Speaker 1: Chat GPT, I need support. It's one more thing.
Speaker 2: I'm Katie's taking the lead on the podcast today. She's
Speaker 2: got a tail to tail. Before we get to that, though,
Speaker 2: I did want to mention whoever's parking in my parking spot,
Speaker 2: I'm going to slash your tires. I'm announcing it ahead
Speaker 2: of time.
Speaker 1: Wow, we don't have reserved parking.
Speaker 2: Spots bends and I you look at it, that's my
Speaker 2: parking kind of.
Speaker 3: A common law parking spot exactly.
Speaker 2: Somebody who gets here earlier than me because I get
Speaker 2: it very early by normal work standards, and then taking
Speaker 2: my spot and I'm going to slash your tires. Would
Speaker 2: that be a misdemeanor assume? Oh yeah, my god.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can empty the shelf of cvs after CVS
Speaker 3: and it's not a felony in California.
Speaker 2: I'll buy them new tires, but I'm hoping the inconvenience
Speaker 2: of it will make them stop parking in my spot. Now,
Speaker 2: somebody here suggested I make a sign. Well, I won't
Speaker 2: just make a sign and just say reserved, like I
Speaker 2: doubt anybody would ever stop me.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, just get a little stencil and spray painted
Speaker 3: on the curb. Reserved parking perfect with like a red
Speaker 3: outline or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sod, okay, back to you, kittie.
Speaker 1: All right, Well I mentioned it.
Speaker 4: I don't know a couple months ago that I was
Speaker 4: going to be going through the in vitro IVF process
Speaker 4: because Drew and I want to have a child.
Speaker 2: And why do people do that? I don't know that
Speaker 2: much about it.
Speaker 4: Uh, some of it has to do with infertility.
Speaker 1: You just can't have a kid naturally.
Speaker 4: For for my situation, it's because I have a hereditary
Speaker 4: disease that makes conceiving difficult and then also it's a
Speaker 4: fifty to fifty chance that the kid gets it. So
Speaker 4: we're going through a different processing. Yeah, we're actually doing
Speaker 4: the genetic testing, which is going to be incredible, where
Speaker 4: they're going to take my eggs and figure out which
Speaker 4: one of or which one which ones do not have
Speaker 4: the polycystic kidney disease.
Speaker 1: And then those are the ones we're going to use.
Speaker 3: The fact that that is possible is mind blowing.
Speaker 2: It really is. And does insurance pay for this or no? No?
Speaker 2: Is it expensive?
Speaker 1: Yes it is, yes it is.
Speaker 4: But so this this week or this week and next
Speaker 4: week is the start of it. And my first day
Speaker 4: of the dreaded medication was yesterday, which for anybody who's
Speaker 4: familiar with it knows that it's all done with a syringe.
Speaker 2: Like like, hm, you can ask, It's fine, ask whatever.
Speaker 2: Are you sticking a needle in your arm?
Speaker 1: Are you in my stomach?
Speaker 2: So you're giving yourself shots in the stomach, So you're
Speaker 2: not like literally in the stomach in the abdomen, right.
Speaker 1: And well, yeah, the abb like right next to my
Speaker 1: belly button.
Speaker 2: What's the difference.
Speaker 3: Well, because if it was in your stomach, that would
Speaker 3: be penetrating your skin, your muscles.
Speaker 2: And people say stomach.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm just.
Speaker 3: Trying to be accurate here, So don't you.
Speaker 2: Quibble with my quibbling. I don't like the tummy shots.
Speaker 2: I had to get those every day when I have
Speaker 2: my gallbladder taken out. Oh so you know what you're
Speaker 2: talking about, stomach? Oh good?
Speaker 1: Did you give it to yourself or did you have to?
Speaker 2: I can't imagine doing it myself.
Speaker 4: So you're on the same page that I am sent.
