WEBVTT - Untraditionally: Panicking, Partying, and Prioritizing 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:06.360 Hello, gorgeous. It's La La Kent. Welcome to untraditionally Lala. Hey, babes, 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:10.520 it's La La Kent, Welcome to untraditionally Lala. Oh my gosh. 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:14.240 Last week, what a vibe. So I had Amber Childers 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:17.720 as my first guest on my Reinvented podcast, and I 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:20.800 was so nervous because I was coming in and I'm like, Okay, 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:24.439 even though the podcast is being reinvented, like I'm still 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:28.560 still lalla. But there was something that happened that day 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:30.600 where I don't want to say that I was in 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:32.879 my head because it was actually quite the opposite. It 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:36.120 was like, for the first time doing that episode with Amber, 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:40.760 I was not having an out of body experience, like 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:44.479 I felt very much in tune with myself the conversation, 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:48.760 and that is when I knew, like, Wow, this reinvented 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.559 podcast really is ringing true to who I am. And 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:54.000 that was the best feeling in the world. And now 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:57.200 you guys have been able to hear the episode and 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:00.840 you've seen the new photo and the new name, and 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.240 I'm really into the fact that you guys are into it, 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.600 because that is always like nerve wracking. You're like Okay, 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:08.839 we're making a change, but like, is am I gonna 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:11.360 like cracker barrel my ass off with this whole? Like 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:15.280 is my stock gonna plummet? Am I gonna have to 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:17.559 go back anyway? We don't even have to worry about 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.680 it because it didn't end up that way. So thank 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:21.840 you guys for listening, thank you for sticking with me, 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:27.640 thank you for remembering me on our downtime. I want 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:31.160 to start with this is my first solo episode I've 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:37.160 ever done, and I'm tripping balls, Like I think the 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.120 only time I've done something solo solo is when I 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:42.720 do Amazon Live. But Easton's there so I can kind of, 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:46.320 like you know, talk some shit, and I feel like 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.960 I'm not talking ad people, So just roll with me. 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.360 This is new. It's just all new experiences. I had 0:01:52.360 --> 0:02:00.720 a really amazing and nerve racking experience last week. And 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.680 before I jump into that, because I'm really excited to 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:08.480 tell you guys about it, but today my daughter Ocean 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.720 is going to an eye doctor appointment. And what I've 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:17.040 noticed is she's got when she looks up, and it's 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.880 only when she looks up her eyes kind of go. 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:22.240 And I don't want this to come across as mean. 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:24.680 I love my daughter. She's stunning, but she starts looking 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:27.639 like a lizard. And so I'm kind of freaking out 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:31.520 because we went to one doctor and they were like, there's, 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:34.520 you know, nothing we can really do. You can do 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:38.680 surgery if it bothers you, but unless you know she's 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:43.400 got vision issues, then like, we wouldn't tell you to 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:47.119 go and do surgery. And I'm like, you know, I really, 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.320 at four and a half years old, don't want to 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.840 have surgery for my daughter. She's young. But at the 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.320 same time, if it's something that can't be fixed unless 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.720 we do surgery, do I rock it until she says, like, Mom, 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.040 I want to do the surgery. They said, doing it 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:04.240 younger is the way to go. Like, I don't know, 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:06.920 you guys, I know I'm probably being a nutjob, but 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.480 this is what I've been dealing with all morning. We'll 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.600 see what this second doctor says about her eyes. I 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:16.120 don't know what the actual medical term for the condition is. 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.720 I call it a lazy eye, which is like Layman's terms. 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:23.680 My mom has one. It's genetic less than like thirty 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:27.120 percent of people, which I guess seems like a lot. 