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Speaker 2: Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of the Professional

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Speaker 2: Homegirl Podcast. I am your host, Ebena, and today we

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Speaker 2: have a truly y'all, unique and aspirers story to share. Now,

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Speaker 2: imagine navigating daily life with an allergy to something as

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Speaker 2: essential and ever present as water. Our Professional Homegirls here

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Speaker 2: to take us through her incredible journey of living with

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Speaker 2: Akwa Generica. U carrya a recondition that makes her allergic

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Speaker 2: to water. From the challenges she faces, like the difficulties

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Speaker 2: of watching her face, bathing and caring for her children

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Speaker 2: to the creative ways she discovers to cope. So sit

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Speaker 2: back and get ready to be educated and inspired because

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Speaker 2: I am allergic to water starts now. So to my guests,

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for being on a show. How

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Speaker 2: you feeling? How you doing good?

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Speaker 3: How are you? You know?

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Speaker 2: Y'all we laughing because we were trying to figure out

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Speaker 2: what the fuck is like mad annoying? But besides that,

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Speaker 2: I'm a little tired, but I feel good. I feel good.

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Speaker 3: I feel cute. Yeah, see see that's all about. I

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Speaker 3: was like, should I wear a wing? Should I not

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Speaker 3: wear a wing? I was like, yeah, I'm gonna wear wig.

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Speaker 2: Well, the wig is cute.

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Speaker 3: I like the hairsey thank you. And the funny thing

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Speaker 3: is like that little scuffle in the beginning that made

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Speaker 3: that shit made me so hot, like my body's already

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Speaker 3: like tickling. But I'm like, you know what, So I'm

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Speaker 3: mind off things. Because if I said, lyneath the thing

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Speaker 3: and you're gonna hear all the audio, so I'm.

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Speaker 2: Like, oh yeah, because zoone was stressing us the fuck out.

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Speaker 2: So I was starting to get hot and fluster too.

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Speaker 3: Shit.

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Speaker 2: Now, before we get into your story, can you explain

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Speaker 2: to the listeners what type of water allergy do you have?

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Speaker 3: So? I was diagnosed with this rare allergy called aquagenic

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Speaker 3: or to carry you, So I'm basically allergic to any

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Speaker 2: Wow, I know we're gonna get into it, but I've

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Speaker 2: been following your journey for quite some time and I

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Speaker 3: You know. The funny thing is a lot of people don't.

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Speaker 3: So when I do tell people, they like, okay, you're crazy,

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Speaker 3: or yeah, okay, you can't be allergic the water. How

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Speaker 2: Water to be like, what I know, niggas be getting

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Speaker 2: on your nerves And they'd be like, girl, you not

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Speaker 2: look face. Yes, Like when I was younger, people to

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Speaker 3: People just chump it up. As you nasty, because what

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Speaker 3: do we need water for? Everything? We needed to cook,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, going on, how many niggas you done?

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Speaker 3: Cursed out so many people? And the funny thing is,

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Speaker 3: you that, you just do you think I'm capping? Oh,

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Speaker 3: she just lying whatever. But it was one of those

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Speaker 2: But that's putting yourself at risk, though.

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Speaker 3: Putting myself at risk. But the funny thing is okay.

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Speaker 3: So I've always known I was allergic to water, but

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Speaker 3: So all my life, I've went through all the phases

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Speaker 2: You don't know what I'm touch on that because I

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Speaker 2: But let's talk about the doctors, because when I was

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Speaker 2: and then you know, big brother, once they see you

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Speaker 3: You know. The funny thing is like, okay, so years ago,

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Speaker 3: Because it happened to me in the beginning, they used

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Speaker 2: Yeah wait did this run in your family? Like do

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Speaker 3: Nobody knows, like and I guess that's why there's no

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Speaker 3: one time that it's something in my body that's reacting

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Speaker 3: is it's acagenic Urtic Carrier never heard of it in

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Speaker 2: But you could possibly hurm yourself from just your sweat

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Speaker 3: MM. Cause even my primary care oh my god, I

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Speaker 3: So I was telling her that, you know, I felt

431
00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:19,440
Speaker 3: like whenever it was when I knew that time was coming.

432
00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:20,959
Speaker 2: Out, was probably having an anxiety attack.

433
00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:25,119
Speaker 3: I was getting an anxiety attack, and I was, you know,

434
00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,480
Speaker 3: telling her, and I was like asking her, like if

435
00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:29,600
Speaker 3: if I can get like some form of medication for

436
00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,160
Speaker 3: like my anxiety attacks. And then she was like why

437
00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:34,879
Speaker 3: and I started explaining it to her and I was like, well,

438
00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,679
Speaker 3: I'm allergic to it. She's like allergic to whatever. She

439
00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,439
Speaker 3: was like, I've been in the medical profession for twenty

440
00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,080
Speaker 3: five years and I never came across the pension. I

441
00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:46,560
Speaker 3: was like, well, and that's so intive, so incentive. She

442
00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:48,600
Speaker 3: was like, I've never heard of it before. And then

443
00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:51,680
Speaker 3: it's I don't know if she just didn't believe me

444
00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:53,280
Speaker 3: or she was in shock. She was like, oh, can

445
00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:56,400
Speaker 3: I see your documentation from your daughtor one thing about

446
00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:59,080
Speaker 3: the girl? I always got them things in my purse. Yeah,

447
00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:00,719
Speaker 3: I always over it in my own and always keep

448
00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:01,280
Speaker 3: it on my person.

449
00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:03,280
Speaker 2: Do your husband know where is at?

450
00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:03,840
Speaker 1: Yeah?

451
00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:07,560
Speaker 3: He knows. So it's just like she was just like, wow,

452
00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:10,000
Speaker 3: I've never heard of this before, and like she went

453
00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:13,159
Speaker 3: on Google and she was like, wow, it's only fifty

454
00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,040
Speaker 3: cases reported in medical literature, and here you are. You're

455
00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:18,000
Speaker 3: one of them. And I was like, yeah, I wouldn't

456
00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,320
Speaker 3: come in here. I want to come here and tell

457
00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:22,520
Speaker 3: you that I'm allergic to water because it's to me,

458
00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:25,040
Speaker 3: it's just one of those like outrageous things. You're gonna

459
00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:28,000
Speaker 3: expect to hear more and expect to see more. And

460
00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:29,560
Speaker 3: I just feel like it's one of those things that

461
00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,560
Speaker 3: I can't lie about it because eventually you're gonna want

462
00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:34,000
Speaker 3: to see some type of proof, and if I have

463
00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:36,679
Speaker 3: nothing to give, then you're gonna be like, Okay, well

464
00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:39,000
Speaker 3: she's a flue. And after that, the girl like she

465
00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:40,440
Speaker 3: took she took me seriously.

466
00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,639
Speaker 2: But I will come to your office a live by

467
00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:46,280
Speaker 2: goddamn allergy the water like I have.

468
00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:47,360
Speaker 3: To pay a damn call.

469
00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:52,960
Speaker 2: Medications like WYOA what like do you think I got

470
00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,520
Speaker 2: time for these kids to be lying?

471
00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:57,920
Speaker 3: I was like that at the time. I was like, man,

472
00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,400
Speaker 3: it took me time to drive to your office. Then

473
00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:02,520
Speaker 3: I had to sit in my car for a lady,

474
00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,119
Speaker 3: get out of my car and walk here. And the

475
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,320
Speaker 3: little three seconds that it took me to walk through

476
00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:10,440
Speaker 3: the door, my body is already overheating because now I'm nervous.

477
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,040
Speaker 3: I have to prepare to tell you why I'm here,

478
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 3: and that's another thing. I never know how it's gonna

479
00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,960
Speaker 3: like be received. On the other hand, so talking about

480
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,040
Speaker 3: it always makes me nervous, or even sometimes I talk

481
00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:21,640
Speaker 3: about it. I feel like I'm getting teary eyed because

482
00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:24,000
Speaker 3: it's just like, Oh, this is perfect life. This bitch

483
00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:27,560
Speaker 3: nothing wrong with her, Like she here you are. I'm like,

484
00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,200
Speaker 3: I don't. I'm like, you know, I don't get anything

485
00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 3: from coming here telling you'm alergic water. I don't get

486
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,800
Speaker 3: no check from the State of Texas. I don't getting

487
00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,439
Speaker 3: nothing for free. Like my life. I still live a

488
00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:42,160
Speaker 3: normal life like most people. It's just I take more

489
00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,119
Speaker 3: steps than a normal person. So it's like, I don't

490
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,600
Speaker 3: gain anything coming here telling you I'm alert to water.

491
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,760
Speaker 3: I'm just sharing my story. Everybody else sharing their story online,

492
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:53,560
Speaker 3: so I'm just sharing mine. I think it's interesting.

493
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,800
Speaker 2: Does your insurance pay for most of this stuff? Because

494
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:07,560
Speaker 2: I can only imagine the amount of times you have

495
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:09,360
Speaker 2: been to the doctor because of this.

496
00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:14,159
Speaker 3: They do, They cover like all the basic stuff. But

497
00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 3: from me posting online, somebody was like, uh, oh, your insurance,

498
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,160
Speaker 3: Your insurance should be paying for this. They could pay

499
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 3: for that, and I was like, oh, I didn't know that. Yeah,

500
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:27,280
Speaker 3: I was complaining that the last time I went to

501
00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:29,120
Speaker 3: the doctor. I was complaining to the doctor. That's when

502
00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,240
Speaker 3: I started complaining about my scalp because years before I

503
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,640
Speaker 3: didn't really have issues with certain parts of my certain

504
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,960
Speaker 3: parts of my body, like, for example, like having stores

505
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,640
Speaker 3: in my head. That's new. I just started like experiencing that.

506
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 3: But the biggest part about it is I went to

507
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 3: him and I was telling him that, oh, hey, I

508
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:48,760
Speaker 3: noticed that every time I drink water, I would feel nauseous.

509
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,720
Speaker 3: That's not new. That's something I've always fuck from a kid.

510
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,199
Speaker 3: But girl, my mom used to be like, you just

511
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,720
Speaker 3: don't like water, and that was my use for not

512
00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,160
Speaker 3: drinking water. Everybody thinks that. Even if you ask any

513
00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 3: one of my childhood right now, they'll tell you, oh

514
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,480
Speaker 3: that girl don't like water. But people don't know that

515
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:05,840
Speaker 3: when I drink water, it makes me feel like I'm

516
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:07,879
Speaker 3: gonna bring it up. So I just don't like doing it.

517
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 2: So I tolerate it.

