: even longer on surfaces. So somebody cost them sneezes or whatever, 588 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 1: licks their hand or whatever and such is something like 589 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 1: in the elevator and then rub your face like you 590 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:17,280 Speaker 1: can get it. So I don't see it um flattening 591 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:19,920 Speaker 1: unless unless they make a like make a make it 592 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,880 Speaker 1: mandatory for everybody to stay home and so for like 593 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 1: doctors and nurses or whatever. I know a lot of 594 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:27,960 Speaker 1: people are stating that they are doing like at home 595 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,959 Speaker 1: remedies to help them combat this virus, whether it's like 596 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 1: steaming their faces, um, eating elder berries and so on. 597 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,480 Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on this? Do you think that's helpful. 598 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 1: I don't know, but right, I just I can't say 599 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 1: that that stuff works. And the reason I say that 600 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 1: is because but when I first got sick, I was 601 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 1: doing the hot tease and the and the soups and 602 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 1: you know, all of that kind of stuff. I didn't 603 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 1: do the blow dryer to the face thing. But I 604 00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 1: did have a friend who, um, who got sick a 605 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,520 Speaker 1: week after I did, and um, the week that I 606 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 1: first got discharged, and she did steam. She had like 607 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,000 Speaker 1: a steamer that she steams are closed with and she 608 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:12,240 Speaker 1: did it and she felt a little bit better the 609 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,720 Speaker 1: next day. But it wasn't like a major difference like 610 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,400 Speaker 1: some of the stories that I've seen. I don't um, 611 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:20,120 Speaker 1: I don't doubt that they're telling the truth. But that's 612 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,600 Speaker 1: just that wasn't my story. And to be honest, in 613 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,360 Speaker 1: the high school, they were giving me ice water the 614 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,160 Speaker 1: whole time. So I'm like, if I'm supposed to be 615 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:27,800 Speaker 1: drinking how liqu was, why are y'all why do y'all 616 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 1: keep bringing me ice water? You know? Um? So, And 617 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,160 Speaker 1: and then it could be possible because I the night 618 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,000 Speaker 1: that I did, asked for chicken broth um and the 619 00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 1: nurse helped me to to to to drink some of 620 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:41,560 Speaker 1: the chicken broth. The next day was the day that 621 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:43,880 Speaker 1: I actually felt better. So I don't, I don't know. 622 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:46,760 Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I wish that it would 623 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 1: work and cure, but if that was the case, then 624 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:52,000 Speaker 1: the doctors need to do that, and then this thing 625 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 1: could will be waiting on the vaccine for you know. 626 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 1: But I just I don't. I don't really think that 627 00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,800 Speaker 1: it works as well as everybody is saying. See you 628 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,560 Speaker 1: just strust the importance of why we should continue to 629 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,840 Speaker 1: practice social distances because I still don't think people understand 630 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,640 Speaker 1: the importance of it. I think people don't understand the 631 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:13,120 Speaker 1: importance of it because they're looking at it from a 632 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,720 Speaker 1: standpoint of I'm okay, I don't get sick. But when 633 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,480 Speaker 1: you look at it, like if you look at it 634 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,800 Speaker 1: from the standpoint of, okay, I can hurt this other person, 635 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,920 Speaker 1: then I think it would be easier for people to understand, like, 636 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:29,240 Speaker 1: look at it as treated as if you're already infected 637 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,080 Speaker 1: and you don't want to infect somebody else. That's like 638 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,479 Speaker 1: if if a person live let's say there's somebody that 639 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:37,960 Speaker 1: lives home with their their grandparents and they're all fine, 640 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,000 Speaker 1: and then they decide, you know what, I'm gonna hang 641 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,240 Speaker 1: out with my friend, with my homeboy or whatever. Homeboy 642 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,640 Speaker 1: could have been a hungout with all of his homeboys 643 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,239 Speaker 1: and gotten it from one of them, but he's not 644 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,520 Speaker 1: showing signs or symptoms of it. Give it to you. 645 00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:54,360 Speaker 1: You might feel a little sick. You come home, hug 646 00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 1: your grandma and your grandpa, give it to them, and 647 00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:58,840 Speaker 1: then then I see you on a VENTI letter or 648 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:02,040 Speaker 1: possibly lose their life and they never left the house. Yeah, 649 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 1: that's fucked up. It is. And so it's just like 650 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:08,000 Speaker 1: we the only the only thing I can say because 651 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,600 Speaker 1: people are still down here having crawfish balls and stuff, 652 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:12,560 Speaker 1: and then Easter is coming up. I'm pretty sure it's 653 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:14,720 Speaker 1: gonna be barbecue is and crawfish balls. Yeah. I went 654 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,440 Speaker 1: on first, just telling my porch for like a hot 655 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,240 Speaker 1: thirty seconds. I seek even barbecue. I'll say, what's wrong 656 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:25,040 Speaker 1: with y'all? Unfortunately we can talk to me blue in 657 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:28,440 Speaker 1: the face. For some people, they they won't understand until 658 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:32,240 Speaker 1: it hits home. And it's hitting home real quick for people. 