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:30.280 Maybe that's wrong. It's a very low percentage of people 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:34.280 who were born with a lazy eye actually have someone 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:36.640 a part of their family who inherits it. That's just 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:40.720 what I've been told. I don't know no doctor, I'm 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:46.800 no scientific science person. I'm just I'm just listening to 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.080 what I listened to and spewing it onto you. All right, 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:52.760 let's talk about my experience, because the past I want 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:54.800 to say, Well, since Ocean was born, it's you know, 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:57.760 four and a half years, my life has taken a 0:03:57.800 --> 0:03:59.280 bit of a turn, and I have to think about 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.560 things that I normally wouldn't have to think about. And 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:06.800 I started realizing how the stakes were much higher when 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.480 my business manager called me and said, you know, you 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:12.760 have Ocean. We really need to get you life insurance. 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.080 And I was like, what the fuck is this? You know, 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:20.440 I've seen twenty twenty where people kill people for life insurance, Like, 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.080 why do I need it? No one's trying to kill me. 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:27.239 It's much much broader than that. So we're going through 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:31.480 just all of these questions and the process of getting 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.880 life insurance for myself in case something happens to me. 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.159 And then Sos is born and we have to go 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:40.720 back and do the whole bit again of like doing 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:44.000 the blood tests, answering the questions. It's like a very 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:49.760 long process to get life insurance and then my eye 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:53.680 situation appears. Right. So, for those of you who don't know, 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.919 this was probably I think it was in May. I 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:03.280 noticed the slightest discolor on my eye and the color 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:08.760 was like very like a faint butter yellow. Butter yellow's 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.200 very in these days, right, But I'm not trying to 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:12.760 have it on my fucking eye. I don't need my 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:16.599 eye wearing butter yellow. Okay, body cool ie, not happening. 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.120 And I googled it and it said, you know, this 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.880 is basically the equivalent to a callus on your hand. 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:30.119 Your eye with just like the natural elements will start 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.560 forming what is called the pininguecula and it's like a 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:37.920 very slight yellowish discoloration. There's nothing you can do about it. 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:42.479 And I'm like, all right, sexy, fine whatever. This was 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:47.120 probably a few months before I went to the optometrist 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:51.680 in May. They tell me, uh, you know, not to 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.239 worry about it at my initial appointment. But I'm starting 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:58.560 to notice that this faint yellow spot is now having 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:02.200 like these bright veins going right to it, and I'm like, 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:06.039 that looks not right. I'm like, this looks like these 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:10.880 veins may be feeding this pinguacula. I hate that fucking name. 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:12.919 By the way, It's so every time I say it, 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.279 I'm like, ugh, it gives me like the ick, kind 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:21.640 of like moist. It's like pinguacula. Oh, vomit. So I'm 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:25.679 luminifying my ass off. That's working. But then it starts 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.279 to get raised and it almost looks like a blister 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:33.919 and it's bright red, but the actual pinguecula is like white. 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.320 I go back into the optometrist. They're like, hey, we 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:41.440 need to just give you a steroid. It's inflamed. I'm like, excellent. 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:45.560 So I at this point in time am set to 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:49.200 go to film a show overseas. I'm not gonna say 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.520 what the show is. You guys know it. I'm super excited, 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.560 but I'm like, holy fuck, I can't be on camera 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.440 with this shit on my eye. So I'm calling every 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:01.400 doctor i possibly can to like get myself into surgery 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:05.080 to remove it so I can go and film this show. 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.520 In the meantime, I have Lindsey Hubbs hitting me up 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:10.960 being like I had the surgery. My eyes still read. 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.240 I'm getting a lot of people in the DMS, and 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.400 I apologize if you've heard this story already, but it 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:17.640 leads to why I went and did what I did 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:23.040 a couple days ago. So I text my friend who's 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:26.400 like a grandfather to me, Robert Shapiro. I've known him 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:30.640 for many years. He has hooked me up with a 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:32.520 lot of people in the past. If it's you know 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.000 something that is urgent and I need it immediately, I 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:37.840 call Bob. I said, I have this thing on my eye. 