Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Kate Berlance.
Speaker 2: I'm Jacqueline Novak, And this is poog, an ongoing conversation
Speaker 2: about wellness between two obsessive friends, two untamable intellects. This
Speaker 2: is our hobby, This is our hell, This.
Speaker 1: Is our naked desire for free products. This is POOG.
Speaker 2: Today's topics, loosely speaking, distension one thousand millileters classically haunted.
Speaker 1: Hi, coffee, Wow, coming in coughing is great? Well, it
Speaker 1: is going to be an exciting episode. I'll say off
Speaker 1: the top, I'm in the throes of my first syndrome,
Speaker 1: which we'll get to.
Speaker 3: But I've already been told to be clear.
Speaker 2: If anyone's wondering why I'm not gasping, should I just
Speaker 2: go right into it?
Speaker 1: Fuck? Uh's so funny preface. It was saying I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: The coffee will stop or it won't, but I'll deal
Speaker 1: with it. Oh, I'll prepose it was saying I'm really fine.
Speaker 1: First of all, your voice don't say that it's almost upsetting.
Speaker 1: Are you serious?
Speaker 3: No, I don't mean like you're like perminally temporary.
Speaker 1: It's temporary.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, that's what I mean. I mean like you've
Speaker 2: been diminished by illness.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, PA preface all by saying I'm fine. It's funny.
Speaker 1: I wasn't. I wasn't at first. I thought I was
Speaker 1: not gonna talk about the sampook for whatever reason. It's
Speaker 1: a semi loaded subject. But I I did undergo egg
Speaker 1: freezing as a careerist or right. I'm also, as I've said,
Speaker 1: I may not have kids. I don't know, but I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, something I've struggled with for years. I struggle
Speaker 1: with for years is too dramatic or something I've been like,
Speaker 1: will I uh, and then you know, put a little
Speaker 1: savings aside. It is, of course a procedure.
Speaker 2: IM Sorry, I'm just not interrupting because I'm loving watching
Speaker 2: you work through like the money kind of the loaded
Speaker 2: like nature of the topic, Like were you about to say, like,
Speaker 2: of course some well to be able.
Speaker 1: It is a privilege because it is expensive and it's
Speaker 1: it's also kind of a funny thing to do when
Speaker 1: you're also not fully sure if you're gonna have kids,
Speaker 1: Like if you're like, all, I want our children, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it makes more sense, but I can't do it yet
Speaker 1: or whatever. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just like I don't know,
Speaker 1: but you know, I've had. I had the downtime. I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm just gonna fucking do it. And I
Speaker 1: was very you know, I already a highly I'm already
Speaker 1: anxious person, specifically very medically anxious person. I had this
Speaker 1: like a morphous fear that I would do it and
Speaker 1: something horrible would happen or or like never recover.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: It's like these like fears out.
Speaker 2: Of just I was like, because there's a choice to
Speaker 2: be made, like do it should I? Or should I
Speaker 2: not do this? You can't but think like that it's
Speaker 2: a fork in the road.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely choices, And like the hormone element is like
Speaker 1: scary to me, and of course people like it's this thing,
Speaker 1: and I understand people like don't know what the fuck
Speaker 1: they're talking about, and they say crazy shit to you,
Speaker 1: like you know, or it's like like someone like dear friend.
Speaker 1: A dear friend was like, yeah, you might want to
Speaker 1: talk to my friend. She said, like freezing your eggs
Speaker 1: like increases your chances of cancer by forty percent, like
Speaker 1: and apparently it's true, yeah, forty literally, And I was like,
Speaker 1: m and then she said, apparently it's true. Oh my
Speaker 1: friend said this, and apparently it's true, and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: it fucking can't be true, and like, of course it's not.
Speaker 1: So it's apparently it's true.
Speaker 2: It's funny because we say that a lot, Like people
Speaker 2: say that, right, and like.
Speaker 1: What does it mean?
Speaker 3: It means like it's apparent.
Speaker 2: Like so it's like and we like regularly say that.
Speaker 2: It's like literally, like we regularly say it. Almost to
Speaker 2: me the opposite of.
Speaker 1: That, yeah, yeah, totally apparently.
Speaker 3: Must mean appearing right, it appears to be true, And.
Speaker 1: So I was like, to be true, okay, so you know,
Speaker 1: and it's not true. And of course it's like whatever.
Speaker 1: There's a million it's a very it's a loaded topic
Speaker 1: for a million reasons. And I sort of was like
Speaker 1: I could see myself not doing it because of some
Speaker 1: amorphous medical fear that I'll do it, it'll trigger some again,
Speaker 1: this is all made up, It'll trigger some crazy autome
Speaker 1: in response, I'll never be the same, and like what
Speaker 1: did I do? You know, so all these fears and
Speaker 1: then I kind of in the spirit of like fuck
Speaker 1: it or something like just do it. And I, you know,
Speaker 1: it's aligned with a doctor who I'm so.
Speaker 2: Sorry, aligned with the aligned with a doctor fundy way
Speaker 2: with a doctor aligned people say.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, that's so funny. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: went with this doctor who I was like, okay, like some.
Speaker 2: Like you know, even let's just take him a second
Speaker 2: with it, right, Yeah, because nine were on I talked to.
Speaker 1: Exactly audition six yeah, five back for the call for
Speaker 1: the house. Well, just I guess I say aligned with
Speaker 1: because I got in if you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like it wasn't guaranteed they were going to take
Speaker 2: on your case.
Speaker 1: Yeah, really booked up, really booked up. And by the way,
Speaker 1: it's so funny too, because as soon as I was
Speaker 1: like okay, I'm doing it, you know, going buying like
Speaker 1: preatal vitamins, like already treated myself like I'm pregnant, Like hm, anyway,
Speaker 1: so I go and.
Speaker 2: You when you bought the prenatal vitamins like place them
Speaker 2: down on the counter and then like check the gaze
Speaker 2: of the person behind the you kind of just yeah,
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 5: Like prenatal vitamins, Vitamin D cook ten yeaeah bra And
Speaker 5: I will say I was walking the aisles kind of
Speaker 5: like I'm different now with my basket just wait, distributed
Speaker 5: slightly differently.
Speaker 1: I was like, I have.
Speaker 3: Kids, wait, but work nights.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. So and by the way, I'll say when
Speaker 1: I first the doctor, Joe, but from a million years ago,
Speaker 1: I have a daughter. Yeah. Well, you know what's something
Speaker 1: that's crazy that's emerged through all this.
Speaker 2: I mean, I couldn't vote or whatever. I couldn't vote.