Speaker 4: I just sent you, guys a series of photos I
Speaker 4: received in the mail. Don't a week and a half
Speaker 4: ago a box that was the size of I don't know,
Speaker 4: like a a microwave. It was about that big, just
Speaker 4: filled to the brim with syringes and needles and vials,
Speaker 4: and I had a full blown panic attack because I
Speaker 4: don't do well despite all of the tattoos and piercings
Speaker 4: with needles.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, it.
Speaker 3: Actually it looked like you were running some sort of
Speaker 3: small town clinic and you were getting your supplies for
Speaker 3: the moment.
Speaker 2: I think you got to be a pretty weird person
Speaker 2: if you're just perfectly sanguine about giving yourself shots in
Speaker 2: the stomach.
Speaker 4: This was keeping me up at night, and I was
Speaker 4: emotional and scared, wondering if I was even gonna.
Speaker 1: Go through with this.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, that's too bad. I can believe that
Speaker 2: though I would. I can imagine, yeah, this is important,
Speaker 2: I have to do it, but I don't know if
Speaker 2: I can yesh.
Speaker 4: I was trying to watch videos on YouTube of people
Speaker 4: giving injections just because the sight of a needle going
Speaker 4: into skin gives me an issue to I hope there is.
Speaker 3: Anybody who's continuing to listen to this.
Speaker 2: Is there anything, Yes, Michael.
Speaker 5: I have to for insulin. I gotta get injections into
Speaker 5: the stomach area. Sometimes do you give me to yourself? No,
Speaker 5: my wife does. And so that's what I was gonna
Speaker 5: ask Katie. Is her husband to be doing this?
Speaker 4: No, he's working at the time frame that I have
Speaker 4: to do this during the day.
Speaker 2: So if your wife's mad at you, does she ever really? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Sometimes?
Speaker 2: Oh wow? So can you do anything like the old timing?
Speaker 2: Like if you've got a tooth that needs to come
Speaker 2: out and you tie a string around it and put
Speaker 2: it to the doorknob, somebody opens the door out comes
Speaker 2: your tooth. Can you do anything like that with a
Speaker 2: shot in the stomach.
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: No, I mean there are tips that you can use.
Speaker 1: But I actually booby trap yeah right, but my other
Speaker 1: hand over a flame. I'm trying to dart gun. Yeah.
Speaker 4: But so I went to chat GPT because we've been
Speaker 4: talking about it so much, and I just typed in,
Speaker 4: I need support. I'm doing and this is what I'm
Speaker 4: doing and I am to the point of terrified where
Speaker 4: I might not do it. This thing gave me eight
Speaker 4: pages of ways that people get through their fears of injections,
Speaker 4: Things that I can do prior to the shot, things
Speaker 4: to do during the shot, I mean everything. So I
Speaker 4: went through and I read it all and I utilized
Speaker 4: some of it, and I gave myself the shot yesterday,
Speaker 4: no problem.
Speaker 2: Wow, mind is chat GPT And.
Speaker 3: Once you get past, you know, the first fear and
Speaker 3: the realities, Yeah, you're probably good now.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I called I called my parents crying. I was like,
Speaker 4: I just did it, and that that was the hurdle.
Speaker 2: I mean, that was the.
Speaker 4: Thought of taking a vial in the needle and having
Speaker 4: to do it myself was just out of the question.
Speaker 4: And I chat GPT, honest to God, gave me this
Speaker 4: this boost, Like, Okay, here are some things you can do.
Speaker 1: Try it.
Speaker 3: Is there any chance you'll be raising the child, not
Speaker 3: with your husband, but with a robot, an AI robot?
Speaker 1: You know, if it if it keeps it up, it's
Speaker 1: in the running.
Speaker 2: You are, So someday gonna say to your four year
Speaker 2: old boy, I gave myself shots in the stomach the
Speaker 2: least you could know.
Speaker 4: Just pick up your Oh, without a doubt, that's already
Speaker 4: locked and loaded and you're not even on the planet.