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:39.600 I gotta get it taken care of. He sends me 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:43.040 to a specialist that he highly recommends. This guy is 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:44.720 super hard to get into. He gets me in the 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.440 next day, he takes one look at it, you guys, 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:51.000 and says, that's not a penguecula. That is pre cancer, 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.960 and I would like you to go to another specialist 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:57.680 who's also very difficult to get into, just to make sure. 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.360 Maybe she does a biopsy. The next day they get 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.240 me in, she takes one look at it. She was like, 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.920 you know, he wants me to buyopsy it, but I 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.240 don't need to biopsy it because I know what it is. 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:11.800 It's pre cancer, and we're going to be starting you 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:16.080 on five f you drops, which are chemotherapy drops in 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:20.160 the eye. And I told her, well, girl, I got 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.320 to be out of here in a few weeks. And 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:23.840 she laughed at me and she was like, you're not 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:28.600 going anywhere. You will be in this office every two 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:33.120 weeks for the next three months, and after that we're 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:37.800 going to reevaluate, and if all goes as planned, the 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:39.559 five f you will help, and then I'm going to 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.800 see you every four months for the rest of your life. 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:47.360 And I was like, excellent, Wow, this is really fucking weird. 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:50.439 I asked her, like, what causes this, and she was like, honestly, 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.360 it's bad luck. There are many people who are in 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.640 the sun all the time. There are many people who 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:58.640 are exposed to the natural elements of life and they 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.440 don't get pre cancer in their eyes. So cut to 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.680 where we are now, the pre cancer is gone. The 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:08.160 five FU drops worked beautifully. My body responded amazing. I 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:12.440 had little to no side effects at all. But now 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:16.360 I start tweaking out because I'm hearing about all of 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:20.400 these people who, you know, they had a headache or 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:22.840 they had something on their arm and then it turned 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:26.000 out to be something catastrophic. So for me, I was thinking, 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:30.280 where did this thing in my eye, this pre cancer 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.439 come from? Where did it start? Like I I'm all 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.960 about falling back when something makes sense the whole, you know, 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:40.920 just bad luck. There's no reason it doesn't work for me, 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.960 even though that could very well be the case. Right again, 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:49.800 I'm no doctor, so I reached out to Preneuvo. For 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:54.439 those of you who don't know what Preneuvo is, they 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.400 do MRI scans. They do it for your head. They 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:01.280 also do full body and because this thing in my eye, 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:05.960 I've been experiencing weird, tingling sensations that go from the 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:09.800 center of my head up to the top. I don't 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:15.400 get headaches often, but I do suffer from migraines on occasion, 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.000 which is why I also love botox. I love it 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:21.199 because it de wrinkles my forehead and makes my forehead 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:26.520 look like glass, but it also minimizes my migraines. So 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:27.719 I was like, I got to get in just for 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:32.080 peace of mind. And let's remember, I want to say 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:35.560 that I live a pretty healthy lifestyle now, like it's 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:39.120 well balanced. I exercise, I feel like I eat well 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:44.600 on occasional smack McDonald's, like who doesn't. But also I 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.160 have to remember what I did in my past. I 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.440 was a heavy drinker back in the day. I was 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.960 a vapor back in the day, And I just want 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.480 to make sure that all of those things, although I 0:10:56.480 --> 0:11:00.240 don't do them now, have they followed me in too 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:04.280 thirty five And there's just so many things that we 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.760 talk about and hear about it. It's like the microplastics, 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.000 and then you hear about someone who lived such a 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:12.760 healthy lifestyle and like dropped dead from a heart attack. 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.520 I want to know what the fuck is going on 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.760 in my body period. I'm going to read this on here. 