S2 Episode 9 Defying The Odds: Cancer Didn't Beat Me

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In this episode I have a heart to heart with my aunt who is a cancer survivor! So Come Roll With Us!

Disclaimer: This was just my aunt's experience with battling cancer

Transcript

(Instrumental Music) You gotta Dstackz Beat

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(Instrumental Music) Listen to the beat y'all

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(Instrumental Music)Come on, Dstackz, bring it in.

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(Instrumental Music & Singing) Heyyyyy, Heyyy, Heyy, Hey

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(Instrumental Music & Singing) Beautiful Queens, Queens, Queens On A Roll

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(Instrumental Music & Singing) Wooo Queens On A Roll OOO Who Queen On A Roll

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(Instrumental Music & Singing) Powerful Queens On A Roll

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(Instrumental Music & Singing) Beautiful Queen On A Roll

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(Instrumental Music & Singing) Come Roll With Us, OO Who Come Roll with Us

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(Instrumental Music & Singing) Wooo Queen On A Roll, Wooo Who Queens On A Roll

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(Instrumental Music & Singing) Ooo Queens, Queens, Queens & Bells Chiming

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Hey, everyone, and welcome back to

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Queens On A Roll podcast.

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This is Latavia here, and I have

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my lovely Aunt Valerie on with me today.

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Hey, Auntie.

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Hey, Niecey

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How you doing?

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I'm doing fine.

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How you doing?

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I am blessed.

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and highly favored.

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That is great. That is great.

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So today I brought you on

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to talk about your cancer journey.

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Oh yes! Are you ready?

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Yes I am. Alright Let's Roll

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(Instrumental Music)

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So auntie can you tell us a little bit about your cancer journey

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And what was it like?

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Well, only thing I can say is that every

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woman and male should be examined yearly for cancer.

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And I will tell you where my journey

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started, because you know the side effects that people normally

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have, my body didn't do that.

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And in fact, if it wasn't for my primary

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care doctor, the cancer would have gone unnoticed.

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So I went for my gyn appointment, which I do

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every year, and every year they tell me, no problems.

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Every year they take a biopsy and they

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do the pap test, and every year they

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tell me it's no problem, everything is fine.

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However, prior to going to my gyn doctor, I

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had went to my primary care doctor because I

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was suffering with pain in my abdomen from hernias.

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And that's where the um primary care

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doctor decided to do an MRI.

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And when he got the results back, he said

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he did not like the way it looked.

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So that started my journey.

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He um told me to go to my gym doctor.

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I went there, she said everything was fine.

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But because of the MRI, my

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doctor said he didn't like it.

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And he got in touch with the gyn doctor's supervisor,

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and from that, they decided to do an endoscopy and

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they went further up inside the uterus and lo and

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behold, that's where they found the cancer.

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Wow, that's definitely deep.

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So when you got the news that

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it was cancer, how did you feel?

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What was that like?

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When the doctor told me that it

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was cancer, I just couldn't say anything.

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you know you'd be stunned.

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You know you don't know whether to cry or whether to sit there.

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But I know that my faith is in God.

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And the doctor was surprised because

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I didn't break out in tears.

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I didn't ask any questions.

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And she said, Ms.

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Blanding did you hear what I said?

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And I said yes, I heard you.

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She said I said, you have

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cancer and it's in stage four.

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I said, I heard you.

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She said, I'm gonna tell you it doesn't look good.

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And I repeated to her again, I heard you.

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She said, Well, I must say, you're taking it very well.

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And I said, that's because I know a God who is able

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to heal my body, right and I have a relationship with God that

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I know he will hear me and answer my prayer. Right.

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So, of course, I had to start the chemo right away.

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Let me tell you people, the journey

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with the chemo, chemo can be wicked.

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It can be very wicked.

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The side effects, I was blessed.

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I'll say the first four chemos, I really didn't

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have nausea, I didn't get sick, none of that.

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But on the second chemo that I took,

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what happened was my dreadlocks fell out.

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And I was upset about that. I really was.

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In fact, I actually sat and cried about it.

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And even thinking about it now, it upsets

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because my hair was down my back.

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It was beautiful.

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And for me now to be bald, it hurt me. You know

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But it's either the hair goes or you die.

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So what you gon do?

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I had to take the chemo, and

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so I started the chemo journey.

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I had taken four sets of the chemo, and then

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on the fifth set of the chemo, I had an

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allergic reaction, and they could not give me any more.