659 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:35,720 Speaker 1: When I tell you, the first thing that really scared 660 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:37,520 Speaker 1: me was when I saw that family in New Jersey 661 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:39,640 Speaker 1: that decided they were gonna have a family dinner or 662 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:41,560 Speaker 1: whatever they had. Then seven of them got sick and 663 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:45,160 Speaker 1: four of them died. And it happened, and it happened 664 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,400 Speaker 1: in New Orleans also a mother and her three sons 665 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:54,760 Speaker 1: died down. So it's unfortunately for some people, it's just 666 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,160 Speaker 1: gonna have to hit close to home for them to realize. 667 00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,280 Speaker 1: But I mean, I just really hope that people would 668 00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,320 Speaker 1: just like take it soon viously and really think like 669 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:05,479 Speaker 1: you could be the reason that somebody else dies. Like me, 670 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,080 Speaker 1: I was in perfect Hills and this thing almost took 671 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,360 Speaker 1: my life where I could have lived to be sixty 672 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,120 Speaker 1: seven years old, but because I've got this virus not, 673 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:18,560 Speaker 1: my life is cut short at thirty six. Um, just 674 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,040 Speaker 1: moving forward with your lifestyle, is there anything that you 675 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,640 Speaker 1: would change? Because I know that a lot of people 676 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,560 Speaker 1: who weren't big on Grummer Fold is probably gonna be 677 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:28,920 Speaker 1: like the biggest Grummer Fold now, So like, what are 678 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,319 Speaker 1: some things that you would probably change within your routine? Now? 679 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:37,840 Speaker 1: Before we begin this week's episode, please make sure to 680 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,719 Speaker 1: leave a five star review on Apple Podcast. You can 681 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:44,400 Speaker 1: only do this if you're listening to this on an iPhone, 682 00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:47,799 Speaker 1: so please make sure to rate, review and subscribe on 683 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,840 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts. Please five star reviews only. Hold Me Down, 684 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,680 Speaker 1: Don't Hold Me Up. Merch is now available on this 685 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,080 Speaker 1: site as well as my book list, so please visit 686 00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,200 Speaker 1: the link and the show notes below. If you like 687 00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:04,800 Speaker 1: to support the PSD podcast, please sign up at www 688 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:10,359 Speaker 1: dot patreon dot com. Forest Slash the PhD Podcast. Thank 689 00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,920 Speaker 1: you all so much for holding the kid down. And 690 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:15,320 Speaker 1: I really do hope that y'all enjoyed this week's episode 691 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:19,160 Speaker 1: as much as like that later when I tell you, 692 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:23,719 Speaker 1: I was already like mom, So there's not There's not 693 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:26,200 Speaker 1: much that I need to change as far as that's concerned, 694 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,400 Speaker 1: Especially with me being in the beauty industry. You have 695 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:30,160 Speaker 1: to be very you know, you have to be very 696 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,799 Speaker 1: clear and stuff. I'm dealing with people's head and their 697 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:37,880 Speaker 1: scalp and their skin and stuff. You very nasty. So um. 698 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,080 Speaker 1: The one thing that I would say moving forward that 699 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,920 Speaker 1: I will change is taking time more time to spend 700 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,520 Speaker 1: with my daughter. That's one thing that I have missed 701 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,480 Speaker 1: the absolute most. Is forced me and I mean this 702 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,000 Speaker 1: has forced us all to slow down. It's just like 703 00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,640 Speaker 1: I have a heart reset and so moving forward, just 704 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,399 Speaker 1: looking at my priorities a little different instead of working 705 00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,600 Speaker 1: so hard all the time, just trying to enjoy life 706 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,760 Speaker 1: and enjoy enjoy time with my daughter. That's a fact. 707 00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,640 Speaker 1: Could you leave the listeners out there who made their 708 00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:10,000 Speaker 1: either have the COVID nineteen virus or they have a 709 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:11,920 Speaker 1: loved one to have the COVID nineteen virus, and just 710 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,319 Speaker 1: leave like some positivity or some inspiration for them as 711 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:18,840 Speaker 1: we all try to get through these challenging times. Because 712 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:22,400 Speaker 1: I know that you are a woman of gods, absolutely absolutely, 713 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,680 Speaker 1: and I've been telling everybody like this, this this virus 714 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:27,920 Speaker 1: is something that we cannot see, and it's like it's 715 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,120 Speaker 1: it's an enemy to us. It's like we're at war 716 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,600 Speaker 1: with an unseen enemy. And it's my belief that you 717 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:36,799 Speaker 1: got to fight it. You can't see it. You gotta 718 00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:40,960 Speaker 1: fight it with something that you can't see. So prayer, faith, encouragement, 719 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,719 Speaker 1: like keeping your mental health that mental support system there 720 00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:46,359 Speaker 1: to help get you through that it's gonna be. They're 721 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:49,680 Speaker 1: very vital um and making it through and and even 722 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:53,040 Speaker 1: with the family members who are watching um their loved 723 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:56,000 Speaker 1: one go through this, just know like it does get better. 