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:23.000 A preneuvo scan is whole body MRI scan that detects 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:28.920 over five hundred potential medical conditions, including cancers, cys aneurysms, 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:33.960 often before symptoms even appear. So this is what I 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:36.080 was told when I went in and they were walking 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:40.800 me through it. They said, the reason why cancer is 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:45.400 such a terrifying word is because there's no symptoms, and 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.719 by the time you catch it, you're in stage three 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:52.679 or four. So what if there was a machine that 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:56.640 you could do once a year that could catch it 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:02.360 before you hit those stages where the survival rate is 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:06.680 ninety percent plus. I like those odds. I'm not a gambler, 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:08.400 But if you're telling me that you can put me 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.000 in a machine once a year and look at every 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.800 single thing in my body and then send me off 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.280 to the races, knowing that my children will not have 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:20.120 to use the life insurance that I've gotten for them, like, 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:35.280 I want to do that. So I go in the 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.320 first question, though, you guys are like, so are you claustrophobic? 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.160 I'm like, well, I mean, I don't know what are 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.840 you putting me in here? I've never done this before, 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.800 Like I don't think I am, but like, no one's 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:50.000 putting me in small tubes on the rag, So I'm like, 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:54.600 not really sure before we even start or if you 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.199 guys ever choose to do this, which I highly recommend 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:01.640 if you are claustrophobic, I most definitely take like a 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.520 beta blocker and on the form with prenuvo that they 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.480 send you that you fill out, like one of the 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.440 first questions is are you claustrophobic? If you are, they'll 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.319 prescribe something to you at your pharmacy and all will 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:16.719 be good. Let me tell you something. This place, this 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:19.520 is what I'm gonna rave about the most. They put 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:22.320 Netflix on for me. I literally walk in there like 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.200 are you claustrophobic? I said, we're gonna find out together, 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:29.440 and they said would you like Netflix? And I was like, 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.640 Seinfeld is on Netflix, so that's gonna be a fuck 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:35.360 yeah for me. And the way that they lay you 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.680 in there, I'm like, oh, this is totally fun and 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.360 like I'm vibing. Oh no, oh no, bitches, just see 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.800 you wait because I'm like, this is how it is. 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:45.280 They're gonna shoot me through the two I'm gonna have 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:50.240 a heyday. Oh my god. They're like patting my legs. 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.120 They've got something over my legs and I'm like, okay, 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.360 that's kind of nice. It moves to my size that 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.079 they pad and I'm like, right, it's like a way 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.640 to blink it. We're fine. Then my stomach and I 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.080 was like all right now, now I'm starting to feel 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:07.520 like I'm panicking. Then they put something over your face, 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:12.400 your head from here down to maybe like mid tit 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.960 maybe chest, I don't know, depending if you have fake 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:20.600 boobs or not. And there's the smallest little hole at 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:22.680 the top of you, guys, and I was like, okay, 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.960 law you know what, You're a fucking bad bitch. This 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:29.040 is where you're gonna sit and you're going to you 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.800 preach all the time about like if your mind is 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:35.240 powerful enough to talk you into something, it's most certainly 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.120 powerful enough to talk you out of something. So I'm 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:41.840 actively talking myself out of claustrophobia. It was the most 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.720 difficult thing I've ever fucking done, because like, too late, man, 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:48.400 they can't prescribe me something like at my pharmacy. We're here. 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:52.240 Then they put this like mirror on top of it, 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.280 so through the hole there's a big screen TV in 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.920 the back of you, and the mirror shows you Seinfeld 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.160 or whatever you want to watch. I highly recommend Seinfeld 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:05.440 because they put me into the thing and in the headphones, 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.400 you guys put me into the MRI machine. In the headphones, 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.440 I'm like balls deep Overary's Deep and Seinfeld and just 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.880 living my best life. They're telling me what to do, 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:19.080 like breathe in, breathe out. If it's a woman like it, 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:25.000 like an AI character, breathe in, breathe out, hold your breath. 