Speaker 2: I have a daughter.
Speaker 3: Remember I don't.
Speaker 1: I love that you remember my act more than I do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's funny. Yeah, you're okay. Some I think that's emerged
Speaker 1: from this. I no longer have an abject fear of
Speaker 1: having a son. Is that interesting?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 1: Wait told me what never heard about this having a son?
Speaker 1: Or you're joking?
Speaker 3: I am not joking.
Speaker 1: Well, because I've always I've always been like daughter daughter only.
Speaker 2: I mean you always say my daughter, you know, and
Speaker 2: that's just like I always think you're one talking.
Speaker 3: About me, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: And then I am but and you're just like not
Speaker 2: visualizing a son. But you know you don't have to.
Speaker 2: Who cares, right, No, I've had like sun baggage. I've
Speaker 2: had like, oh god, have a son, like I've had.
Speaker 3: This is it the whole?
Speaker 1: Like like what is it?
Speaker 3: Actually? I don't know how to raise that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's a little bit that. It's a little
Speaker 1: bit like but but it's just dissolved. It wasn't even
Speaker 1: like intellectually I came to some new conclusion. It just
Speaker 1: like changed, Okay, whatever.
Speaker 2: But you don't want to speak about why I was loaded, Okay,
Speaker 2: that's fine, Like you.
Speaker 1: Know, no, I think because like I have I know,
Speaker 1: I have a weird thing and I'm not proud of it.
Speaker 1: It's like like little boys are like pathetic to me
Speaker 1: or something. I can't describe it. I'm like, get it together,
Speaker 1: Like it's like a weird thing. Like I don't like
Speaker 1: like women fonding over like little boys something about it.
Speaker 1: I just I've always been like, oh god, yeah, and
Speaker 1: like women like mother relationship with the sun classically haunted.
Speaker 1: It's like I've always just been like I don't want
Speaker 1: to like enter into that dynamic. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I realized now I was a fool. The medicine, the
Speaker 1: medicine and of course, and I'm only going to feel
Speaker 1: the heal the father run through the sun. But I
Speaker 1: don't know. But here's all to say the process which
Speaker 1: I've been writing, of the injections because you're giving yourself
Speaker 1: some days up to three injections in the abdomen, and
Speaker 1: I always thought I would have to have someone else.
Speaker 1: I did them all myself, Like, I mean, I have
Speaker 1: a loving, supporting, supportive partner, which is part of the
Speaker 1: reason I was even like wanting to need us to
Speaker 1: support yourself. Yeah, yeah, I needed that anchor.
Speaker 2: But it's true and like anyway, so I mean I
Speaker 2: actually need to do it to be clear alone in
Speaker 2: the bottom of a you know, a cave.
Speaker 1: Jackline was with Jacqueline was with me the first night
Speaker 1: of injections or second night, Yeah, no, no, no, sorry, it
Speaker 1: was one of It was one of the first things
Speaker 1: I had to mix something. And I'll say this this,
Speaker 1: I'll say for people considering this, the fear of the
Speaker 1: injections and the discomfort the injections themselves are fine. I
Speaker 1: had a lot of hell around. There's a couple you
Speaker 1: have to mix where it's like you're pulling a needle
Speaker 1: out and you're like, how the fuck am I expected
Speaker 1: to do this?
Speaker 2: Well, I recall like being like, it's not intravenous, like,
Speaker 2: so you don't have to be that worried about the bubbles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because there's bubbles.
Speaker 3: It's like it's sub cutaneous.
Speaker 1: It's scary. But all that was really fine. I'll say
Speaker 1: I barely had any like mood reaction whatsoever to the hormones.
Speaker 1: Like I really kind of was myself the last couple
Speaker 1: of days. I was like bloated and in pain because well,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. So what I have is ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome.
Speaker 1: I have a mild case, which is still I kind
Speaker 1: of can't believe this is mild, but it is. But
Speaker 1: it's not to be a bitch, but it's something that
Speaker 1: tends to happen when you have a lot of eggs.
Speaker 1: It is it's like punishment for the fertile. And so
Speaker 1: I was like very I had no idea my account
Speaker 1: or anything, but I was kind of surprised or just
Speaker 1: learning going in like oh, I'm already kind of batting
Speaker 1: a high average.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then and my doctor part of the reason I
Speaker 1: went with her, she's very conservative with hormones. She didn't
Speaker 1: put me on birth control. She didn't, you know. So
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, she's not gonna just pump me
Speaker 1: full of hormones. Whatever. Did you tell me?
Speaker 3: The thing about the birth control they do it so
Speaker 3: they can play on their vacations.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well literally, because oh literally, because I went talk
Speaker 1: to someone very reputable doctor who's gonna put me on
Speaker 1: birth control, and I brought this up with my current
Speaker 1: doctor and she was like, yeah, you know why they
Speaker 1: do that. And I said why, She's like, because they
Speaker 1: want to plan the retrievals. They don't want to work
Speaker 1: on weekends, they don't want to like have I was like,
Speaker 1: holy shit. So anyway, I kind of was like I'm
Speaker 1: in the clear, because I will say last couple days,
Speaker 1: I was very uncomfortable because I was fucking walking around
Speaker 1: with like buckets of eggs and it's like driving in
Speaker 1: a car. Was uncomfortable. I was helping big like, I
Speaker 1: was like, what's going on?
Speaker 2: I really tried to refrain it said like barely visible
Speaker 2: by the human eyes. So I was like, okay, well,
Speaker 2: it's the ovaries that are so I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm not. I just wanted a visual.
Speaker 2: I just no, totally no, no, the eggs myselves.
Speaker 1: No, the eggs, the eggs themselves, yeah, the follicles, but
Speaker 1: the ovaries whatever. So I was uncomfortable. I only had
Speaker 1: one kind of micro melt on my estrogen of course
Speaker 1: was through the roof, and like there was one night
Speaker 1: I kind of had a micro melt down because the
Speaker 1: other thing with the shots is you have to do
Speaker 1: that in exactly the same time every night. And then
Speaker 1: there's this one shot called the trigger shot, terrifying trigger shot,
Speaker 1: which you have to do exactly thirty six hours before
Speaker 1: your retrieval, like to the.
Speaker 2: Minute, and did that fucking like instruction, who were you
Speaker 2: like thirty six.