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So at this point now, I'm just trusting God to do

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what he said he would do because I refuse the radiation.

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I asked my doctor, I said, if there's no more

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cancer, why would I want to take the radiation?

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So I said, Is there another way we can go?

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And she said, well, you can come

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back to me in three months.

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If we find no cancer, then you know

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we'll continue for another three months. You know

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That's how we said we would do it. Okay?

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But in hindsight, listening to other people that

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have experienced this already, I'm thinking to take

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the radiation after the third, and so we'll

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see where the journey takes us from there.

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But I want to let people know that in having

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cancer, you really have to change the way you eat.

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It can be very costly.

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And now we're talking about organic foods.

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I am not a rich person, and so for

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me, financially, buying organic food was very costly.

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But I knew that I had to do it.

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I thank God for my sister and my niece, who

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were helping me sometimes buying the food as we went

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along on this journey, not only do you have to

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buy the foods, but you have to juice the vegetables.

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I thank God for my sister, although

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she got on my nerves sometimes. Okay.

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But I have to say, I thank God for her juicing

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for me, and in fact, she is still juicing for me.

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The juices that she juices are all

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organic vegetables, I will tell you.

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Like, she juices the cabbage, which she says

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kills the stem cells of the cancer.

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So that is something that people with cancer

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should automatically begin to juice and drink.

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Who would have thought that cabbage has such

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powerful nutrients in it that it could kill

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the stem cells of the cancer?

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And then the green juices are very important.

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I don't know what exactly my sister

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mixed together to get the green juice.

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So she would have to come on

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and tell you so surprise, y'all.

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(Surprise Sound Effect)

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My lovely mom is here to talk about what types of

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juices she juiced for my aunt through her cancer journey.

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Hi.

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So I use something called the Gerson therapy.

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And with the Gerson therapy, you had to drink eight

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glasses of carrot and apple juice per day, and you had

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to drink four glasses of green juices per day.

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And the green juice consists of green apple,

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red cabbage, swiss chard, endive or lettuce.

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And you drink four of them per day.

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In the morning, you started your day

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with eight ounce of orange juice.

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And then throughout the day, you drank these juices

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to flood the body with nutrients so that cancer

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could not survive in an unhealthy environment.

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So these are the juices that I

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use for my sister also, too.

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I also found out that the white cabbage,

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or either the red cabbage, we juiced that

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And I found out that, that

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also killed cancer stem cells.

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So we have to look at many times vegetables

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and fruits that are um healthy for us and can

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put our body back into a healthy state.

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So those are the juices that I use for

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my sister, and today she's still drinking them.

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Great, mom.

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Thanks for that great information.

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You just dropped some gems on us.

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I really appreciate it.

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(Gems Were Just Dropped Sound Effect)

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And guys, if you know someone who may

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have cancer or maybe going through their cancer

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journey, I strongly suggest that you try it

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cuz it worked really well for my aunt.

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But Auntie we gotta backtrack a bit.

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(Rewind Sound Effect)

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I wanna talk about how was the chemotherapy?

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Did you experience any side effects?

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Are you still experiencing some?

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Can you talk more about that experience?

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I really didn't get side effects.

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I was blessed, I'm gonna tell

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you, because I've seen some people where

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they're throwing up their guts, okay? um

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They can't eat. You know

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Some of them get to the place, they can't walk.

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I did not experience any of

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that until the fifth chemo session.

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It was after that chemo session that I

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began to have problems with my feet.

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The doctors said the side effects of the chemo, where you

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get neuropathy and it actually got to the place because

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I'm the type of person I like to walk.

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I like to do walking.

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And when I saw that I was not able to walk

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a block because the pain in my feet would be so

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bad that I just couldn't make it a block.

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I ordered myself a mobility chair.

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The doctor had said he could get me a wheelchair,

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but I don't wanna ride around with a wheelchair

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that is heavy in the back of my car.

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So I got what they call a mobility chair.

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That mobility chair allows me to sit in it when my

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feet are bothering me or if they should start hurting or

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say, like, if I take the kids to an amusement park,

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you know, that involves a lot of walking, and sometimes you

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can't get a rented chair in the amusement park.

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So I take my mobility chair with me,

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and that assists me with walking distance.

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When I get to the place that I

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can no longer walk, I have the chair

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So that's what I found has been a problem for me.

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Even after the chemo, I'm still going through.

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And then there's other little things, like

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you might have periodically itching, or your

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skin might break out for no reason. You know

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You might get pains in your legs.