518
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,879
Speaker 3: Girl, When I told my doctor, here's the thing, okay,

519
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 3: so acuagena or to carry. It's a topical allergy. It's

520
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 3: supposed to just affect the outer layer of your body. Right,

521
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:22,360
Speaker 3: it's been two people have been reported in medical literature

522
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,440
Speaker 3: where they started reacting to their own bodily fluids. Now

523
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 3: I have not gotten there. Knock on wood, I hope

524
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,600
Speaker 3: I never get there, But there are some people that

525
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 3: I guess, like they claim to say, as time progressed,

526
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,000
Speaker 3: the allergy is supposed to get better, so it's supposed

527
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:42,680
Speaker 3: to eventually go away. But in recent cases, it's been

528
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:45,679
Speaker 3: progressing to where it's getting worse. So when I was

529
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 3: telling him that, hey, you know, I'm drinking water, he

530
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:53,359
Speaker 3: was just like, unfortunately, like there's nothing. I can't give

531
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,879
Speaker 3: you anything and say here, do this because there's there's

532
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:59,680
Speaker 3: no there's no specific medication or specific cure for this thing,

533
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:03,240
Speaker 3: so you just have to live with it, right, Okay, Cool.

534
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 3: I don't drink water, but I drink coconut water, so

535
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 3: that's how I stay hydro. I spend about one hundred

536
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,439
Speaker 3: and thirty dollars every month on coconut water from AGB

537
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 3: And somebody is stilling the great insurance company. Your insurance

538
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,919
Speaker 3: company need to pay for there because that's the necessity.

539
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:19,840
Speaker 3: But I'm like, you know what, to go through the

540
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:23,159
Speaker 3: hurdles of calling people and having a stent, this proven

541
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:24,479
Speaker 3: that it's too much.

542
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, like I'm not going to exidate every single thing,

543
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 2: like everything.

544
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:31,879
Speaker 3: Yeah. I was just like, you know what this is?

545
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 3: Now something I have to deal with. So I spent

546
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 3: about one hundred and thirty dollars every month on coconut water,

547
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 3: and on top of that, I have one hundred and something.

548
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,160
Speaker 3: I was in medication because I do have to take

549
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 3: alergae pills every day. And these allergy pills are just

550
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 3: for hives. It doesn't necessarily stop the allergy from retring.

551
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 3: It just like yeah, yeah, it slows down the hives,

552
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 3: but I still go through the phases and everything. So

553
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 3: it's just like, yeah, it's it's it's.

554
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,359
Speaker 2: A lot medication for your anxiety.

555
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 3: I am. Yeah, that's that's one thing. When I after

556
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 3: I spoke to the doctor and told her everything, like yeah,

557
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,159
Speaker 3: she actually wrote me a prescription. So I do have

558
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:13,960
Speaker 3: medication for anxiety. I can't live without dad. Hur the

559
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 3: other day with the hurricane. The other day with the hurricane,

560
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 3: I was I was telling my fiance. I was like,

561
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:25,879
Speaker 3: I was like, what if the floods, you know, like

562
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:31,199
Speaker 3: I feel like sometimes he forget that. I feel like

563
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 3: sometimes he forget that I have a water allergy. It's

564
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:35,959
Speaker 3: like it's just become a part of our life now.

565
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 3: It is just like sometimes just like whatever. So I

566
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:39,359
Speaker 3: was just like, oh, we're in Houston, and you know

567
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 3: we can't handle rain because it started raining from a

568
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,160
Speaker 3: Saturday before. I was in here pissling my pants because

569
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 3: I was like, what if the floods, Like I ain't

570
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 3: worry about not being able to swim, baby, I'm just

571
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,640
Speaker 3: worry about surviving. Right, yeah, I'm like, I don't even

572
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,120
Speaker 3: care that I can't see. But he was like, we'll

573
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 3: just go upstairs, and I was like, but in heart,

574
00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 3: he they was moving in both girl, and he was like,

575
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:01,240
Speaker 3: do you want go to the hotel? And I was

576
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 3: like no, because we don't have to ride on the

577
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 3: road to go to the hotels. But I don't know, gir.

578
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 3: I was in here. I was so stressed out, and

579
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,399
Speaker 3: I had so many messages on social media and people

580
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 3: was just scared for me because of the fact that

581
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 3: they were posting pictures on line in Houston flooding and

582
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 3: everybody's like, well, girl, are you okay because I know

583
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 3: you allergic to water, and I was like, I'm okay now, But.

584
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 2: Doesn't help a hurt because, like, if I was in

585
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 2: your case, don't send me no messages like that, y'all

586
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 2: be cause y'all making my anxiety even worse, even worse,

587
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 2: and I was.

588
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 3: Just like, man, I stayed in here and like I

589
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 3: was like, I'm sitting at this window right now. I

590
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 3: lay it on my couch and my kids. You not

591
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,159
Speaker 3: every five minutes, I got up and I still not

592
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,399
Speaker 3: look outside. And I was telling him, I was like,

593
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:41,159
Speaker 3: this water on the side of the house getting a

594
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,400
Speaker 3: little hot. He was like, dang, it's only like ankle length,

595
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:45,639
Speaker 3: and I was like that's enough.

596
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 1: Yeah.

597
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,440
Speaker 3: I was like, that's all it takes because I have

598
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:50,679
Speaker 3: to move in it. But I don't know. I just

599
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,679
Speaker 3: be like with the hurricane season, I was telling him.

600
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 3: I was like, man, like, I ain't gonna lie. Like

601
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 3: I've been through hurricanes because I've lived in Miami, but

602
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,120
Speaker 3: we didn't really have flooding, so I never worried about

603
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,639
Speaker 3: those floods. But it's like here, I'm just like the

604
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 3: hurricane season just beginning and it already came with a bang,

605
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 3: Like what if? What if? And I was like I

606
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 3: felt like I was getting myself worked up, so I

607
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,959
Speaker 3: kind of just stopped talking about it. But those are

608
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,120
Speaker 3: things I worry about. I worry about getting in my car.

609
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 3: You check the weather app. I check it every morning.

610
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 3: Sometimes it says it's gonna be a sunny day, and

611
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 3: this is Houston. Thirty minutes into your day, girl, it's raining,

612
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 3: and I'd be like, damn, but I get stuck because

613
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:29,160
Speaker 3: I'm in the car. And now I'm like, I'm overthinking,

614
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,159
Speaker 3: I'm stressing, I'm worrying, and this is where anxiety attacks

615
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:33,920
Speaker 3: come and place, because now I'm like working my own

616
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:35,920
Speaker 3: self up, thinking about what if, what if? For it?

617
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 3: So it's rough.

618
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 2: Nothink in your business?

619
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 3: Do you work?

620
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: No?

621
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 3: Not anymore?

622
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I'm like, how.

623
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 3: Can you keep a job like yo?

624
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 2: Cause I'm thinking about if it's raining and it's in

625
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 2: the car, you can't get out your car until the

626
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 2: rain stop, and then even then you have to still

627
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 2: wait because the the air is.

628
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 3: Humid, the air is human. I haven't worked since when

629
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 3: I moved to Houston. I was a flight attendant at

630
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 3: the time, and I had to I had to like

631
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 3: give it up, and I was so sad. I was

632
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 3: literally just telling my partners and I was like, man,

633
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 3: I miss flying. I'd be on Instagram and I see

634
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 3: all my friends and I'm like, oh, I missed en

635
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 3: a flight tendant. But I always knew it was one

636
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:14,719
Speaker 3: of those things that eventually it would have to come

637
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 3: to an end. And I feel like it came to

638
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 3: an end because things started getting like more severe. Like

639
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 3: anybody that has worked with me, anytime I was getting

640
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 3: off the plane, I will always take take the I

641
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 3: would always take like a bottle of water because people

642
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 3: used to say, Oh, maybe it's the type of water,

643
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 3: maybe it's this, maybe it's that. So it was just

644
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 3: a lie. It was like a whole routine on top

645
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 3: of having to be like a productive person that works.

646
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 3: So it was just two months. So now like I

647
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 3: just stay home. My only job is I take the

648
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 3: kids to school, and I go to the grocery store

649
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 3: and even sometimes that girl sometimes that is a bit much.

650
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 3: But when it does rain here, like my neighbor like

651
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 3: show help. As soon as they see Raindell'll call, hey,

652
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 3: where you at.

653
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 2: Oh that's good.

654
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, so they'll come and get my son walk cam

655
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 3: and my daughter daycare. They're great, Like whenever it's raining,

656
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 3: as soon as they see my little car pull up,

657
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 3: somebody's at the door and they come out and gear her.

658
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 3: So I don't really have to, you know, like the outside.

659
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 3: So the people who do know, they help. That's one

660
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 3: thing I can say. I guess like being a little

661
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 3: bit more vocal about it now, I'm getting a little

662
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 3: bit more help because people they know, Yeah, and the

663
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 3: fact that they've seen me experience certain things of like,

664
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 3: oh girl, I don't want you to go through that,

665
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 3: So I got it.

666
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's really good. And that's the importance of sharing

667
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 2: the importance of sharing your story because that's how you

668
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 2: build your community.

669
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 3: Yeah.

670
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 2: Has there ever been a time just looking back now,

671
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 2: because like hearing your story and like hearing the thoughts

672
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 2: of you, like talking about how you went into shock

673
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 2: and you just thinking that's just a part of the

674
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 2: you know, the allergy react you've reacting to the allergy.

675
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 2: Has there ever been a time when you thought that

676
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 2: things could have been fatal?

677
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 3: Yeah? Two years ago. Yeah, two years ago. I definitely.

678
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 3: And it's not even just to your ago. Two years

679
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 3: ago is when I was like, Okay, wow, I can

680
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 3: really die. Like nobody has ever like sat down and

681
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 3: like told me like the real severity of allergy. Because yeah,

682
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 3: it wasn't until I experienced certain things to where I

683
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 3: was like, okay, now it's serious. But a lot of

684
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 3: times I look back and I'm like, wow, I could

685
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 3: have died. But then again, it's like during at those

686
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 3: times me experiencing those things, I didn't know those things

687
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 3: could have happened, and the people around me didn't think

688
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 3: those things could happen. So now I'm like, I'm happy

689
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 3: that I'm at a point in my life now where

690
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 3: it's like I'm not looking for validation from anybody. So

691
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 3: if I feel a certain type of way now and

692
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 3: I express it, I don't care if you take me serious,

693
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 3: because in the past, I just to feel like Okay,

694
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 3: people may feel like, Okay, you're doing too much, like

695
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 3: you know, you over exaggerated, overdoing it. But it's like

696
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 3: now that I like, I'm gonna say i've had close calls,

697
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 3: I don't have to say much for people to take

698
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 3: me serious. Yeah, there are ten times ahead because they've

699
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 3: seen it. But man, girl, when I went to the shop,

700
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 3: I was in a back I think for hours, and

701
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 3: it's like I was like, do you see my face?