Speaker 1: Well, thank god they're telling you everything obviously like you're
Speaker 1: not up to your But it's the stuff where it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: here's the shot and it comes in this package and
Speaker 1: then it's like the packaging is confused and like wait
Speaker 1: do I take this off? And it's like do not
Speaker 1: take this off. If you do, the you know, plunger
Speaker 1: will lock and you will not get them. Like it
Speaker 1: was just so terrifying, and I had like five minutes
Speaker 1: and thank god I called the hotline and got someone,
Speaker 1: but I was like shaking, my teeth were chattering. I
Speaker 1: was so stressed out and afraid that I was like
Speaker 1: which I've had I've had are like a couple of
Speaker 1: times in my life. Yeah, but like like yeah, just
Speaker 1: involuntary shake.
Speaker 2: I can't remember when that's happened to me, and like
Speaker 2: doing the shot as I'm like involuntarily shaking like wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just so intense. Huge shout out. I've
Speaker 1: been so lucky because also shout out to Meredith, I
Speaker 1: love you, who I've been harassing texting her all hours
Speaker 1: of the night. Thank God. I don't know what I would
Speaker 1: have done without just constantly like, oh God, like can
Speaker 1: I cross my legs, like because it's all this stuff,
Speaker 1: you can't twist your overas, you can't. All you can
Speaker 1: do is walk like you really can't exercise. You can't
Speaker 1: take baths, which is devastating. I'm all over the place,
Speaker 1: but listen. So the point is I was kind of like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm doing well. Retrieval was the day before my birthday,
Speaker 1: which of course I was like, well, cosmically that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Very you have to go under, which is like spiring that.
Speaker 1: I know. Yeah, it's very what you.
Speaker 3: To like sort of like require meaning around that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I had to so needless to say for
Speaker 1: like the two weeks basically of injections, You're not you're
Speaker 1: living a very simple life. You're not having a cocktail
Speaker 1: you're not having a one milligram gummy. But so I uh,
Speaker 1: day of the retrieval. You know, they put you under,
Speaker 1: which I've only been under for my wisdom teeth. Have
Speaker 1: you been under I think once for something. I think
Speaker 1: I was half under for my Yeah, and I was
Speaker 1: nervous going in and it is the thing of like
Speaker 1: the joke or they come in and they're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna relax you. I was very nervous, sweating, and
Speaker 1: I was like saying to everyone, I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: very nervous. You know, I'm very nervous. And and and
Speaker 1: like the ane sees allog just comes in. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, like he look like Griffin Dunn. No, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're like he's like not down to chat because they're moving,
Speaker 1: like they got to move, like he was lovely.
Speaker 3: But in the room or a small room.
Speaker 1: So they prep you. It looks like whatever. Like when
Speaker 1: you're prepped and you're in your gown, it's like there's
Speaker 1: just curtains divide you. It's like a factory.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Like there was one other woman who and here's what
Speaker 1: was well was I heard her being prepped and then
Speaker 1: I was waiting long enough to the same come back
Speaker 1: after Yeah, a sense to be the same thing. And
Speaker 1: she was like wow, like I feel great like and
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, cool.
Speaker 3: So did they give you blue socks?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they gave me booties that I were over my socks.
Speaker 1: Fuck no, but they said, you know, they're like when
Speaker 1: you come in like no products, no face products, no makeup,
Speaker 1: no lotions, like nothing, because the oar has to be
Speaker 1: like sterile anyway, So it did happen where I go
Speaker 1: in and I just was there and he was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're going to give you something. I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: very nervous. He's like, we're going to give you something
Speaker 1: to relax. You'll feel it in a couple of seconds.
Speaker 1: Oh my, Like instantly, I'm like whoa wow. And then
Speaker 1: I asked to hold someone's hands, so weird nurse held
Speaker 1: my head. And then what's funny is I remember it
Speaker 1: really helped what I remember. I actually had a flash.
Speaker 3: I would hate it.
Speaker 1: I'd be like oh, I was like, I would be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I really wanted to hold someone's hand. And then I
Speaker 1: actually days later because I was watching something on TV
Speaker 1: where there was a surgery recalled him saying I'm going
Speaker 1: to give you oxygen. But I didn't remember at the time.
Speaker 1: But the point is, you know, I came out and
Speaker 1: it was like it's done, and here's what's the funniest
Speaker 1: thing that has maybe ever happened to me.
Speaker 3: So and my reaction diminished because I'm realizing I've heard this.
Speaker 1: I know. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I can't fake it.
Speaker 1: I can't. Don't you know it's not for you, so
Speaker 1: you already just have to you whatever. Yeah, so ann sa,
Speaker 1: I'm coming out and by the way, wait sorry yeah.
Speaker 2: So it was like you're gonna feel listening to it
Speaker 2: and like I'm giving you some oxygen.
Speaker 3: It's like you did great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, literally, it's like immediately, unimaginable, just immediate great. Did
Speaker 1: you did great? Oh wow? They're wheel me back. They
Speaker 1: go great job.
Speaker 6: I open my eyes and I go, I'm gay.
Speaker 1: Keep going, keep going, and then we can go. So
Speaker 1: then the nurse there's like a nurse maybe too, and
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, like okay, like and then and then
Speaker 1: and then I go, you're all amazing. And then I
Speaker 1: remember saying this is a privilege. No, no, no, this
Speaker 1: is a privilege.
Speaker 2: What do you think that was coming out of this
Speaker 2: is a pretty that was coming out of my guilt
Speaker 2: of like doing this as like a rich bitch thing.
Speaker 2: And two of them specifically where you like, I'm imagining
Speaker 2: that you were feeling like these nurses can't afford this
Speaker 2: ship in a nurse's salary. They're hating me, and I
Speaker 2: stream about that. I'm aware or or it's like Eddie Redmaind.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's just it was Eddie Redmaind.
Speaker 3: You know, the good nurse.
Speaker 1: Oh, the good nurse. Hey, no, the nurses. Everyone was
Speaker 1: so lovely like like but yeah, I don't know exactly
Speaker 1: what it was. But I also was feeling that truly
Speaker 1: like there was a privileged thing because I have That's why,
Speaker 1: Like I was like, this is outrageous that I can
Speaker 1: do this, Like science is shocking, Like my mother couldn't
Speaker 1: do this, my grandmother, you know. I just like this
Speaker 1: is fucking cool. Like now I'm like full science go
Speaker 1: like everyone's you know, like surrogates or whatever. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: who fucking cares, freeze my putting a surrogate b on
Speaker 1: the treadmill, you know, Like I don't know, I'm sort
Speaker 1: of like you start out.
Speaker 2: You start out like a career of staremaster use like
Speaker 2: you just like you just you should tell b flex
Speaker 2: and a staremaster, following up with a treadmill for just
Speaker 2: direct unidirectional hammering of the same muscle groups.
Speaker 1: The dream. Wait, so I come out, I go, I'm gay.