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I mean, there's different side effects, but

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thank God, minds are not really serious.

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But some people really have it bad with chemo.

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As I stated, chemo can be very wicked.

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To date, even though the doctors gave me uh medication for

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the neuropathy, I really have not had to take it.

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I only had to take it one time.

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I haven't taken it since.

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So I'm dealing with it, and as my body

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gets stronger and get used to not being on

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the chemo, you know it's less and less, less and less side effects

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Well, that's great, auntie.

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I'm glad to hear you on the mend

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What did the neuropathy feel like? Oh, boy.

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Well, the neuropathy feels like somebody's putting pins

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and needles just sticking you in your feet.

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That's what it feels like.

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You also have this thing where it feels

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like underneath the ball of your foot.

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It has, like, a spasm

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And when that happens, you can't drive, you can't walk.

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Even to sit, you still feel that pain

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in your foot because underneath the ball of

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your foot, it actually gets into a knot.

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And at that point, you have to massage

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the foot for it to release itself.

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And that can be very painful.

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Wow, wow! I know it had to be a bit of

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an adjustment to be able to do everything.

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And now sometimes it was hard to do certain things.

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Can you talk about that a little bit more?

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Sometimes after taking chemo, you

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might be a little tired.

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I didn't wanna walk up and down the stairs,

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but unfortunately, my home is nothing but stairs, so I

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have no choice but to walk up and downstairs.

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And for me, that was my exercise.

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My skin has been.... it hasn't been its normal self. Its....

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It's like you get these bumps, but

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they don't feel like regular bumps. You know

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Okay, I'll give you a good example.

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This may sound crazy.

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You ever seen a chicken wing? Yeah.

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And you look at the chicken wing, it got all that

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hair on it mhmm underneath where the hair goes, you see all

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these little bumpy things where the hair is in it. mhmm

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So it seems as though the follicles of your skin

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is protruding out, and it feels rough and bumpy.

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And I had to call the doctor yesterday and

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ask him for some cream, and he said that

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could be the side effects of chemo.

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So chemo has so many different side effects and

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they all don't come out at the same time. Um

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Some of the side effects come out later than others.

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But I'm just grateful to be alive.

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And I want to say this too.

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If you're on a journey with cancer,

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it's good to follow what the doctor says

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and do the juicing and everything.

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But I wanna say to those people that are out

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there and they're on this journey with cancer, I don't know

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who you believe in, who you pray to, but me as

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a minister, I pray to Jehovah God, Yahweh.

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Yeshua, I pray to him.

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And when I go to him in prayer, I'm believing

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in faith that he is going to do the work.

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And when you believe and believe him to do

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the work and work, the tools that the doctors

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have given you, I believe that God will answer

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your prayer, whatever higher power you believe in.

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I believe in faith that he will answer prayer.

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So it's very important to incorporate

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prayer into what you're doing.

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I wanna say I was on a lot of prayer lines.

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I have friends that are on a lot of prayer lines,

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and I had people all around the world praying for me.

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And I believe that all of that

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had a factor in my healing.

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Even the doctor said she has never seen anything like

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what happened with me and how I'm doing so well,

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I was told that I had stage four cancer.

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I was told that I would probably have a

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colossal bag because according to them, when they did

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the Cat scan, they saw cancer on my kidneys,

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they saw cancer on my colon, they saw cancer

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on my intestines, they saw cancer on my liver.

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They saw cancer just about everywhere.

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And according to the doctor, I was

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supposed to have a colostomy bag.

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They was gonna have to take a piece of my

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liver, one of my kidneys probably would have to go.

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It was just nothing good, I can tell you that.

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And so when they got inside and saw that

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there was no cancer in the places where the

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Cat scan was showing, they were shocked.

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I was even told they probably would

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have to close me back up.

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And so I thank God every day of my life that I live.

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And then it didn't stop there.

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Wouldn't you know that?

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When I went back to the doctors, they told

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me they found another cancer that was in stage

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two, and that cancer was very rare.

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So that's the cancer that I have to

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keep going back now for them to check.

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So I'm just believing that I am healed.

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That's what I believe.

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I definitely agree.

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A lot of people that I know and things

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that I heard people say, you know you have to hold

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on to your faith, catch hold of faith and

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believe in something and keep living every day.

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That's how they get through their cancer.

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Journey, so I can definitely understand that. Auntie

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I definitely understand that. Mhmm

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Did you, like, mentally struggle with it?