702
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 3: And my son was like, Mommy, why do you look

703
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 3: like that? My daughter she's too because at the time,

704
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 3: like at the time, like she was crying because it's like, okay,

705
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 3: like I went from looking normal.

706
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 2: Probably was scared.

707
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, she was scared to look partially like deformed. And

708
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 3: I was like, my fan say, like he takes nothing serious.

709
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 3: So he was laughing. He was like yeah, because nobody knew.

710
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 3: Like he was just like, oh, I've never seen it

711
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 3: so bad. And I was complaining that my chest isn't entight,

712
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 3: but like I couldn't breathe. But I don't want to

713
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 3: sound ignorant or anything, but I wouldn't even think about

714
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 3: going into anaplectic chap. I didn't shock. I didn't think

715
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 3: that was I didn't happened. Yeah, yeah, I didn't even

716
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 3: I ain't think that far. To be really honest with you,

717
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 3: I didn't think that far because I'm learning about this

718
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 3: alga myself, and it's like whatever I experience and I

719
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 3: go to the dactor, that's how they documented. That's how

720
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 3: get information on it, because we have to experience certain

721
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 3: things to give them knowledge. And that's the funny thing.

722
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 3: Because it's not so many of us, there's not so

723
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 3: much information on it, which is why there's nothing. So

724
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 3: it's just like if I should do anything right now

725
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 3: and I get a little scratch or I document it,

726
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 3: and when I go to the daughter I can say, hey,

727
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 3: like I noticed, if I do this, then this happens,

728
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 3: and then they'll sit down and they'll ask questions. I'm like, oh,

729
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 3: this this is how these researchers are done. Like you

730
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 3: have to provide information for it to you know, for

731
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 3: them to know what's going on. So now I just

732
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 3: be like, I don't play with water, Like it could

733
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 3: be a t spool, a tablespool, I don't play with it. Yeah.

734
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 2: I know that you posted an older black lady on

735
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 2: your story and she was in the hospital because she

736
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 2: is alleged to water as well. Do you reach out

737
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 2: to people when you do find them, just so y'all

738
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 2: can share notes and things and like see like what

739
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 2: caused this for her? And because she was like I

740
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 2: was like, wow, the.

741
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 3: Funny thing is someone sent her a story to me,

742
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 3: but when I'm went on her TikTok, it wasn't something

743
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 3: that she really spoke about. And as I went through

744
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 3: her comments, like she had other illnesses as well. Now

745
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 3: that's the only thing I've noticed, Like the only two

746
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 3: people that I've really reached out to is Nia and

747
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 3: someone else. Like I think she's like in Cali, but

748
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 3: hers is worse than mine. When I listen, some of

749
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 3: these people got these things like so bad because, like

750
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 3: I said, like the two that I know about.

751
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,359
Speaker 2: Her way worse than you. I mean, I hadn't seen

752
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 2: pictures of yours, but hers look really bad.

753
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 3: Really bad. And that's because so she was drinking water

754
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 3: to stay hydrated. See I know better, I don't. I

755
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 3: don't mess with it. And it's like now I'm at

756
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 3: a Now I'm at a point where I don't. I

757
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 3: already know the drinking the water affects me because I've

758
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 3: experienced it years ago. Whether you believe me or not,

759
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 3: I just the men I see one side. I don't

760
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 3: go back to it. I immediately changed. So she was

761
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 3: drinking the water to stay hydrated because it's as hot

762
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 3: as hell, and by her doing so, Atlanta her in

763
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 3: the hospital too. She was getting HI so she had

764
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 3: to get IV through fluids. But I was telling my

765
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 3: partner a lot of times, I'm in here and I'm like,

766
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 3: I know I'm behydrated, but it's like to go to

767
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 3: the hospital and pay all this money. It's just like

768
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 3: in order to know, Like first of all, if I

769
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:13,880
Speaker 3: go to my primary care, they're gonna tell me to

770
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:15,320
Speaker 3: go to the hospital, which means I'm gonna go to

771
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 3: the merchanty room. I already know what's gonna happen. And to

772
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 3: be honest with you, I be feeling like you become

773
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 3: a test dummy. It's like there is nothing for this though.

774
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 3: It's like I just feel like they're gonna be trying everything.

775
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 3: But i'd be telling him, like I know what it

776
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 3: is outside, which is why I don't try to go outside,

777
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,279
Speaker 3: because I know it's gonna drain my energy. But I

778
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:35,719
Speaker 3: just stay inside and I dras, stick to my coconut water.

779
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 3: I'll missed with nothing else and I just keep it moving.

780
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know the people who I know,

781
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 3: like I be knocking out wood because like their health

782
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 3: has deteriorated over the years.

783
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 2: Well, let's get into your everyday routine. Cause baby, her

784
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 2: skin is blistling. Baby, these teeth are white. Okay, you

785
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 2: look for somebody who won't drink no water. You look good, honey.

786
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,800
Speaker 3: You know, be like, oh, drink water in mayo business.

787
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 3: I'm like, yo, okay, it is, But I don't know.

788
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:03,799
Speaker 3: I feel my skin is really not that great. But

789
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 3: the lighting does play like a big rolette. But if

790
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 3: you're seeing your person was like, okay, no.

791
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 2: This brown skin for the wind. Baby, that skin is

792
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:12,799
Speaker 2: glistening over there.

793
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,720
Speaker 3: Okay, oh my god.

794
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 2: Let's talk about you. Welcome. So, like, tell us about

795
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 2: your routine because I know you have to prepare when

796
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 2: it comes to like taking a bath or taking a

797
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:25,720
Speaker 2: shower or even just washing your washing your face.

798
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,240
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm. So the start of my morning every morning,

799
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 3: as I wake up, I take algapo. So I have

800
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 3: two forms. I haven't one that I get from the

801
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 3: pharmacy over the counter, and I have one that was

802
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 3: prescribed to me. But the one that was prescribed to me.

803
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 3: I don't take it in the morning is because it

804
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 3: does it makes me sleepy. So on days when I know,

805
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 3: like I have to take my kids full obviously don't

806
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 3: take it. I'll take like zirtech or something. But I

807
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 3: have to take that before I start my day to prepare. Well.

808
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 3: I just recently updated my my morning routine. Is my

809
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:00,839
Speaker 3: morning routine as far as like my tee because girl,

810
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 3: I did not know that Colgate made like what are

811
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,319
Speaker 3: those toothbrushes? Like I just discovered that the other day

812
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 3: because wow, I don't know. It's just like certain things

813
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 3: you don't even think about because certain things just come

814
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 3: natural in life. Right, So in the past, when I

815
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 3: was brushing my teeth or anything, i'd have to use

816
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 3: gloves and even renting my mouth, it was causing me

817
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 3: to have blisters. That's something I noticed last year too.

818
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 2: So to what you never got listeners before until recently.

819
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 3: Never yeah, until recently. So what I started doing now

820
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 3: is I opt out from water and I used peroxide.

821
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 3: So that's why I used to like risk on out whatever.

822
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 3: But then I came across like the Colgate Waterless too

823
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 3: per shit, so I started using that because you don't

824
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,359
Speaker 3: need too you don't need water, So I used that

825
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 3: and girl, then I discovered to two paste tablets. I

826
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 3: didn't even know that was a thing, did not know

827
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:48,839
Speaker 3: was the thing. So it it's like a pill form

828
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:50,839
Speaker 3: and you just taking you chew it or whatever and

829
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 3: good to go. When it comes to shinering. Now, when

830
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 3: I started sharing my story, a lot of people is like,

831
00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 3: you should use you should use those things they use

832
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 3: in hospis And I was like, I never thought about that,

833
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,359
Speaker 3: never thought about how they took their showers, never thought

834
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 3: about anything. And that's when people it's like oh you

835
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 3: should use those. They have no rins body washes. Did

836
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:13,720
Speaker 3: not know it was a thing because again, like nobody

837
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 3: properly informed me. So that's what I started doing research.

838
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 3: I went on Amazon, and now I have a whole

839
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 3: bunch of like New Rents body washes and the little

840
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 3: wash pots. So I was torturing myself before and it

841
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 3: wasn't even like I was torturing myself. It was just

842
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 3: multiple I just didn't know. So it's like I went

843
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 3: from like having a pre soaked my pre soaked my rag,

844
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 3: putting everything in the tub, like taking it back to

845
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 3: the baby days. I went to taking it back to

846
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 3: the baby days. For now. It's just like things are

847
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:42,799
Speaker 3: so much easier now because I cut a lot of

848
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 3: process out, but at the end of the day, I

849
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 3: still have to clean myself. So at some points I

850
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:52,359
Speaker 3: have to still interact with the water. So even though

851
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 3: I used like the New Rents body washes, like no

852
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 3: Ren's shampoos, Girl, there come a time where I gotta

853
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 3: get a good two minutes and those are usually one

854
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 3: that the ones that killed me because I have to

855
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 3: actually like cleanse myself like throughout the day. This is

856
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 3: how I clean my hands.

857
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 2: She is, what's that hand sanitizer?

858
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 3: Hand sanitizer. Yeah, so I have these like all around

859
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,400
Speaker 3: my house. You know, like you wash your hands about

860
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 3: maybe twenty thirty times a day. For me, I try

861
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 3: to limit my contact or order. So I'll use hand

862
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 3: sanitizer all throughout the day until I finally have to

863
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 3: wash my hands because after a while, your hands started

864
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 3: to feel dirty. So like I'll leave everything, like I know,

865
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 3: like when when it's school time in the morning time,

866
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 3: I'll do a now rent squash whatever to start my day.

867
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, I know, once

868
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 3: my daughter come home, I'm gonna have to get in

869
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 3: the water because I have to thank her. So it's

870
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 3: like I combine everything all at once. So it's like

871
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 3: when she take a shower, I take a shower. So

872
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 3: she's a water baby. Both of my kids are water babies.

873
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 3: I'm a two second baby. So it's like baby mommy

874
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 3: got to go in, but mommy gotta come out. Yeah,

875
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 3: she doesn't understand like how she can stay in the

876
00:39:58,080 --> 00:39:59,799
Speaker 3: water for so long. But for me, it's just like

877
00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:01,799
Speaker 3: a this is me in the water, and then it's

878
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 3: like that, yeah, so I don't girls, it's a lot.