Speaker 1: And then when I start laughing a couple I started
Speaker 1: laughing because I was like if I like, it's it's
Speaker 1: very kind of.
Speaker 3: Cloudy, right right.
Speaker 1: But I was like, but I'm not fucking, I'm not exaggly.
Speaker 1: I just wonder if they were loud basically like the
Speaker 1: first thing, Wow, No, I just like, like, it's even
Speaker 1: than I think. Then I went, well, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, like, yeah, I don't know. It was just
Speaker 1: kind of like a conversation. And then and then it's
Speaker 1: even worse. And then and then this is again right no, no,
Speaker 1: and then I said something like, well, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: maybe fluid, so so no, no, yeah, it's even worse,
Speaker 1: searching their eyes for like for uh, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: And here's what's funny. I I held back saying like
Speaker 1: I think, Josh hartne it's gorgeous because I had thought
Speaker 1: about it. Yeah, I thought I was saying it something like,
Speaker 1: but Josh Hartnett walked in here. I mean, no one's
Speaker 1: from you, so pathetic. So anyway, so then.
Speaker 3: You remember the joke in the chamber.
Speaker 1: Ever, so I was starting to become conscious enough to
Speaker 1: have something in the chamber and say don't let it out.
Speaker 1: So then my my doctor came in and she was like,
Speaker 1: we did great, my doctor.
Speaker 2: The way cap ber Lance says my doctor is so specific.
Speaker 2: Really you just love the word doctor. I love a doctor.
Speaker 2: All right, yeah, there is my doctors.
Speaker 1: So so and then she came in and she was like,
Speaker 1: we did great, like you know, she's giving me some stats.
Speaker 1: And then I go, I'm gay and okay, so again,
Speaker 1: so she's coming in now, I say together to her.
Speaker 1: She goes just kind of like nice smile. She goes,
Speaker 1: I know, you know she's met my partner, like she
Speaker 1: knows my life.
Speaker 2: Like I love like the She's like, I know, I
Speaker 2: love how doctors Like when you have that moment where
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, they're doing this all day, I'm not
Speaker 2: the first like a sort of like it's it's human, it's.
Speaker 1: It's it's simultaneously comforting and also well it's just like
Speaker 1: but no, it's it's ultimately comforting. It's like, no, they're
Speaker 1: just they are doing these this is getting your your
Speaker 1: your oil change.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was apparently more sensitive to to the anesthesia, meaning
Speaker 1: I was groggier, longer, whatever. So I'll just say that what.
Speaker 3: You would be.
Speaker 2: And they gave me the tiniest dose of just the
Speaker 2: tiniest half dose.
Speaker 1: I still felt it through the room.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 1: Then they go, so are you in pain? And I
Speaker 1: was like, I did, have like cramps, nothing severe, but
Speaker 1: it was like uncomfortable. I was like, yeah, it hurts.
Speaker 1: They were like, okay, well we'll give you some fentanyl
Speaker 1: and I go, whoa, whoa, I go fentanyl. So she goes,
Speaker 1: it's just a little amount, and I go, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was like, I'm very I was like,
Speaker 1: I really don't take like pain medication, like that just
Speaker 1: makes me nervous. Starts like, of course, whatever you want,
Speaker 1: and then I was like is that common? Do most
Speaker 1: people do it? She would say oh. Over She's like
Speaker 1: I would say over ninety percent of people take it.
Speaker 1: And I go, oh okay. She goes, you know if
Speaker 1: you're not, if you're not, and then I go and
Speaker 1: I start reasoning with her. I'm like, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: if I don't, why would I be in pain if
Speaker 1: I don't have to be. And then I kind don
Speaker 1: and then the doctor kind of comes in and is like,
Speaker 1: are you in pain? Whatever? The fentanyl discussion, and I go,
Speaker 1: you know, fentanyl is just kind of scary, and she goes,
Speaker 1: this is good fentanyl, or she didn't say that, but
Speaker 1: she said something. She didn't say, this is good fentanyl.
Speaker 1: She was like sure, but like this is a hospital,
Speaker 1: you know. She's like, yeah, this isn't And I go, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: I know you've got top shelf fentanyl. H Her nurse
Speaker 1: is laughing in the background. No, no, that's killing the recovery.
Speaker 2: And you realize, by the way, every joke that had
Speaker 2: failed already, you thought they went awing because they were
Speaker 2: dational because I wasn't firing god that stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So then I go, hell, yeah, give it to me.
Speaker 1: She gives it to me. Pains relieve, but I'm not high.
Speaker 1: It's a small amount whatever. Eventually I go, so here's
Speaker 1: I'll say. The beginning of kind of like what became
Speaker 1: shitty for me was that, you know, they want you
Speaker 1: to pee before you leave because the anesthesia slows down.
Speaker 1: It's terrifying. Anesthesia, like paralyze is basically your whole body
Speaker 1: essentially right, so you're all your functioning like stops, so
Speaker 1: it slows down. You're like, so people, they want you
Speaker 1: to pee before you leave, and I'm already super pia
Speaker 1: shy to the point that like, yeah, and Jacklin has
Speaker 1: incredible you told that story on BO you might have
Speaker 1: to do it. I think you're gonna have to do
Speaker 1: it again. But because you comforted me with this, but
Speaker 1: I'm already pe shy. There was like years, years and
Speaker 1: years ago I was on the medication I had to
Speaker 1: take like these p tests you're in test. I'd be
Speaker 1: like hanging out the doctor's epointment for hours, like in
Speaker 1: the hallway, like still here downing water. Couldn't do it
Speaker 1: because of the pressure. So I'm there at the hospital,
Speaker 1: I'm like, uh, I can't peeve. I'm very pe shy,
Speaker 1: and they're like, okay, we're gonna let you go. I
Speaker 1: get home feeling okay.
Speaker 2: I start down thinking and obsessing about the peeing At
Speaker 2: this point.
Speaker 1: No, no, I'm not even really thinking about it because also,
Speaker 1: you know, you can't have liquids or anything for a
Speaker 1: long time before the surgery, so I had I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't even have them, an it's fluid in me.
Speaker 1: I peed before the surgery, like whatever. So I'm home,
Speaker 1: I start downing electrolytes. So I'm drinking out of my
Speaker 1: out of my sippy cup I've got I've got you
Speaker 1: can hear her, Oh, right there, I've got electrolytes. I'm
Speaker 1: drinking broth okay, and I go, I'm just going to
Speaker 1: force the fluids. So after drinking quite a lot, I go, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go try to pee now I am. So
Speaker 1: it's like the urge to pee suddenly is like oh
Speaker 1: my god, because I'm realizing, oh, I just down like
Speaker 1: two liters of water easily, and you're feeling are you
Speaker 1: feeling the pea, feeling the full bladder, press.