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:27.840 And there were a few times that I was so 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.760 so dout watching Seinfeld. I didn't fucking do it. I 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.800 was chilling. I'm sure they were looking at my brain activity, 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:38.800 being like this woman might be brainde because there's not 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:42.440 much happening, not much brain activity. He would come through 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:44.400 the guy like running the machine. He'd come through on 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.520 the speaker and be like, Hey, so we're just gonna 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.800 do that again. If you could just listen to the woman, 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:50.920 she's gonna tell you exactly what to do. When you 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.000 just have to follow exactly what she tells you to 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:56.320 do him like, you would think that's simple, right, You 0:15:56.360 --> 0:16:00.120 would think that's a simple thing to do. So I 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:04.360 will say the overall of like if you're claustrophobic, totally easy. 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:08.360 If you get claustrophobic, take a beta blocker. They have 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:12.440 twenty two locations prenew Vo does, and they have said 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:17.360 that their goal is to have some They want it 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.640 in every major city so that no matter where you 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:22.680 are in the United States, there's one that you can 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:26.800 drive to. And I loved this because when I was 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:34.400 talking to I guess the tech she was so kind, 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:38.560 but she was like, if you think about it, when 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:43.200 you go into a doctor, you're allotted. Let's just say 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.840 an average, give or take of seven minutes. They have 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:51.080 seven minutes per patient, and you, in that moment, are 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.840 a statistic to them. No, doctors do great work. I 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.720 don't want to dismiss what doctors do for us, like 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.840 I'm all about science and all of the thing. But 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.760 she put it so perfectly. You at thirty five years old, La, La, 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.520 You go into a doctor and you say, I'm having 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:11.639 something going on in my head. I'm concerned. Tell me 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.639 what you're feeling. I'm feeling this. I'm concerned that I 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:20.159 may have something going on in my head, tumor whatever 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:23.919 word you want to place in there. They're immediately going 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:27.120 to say, from her chart, she's thirty five years old, 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:30.359 she doesn't drink, doesn't smoke. They're going to say, statistically, 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:34.920 this is a healthy human. The likelihood of her having 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.520 a brain tumor is very low. They're not going to 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:42.359 give you an MRI. It's basically like a prescription. A 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:46.879 doctor prescribes you a pill. A doctor prescribes you an MRI, 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:51.480 and those MRIs that you have done run upwards. And 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.200 this blew my mind when she told me this run 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:58.520 upwards of twenty thousand dollars and they take three to 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:04.800 four hours to do a full body MRI. Preneuvo has 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:10.000 the location I went to. They have five machines. The 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:14.320 overall appointment in total was seventy minutes. I was in 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:18.240 the machine for forty five So for context, I watched 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:23.000 two episodes of Seinfeld and then the beginning stand up 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:26.240 part of like Jerry Seinfeld. That's that's how long the 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:32.040 appointment while I was in the machine. And these full 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:37.160 body scans at Preneuvo are twenty five hundred dollars. Now, 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:39.280 I know that everyone is going to hear that. I 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:42.240 know that that is. That's a lot of money that 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:45.160 is not lost on me. If we're going to compare 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:50.640 twenty five hundred dollars, No one needs to say to you, yes, 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:53.159 this is what you need. I'm going to give you 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:55.240 a phone number. You're gonna call them, tell them that 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:57.800 this is your doctor. I'll send over your paperwork. You 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:00.680 literally pick up the phone, you call them, and you say, 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:06.120 I want a full body MRI. No questions asked, You're there, right, 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:08.600 you can get the sky on twenty five hundred dollars. 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:11.880 I know it's a lot of money, but that compared 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:16.399 to twenty thousand plus to see what's going on in 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:21.119 your body. There's nothing more important than your health. My 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:24.600 mom has always said, without your health, you have nothing. 