879
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 3: It's it's stressful, but I mean I just have to

880
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 3: I just have to live with it, and I just

881
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:13,880
Speaker 3: have to find ways to make it like better.

882
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 2: I'm surprised these brands ain't reach out to you and

883
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 2: to partner with you.

884
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 3: I think they scared. Honestly, I don't know what it is,

885
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 3: because like, they have no issue commenting on my videos,

886
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 3: but when it comes to like I just feel like

887
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 3: when people see me, I was like, Okay, yeah, we're

888
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 3: gonna stay away from that because at the end of

889
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 3: the day, I'm allergic to water. Every product water and

890
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 3: water is typically the first ingredient. I've never had an

891
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 3: issue where the products make my skin react, and I

892
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,239
Speaker 3: always feel like it's probably because they're so diluted. It's

893
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 3: so much stuff in it anyway, so it's like it

894
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 3: won't really bother me. But I always felt like, damn,

895
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 3: here I am in my routines, like I'm doing this product,

896
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 3: I'm showing this product, and none of them reach out.

897
00:40:58,040 --> 00:40:59,919
Speaker 3: But they be quitting like come, oh, we love your video.

898
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:01,400
Speaker 2: Are you reaching out to them.

899
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 3: I've reached out to many grands and I stopped because

900
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,799
Speaker 3: a lot of them it's the same oh, Unfortunately at

901
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 3: this time, we're not looking for any And then I

902
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:12,280
Speaker 3: go on Instagram and I see like a new video,

903
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 3: Oh my god, such and such partner. I go on

904
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 3: TikTok and I just see like, oh, okay. I just

905
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 3: feel like I'm just not the I don't know. I

906
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 3: just feel like because their product may have the one

907
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:25,240
Speaker 3: thing that I'm saying, I'm alert, So I just feel

908
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:27,439
Speaker 3: like it could be a little controversial. And I also

909
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 3: feel like maybe the person who's reading my messages probably like, yeah,

910
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 3: this girl crazy. We don't want nothing to do with her.

911
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 3: Just like my like my fans, he always sent me

912
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:37,319
Speaker 3: like when when it's your time, it'll be your time,

913
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 3: Like they'll reach out to you when the right person

914
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 3: see it. So now I just make my videos. And

915
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:44,920
Speaker 3: I used to always say I'm not gonna tag any brands.

916
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 3: I use the product because it gives me some form

917
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 3: of comfort. I'm not saying your product stops whatever I'm

918
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 3: going through, but it could be ten product on the line,

919
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:56,360
Speaker 3: and one of the ten is going to make me

920
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 3: feel a little bit better. And that's why I use

921
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 3: your product. I'm not using your because oh I'm trying

922
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 3: to get a brand deal. No, I'm actually using your

923
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:05,759
Speaker 3: product because it does bring some aid into my life.

924
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,319
Speaker 3: But I just feel like maybe the right person on

925
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,439
Speaker 3: that team just they just haven't seen the video. That's

926
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:13,319
Speaker 3: that's how I always take it and not kind of

927
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 3: be like emotional. But everyone is like, oh, I'm surprised

928
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 3: you don't have a brand deal. I'm like, I'm surprised too,

929
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,760
Speaker 3: but it's just probably not my time yet.

930
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we're gonna put it out there because

931
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 2: I mean, you be you, you, You talk about these

932
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:28,840
Speaker 2: brands all the time, so they need to support you

933
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 2: on this journey and they never know this can help

934
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:34,840
Speaker 2: some other people out and make people even want to

935
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:37,240
Speaker 2: support them even more, because that is true. Like sometimes

936
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,600
Speaker 2: it gets frustrating as a well, it's a content creator.

937
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 2: I'm doing air quotes, but this is your life. But

938
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 2: it's frustrated when you see other people getting these brand

939
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 2: deals and there, and it's just like yo, like I

940
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 2: really have a story for your brand, right.

941
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 3: Like people use these products all because of a lot

942
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 3: of people use products all because of the string of

943
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 3: like influencing, right, But it's like here I am, I'm

944
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 3: telling you, Like I remember when I posted my I

945
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 3: posted my trolley of all the products I used, and

946
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 3: this is when like the New York Post reached out

947
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 3: to me, and the lady that interviewed she was like,

948
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,879
Speaker 3: you have to use all these products, and I said, yes, yes,

949
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 3: because each and every one of them provides something, like

950
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 3: each one of these products provides something that the one

951
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:23,720
Speaker 3: I used before did it. But surprisingly, when they're all together,

952
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 3: they made me feel better. I'm not saying like when

953
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 3: I use the products like poof my allergies on like,

954
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 3: it's a process, it's a step. So I'm like, you know,

955
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 3: a lot of these products because they may have mental

956
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 3: in it. It makes my feel it makes the skin

957
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 3: feel cooler, so it gives me the illusion that at

958
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:45,400
Speaker 3: least my body's no longer hot cool during all this step.

959
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 3: I can't use regular lotions, so I have to use

960
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 3: like an itching lotion, so I go for this itchulotion

961
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 3: because da da da. And she was like, wow, that's

962
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 3: a lot you're putting on your body, and it was like,

963
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 3: I can't do any better, Like it's that's just what

964
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 3: my life is. And I've gotten, I've gotten, I've got

965
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 3: used to it. It's like you don't use as many products.

966
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:07,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so what do you eat like? Because I

967
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 2: know you can't eat certain things, so like what does

968
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 2: that look like?

969
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:15,359
Speaker 3: Funny thing is I eat? I eat regular? Oh good, yeah,

970
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 3: I eat regular. I don't do anything. The only thing

971
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 3: I don't do is just uh, I don't just drink

972
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 3: like water, bikes, solf, but I mean cook with it.

973
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:25,320
Speaker 3: I can't find a way around it. I was literally

974
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,320
Speaker 3: just telling my partner too that I was like, oh,

975
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:29,799
Speaker 3: the kids are not here, so I'm gonna try changing

976
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 3: the way I eat because I used to be a

977
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 3: pescatarian before. But it's like now He's like, oh, but

978
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:36,320
Speaker 3: you got a houseful of people that eat this. But

979
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:39,319
Speaker 3: I was like, well, it'll just be me, so at

980
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 3: least I don't have to be buying the same thing

981
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 3: for a house full of people. You know, you guys

982
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 3: eat regular, not just you know, I eat this way,

983
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 3: but in the food, it doesn't bother me. It's just like, yeah,

984
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:52,320
Speaker 3: it's just like when girl, If it never gets to

985
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 3: that point, I don't know what I would do to

986
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:56,280
Speaker 3: you know, I'd be trying to like find like ways,

987
00:44:56,280 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 3: like like I want to get into waterless skin care

988
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:03,319
Speaker 3: and to find a brand girl that does not have

989
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 3: water and it's hard. That's just it. It's like a

990
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 3: do or don't think. It's like if it's not water,

991
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 3: it's gonna be alcohol, and alcohol is gonna dry your

992
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:13,360
Speaker 3: skin out. So I was doing some research yesterday and

993
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, it's a few brands that they

994
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 3: may carry like products to where and all it is

995
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 3: as long as the water is not the first and greeting.

996
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 3: You know, it's not going to be that bad. But

997
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:26,360
Speaker 3: ain't that many of them? Like and even if you

998
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:29,400
Speaker 3: go on Amazon, you may see them market it as

999
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 3: water less or whatever. Because I noticed the other day

1000
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:33,320
Speaker 3: I did a search on TikTok and I'm like, is

1001
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 3: this like supposed to be like a new wave because

1002
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 3: I'm like, it's a slap in the face for people

1003
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:40,239
Speaker 3: who really do have like these allergies in your It's

1004
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 3: like you market it as water less and it's just

1005
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 3: like still watering it. Yes, it's truly not. And then

1006
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:49,280
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, maybe how do you create a product

1007
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:53,799
Speaker 3: that doesn't have water in it? It's kind of like,

1008
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:56,879
Speaker 3: dan you do, then you don't. So it's like it's

1009
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:58,919
Speaker 3: a it's a give and take. I just I work

1010
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 3: with what I got for the most start cleaning my face,

1011
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:03,320
Speaker 3: I just use a Baby Wife. Man. Yes, the Baby

1012
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:07,400
Speaker 3: Wives have water and it's but I can't do no better. Yeah, yeah,

1013
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 3: it's not as damp as using the water water. Yeah,

1014
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:14,720
Speaker 3: I can deal with a little thing. If it does,

1015
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:17,320
Speaker 3: I could deal with that. But I use Baby Wives

1016
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:19,320
Speaker 3: to clean my face. Like you wake up in the morning,

1017
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 3: you would either you turn on the water, you wash

1018
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 3: your face. For me, I go in the bathroom and

1019
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 3: I flip that thing open, I pull a wipe out

1020
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:29,320
Speaker 3: and I clean my face. Or now I started using

1021
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 3: like the No Rents, I wash it because you can

1022
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:34,279
Speaker 3: use them on your face, but some of them have

1023
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:36,799
Speaker 3: like a sticky feeling it, so like even if you

1024
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,959
Speaker 3: use it, you still feel when I touch my skin,

1025
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 3: it's like it's yeah, I just feel like I'm not clean,

1026
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:47,319
Speaker 3: and it's just like I'm already paranoid about I don't

1027
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:49,359
Speaker 3: do things the same as everybody else, so adding these

1028
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 3: products to it is like, yeah, I'll just stick to

1029
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 3: the Baby Wives where I just wipe my face. If

1030
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:55,879
Speaker 3: I got to run through ten a day, I run

1031
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 3: through ten a day. But I just used the Baby Wives.

1032
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 2: You know, I'm curious, how did you prepare for childbirth?

1033
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:03,280
Speaker 3: I had a sea section.

1034
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:05,840
Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay.

1035
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:07,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, both of my kids I had a sea sections.

1036
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 3: And I always I tell them I'm allergic to water.

1037
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:15,919
Speaker 3: But God bless you, one person on your team knows

1038
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:18,359
Speaker 3: that this is a real thing or heard of it.

1039
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 3: And I want to say maybe now, because now, if

1040
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 3: I started share my story, I've seen a lot of

1041
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,880
Speaker 3: nurses like, hey, I've come in contact with people in

1042
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 3: the hospital that are allergic to water. It is still

1043
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:32,279
Speaker 3: it's still not known, but it's not like one of

1044
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:34,759
Speaker 3: those things where it was like what, I never heard

1045
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 3: of it. But I had two sea sections, and I

1046
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:41,280
Speaker 3: always like to tell the doctors that, yeah, I'm allergic

1047
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 3: to water, and I do everything the same with pregnancy.