724 00:36:56,440 --> 00:37:00,560 Speaker 1: Just don't give up, you know, and um, it's it's 725 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:04,120 Speaker 1: definitely a roller coaster ride. They may have good days 726 00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:06,360 Speaker 1: and they may have bad days, but just try to 727 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,400 Speaker 1: stay positive and help keep them encouraged because it's very 728 00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,880 Speaker 1: it's very important for the person that's going through it 729 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,279 Speaker 1: to be able to have that mental support to fight it, 730 00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:16,640 Speaker 1: because your body is is gonna fight as much as 731 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,880 Speaker 1: it can, but mentally you gotta be strong enough to 732 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,840 Speaker 1: take this thing hand on and um and just continue 733 00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,239 Speaker 1: to pray, you know, and just believe. And then even 734 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,960 Speaker 1: to those who you know who have lost the loved 735 00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:31,000 Speaker 1: one or you know, a friend or a family member 736 00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:34,640 Speaker 1: to this virus, um like, still don't give up, hope, 737 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:36,960 Speaker 1: Still don't give up. Hope. My heart goes out to 738 00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,680 Speaker 1: so many people have lost loved ones to this and 739 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,480 Speaker 1: it's devastating and so you know, I would just say 740 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:45,200 Speaker 1: to them just to to get just keep the support 741 00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:47,520 Speaker 1: around them as well, because this thing is like it 742 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:49,920 Speaker 1: can really it can really do something to you mentally. 743 00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:54,400 Speaker 1: I struggled with that. So just continuing to pray for 744 00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:57,840 Speaker 1: your family members and just like you know, fighting through this. 745 00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,640 Speaker 1: Man to those who are going through it at home, man, 746 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,400 Speaker 1: I give mad props to the people who are fighting 747 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:09,600 Speaker 1: this at home with no doctors, right, and then it's 748 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:12,120 Speaker 1: a very scary. It was scary for me in the hospital, 749 00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,200 Speaker 1: so I can only imagine what it's like. So people 750 00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:16,279 Speaker 1: who are at home and might have kids that they 751 00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,640 Speaker 1: have to care for and they're trying to fight this thing. Man, y'all, 752 00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,359 Speaker 1: don't give up, Like, don't. You can't quit. You can't 753 00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:23,839 Speaker 1: give up. It's gonna get worse before it gets better. 754 00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,720 Speaker 1: But once you get past that, that that dark moment, 755 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,279 Speaker 1: once you get to that forking a road, you can 756 00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:32,520 Speaker 1: make it. Just don't give up. One question, just to 757 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,919 Speaker 1: lighten the move. So, since you're feeling better, I hear 758 00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:37,480 Speaker 1: it in your spirits. But you've been up to since 759 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:39,720 Speaker 1: you've been in your room by yourself? Are you watching TV? 760 00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:42,480 Speaker 1: What are you reading? Are you working on something new? 761 00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:46,319 Speaker 1: Are you just relaxing? Like? What are you doing? I've 762 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,719 Speaker 1: been relaxing. So I'm used to work in six her 763 00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:53,520 Speaker 1: in the South, so I know you'd be busy. No, absolutely, 764 00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:56,560 Speaker 1: And so I've really been um, I've been I've been 765 00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:02,040 Speaker 1: um netflixing and chilling by myself. But but Netflix has 766 00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,080 Speaker 1: been watching me more because to be honest, once you 767 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:06,799 Speaker 1: actually get better from this, you realize how hard your 768 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,840 Speaker 1: body had to fight. I still like I take probably 769 00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,239 Speaker 1: about five or six naps to day, so still just 770 00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:14,799 Speaker 1: trying to build my strength back up. So I've just 771 00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:17,560 Speaker 1: been resting and watching Netflix and then looking for pictures 772 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,360 Speaker 1: under my door from my daughter, catching up with friends, 773 00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,520 Speaker 1: and just reconnecting with people that I haven't talked to 774 00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:25,320 Speaker 1: a while. So that's the that's the positive thing about, 775 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,640 Speaker 1: you know, being stuck, and I don't even want to 776 00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:32,640 Speaker 1: say being stuck in something. Being safe inside that's a 777 00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:36,399 Speaker 1: better way product. But to my guest, thank you so 778 00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:40,000 Speaker 1: much for being a part of the PhD podcast. Um. 779 00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,719 Speaker 1: I've been watching your story all day. She's all the 780 00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:45,359 Speaker 1: way out and that roached Louisiana, so thank you so 781 00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:48,759 Speaker 1: much for sharing your story. She has been raising awareness 782 00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:52,040 Speaker 1: about COVID nineteen and just being a survivor, so thank 783 00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:54,480 Speaker 1: you so much. UM. To my listeners, if you have 784 00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:57,360 Speaker 1: any questions, comments and concerns, please make sure to email 785 00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:01,600 Speaker 1: me at hello at the PhD podcast dot com. Until 786 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:04,919 Speaker 1: next time, listeners, and please be safe and stay at home. 787 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:06,640 Speaker 1: Please later