Speaker 2: Yet, right, Oh God, that is that is interesting in
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of different levels.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I had no idea that there were rugs
Speaker 3: or anything. I mean, we've I had.
Speaker 2: No idea I did it at home, that it was
Speaker 2: a home thing.
Speaker 3: The practical aspects of of of you know, sperm mats,
Speaker 3: egg egg is implanted. I think we remember that.
Speaker 2: From biology when a very much okay, but yeah wow.
Speaker 3: So how comfortable are you with discussing what sort of
Speaker 3: of drugs these are? Give the stiff arm whenever you want?
Speaker 3: But so what what is it? What are you jabbing
Speaker 3: yourself with?
Speaker 4: So there there are two basically what hair we're gonna
Speaker 4: get real close, guys. What what we're doing is we
Speaker 4: are making the eggs inside of me bigger so that
Speaker 4: my doctor can take them out.
Speaker 1: Is what this process is. So I had an altertude.
Speaker 2: At home yourself? Right?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: No, well actually yeah, the shots are doing it. So
Speaker 4: oh the egg removal. No, I'm going into They're gonna
Speaker 4: knock me out for that, Thank god.
Speaker 2: Get the tongs you use for spaghetti, oh for boy?
Speaker 1: Yeah, shot back? Is that what you're saying? Oh? Okay? Anyway, So.
Speaker 4: There there are two different medications that are are making
Speaker 4: the eggs bigger, and then there is another medication that
Speaker 4: is going to stop me from ovulating so she can
Speaker 4: take the eggs and my body doesn't go, we don't
Speaker 4: need these anymore.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 4: So I had a my zoom meeting yesterday was about
Speaker 4: forty five minutes long, with the doctor teaching me how
Speaker 4: to take five different vials of medication with needles and
Speaker 4: put them into different things so I could get one shot.
Speaker 4: And I told at the very end, I went, you know,
Speaker 4: I feel like a scientist.
Speaker 2: Yeah, heck ya, you would do this. You are, eh.
Speaker 2: That is what I didn't know that so much of
Speaker 2: this stuff happened at home and you did it on
Speaker 2: your own. I would have just assumed you're constantly going
Speaker 2: into doctor's offices and they're doing it all.
Speaker 1: But right, so I had I had an ultrasound yesterday.
Speaker 4: I have one Friday, another one Monday, another one Thursday,
Speaker 4: and then the procedure next weekend.
Speaker 2: Did you do any uh? Do you have control over
Speaker 2: the timing like of when you want to have a
Speaker 2: baby born? I do, and I do shows now.
Speaker 1: Well no, so this is just to get the eggs.
Speaker 4: So she's going to take the eggs out there, going
Speaker 4: to fertilize them Withdrew and then they'll be on hold
Speaker 4: for whenever I want to get pregnant.
Speaker 2: Wow, so you can pick the day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, completely, They freeze them and she goes and don't worry,
Speaker 4: they don't get freezer burn.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, well, thank you, so good.
Speaker 2: That's reassured.
Speaker 1: Very good to know.
Speaker 2: But so, but they have to extract the.
Speaker 3: Egg and then do the analysis right right of the
Speaker 3: genetic stuff we were talking about earlier, and then do
Speaker 3: the old I'd like you to meet to certain cell
Speaker 3: I think you too will hit it off. Yeah, do
Speaker 3: what comes natural. But then you implant it whenever you want,
Speaker 3: and roughly forty weeks later.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, So there's a two week waiting period after
Speaker 4: they take the eggs that they're going to go through
Speaker 4: and go through all the little guys and then pick
Speaker 4: the good ones and then we'll take it from there.
Speaker 1: But science is incredible.
Speaker 4: I I keep saying that over and over again because
Speaker 4: I'm just my mind is blown that any of this
Speaker 4: could be done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, crazy.
Speaker 1: And chat GPT helped me do it right.