1048
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 3: I just you know, they tell you got to drink

1049
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 3: this amount of water. Girl, I ain't do none. That

1050
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:50,279
Speaker 3: I drank everything I was supposed to drink because.

1051
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:51,840
Speaker 2: I got no choice.

1052
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:53,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not gonna come in here and tell you

1053
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 3: I drank a galling water to day because I lie.

1054
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:57,719
Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever drank a gallant on water Day.

1055
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:00,359
Speaker 3: You may see me with a big old pretty water

1056
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 3: thing because it's cute. If I'm out at the restaurant,

1057
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 3: everybody at the table got a cup of water. No,

1058
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 3: thank you. You know I can't have the water. I'm allergit.

1059
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 3: What did you go ahead and put that water right there?

1060
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 3: As soon as you walk off, I move it to

1061
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:15,479
Speaker 3: tide like I don't touch it even like as simple

1062
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 3: the simple thing is. The other day we went out

1063
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:21,279
Speaker 3: to eat for Talk of Tuesday and I got a margarita,

1064
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:23,720
Speaker 3: and when the guy brought the glass on the waiter

1065
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:26,840
Speaker 3: bought the glass, I wrapped the glass with napkins, and

1066
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 3: it was like, why would you do that? And I

1067
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 3: was like, because the glass is gonna sweat. And when

1068
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 3: it's sweat, why he acting like he'll know what time

1069
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 3: it is. He was like, I didn't think about that.

1070
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:42,719
Speaker 3: And he was like, why you just don't hold it

1071
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:45,279
Speaker 3: by the candle and I was like, I don't know.

1072
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 3: Sometimes out of just a natural instinct, I just grabbed

1073
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 3: for the cop whether it's the handle or the body,

1074
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 3: and I was like, I just wrap it because if

1075
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 3: the moisture from the cup get on my hand, like

1076
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:58,520
Speaker 3: makes my hand in second, makes it red. Like I

1077
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:00,319
Speaker 3: don't want to sit at the restaurant and be like

1078
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:02,879
Speaker 3: this because I'm gonna start making everybody around me uncomfortable.

1079
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:06,120
Speaker 3: Like I feel like people naturally already scoring you when

1080
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 3: they feel like you have some some form of illness.

1081
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 3: Like so it's like, I don't want to be like

1082
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 3: this because if you turn around and look at me

1083
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 3: too many times and I'm doing this, You're gonna start

1084
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:20,920
Speaker 3: like right and then not even on top of it,

1085
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:22,839
Speaker 3: I didn't have my wig on, so I'm walking around

1086
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 3: with my bald head. Then that's a whole nother story.

1087
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:27,840
Speaker 3: But I'm just like, yeah, I don't want all the

1088
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:49,799
Speaker 3: but I don't want all that attention because I'm like, yeah, yeah.

1089
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 2: Because I know you mentioned before that you are allergic

1090
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:47,279
Speaker 2: to your own sweat and your tears. So not to

1091
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 2: get in your business or anything. But is it difficult

1092
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:50,800
Speaker 2: for you to be intimate with your husband?

1093
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 3: I got this question a lot, but kind of but

1094
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 3: I feel like we found he's like to work around

1095
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:04,359
Speaker 3: certain Yeah, certain things I just don't do.

1096
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't do you probably can't do it.

1097
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,800
Speaker 3: I just can't do. Yeah, he understands. Like I feel

1098
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 3: like I was blessed enough to get with a person

1099
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:18,880
Speaker 3: that was mature enough to understand certain things. And I

1100
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:21,359
Speaker 3: don't know, I just naturally feel like because he's seen

1101
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 3: me experience like so many different like stages of this thing,

1102
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:27,319
Speaker 3: like he's just gotten to the point he's just like, yeah,

1103
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:30,879
Speaker 3: they like I just prefer we just don't do this,

1104
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 3: Like you know, when I was pregnant, like I want

1105
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 3: it so hard to try to have a badger of birth,

1106
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 3: and like when they were explaining like everything, he was like, yeah, no,

1107
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:41,759
Speaker 3: he was like, just just just stick to just stick

1108
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:44,320
Speaker 3: to what you did before. And I was like, oh, okay,

1109
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:48,360
Speaker 3: so yeah, yes, A plus having somebody that he's mature

1110
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:51,279
Speaker 3: enough to understand that, Okay, I'm not just not doing

1111
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:53,160
Speaker 3: it because I don't want to. But it's kind of

1112
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:55,360
Speaker 3: like a life or death do you want to stop

1113
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:58,239
Speaker 3: in the middle of getting your groove on and in

1114
00:50:58,239 --> 00:50:58,840
Speaker 3: the middle of it?

1115
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 2: But has that happened before?

1116
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:06,120
Speaker 3: Oh? Thank god, hothfully it hasn't happened before. But I

1117
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 3: mean the most that has happened after, you know, I

1118
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:11,759
Speaker 3: go like in an itch frendy, like I have to

1119
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 3: sit there and scratch myself and sometimes it's just I

1120
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 3: ain't gonna lie for anybody. It could be a bit overwhelming,

1121
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 3: because sometimes for me it's a bit overwhelming, So I

1122
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:22,360
Speaker 3: can only imagine like for a person dealing with it

1123
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 3: from there outside, it's like damn again.

1124
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:28,279
Speaker 2: Like yeah, right, but like you say, thank God for

1125
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 2: your husband that he's patient and also just mature enough

1126
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:33,320
Speaker 2: to deal with that, because some people are just so ignorant,

1127
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:36,240
Speaker 2: and you know, they would think that you're being selfish

1128
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:37,799
Speaker 2: or what every case may be, when honestly you just

1129
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 2: can't do certain things things. Yeah, yeah, now recently, because y'all,

1130
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 2: we were supposed to have this conversation, what maybe some

1131
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:47,160
Speaker 2: months ago or something?

1132
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:51,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, like three or four months ago actually.

1133
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, and she the day of our interview, you emailed

1134
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:56,279
Speaker 2: me and you were saying how he was in the hospital.

1135
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:58,719
Speaker 2: And then when I follow up with you because I'm like,

1136
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 2: I really want to share your story the show. You

1137
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:03,399
Speaker 2: recently told me how you have to shave your hair

1138
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:09,680
Speaker 2: off because of your allergy, I'm bold. Yeah, she's showing

1139
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:11,399
Speaker 2: me her hair sleeping, pulling the wig back.

1140
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:11,880
Speaker 3: Baby.

1141
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:15,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, so how has that been? Because I can only

1142
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:18,359
Speaker 2: imagine how emotional you probably were.

1143
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:21,879
Speaker 3: It is, and like I, like I say, even now,

1144
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 3: like I've had shortcuts before because I was short and

1145
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 3: blonde like years ago, but like I said, like I

1146
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 3: was scalped bald, and it's like it's so funny because

1147
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:37,839
Speaker 3: like I did a video of like everything I experienced

1148
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 3: in one month, and I just felt like the next

1149
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:42,000
Speaker 3: month it was just like damn, it just went downhill,

1150
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:44,680
Speaker 3: like real fast because I share. I shared a video

1151
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:49,080
Speaker 3: of what happens when I sweat, even like right now

1152
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 3: I know wearing this wig like it's gonna it's gonna

1153
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:54,480
Speaker 3: offset me, but I'm just not fully comfortable yet on

1154
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:56,759
Speaker 3: camera with like my head like it's still not at

1155
00:52:56,760 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 3: the length that I'm used to. So I guess what's happened,

1156
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:01,920
Speaker 3: And it was like the perimeter of my head is

1157
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 3: always problematic even when I have my PIXI cut because.

1158
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:06,160
Speaker 2: That's the way cap is at too.

1159
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:09,360
Speaker 3: Though, yeah, that's when the way happened. And even naturally,

1160
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 3: when when you cover your head, it starts from the perimeter.

1161
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:14,840
Speaker 3: So I have shared some pictures and it was like

1162
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:17,160
Speaker 3: the perimeter of my head I would have sores and

1163
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 3: it dates back to when I shared the video. Caw

1164
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:21,240
Speaker 3: washed my hair as soon as I got out a shower,

1165
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:23,719
Speaker 3: Like the perimeter of my hair was like sores, and

1166
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:25,640
Speaker 3: it got to the point, okay, cool. I cut my

1167
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 3: hair into the pixie cut, and it was all good

1168
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:30,399
Speaker 3: for like three days, and I feel like the third day,

1169
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:33,160
Speaker 3: like prayer, I was like, oh, you should have just

1170
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:35,719
Speaker 3: cut it, because like you spent all this money and

1171
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 3: da da dad, and I was like, well, I didn't

1172
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:39,720
Speaker 3: think it was gonna, you know, happen this quick because

1173
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 3: now I have a pixie cut. And then it went

1174
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 3: to the point where, like two weeks into the PIXI

1175
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 3: cut girl, I had to cut it. So I cut

1176
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 3: it a little bit and then I noticed I was

1177
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:50,880
Speaker 3: still having the same issues and it was actually getting

1178
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:53,279
Speaker 3: worse because I'm like, okay, it's summertime, so it's even

1179
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:56,880
Speaker 3: hotter outside. And one day I was here and I

1180
00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 3: couldn't do a girl. I couldn't take it no more.

1181
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:02,120
Speaker 3: Like my head it was and I felt like because

1182
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:04,360
Speaker 3: it was itching and I was getting sores. When you

1183
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:07,320
Speaker 3: get scaps, if you've ever seen somebody get scaps in

1184
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:10,239
Speaker 3: their scalp, like it takes the hair with it, so

1185
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:12,440
Speaker 3: you know, I would like scrape the comb and it

1186
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 3: was like taking my hair, and like it got to

1187
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:16,800
Speaker 3: the point where I posted a video to like you

1188
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:19,520
Speaker 3: can see it's like my hairline is here, and then

1189
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:22,080
Speaker 3: it was a little like pick like you said, no hair,

1190
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:24,239
Speaker 3: and then like my hair starts, and I just got

1191
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:25,719
Speaker 3: to the point I was like, I'm just I'm just

1192
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 3: gonna cut my hair. The kids are not here, so

1193
00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:29,640
Speaker 3: I don't really have to go outside, and if I

1194
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 3: do have to go outside, I just put on a hat.

1195
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:34,239
Speaker 3: I cut my hair and it was low to where

1196
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 3: it was like ball ball and girl, I kid you not.