Speaker 2: Desperate to pe, desperate to pee, and I cannot almost
Speaker 2: like I can barely. No.
Speaker 1: No, it's deemply anxiety provoking. And I was like, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: So I start I'm like, Kate, really, I start talking
Speaker 1: to myself. I'm like, You're okay, You're okay. All you
Speaker 1: gotta do is pee. It's fine. Everything went, well, you're fine,
Speaker 1: just relax. Nothing. Imagine having to pee like you're on
Speaker 1: a road trip, you're dying, you have to pee so
Speaker 1: bad and you're sitting on a toilet and you can't
Speaker 1: be And it was like I get in the shower.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm like, just piss in the shower. No,
Speaker 1: It's it's so upsetting nothing and I'm like, uh.
Speaker 3: And are you just thinking about like what is peeing like?
Speaker 2: You know, like okay, no, I started go to YouTube.
Speaker 1: I go to YouTube, I get a peeing meditation. I'm
Speaker 1: listening to a peeing meditation like thing. I'm like okay.
Speaker 1: So then I basically talked to my doctor and it's
Speaker 1: like it's been it had been eight hours because it
Speaker 1: before surgery, and she was like, you have to come
Speaker 1: in right now. So then I have to drive across
Speaker 1: town like a bouncing I am. It is the most
Speaker 1: uncomfortable experience I've ever had. I am thank god God
Speaker 1: without my loving partner. Also, like they're able to still
Speaker 1: make me laugh and I'm like screaming, like stop making
Speaker 1: me laugh because it hurts so bad. But it's really sweet.
Speaker 1: I'm pounding a courage bagel shout out they got me
Speaker 1: because I was like, what do you want after surgery?
Speaker 1: I was like, postami, salmon, courage bagel. I down a
Speaker 1: courage bagels I haven't eaten yet, like real crazy bagel institution.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, yeah, we gonna need you to get
Speaker 1: you across town immediately. It's the best big experience. So
Speaker 1: I'm meeting the bagel, meeting the bagel. I'm in agony
Speaker 1: and I don't cry until we get to the actual
Speaker 1: building and i can hardly walk at all, and I'm
Speaker 1: doubled over and as tears just start streaming because it's
Speaker 1: just like where are they? I need a wheelchair. That'll
Speaker 1: bring me wheelchair, but it's taking too long, and I'm
Speaker 1: just like, they get me upstairs. It's my nurse from
Speaker 1: earlier who I loved shoutut to Jasmine, like and I'm crying,
Speaker 1: like crying, and she's like I see us all time.
Speaker 1: She's like, I deal with you know. I'm in the
Speaker 1: labor room whatever it's called. Like, I'm in the delivery room.
Speaker 1: And she's like, I see pregnant women like sobbing from this,
Speaker 1: like it's so uncomfortable, so terrible. They will me and
Speaker 1: they're going to give me a catheter. I'm literally and
Speaker 1: like meanwhile, I'd been there that morning, Like it was
Speaker 1: like I'm fucking back here, Thank god Naomi could be
Speaker 1: with me. I was like crying on the table, gripping
Speaker 1: them their shoulders, like squeezing so hard. They made me
Speaker 1: laugh because they were like squeeze me, just like, don't
Speaker 1: squeeze my neck, which really made me laugh. Hurts so
Speaker 1: much laugh exactly, just st yeah. But the point is
Speaker 1: insertion of the catheter. Didn't love it, but it was
Speaker 1: nothing compared to the pain I was in. And then
Speaker 1: I just start they're just draining your fucking bladder, and
Speaker 1: I'll say this, the nurse was like, wow, no wonder
Speaker 1: you were so uncomfortable. Drained a thousand milli leaders out
Speaker 1: of my body. She came in with like two little
Speaker 1: buckets and was like I got I got a third.
Speaker 2: Like it was like, yeah, this is one of my
Speaker 2: favorite things in medicine, okay, which is yeah, and it
Speaker 2: was fun like when you were giving me the stats okay,
Speaker 2: because it was like it's like I have this thing
Speaker 2: about I think it's funny like this like nineteen stitches, okay,
Speaker 2: seven stitches.
Speaker 3: The numbers are really.
Speaker 2: Latch on, yes, stitch and then report them around town
Speaker 2: like like with an intensity, and like I could feel it,
Speaker 2: like like I was almost like you're like a thousand
Speaker 2: milli leaders, and I almost felt like there's a bold assertion,
Speaker 2: but like do you actually have a reference for what
Speaker 2: a thousand milli leaders is in your head?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 1: Is it not that much? Or no?
Speaker 2: No, I don't write you're repeating a number that you
Speaker 2: heard like basically the nurse commune Kate with tone was
Speaker 2: was way too much and with extra buckets, right, It's
Speaker 2: like yeah, So then you got in the world and
Speaker 2: you go like a thousand milli leaders and then it's
Speaker 2: like almost like those who know No, it's like it's
Speaker 2: like it's like this funny thing where it's like like
Speaker 2: you're like a thousand millileaters and like you know, like
Speaker 2: a few like sweeps down, free scrolls down and the
Speaker 2: like text later it's like a thousand milli leaders.
Speaker 3: You know, detail comes in again. I politely.
Speaker 1: There was well because she held up the bag of
Speaker 1: piss and I was like, yeah, wow.
Speaker 3: And but give she gives you.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying is like she's she's given you the
Speaker 2: the empowerment of this data piece.
Speaker 3: Then you can go home with you tell others. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it'll almost be like you know how much that is?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 1: Piss like because I start repeating it not knowing really
Speaker 1: what it means. Yeah, there's only another doctor who I
Speaker 1: told it to and she was like, holy shit, but
Speaker 1: like that's a wayman feel I didn't even understand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you feel satisfied the other doctor? This is
Speaker 2: what I'm trying to say. There's a satisfy action of
Speaker 2: like the good stats, the you know, like my shit
Speaker 2: was really fucked up.
Speaker 1: No, I was vindicated by the other doctor reaction.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I know this is not like a compelling observational
Speaker 2: humor like to you at this moment that I'm like
Speaker 2: hooked on, but you know what I mean, Like, sorry
Speaker 2: for the interruption.
Speaker 1: No, No, I'm now of course self conscious. I went from
Speaker 1: being like I'm never going to discuss this on poop
Speaker 1: to doing a forensic play by play.