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:26.919 You would have all the money in the world, you 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:30.159 could be doing all of the funniest, most fantastic things 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:34.520 on the planet. If you're not healthy, there's a really, 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:37.720 really big problem. Right, you can't live a happy life. 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:42.760 So I don't know when it switched for me. I 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:46.280 used to be in the mindset of keeping my blinders 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:50.399 on and not knowing something. I'm better off because then 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:54.800 I'll stress about it. But there's so many things that 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:59.600 you could be feeling in your legs, your arms, your back, 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.240 whatever it may be. And the tech was talking to 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:05.520 me saying, you know, you could be feeling something in 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:07.359 your head and it has nothing to do with your head, 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:11.520 because your body, it's all connected, it's all firing to 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:13.480 each other. And what this scan is going to do 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:17.719 is get to the root of the problem. And you know, 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:21.800 me thinking about my health. You know, I think most 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:25.720 people that listen to this podcast, you know, we have 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:30.840 loved ones, we're parents. We think about what life would 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:34.760 be like if we weren't here. Anymore, at least I 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:38.320 do since I had children and I have a very 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:43.680 as you guys know, untraditional households. I have a four 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:47.800 year old Ocean with somebody. She has a dad. It's 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:51.200 very not normal, but I had her the old fashioned way, 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:56.119 and then Sosa, who was conceived via donor. If something 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:59.520 were to happen to me, you guys, I'm not going 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:01.280 to get a mo I'm going to keep my head 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:04.919 on straight and breathe. Something were to happen to me, 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:09.800 And I thought about this while I was doing my 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:14.240 life insurance as well. Ocean has a dad, so we 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:19.520 know where where she would go. And there is a 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:24.000 very high possibility because I don't trust the other side 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:26.800 and the other side probably doesn't trust me, and that's fine. 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:29.560 It is what it is. There's a high possibility that 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:37.080 my brother, my mom, and Sosa, Ocean's sister would never 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:42.280 see Ocean again till you know, she was old enough 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:47.680 to reach out. That would be a possibility, and that's 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:51.280 something that has always weighed heavy on me, and I've 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:55.320 put in in paperwork. You know, if something happens to me, 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:59.240 there needs to be a significant amount of money that 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:03.000 goes to my family. Not just to take care of them, 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:05.560 but if they need to fight for ocean, they have 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:10.840 the means to do so. Sosa. I know this sounds horrible. 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:13.359 If I weren't here anymore, this is so morbid. I'm 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:15.439 sorry that I'm even going here, but I think it's 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:17.919 important to talk about because we all need to be 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:20.440 on our game and have a plan B. I live 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:26.000 by a plan B, Sosa, I worry less about because 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:28.119 if something were to happen to me, I know that 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:30.960 she is in the best of hands. She's got my mom, 0:22:31.040 --> 0:22:39.439 she's got my brother. But the real reasoning for me 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:46.159 going into preneuvo was to know that God forbid, I 0:22:46.240 --> 0:22:48.600 have something going on which I don't have the results 0:22:48.640 --> 0:22:52.680 back yet I will be able to get a hold 0:22:52.680 --> 0:22:56.640 of it before it's too late, and if everything goes 0:22:56.680 --> 0:22:59.840 to shit for real, I just want to know what's 0:22:59.800 --> 0:23:02.119 going going on so that my girls are going to 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:05.000 have each other. I know that sounds so dark, but 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:08.560 that's where my mind goes when I think about things 0:23:08.600 --> 0:23:12.640 like this. So that's where my mind goes. And I'm 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:16.040 sorry that I got maybe a little too deep and 0:23:16.160 --> 0:23:20.560 dark and a little morbid, but that's just the way 0:23:20.880 --> 0:23:26.480 my perspective and life and outlook have shifted since since 0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:29.160 having kids, and I know I'm not the only one 0:23:29.200 --> 0:23:34.439 who who looks at life this way. I really really 0:23:34.520 --> 0:23:39.800 do take I like to think great care of myself. 0:23:40.760 --> 0:23:43.880 You know, my kids are my number one priority and 0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:48.280 I live and breathe for them. They're the They're the 0:23:48.560 --> 0:23:51.800 besides my sobriety, because without my sobriety, I wouldn't be 0:23:51.800 --> 0:23:53.960 able to do any of the things I do. But 0:23:54.040 --> 0:23:57.199 they're the proudest thing that I have ever done in 0:23:57.240 --> 0:24:04.520 my life. And without me taking care of myself, everything 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:08.439 is just kind of gonna fall apart. And I do 0:24:08.600 --> 0:24:11.280