1197
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 3: The next two days after that, I was having the

1198
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:41,640
Speaker 3: same issue and then it started like it was like

1199
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 3: going around my head. So I just I just decided

1200
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:46,840
Speaker 3: to cut it. I just chopped it all off like scalp,

1201
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:51,880
Speaker 3: like baby scalp. Yeah, And then I did it like that,

1202
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 3: and then I thought I thought we were good, you know,

1203
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 3: like I didn't have any issues. But on day two,

1204
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:01,640
Speaker 3: we do walk every night, and we normally walk at

1205
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 3: nice because it's cooler, the sun is down whatever, and

1206
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:06,840
Speaker 3: on this night, like it was cool. It wasn't like

1207
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:11,319
Speaker 3: humid or anything, but we walked. When I came back home,

1208
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:13,759
Speaker 3: oh my god. The next morning I woke up, my

1209
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:17,200
Speaker 3: fencer was like, oh my God, bay your head and

1210
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:18,840
Speaker 3: I had like a lot of heat bumps, like in

1211
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 3: the back. It was disgusting. I had a lot of

1212
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:23,320
Speaker 3: like heat bumps or whatever. And I was like, yeah, okay,

1213
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:25,560
Speaker 3: so I stopped going outside. So now that it's growing

1214
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:27,239
Speaker 3: back like a little bit, even though it's growing back

1215
00:55:27,239 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 3: a little bit, like you could, yeah, like I have

1216
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:31,800
Speaker 3: a lot of like trauma and stuff. Yeah, so I

1217
00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 3: just I can't wait for the face to be over.

1218
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:37,840
Speaker 2: And I feel like with short hair, though everybody.

1219
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:39,440
Speaker 3: Says that, but when I was like walking out here

1220
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:41,480
Speaker 3: looking like somebody going through, I was just like, no,

1221
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:46,680
Speaker 3: nobody uncles. I was like, no, I call my daughter.

1222
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:48,840
Speaker 3: She's with her grandparents and I was like, I just

1223
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:52,440
Speaker 3: gotten a camera. She was staring at She was just like, mommy,

1224
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 3: you're so pretty. And I was like, oh, thank you.

1225
00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:58,840
Speaker 3: She's like kids are so innocent. But girl, my eleven

1226
00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:00,440
Speaker 3: year old, he was like, nah, wow, did you do that?

1227
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:03,680
Speaker 3: One day?

1228
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:06,400
Speaker 2: He was like why would you do that and be

1229
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:09,359
Speaker 2: cursing your kids out here, especially a little one because

1230
00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 2: he was trying it.

1231
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:11,879
Speaker 3: I was like, do you want me to be walking

1232
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:13,880
Speaker 3: around here? I said, would you rub me? Have patches

1233
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:15,880
Speaker 3: in my head? Like where you see puffs and blood,

1234
00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:19,520
Speaker 3: definitely to be scalped. He was like scalp, but I'm

1235
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:22,120
Speaker 3: just saying, why would you do that? Right? I was like,

1236
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:24,719
Speaker 3: I'm like, do you understand it? You know understanding? He

1237
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 3: was like I understand, but what it I guess His

1238
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:29,040
Speaker 3: fear was like, is your hair gonna go back? And

1239
00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:31,040
Speaker 3: I was a baby's hair is always gonna grow back,

1240
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:33,640
Speaker 3: so it's like, you know, doesn't bottom, He's just gonna

1241
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:36,839
Speaker 3: go back. But girl being outside with like a scalp head.

1242
00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:39,799
Speaker 3: And then i walked for like three minutes and then

1243
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 3: I'm like I felt I was gidding. Oh the stairs

1244
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 3: made me so uncomfortable. I was like, yeah, I can't

1245
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:48,360
Speaker 3: do it, yeah real quick. And even now, like my

1246
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 3: sister came to the house and she saw my week.

1247
00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:52,520
Speaker 3: She was like, I'm gonna throw it away. Look what

1248
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 3: it did to your head? Are you still wearing? And

1249
00:56:54,239 --> 00:56:56,200
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, I'm not comfortable when I go out,

1250
00:56:56,480 --> 00:56:57,719
Speaker 3: but as soon as I get in the car, I

1251
00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:01,640
Speaker 3: take my wig off, like no question did come on?

1252
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:03,120
Speaker 3: And it comes off. As soon as I come home,

1253
00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:04,520
Speaker 3: I just take it off. But it's just like when

1254
00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:07,440
Speaker 3: I'm in the presence of other people. I just you know,

1255
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:09,400
Speaker 3: now I'm gonna have to explain.

1256
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:13,239
Speaker 2: And how do you maintain a positive outlook despite this

1257
00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 2: entire journey with your water allergy, because I feel like

1258
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 2: I can only imagine how frustrated it has been, but

1259
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:22,640
Speaker 2: you still seem upbeat, positive, optimistic. So how do you

1260
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:23,360
Speaker 2: maintain that?

1261
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 3: You know what, I always say, it could be worse. Yeah,

1262
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:30,320
Speaker 3: I always say, like, yeah, I'm allergic to water. I

1263
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:33,000
Speaker 3: feel like it's more of an inconvenience than it is anything.

1264
00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:36,160
Speaker 3: I always tell myself that it's somebody in a hospital

1265
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:38,240
Speaker 3: that got worse than be right now because they're being

1266
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 3: told that tomorrow maybe they last day or whatever. But

1267
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:45,440
Speaker 3: for me, it's just it's annoying. It's just an inconvenience.

1268
00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:47,520
Speaker 3: And I'm like, you know what, I'd rather live with it,

1269
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:51,160
Speaker 3: live with being inconvenience than you know, to live with whatever,

1270
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:53,240
Speaker 3: even though I know, like, if I do the wrong thing,

1271
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:55,840
Speaker 3: I can also be in that position, but at least

1272
00:57:56,160 --> 00:57:59,320
Speaker 3: I can prevent it. Yeah, there's other people there prevent

1273
00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:02,360
Speaker 3: present that. You know, they can't prevent it. It's how

1274
00:58:02,720 --> 00:58:05,360
Speaker 3: it happened to them, and it's just a waiting game.

1275
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:07,400
Speaker 3: So I just always naturally tell myself that it can

1276
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:10,840
Speaker 3: you know, it's not so bad. And then I tell people,

1277
00:58:10,920 --> 00:58:12,919
Speaker 3: I'm like, you know what, I'm just glass like God

1278
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:16,440
Speaker 3: just picked me. I don't know if he picked. I

1279
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 3: was like, I feel like I feel like I'm a

1280
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 3: special you know, I being church and I was like,

1281
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:23,120
Speaker 3: you know, not, just like God made me a little

1282
00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:26,680
Speaker 3: extra session. And they were like yeah, but I'm just like,

1283
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 3: well here I am trying to tell you I'm trying

1284
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:31,840
Speaker 3: to be positive and you're like what how idea is

1285
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 3: how that? Like a few weeks ago, I was in

1286
00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:37,160
Speaker 3: church and you know, we're talking about like getting baptized

1287
00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:39,120
Speaker 3: and stuff like that, and I was like, well no,

1288
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:41,240
Speaker 3: My partners like you want to get baptized and I

1289
00:58:41,320 --> 00:58:43,240
Speaker 3: was like, okay, well you go first, and then you

1290
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:44,920
Speaker 3: know whatever. I'm like, it's not that I don't want

1291
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:47,000
Speaker 3: to get baptized, it's just you don't know how that

1292
00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:49,560
Speaker 3: process would go, like you know, and I was explaining

1293
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:52,040
Speaker 3: and they were like, but can't you and I was

1294
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:55,760
Speaker 3: like no, yeah. And then it's like they sat and

1295
00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:57,800
Speaker 3: they thought about so much solutions and I'm like, you're

1296
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:00,400
Speaker 3: not really baptized unless you go underneath the water. That's

1297
00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:02,560
Speaker 3: I've never seen it done no other way. I don't

1298
00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:04,280
Speaker 3: know if it can't be done no other way. So

1299
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:08,160
Speaker 3: I just be like, you know, it's it's okay. I'm

1300
00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:11,080
Speaker 3: not worrying about it because I know what would happen

1301
00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:13,680
Speaker 3: if I do that, and knowing that I know what

1302
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:15,480
Speaker 3: happened if I do it, and it's kind of on

1303
00:59:15,600 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 3: me if I put myself in a position in yeah, God,

1304
00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:20,280
Speaker 3: for you know that happens. So it's like I always say,

1305
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:22,000
Speaker 3: you know, we're across that bridge when I get there,

1306
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:24,560
Speaker 3: But for now, I just feel like God just made

1307
00:59:24,560 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 3: me a little extra special.

1308
00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:27,720
Speaker 2: And I think that's so beautiful that you said that,

1309
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:30,560
Speaker 2: because you know, while we having this whole with this conversation,

1310
00:59:31,080 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 2: the whole time, I'm just thinking about like, damn, I

1311
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:35,040
Speaker 2: can just only imagine how many people lost their lives

1312
00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:38,360
Speaker 2: because nobody believed them that they had this water allergy.

1313
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 3: And then the funny thing is, it's like, it's not like,

1314
00:59:43,560 --> 00:59:45,880
Speaker 3: you know, if that should happen to you, do like

1315
00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:48,160
Speaker 3: an autops. You know, typically autops you would show like

1316
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:50,760
Speaker 3: a cause it. Then a lot of people probably went

1317
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:52,880
Speaker 3: out and people just thought it was a natural cause.

1318
00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:57,200
Speaker 3: Not knowing that these people struggle like you struggled, and

1319
00:59:57,320 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 3: they probably didn't even know there was alert to water.