Speaker 3: Oh you're suddenly self conscious right now?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 3: Was it due to my analysis?
Speaker 1: No, nothing happen to do with you. Oh okay, So anyway,
Speaker 1: so I feel like I always say this, and I'll
Speaker 1: just say and then I talked for forty five minutes,
Speaker 1: but I'll just say got home unfortunately immediately, so I
Speaker 1: got o HSS, you can look it up. Affects some
Speaker 1: people who get who go through this shit. And the
Speaker 1: main my main symptom is being crazy bloating. When you bloating,
Speaker 1: like abdominal dissension.
Speaker 3: Like it already fates it four.
Speaker 1: Months pregnant, like it's crazy, like like walking has been
Speaker 1: very difficult for days, and it affects your breathing. That's
Speaker 1: why I'm coughing, and why because there's so much fucking
Speaker 1: fluid in my abdomen that it's like pressing on like
Speaker 1: it just fucks you some nausea whatever. But the main
Speaker 1: thing is like the fucking psycho distension, and the breathing
Speaker 1: thing was what I woke up on a night like
Speaker 1: panicking because I was like I can't fucking get a
Speaker 1: full breath, which I've never experienced. So it's alarming but
Speaker 1: also comforting to be like that is a symptom. And yeah,
Speaker 1: so I've been today, maybe today's day four, maybe slightly
Speaker 1: less bloating, but like walking yesterday, I've been it's like
Speaker 1: hurts to walk, like you just can't do shit.
Speaker 3: Should we discuss the like the photo thing, like.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, because like yeah.
Speaker 2: Whenever people are like I was so bloated, I was
Speaker 2: four months pregnant, and like but you know like if
Speaker 2: you take a deep breath, you can like achieve that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's almost like and then so you'd sent me
Speaker 2: one picture which was you know, from from looking down
Speaker 2: in angle. It's almost like one of those photos that
Speaker 2: like your feet are are like these minuscule little fan
Speaker 2: like coming out from kind of like perfect it's like
Speaker 2: my toes popping out. They look microscopic. It's like a
Speaker 2: globe of the stomach. And then like I'm like yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm like that's the fucking shit. Whatever I see it,
Speaker 2: I'm like, holy shit.
Speaker 3: Whatever.
Speaker 2: Then later you send me or like maybe it was
Speaker 2: two days later, I don't know, you send me like
Speaker 2: a side shot in the mirror, like underwear and T
Speaker 2: shirt held up right, and I'm staring at it, going okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: am I supposed to what is my reactions? But am
Speaker 2: I supposed to be looking at this much better? You're
Speaker 2: so bloated? Or and so I go, I can be
Speaker 2: free with you obviously, and it's not like it's a
Speaker 2: vanity thing, you know what I mean. But I was
Speaker 2: just like, is this a is this a big improvement?
Speaker 2: You know, like and you're like no, you know. And
Speaker 2: then and then I was like this photos. I go like,
Speaker 2: this photo is not the.
Speaker 1: One You're so funny, You're you're like like like some
Speaker 1: one to send from sympathy. I was like, that's because
Speaker 1: I only ascended to you. I was like, correct, doesn't show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't go live with this one.
Speaker 2: No, it looks like like and then I drew a
Speaker 2: picture for you of what it looked like.
Speaker 3: It just like you know, model it it's eats hamburger.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah it wasn't. It wasn't showing the the
Speaker 1: extreme element. But yeah, it's it's like today's day four.
Speaker 1: I've been trying to stay you know. Of course, been
Speaker 1: a couple of Reddit threads that have been helpful because
Speaker 1: but everyone you know it is. By the way, I
Speaker 1: don't want to scare Here's the thing. I don't regret
Speaker 1: doing it yet. We'll see how the next week pans out.
Speaker 1: But I don't want to scare anyone. But I think
Speaker 1: also people should know if you have a large amount
Speaker 1: of follicles and you get a lot of eggs retrieved.
Speaker 1: I can definitely set you up for this and it's
Speaker 1: not something that you can't just get through, but like it.
Speaker 3: Fucking except they won't know until they do it.
Speaker 1: No, you know how many follicles you have about going
Speaker 1: in before you do the procedure, Like I was at
Speaker 1: risk for it for sure because I had such a
Speaker 1: hyperolical count.
Speaker 2: Yeah right right, No, No, I was just okay, that's
Speaker 2: what I was like. But I think and again I'm
Speaker 2: not but they're already in the doctors doing a process.
Speaker 3: Like they're already in the process of doing it.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, like someone who has not
Speaker 2: gotten any of it checked out, Like I'm just like
Speaker 2: someone sitting around like like whatever doesn't matter. I'm just
Speaker 2: talking about like the warning that you're giving me.
Speaker 1: I was just saying, you could go in if you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I think I want to freeze my eggs. First of all,
Speaker 1: you can go in on your fucking period and get
Speaker 1: ultrasound and see how many follicles you have, which will
Speaker 1: give you an idea of how many you know and so,
Speaker 1: and then you could talk to your doctor and go,
Speaker 1: do you think I'm at risk for developing WHSSS.
Speaker 2: I wonder if well it might even empower people who
Speaker 2: were freaked out by that. They're like, it'll feel like
Speaker 2: I'm on an episode of Poog.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, get a little bloated. It's fine. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's the thing. There's been Like yesterday morning, I woke up, Yeah, esterday,
Speaker 1: I woke up like sobbing. I'm not sobbing. I woke
Speaker 1: up crying because it was like the breathing, not being
Speaker 1: able to breathe so upsetting, and like not being able
Speaker 1: to fucking move basically, And I'm on this other medication.
Speaker 1: Now I'm on I'm on additional injections to bring down
Speaker 1: my esrogen, and I'm on this other medication which makes
Speaker 1: you woozy at night. So it's like I woke up
Speaker 1: the middle of the night, drops you blood pressure, and I
Speaker 1: felt like I was going to pass out, and I
Speaker 1: couldn't breathe and I couldn't move, And I was like, cool,
Speaker 1: glad that you're not even sure you want kids, you
Speaker 1: fucking psycho. But now I was like, well, now I
Speaker 1: literally have to have three to justify the process. But
Speaker 1: oh and then also I was telling you, Jacqueline, because
Speaker 1: you have to sign this form like if you die,
Speaker 1: like what do you want to have happened with your eggs?
Speaker 1: And my first instinct was like concinerate them or whatever,
Speaker 1: send them out into the ocean. But now I'm like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: like spread them around, like if any of my friends
Speaker 1: want my eggs like a whalem yeah, which which yea
Speaker 1: might sound like there's an angle where that sounds like
Speaker 1: ecocentric or something like you want yourself to And of
Speaker 1: course I'm it's I'm also choking, but I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit like I feel why not? And then Jacqueaine, how
Speaker 1: the gen?