Speaker 2: And this is this the thing that for a cup
Speaker 2: of coffee people were clai I mean Trump didn't want
Speaker 2: to allow or something like that, which was not true.
Speaker 4: Ridiculous yes, And we were planning this the whole time
Speaker 4: with no fear of that because we knew that was
Speaker 4: all while I'm on the pola.
Speaker 2: Jd Vance and his wife did it this way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of people do it this way.
Speaker 4: And I was shocked at the amount of people who
Speaker 4: were just as scared as I was.
Speaker 1: Too, you know there.
Speaker 4: I mean, there are support groups on Facebook and Instagram
Speaker 4: and all these Reddit pages and whatnot, and they're all
Speaker 4: women that are they can't have a baby.
Speaker 1: They're praying for this to work.
Speaker 4: But oh my god, I have to give myself a
Speaker 4: shot in the stomach every day for two weeks.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm I've got a needle phobia like you do.
Speaker 2: But there are various levels of that. But like I said,
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody's thrilled about the idea.
Speaker 5: Hey Katie, what were some of the tips that they
Speaker 5: gave you? If you don't mind me asking.
Speaker 4: Well, so when you're in this situation, like you're doing
Speaker 4: it yourself at home. My whole thing was I thought
Speaker 4: I had to be like standing up and all these
Speaker 4: and they gave me all this information. You can be
Speaker 4: laying down, So go go into your bedroom and lay
Speaker 4: down on your bed and put something on the TV
Speaker 4: and watch that and distract yourself.
Speaker 2: That's how a baby making thing usually starts.
Speaker 4: Exactly right, get in the mood. No, but so you
Speaker 4: just it was just like little things like that. Not
Speaker 4: the ice pack, but there was another kind of like
Speaker 4: a jack thing pinched the back of your arm on
Speaker 4: the opposite side.
Speaker 1: You can do that.
Speaker 2: That's all my son does. He when he was littler,
Speaker 2: he would bite down on his wrist when they did
Speaker 2: stuff to him.
Speaker 4: And I mean, but there were all these things like
Speaker 4: reclaim your power over this fear, change the story and
Speaker 4: your mind about needles. Look at it as a tool
Speaker 4: of care and healing and a goal, a goal for
Speaker 4: your future.
Speaker 1: Just all this stuff.
Speaker 4: You know, peekaboo technique. It's the perfect way. You don't
Speaker 4: have to look at the needle at all. You can
Speaker 4: cover it with a cloth until the very last second. Aha,
Speaker 4: which I didn't do.
Speaker 2: But could you like this stuff matters? Could you wed?
Speaker 2: Could you wedget in a couch cushion and then just
Speaker 2: run and dive on top of it.
Speaker 1: I wish that that was possible. It would have been
Speaker 1: more fun.
Speaker 2: But wow, I don't know that I could, like, mentally,
Speaker 2: I think I could get there, but I don't know
Speaker 2: if I could keep myself from like flinching and pulling away.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just I don't know if I could
Speaker 2: do that. I suppose you got to figure it out.
Speaker 2: That's why you went to chat GPT I did until
Speaker 2: you did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And they also the other helpful thing, not that
Speaker 4: you're gonna have to do this, but they said, once
Speaker 4: you start, like, once you get it in your mind, Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna do this, do not abort mission.
Speaker 1: Just go for it because you have from.
Speaker 4: That thought, you've got about twelve seconds that you have
Speaker 4: to worry about right until the SHOT's over with.
Speaker 1: So just get it over with.
Speaker 2: Interesting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, that's another good technique. And then all right,
Speaker 3: and after this we'll go back to my neur own
Speaker 3: business and you can disclose what you want to disclose
Speaker 3: when you disclose it. But at some point a few
Speaker 3: months down the line, little Joseph Jack Green will be
Speaker 3: I'm the scene and new member of the family.
Speaker 1: Joseph Jack Michael Squared Green.
Speaker 5: Well, I guess that's it.