1320
00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:01,560
Speaker 3: So it's you know, you just feel like you're you're

1321
01:00:01,600 --> 01:00:03,640
Speaker 3: going crazy. That's what it does to you, girl, because

1322
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 3: it's like what it would be the last thing you

1323
01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:08,920
Speaker 3: even think you could be allergic to you So it's

1324
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:11,200
Speaker 3: like the pendpoint and it be like, well, it's this

1325
01:00:11,560 --> 01:00:13,800
Speaker 3: like and you have to deal with deal with like

1326
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:16,800
Speaker 3: not knowing like every day you experience this, and that's

1327
01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:18,320
Speaker 3: a lot of people they're like, oh, you know what,

1328
01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:20,560
Speaker 3: I know that every time I take a shower this

1329
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:23,320
Speaker 3: happens or if I do this. And I was like, well,

1330
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:25,680
Speaker 3: you may need to find you an allergis and God

1331
01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:28,600
Speaker 3: bless your heart that you find somebody that's actually like

1332
01:00:29,520 --> 01:00:33,720
Speaker 3: experience and understands experience. Well, I remember, like when I

1333
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:38,760
Speaker 3: first posted my video, you're gonna have people that they're

1334
01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:40,200
Speaker 3: on the fence. It's like I kind of want to

1335
01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:42,439
Speaker 3: believe her because I see she's got like all this proof,

1336
01:00:42,520 --> 01:00:44,400
Speaker 3: but then again I don't. So like a lot of

1337
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 3: people is tagging like doctors. There was tagging doctors on

1338
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:50,240
Speaker 3: my post like alogists. Oh and God bless us. Her

1339
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:53,480
Speaker 3: doctor Ruman, he's an alogist. He's like really big on TikTok,

1340
01:00:53,960 --> 01:00:56,439
Speaker 3: Like he picked up my story and he was like, yep,

1341
01:00:56,760 --> 01:00:58,800
Speaker 3: there there was this there's such thing, and like he

1342
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:01,920
Speaker 3: explained it in detail, and I was like, oh, thank god,

1343
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 3: because I had doctors that coming said and they're like,

1344
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 3: they've never heard of it. But just because you've never

1345
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:09,320
Speaker 3: heard of it doesn't necessarily mean it's not true. You

1346
01:01:09,600 --> 01:01:12,280
Speaker 3: just you weren't spec, you aren't blessed enough to come

1347
01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:16,640
Speaker 3: across me. Girl, that's all right, right right, you will

1348
01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:19,120
Speaker 3: never forget me because like damn that girl alert Swater,

1349
01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:20,600
Speaker 3: you will never forget me.

1350
01:01:20,680 --> 01:01:22,760
Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, do you think there will ever be a cure?

1351
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:24,800
Speaker 2: Or do you hope there there will be one?

1352
01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:27,960
Speaker 3: Don't you know? What? People ask me, and I'll just

1353
01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:30,760
Speaker 3: be like, honestly, I don't even think it's something that's

1354
01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:33,800
Speaker 3: on their radar, Like it's just not too many of us,

1355
01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:35,840
Speaker 3: and because it's a lot of other people out there

1356
01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:38,720
Speaker 3: that is struggling with it, but they themselves probably don't

1357
01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:41,920
Speaker 3: even know that's exactly what it is. It's like you

1358
01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:44,120
Speaker 3: you really don't have anyone like speaking up for yourself

1359
01:01:44,160 --> 01:01:46,400
Speaker 3: and for the five of us. Like, for the five

1360
01:01:46,480 --> 01:01:49,200
Speaker 3: of us, that's well three for the four of us

1361
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:51,720
Speaker 3: that I know, flops come across people making videos about this,

1362
01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:53,840
Speaker 3: it's only four people. And even like the four of

1363
01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:56,840
Speaker 3: us that's saying like we experienced this and all of

1364
01:01:56,960 --> 01:02:00,560
Speaker 3: us seem to experience different things, you still have five

1365
01:02:00,600 --> 01:02:02,920
Speaker 3: people underneath that post saying, oh this is this is

1366
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:04,920
Speaker 3: a lie that allowed there's no way how are you

1367
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 3: still live? Because your your body's made up of seventy

1368
01:02:08,560 --> 01:02:10,080
Speaker 3: percent of water and it's just like a lot of

1369
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:12,280
Speaker 3: things we cannot explain. But because we can't explain, does

1370
01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:14,120
Speaker 3: any these things are not happening? So it's like I

1371
01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:16,520
Speaker 3: can only imagine. Thank God, maybe you're not a doctor,

1372
01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:20,400
Speaker 3: because every patient that came in contact with you, so

1373
01:02:20,960 --> 01:02:23,600
Speaker 3: I honestly don't feel like it's something on their radar.

1374
01:02:24,080 --> 01:02:25,480
Speaker 3: I understand. Wow.

1375
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:28,840
Speaker 2: And last, but not least, what is your advice to

1376
01:02:28,960 --> 01:02:32,160
Speaker 2: someone who has just been diagnosed with this or who

1377
01:02:32,560 --> 01:02:35,440
Speaker 2: they may think that they even might have it and

1378
01:02:35,600 --> 01:02:36,400
Speaker 2: no one believed them.

1379
01:02:37,640 --> 01:02:42,280
Speaker 3: Baby, you gotta be strong on this road. Baby, you

1380
01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:46,320
Speaker 3: have to be strong on this road because for a while,

1381
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:49,200
Speaker 3: you're gonna be the only person that believed whatever it

1382
01:02:49,320 --> 01:02:51,840
Speaker 3: is that you're saying, it's gonna take a while for

1383
01:02:51,960 --> 01:02:54,640
Speaker 3: people around you to like fully believe and take you serious.

1384
01:02:55,080 --> 01:02:57,720
Speaker 3: No matter what you do, Girl, you could go underneath

1385
01:02:57,760 --> 01:03:00,600
Speaker 3: water and da da da il. Girl. Maybe it's this,

1386
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:03,440
Speaker 3: maybe it's maybe it's yourself, Maybe it's the laundry certains

1387
01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:05,440
Speaker 3: like people. I feel like people always try to like

1388
01:03:05,640 --> 01:03:08,240
Speaker 3: downplay that these things are real. So one thing I

1389
01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:10,280
Speaker 3: can say is like to keep your sanity and keep

1390
01:03:10,360 --> 01:03:13,720
Speaker 3: your your yourself like in a mental state, like you

1391
01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:16,160
Speaker 3: just you yourself as long as you believe that this

1392
01:03:16,360 --> 01:03:19,080
Speaker 3: is what it is and you notice what you're going through, Like,

1393
01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:22,440
Speaker 3: don't even don't even depend on or rely on anybody

1394
01:03:22,480 --> 01:03:25,560
Speaker 3: for validation because it only it affects you more than anything.

1395
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:27,760
Speaker 3: Because I spent my whole life like trying to get

1396
01:03:27,800 --> 01:03:30,880
Speaker 3: people to believe me, and only my immediate family did

1397
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:32,880
Speaker 3: And the only reason why they did is because they

1398
01:03:33,040 --> 01:03:36,000
Speaker 3: saw it first with you. It was with me, So

1399
01:03:36,120 --> 01:03:39,160
Speaker 3: it's like I didn't have to convince. But I'm telling you,

1400
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:42,600
Speaker 3: once you experience this that you start trying to convince

1401
01:03:42,680 --> 01:03:45,920
Speaker 3: other people, girl, you're gonna lose yourself. So it's just like,

1402
01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:49,400
Speaker 3: you know what it is, and if you the more

1403
01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:52,160
Speaker 3: you talk about it, you're gonna come across somebody that

1404
01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:55,720
Speaker 3: has either experienced it or is going through it, and

1405
01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:57,560
Speaker 3: that's gonna be the thing that keeps you saying, like

1406
01:03:57,760 --> 01:03:59,360
Speaker 3: a lot of times when I feel down, I just

1407
01:03:59,520 --> 01:04:01,840
Speaker 3: going I go on TikTok and I read my comments

1408
01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:05,080
Speaker 3: like I'm not the only one like I'm I feel

1409
01:04:05,440 --> 01:04:07,520
Speaker 3: like I would say, I feel, I feel seen like

1410
01:04:07,840 --> 01:04:10,240
Speaker 3: I've heard like whether you believe me or not, I

1411
01:04:10,360 --> 01:04:13,720
Speaker 3: know one thing for sure, you will never forget me, okay,

1412
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:16,480
Speaker 3: and you you will never forget me. And it's like

1413
01:04:17,320 --> 01:04:19,480
Speaker 3: even if a person is on the verge of saying

1414
01:04:20,960 --> 01:04:23,320
Speaker 3: I'm not sure it's something in the bottom of their heart,

1415
01:04:23,440 --> 01:04:25,880
Speaker 3: is like they have a little drop of sympathy because

1416
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:29,400
Speaker 3: they could physically see, but because they've never experienced it,

1417
01:04:29,600 --> 01:04:32,680
Speaker 3: it's a high possibility that they still won't even believe you.

1418
01:04:32,840 --> 01:04:35,240
Speaker 3: So you just you just you just got to put

1419
01:04:35,280 --> 01:04:37,320
Speaker 3: your energy into figuring out ways that works for you

1420
01:04:37,440 --> 01:04:40,400
Speaker 3: because all of us are doing it. And some days,

1421
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:42,120
Speaker 3: you know, we like for me, like I want to

1422
01:04:42,120 --> 01:04:43,560
Speaker 3: be a consecrated to so bad girl, but I'm so

1423
01:04:43,680 --> 01:04:46,400
Speaker 3: inconsistent because like it takes one thing to blow my bubble,

1424
01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:48,760
Speaker 3: and I'm just like, nope, no, I'm not doing it

1425
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:51,880
Speaker 3: right because it's like I always say, like, yes, I

1426
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:55,000
Speaker 3: started talking about my journey and my videos, God bless me,

1427
01:04:55,080 --> 01:04:57,080
Speaker 3: they hit the right side of the internet. But I

1428
01:04:57,240 --> 01:04:59,520
Speaker 3: never know every other video I'll put out after that

1429
01:04:59,560 --> 01:05:01,400
Speaker 3: it's going to be the same. And I always feel

1430
01:05:01,440 --> 01:05:03,680
Speaker 3: like all my videos I have to put allergic to

1431
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:06,480
Speaker 3: water because if I just coast a video and I'm like,

1432
01:05:07,840 --> 01:05:09,959
Speaker 3: how I take a shower without no water? Girl, before

1433
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:11,640
Speaker 3: you either listen to the video or watch vide you're

1434
01:05:11,640 --> 01:05:14,440
Speaker 3: gonna call me nasty, But you nasty because how you

1435
01:05:14,520 --> 01:05:17,120
Speaker 3: ain't dad? You got a man. You know, people gonna

1436
01:05:17,200 --> 01:05:19,080
Speaker 3: like go in. So I feel like to always kind

1437
01:05:19,120 --> 01:05:21,840
Speaker 3: of protect my fins because I can get a little sensitive.

1438
01:05:22,280 --> 01:05:25,680
Speaker 3: I always have to put allergic to water, how I

1439
01:05:25,800 --> 01:05:28,800
Speaker 3: take a shower without water, because by you seeing that,

1440
01:05:29,240 --> 01:05:31,400
Speaker 3: it'll make it'll make you want to stick around and like, damn,

1441
01:05:31,440 --> 01:05:33,880
Speaker 3: like you allergic to water. But I just hate the

1442
01:05:33,960 --> 01:05:36,520
Speaker 3: fact that I constantly have to remind the person that hey,

1443
01:05:36,880 --> 01:05:38,520
Speaker 3: I'm allergic to water. But at the same time I

1444
01:05:38,600 --> 01:05:40,600
Speaker 3: have to tell myself that girl, this is not a

1445
01:05:40,680 --> 01:05:43,080
Speaker 3: known thing. So yes, you kind of do have to

1446
01:05:43,200 --> 01:05:46,040
Speaker 3: constantly remind people. But some people gonna be.