Speaker 2: I know? I think you feel like you hold like
Speaker 2: like you went into the mountains and you.
Speaker 3: Hauled like a treasure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you realize like you've got like a lot
Speaker 2: or more than i'd have to, like you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: by the way, huge you just want to say, like
Speaker 2: best friends, this is like this is what friendship is.
Speaker 2: Obviously I'm going to say it, but like you know,
Speaker 2: like You're like I'm doing I'm freezing my eggs this week,
Speaker 2: and I'm like I'm like immediate, I go immediate pit
Speaker 2: in my stomach of panic?
Speaker 3: Should I do it too?
Speaker 4: I know?
Speaker 1: I love you?
Speaker 3: That is you go like you were like I was like,
Speaker 3: I have the not in my stomach.
Speaker 2: You're like, of course, okay, and you go the mothers
Speaker 2: have a not the not mothers have a not. Yeah exactly,
Speaker 2: but the mothers have a not in their stomach. The
Speaker 2: not mothers have a not in their stomach. And I
Speaker 2: was like, and I go, like, you know, in the
Speaker 2: entire like child old list woman, you know, woman with
Speaker 2: child dichotomy.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: I was like sitting there going like like like wait,
Speaker 2: the mothers have a not. Yea, the mothers have a not,
Speaker 2: like you know, like a decision the other wife.
Speaker 1: Hearn't always no, I mean, and this is what Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I've and for a long time I was like rejecting.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm not going to fucking have kids,
Speaker 1: and like, and I continue to have a huge amount
Speaker 1: of course rage. The propaganda is like shocking and alarming
Speaker 1: for women to have children. It's just like absolutely deafening,
Speaker 1: and it's almost impossible to touch him with what you
Speaker 1: actually might fucking want yourself. So but yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: every inside, every yes is a no. Inside every No,
Speaker 1: it's a yes, you know it's like but then I
Speaker 1: sort of h.
Speaker 2: Yeah, said as though it was a common expression. Well
Speaker 2: even Jaqueline Novc's never heard of it. But like the
Speaker 2: way I want merch, okay, I want merch of what
Speaker 2: that will save lives?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Worry in their stomach only not mothers have an not
Speaker 2: in their stomach. That is like that will save lives.
Speaker 1: I think I think so, And that that's it's like
Speaker 1: a broader thing of just like because I tend to
Speaker 1: endlessly ruminate, and you could argue, oh, freezing the eggs
Speaker 1: it continues the rumination, but it actually feels like, no,
Speaker 1: it's in a direction of like, yeah, it doesn't I
Speaker 1: don't know, because I was ruminating about it.
Speaker 2: I don't see it that way. I see it as
Speaker 2: the opposite. Yeah, yeah, you just you put the shit aside.
Speaker 1: Well it's I know I've said this, but it's my
Speaker 1: it's from the Sopranos for God who said it. But
Speaker 1: it's more as lost by indecision than the wrong decision, right,
Speaker 1: And I like think about that because yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: just fucking make a choice. Just step in whichever direction.
Speaker 2: Well, if you did that for a week, there was
Speaker 2: some woman I have like read books about this, like
Speaker 2: for a week. I mean, I'm posing this strategy because
Speaker 2: I can't imagine. I'm like too afraid. I'd be afraid
Speaker 2: to do it for three hours. What if like every
Speaker 2: decision you made in like three seconds, so that would
Speaker 2: mean arbitrary yea often every decision for a week, let's say, yeah,
Speaker 2: like I'd literally be scared to like commit to that
Speaker 2: for the next like three hours.
Speaker 1: Totally.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine what your life would be like? No,
Speaker 2: that's an experiment we're trying.
Speaker 1: And I do think like I again, because I do
Speaker 1: have the medical paranoia and the fear. It's like, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: I guess there's something interesting about feeling like the last
Speaker 1: two days, I've never felt more alien in my body.
Speaker 1: It's like insane, and it's really hard not to think
Speaker 1: something is like wrong because of the pain and the discomfort,
Speaker 1: and it's like, yeah, wait, is this just what my
Speaker 1: life is now? But it's like yeah, and by the way,
Speaker 1: it fucking lasts, Like my doctor was just kind of
Speaker 1: like yeah, like maybe you'll feel better in a week.
Speaker 1: My god, you know, like it's not just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: in two days, you'll you know, yeah, But but I.
Speaker 2: I was excited. I was excited by I mean because
Speaker 2: I know you. I just so I was just like
Speaker 2: like right off the bat, I was like, finally a
Speaker 2: medical issue, like the hypochondriac whatever.
Speaker 3: I was like here in the eye of the storm,
Speaker 3: like totally yourself. Now.
Speaker 2: It's like, you know, it's the classic thing, but no, no,
Speaker 2: there is good in a They're good in.
Speaker 3: The christ you know, you're fine, Yeah, just fucking doing it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just doing it. And it's kind of like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's just like I will be okay. I fucking can't
Speaker 1: wait to feel better. But even today's better. Like there's
Speaker 1: no way I could have recorded the last couple of days.
Speaker 1: But my you know, the breathing's improved and whatever.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: I control myself from pitching it like you in massive discomfort,
Speaker 2: like lying on your back with the thing. I was like,
Speaker 2: I control myself and being like, could be a good jenalism.
Speaker 1: You could always you could always pitch it. I'm drinking.
Speaker 1: I have I'm drinking, just mainlining the other thing that
Speaker 1: sucks about it, and for anyone going through it, I'm
Speaker 1: with you, but hearing but like you can't. You're so
Speaker 1: fucking distended and bloated, like bloated, it's not even the
Speaker 1: right word. It's like again, loaded is uncomfortable.
Speaker 3: Distension.
Speaker 2: Distension is the word. Yeah, distension, Like you need to
Speaker 2: say distension. Have people like for a moment be confused. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and like and then go like I'm almost feeling well, no,
Speaker 2: you know you need to see you need to be
Speaker 2: like plurisy or whatever the fuck it is, you know,
Speaker 2: like the fluid or maybe that's in the lungs or something,
Speaker 2: but like fluid in the cavity. Yeah, oh that that's
Speaker 2: you'll get the response.
Speaker 1: You're no, no, loaded, like floaded when people hear breathing
Speaker 1: like I'm coughing, not because I have a cough, I'm
Speaker 1: coughing because it's like there's fluid in my abducte gallowy
Speaker 1: like pushing up and oh but I'll say this, this
Speaker 1: fucking rules. My doctor was like ghosts the morning then
Speaker 1: the night of my surgery procedure, she was like, you
Speaker 1: need to go see this acupuncturist tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2: Wait hold on before you see excited. I remember you
Speaker 2: just being like surgery tomorrow. And I was like almost
Speaker 2: was gonna be like interesting, Like I feel like the
Speaker 2: language I've heard around that thing is we're like procedure.
Speaker 2: Like I kind of didn't process that they were going
Speaker 2: to put you out. Yeah, I kind of thought like,
Speaker 2: but she's sitting up and just like a needle goes
Speaker 2: into like the belly and they're just like they're just.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, nope, you're out. You're spread and they're in
Speaker 1: your pussy, they're up and through. Yeah, I'll just say
Speaker 1: I want to go do acupuncture. This woman's amazing. I
Speaker 1: have to say, like I don't just say okay, So
Speaker 1: I go to this acupuncturists. She fucking I mean, it's cool,
Speaker 1: I gotta say. She lays me on the table. By
Speaker 1: the way, this was the morning after the procedure. I
Speaker 1: felt good. I was like right, like I felt like
Speaker 1: I'm okay, like sure, unbloated, but it like had not
Speaker 1: hit yet at all.
Speaker 2: The cartoon character like gets hit and then walks, walks, walks,
Speaker 2: and it's.
Speaker 1: Like oh fine, yeah, yeah exactly exactly. So I lay
Speaker 1: on the table. She I'm not fucking kidding, like touches
Speaker 1: my hand and goes, there's fluid in your lungs like
Speaker 1: touches my hand and I was like, I was like huh.
Speaker 1: And then she's like barely she runs her fingers delicately,
Speaker 1: like between my knees and my ankle, like barely, and
Speaker 1: she's like left side congestion. And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I get migraines on my left side during when I
Speaker 1: was during the process, my left side was killing me
Speaker 1: because my uterus is tilted to the left. Anybody wants
Speaker 1: to know, like, so I had like I was like yeah,
Speaker 1: and she's just like yeah, like you're spleening your liver
Speaker 1: all this stuff, Da da da. She goes, you're ambitious,
Speaker 1: you think too much. I was like, holy shit. She
Speaker 1: sticks the needles in me and she goes to leave,
Speaker 1: and I go, okay. I was like this one kind
Speaker 1: of hurts. She moves it, and I started to talk.
Speaker 1: She goes, don't think, and she just kind of like
Speaker 1: walks out. She's like stop thinking, and I was like, huh.
Speaker 1: She's like picture of flower opening and closing in your abdomen.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, she leaves. She leaves with that
Speaker 1: like she just leaves, she just leaves. She's like press
Speaker 1: this button if you you know what Yeah, she's read,
Speaker 1: she said red. I proceed to like relax in a
Speaker 1: way I haven't in ten thousand years, full almost dream state.
Speaker 1: Well I did fall asleep, but then yeah, like it
Speaker 1: was cool.
Speaker 2: Is there any risk with those needles falling asleep rolling over?
Speaker 1: No, even if you did, they're barely in how though,
Speaker 1: Like they're just right, They're like they're hardly under the skin.
Speaker 1: It's like so delicate, they're so thin. But she did
Speaker 1: give me these herbs this like tea to make, and
Speaker 1: it's really difficult to ingest. I'm having a really hard
Speaker 1: time with it.
Speaker 2: But anyway, you know how when people like talk about
Speaker 2: like a gross tea or something like that, you kind
Speaker 2: of think like it's just like not gonna taste good
Speaker 2: or something like it's.
Speaker 1: Going to be exactly bad.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like they're like it's gross, like it's not tasty.
Speaker 3: Things that are so gross.
Speaker 1: No, No, I brushed it off. I was like, I can
Speaker 1: tolerate anything. She said it in the went in the front,
Speaker 1: was like it is very like strong. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'll be fine. I'm like I was like, I was like,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna bother me because it's like six ounces.
Speaker 1: It's not very much. It's as dark as coffee darker.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's like I don't even have the words
Speaker 3: nausea inducing.
Speaker 1: Right one day I gagged and was not just for
Speaker 1: five hours after, Like right now you're reminding me, like,
Speaker 1: I guess I have to do it today, Like I
Speaker 1: fucking might not be able to.
Speaker 3: I'm not anything.
Speaker 2: So you can't mix it with anything because that like, no,
Speaker 2: you can't mix it. You can't put anything to do
Speaker 2: it empty stomach. I imagine, no on food, I think
Speaker 2: because it's so strong. Okay, what about I have an idea.
Speaker 2: I wonder if this would work. You freeze it into
Speaker 2: pebbled ice cubes that you swallow.
Speaker 1: Oh god dear, how might be kind of fucking genius.
Speaker 1: Wait you mean like you take the little ice cubes
Speaker 1: like a pill.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like so like the flavors like well one even
Speaker 2: if it's like you know, I don't know, it just
Speaker 2: goes down like a little pebble ice cube. I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean the body would immediately melt it right in
Speaker 2: the stomach and there you go. Frozen blueberries better than
Speaker 2: a fresh one.
Speaker 1: I really wonder, I really wonder. Oh my god, Well,
Speaker 1: I should go because this is the most I've talked
Speaker 1: in days. It's a bit when you're a star. Thank you,
Speaker 1: You've been my first Singer're.
Speaker 3: Proud of you.
Speaker 2: I've been impressed with you. I was so happy for
Speaker 2: you finally have a syndrome.
Speaker 1: And then oh, then I texted you this is funny
Speaker 1: because today I was like, Okay, I'm gonna go out today,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna like force myself to walk a little more.
Speaker 1: And I put on a face product. My face instantly
Speaker 1: turns bright red and I literally am like, who am
Speaker 1: I fucking job? I'm like God punishing me. And then
Speaker 1: because my greatest fear is being becoming like Julian more unsafe,
Speaker 1: Like my greatest fear is becoming alerted to the world
Speaker 1: or like everything's poison and you're just and so I'm like,
Speaker 1: is this the beginning of me becoming like.
Speaker 2: Or I can't Okay, we get tackled that if that
Speaker 2: happened to you, okay, And I'm putting in quotes to
Speaker 2: not like lock it in your mind. Yeah, like the
Speaker 2: fear of that happening is the thing to get.
Speaker 1: Rid of because totally.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I'm not suggesting that anyone Okay, I actually
Speaker 2: have to go, but I love you, Thank you, I
Speaker 2: love you.
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