1447
01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:46,640
Speaker 1: Okay with them.

1448
01:05:46,720 --> 01:05:49,600
Speaker 2: Some people, yeah, my, And I think like it's like

1449
01:05:49,640 --> 01:05:51,640
Speaker 2: I told you earlier, I think by you constantly sharing

1450
01:05:51,680 --> 01:05:54,120
Speaker 2: your story, because I do think that by you putting

1451
01:05:54,120 --> 01:05:56,280
Speaker 2: I'm allergic to water a post and not putting it,

1452
01:05:56,360 --> 01:05:58,960
Speaker 2: I think that when you do put that, it's gonna

1453
01:05:58,960 --> 01:06:00,520
Speaker 2: find that person that really he needs it.

1454
01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:02,400
Speaker 3: I think your.

1455
01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:05,080
Speaker 2: Story is so beautiful and I'm just so proud of

1456
01:06:05,160 --> 01:06:08,120
Speaker 2: you and just I can't even imagine what you go

1457
01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:10,160
Speaker 2: through on a daily basis. But to see you here,

1458
01:06:10,360 --> 01:06:13,000
Speaker 2: brown skin for the wind, the skin is glistening. I

1459
01:06:13,040 --> 01:06:15,840
Speaker 2: think you look beautiful without the wigs. So I really

1460
01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:18,520
Speaker 2: do hope that you feel confident enough, you know, just

1461
01:06:18,600 --> 01:06:20,360
Speaker 2: to wear because I think that you are a walking

1462
01:06:20,400 --> 01:06:22,080
Speaker 2: billboard for people who need hope.

1463
01:06:23,280 --> 01:06:29,240
Speaker 3: You know what it's coming. It's it's coming. But girl,

1464
01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:31,880
Speaker 3: I ain't gonna lie. Sometimes, like finding the courage is

1465
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:37,760
Speaker 3: like job, it's hard. It's not like it's hard. You

1466
01:06:37,840 --> 01:06:40,040
Speaker 3: won't just come and you know, people be like, oh,

1467
01:06:40,160 --> 01:06:42,040
Speaker 3: we want, we want you to be transparent. But I

1468
01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:43,960
Speaker 3: also feel like when you be transparent. People judge you,

1469
01:06:44,560 --> 01:06:46,120
Speaker 3: and it's like you're.

1470
01:06:48,160 --> 01:06:50,280
Speaker 2: Still tell me, Yes, it's easier said than done, but

1471
01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:53,120
Speaker 2: you can niggas gonna talk regardless, so something you have

1472
01:06:53,200 --> 01:06:55,960
Speaker 2: to figure out a better way to like tune them

1473
01:06:56,040 --> 01:06:59,320
Speaker 2: out and just stay yeah, because niggas don't always have

1474
01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:01,240
Speaker 2: something to say, especially us.

1475
01:07:01,480 --> 01:07:04,200
Speaker 3: So girl, you know what the funny thing is, I'm like, damn,

1476
01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:07,520
Speaker 3: like I've sat here at this despot by the past

1477
01:07:07,640 --> 01:07:09,160
Speaker 3: this and not been like nacking deals and I have

1478
01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:13,000
Speaker 3: not posted them. He's like, you recorded all these bits,

1479
01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:16,040
Speaker 3: and I was just like, I just even though I

1480
01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:18,320
Speaker 3: have a community, I still have to worry about word

1481
01:07:18,360 --> 01:07:20,840
Speaker 3: this video, like and I thought that I thought about

1482
01:07:20,840 --> 01:07:22,040
Speaker 3: it so much. I was like, you know what, I'm

1483
01:07:22,080 --> 01:07:24,760
Speaker 3: going to do my interview without a wig. But then

1484
01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:26,720
Speaker 3: I'm just like, these people don't know me. So it's

1485
01:07:26,760 --> 01:07:28,520
Speaker 3: like when you when you see me on your screen,

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01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:30,760
Speaker 3: like you just this this this ballhead bitch what she

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01:07:30,840 --> 01:07:31,280
Speaker 3: got to say.

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01:07:31,360 --> 01:07:33,880
Speaker 2: I was thinking that because when when you logged in,

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01:07:34,040 --> 01:07:35,880
Speaker 2: you had a short cut with the blond hair, so

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01:07:35,920 --> 01:07:37,720
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, she puts some mind to it. I

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01:07:37,840 --> 01:07:38,560
Speaker 2: thought it looked.

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01:07:38,400 --> 01:07:41,520
Speaker 3: Beautiful and even when it's coming yeah.

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01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:44,800
Speaker 2: And even when you showed me the the clips and stuff,

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01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:46,440
Speaker 2: I'm like, you got a nice size head. I'm like,

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01:07:46,520 --> 01:07:48,680
Speaker 2: ain't like no, no, no, big ass, Like.

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01:07:50,720 --> 01:07:54,080
Speaker 3: They call me cone head, like girl, they don't. They

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01:07:54,120 --> 01:07:58,200
Speaker 3: don't respect me here. They'd be like cone head, cone head. Sometimes,

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01:07:58,320 --> 01:08:01,000
Speaker 3: like my son before he went on his he was

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01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:03,400
Speaker 3: just walk behind me and he'll swipe back my hand

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01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:09,800
Speaker 3: and he'd be like decline. I'll be like, boy, go

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01:08:09,960 --> 01:08:12,320
Speaker 3: find you something to do. Even my dog, like I

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01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:15,400
Speaker 3: have a service dogs. I have a service dog and

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01:08:15,800 --> 01:08:17,599
Speaker 3: he's a poodle and girl. When I cut my hair,

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01:08:17,680 --> 01:08:19,719
Speaker 3: he was like, I know he didn't like it because

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01:08:19,920 --> 01:08:22,160
Speaker 3: he wouldn't even like put his nose, like he didn't

1506
01:08:22,160 --> 01:08:24,280
Speaker 3: want nothing to do my hand, Like what the hell's

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01:08:24,360 --> 01:08:27,160
Speaker 3: going on? But I have a frenchie and a frenchie

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01:08:27,479 --> 01:08:29,599
Speaker 3: she's three. I just got the service dog and he's

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01:08:29,640 --> 01:08:31,599
Speaker 3: not even one. He's like eleven months. So the French

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01:08:31,640 --> 01:08:33,320
Speaker 3: she's like, okay, here she goes. She's going through one

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01:08:33,360 --> 01:08:36,320
Speaker 3: of the things again, like she just this is normal,

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01:08:36,600 --> 01:08:39,160
Speaker 3: no reflect And then my service dog he's just like

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01:08:39,960 --> 01:08:42,840
Speaker 3: I've never seen this before. What's going on? But it's

1514
01:08:42,880 --> 01:08:45,200
Speaker 3: like now in my hairs like it started like going back,

1515
01:08:45,320 --> 01:08:48,080
Speaker 3: like he's he's like more into well okay, he's very

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01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:48,800
Speaker 3: protective with me.

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01:08:48,920 --> 01:08:51,320
Speaker 2: But yeah, and it's a service dog for like your

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01:08:51,560 --> 01:08:52,400
Speaker 2: emotional support.

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01:08:53,200 --> 01:08:57,639
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, but he came into my life.

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01:08:57,640 --> 01:09:00,200
Speaker 3: So when it's like normally when it's raining, like he

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01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:03,000
Speaker 3: will be in a car with me whatever. And if

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01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:05,640
Speaker 3: I'm home, girl, he'll be on me. Like anywhere I

1523
01:09:05,680 --> 01:09:07,519
Speaker 3: am in the house, he's always next to me. And

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01:09:07,640 --> 01:09:09,680
Speaker 3: I had I'm so happy I got him because we

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01:09:09,720 --> 01:09:11,040
Speaker 3: got a friend. Ye and I feel like she didn't

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01:09:11,400 --> 01:09:13,519
Speaker 3: about me. Girl. I could be here on the floor crying,

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01:09:13,640 --> 01:09:16,960
Speaker 3: like scratching and like she'll just be like, okay, here

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01:09:17,040 --> 01:09:19,560
Speaker 3: we go again. I always felt I always felt like

1529
01:09:19,640 --> 01:09:22,160
Speaker 3: that's how she is. And I'll be telling my this

1530
01:09:22,520 --> 01:09:26,519
Speaker 3: doll like she just just just there's just no emotional connect,

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01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:29,080
Speaker 3: like she's just discossed. Like, oh my god, here she

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01:09:29,200 --> 01:09:33,760
Speaker 3: goes again. She cried like she cried and it's like

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01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:36,400
Speaker 3: my dog, the poodle, he'll just calm and like I

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01:09:36,439 --> 01:09:38,240
Speaker 3: don't know about him laying on me and calms me down.

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01:09:38,280 --> 01:09:40,439
Speaker 3: My friends, she oh my god, okay, get her thirty

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01:09:40,479 --> 01:09:45,400
Speaker 3: minute she goes right right, she's been here for the ride,

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01:09:45,560 --> 01:09:49,200
Speaker 3: so I guess she's lucky as long as with a stretcher.

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Speaker 2: She okay, But thank you so much for sharing your story.

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01:09:53,040 --> 01:09:54,720
Speaker 2: I'm so happy that we were able to make this

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01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:56,760
Speaker 2: happen because I was like, oh my god, I really

1541
01:09:56,840 --> 01:09:58,920
Speaker 2: wanted you to be on the show, and you never

1542
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:00,840
Speaker 2: know who may hear this need it, So I really

1543
01:10:00,880 --> 01:10:01,479
Speaker 2: appreciate you.

1544
01:10:02,439 --> 01:10:04,200
Speaker 3: I hope it. I'll hope it hit the right side

1545
01:10:04,240 --> 01:10:06,720
Speaker 3: because it's only a few of us out here and

1546
01:10:07,520 --> 01:10:10,679
Speaker 3: it's hard. So when y'all see this, be nice.

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01:10:10,960 --> 01:10:12,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oh they're gonna be nice. I don't play

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01:10:12,600 --> 01:10:16,679
Speaker 2: that shit. And to listeners, if you have any questions

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01:10:16,720 --> 01:10:18,960
Speaker 2: coming or concerns, please make sure to email me at

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01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:22,920
Speaker 2: hello at the pagpodcast dot com. And until next time.

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Speaker 3: Everyone later bye.

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