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Was it like hard for you in the beginning?

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Okay, so stage four didn't bother me. Mhmm Okay.

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It was when she said to me, we're

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gonna have to take a kidney, right?

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You're gonna have to have a colostomy bag, and we

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may have to close you up when we get inside because

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of all the cancer that we're seeing on your organs.

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That bothered.

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And I had said I wasn't gonna say anything

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to my family because I don't want to worry anybody. You know

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We're all appointed a time to come into the

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world, and we're appointed a time to exit.

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And if that was my time, I didn't wanna

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worry anybody, I didn't wanna stress anybody. You know

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And my children were already going through enough just

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dealing with the fact that I had it.

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I mean, my son used to be balled up at

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a knot downstairs in a fetal position, just laying there,

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like, crying, and I would walk in and I would

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know he was crying as well as the patient.

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It takes a lot. You know

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And to see your family member drop in weight, I mean, I

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had dropped weight so quick, 15, 20 pounds in a week, you know and

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even the doctors were concerned about the weight loss.

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But this is the wickedness of chemo.

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It will make you lose weight like no tomorrow. You know

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So to see your family going through what they're going

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through, it kind of hurt me, and I didn't want

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my family to really be involved with so much. Right

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Although, you're not gonna stop my sister because she's

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gonna find out whatever she needs to find out. Yeah My mom... she's like a pitbull

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My mom has, like, an honorary doctorate degree at this

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point in medical stuff, so and I agree with you, Auntie.

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I think when, you know, a family member

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has cancer, it takes a toll on everyone.

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It's not just the person yes dealing with the cancer.

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It does take a toll on everyone.

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And I'm not gon lie that used

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to get on my nerves when you tried

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to hide the information and didn't tell us.

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I was like, I'd rather she tell us than keep

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it a secret cuz I wanna know everything.

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I wanna be able to help.

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I definitely understand your thought process and like you know trying to

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protect us, but that was frustrating for me.

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I was like, I wanna know because I wanna help you know

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I wanna be there to support you.

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So it's always that difficult, delicate balance. You know

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You wanna be there to support them, but you

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also know that they kind of have to take time

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to process it and go through the journey as well.

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Yes, it is.

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And let's not forget that we lost our mother last year.

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We lost our brother this year.

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So it was so much going on.

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I didn't wanna put any more on the family.

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Yeah, I definitely understand that.

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When my aunt says that you know the cancer went

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to the kidneys and they said that she

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was gonna need a colostomy bag.

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That just means that the cancer metastasized.

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So it went to other parts of the body than where

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it was originally

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So because what it was supposed to look like

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it definitely did not turn out anything like it.

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So everything, faith, God, the juicing, and us supporting

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her is what got her to this point.

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And thankfully would you like to share the news?

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Say I'm cancer free.

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I'm happy about that.

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I still have to go back

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every three months to be monitored.

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And as I stated, I'm contemplating taking the radiation,

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although I really don't wanna take it.

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But if everything keeps looking good, every time I

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go back, I'm not gonna take it.

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So I thank God for, for everything and

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I thank God for this podcast.

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And I wana tell the people out

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there that's going through cancer, it's not over

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until our Creator says it's over.

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And so keep the faith.

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One thing I have learned, cancer is caused by stress.

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And the way we eat, you have to leave red meat alone.

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Hamburger, meat, steak, all those good

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things that we love to eat.

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I love me a good T bone steak.

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had to leave all of that alone.

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You have to stop with the sugar.

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No more sugar. Okay?

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I do use aguave every now and then,

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but I use that in place of the sugar.

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And you know we have to eat more healthier, fresh vegetables.

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I have a little garden out in my backyard where I

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grow my green peppers and things like that, tomatoes, so that

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I don't have to buy everything in the store.

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So you might wanna think about

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growing your own indoor or outdoor garden.

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So you know think about it.

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Just think about it.

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We look for different kinds of ways

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to help eliminate the cost of things.

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And let's not forget the cancer society.

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There's a woman there that helped me a lot.

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She even went to my appointment, and

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I thank God for her, sister Carey.

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She went with me on those appointments.

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She asked the questions that I

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didn't know how to answer.

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And I wana give a shout out to Albert Einstein.

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The Montefiore group from Albert Einstein.

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They have a team of workers.

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You don't have to go out of the

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state to get a good cancer team.

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They have a good cancer team there that

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has had great success with the things that

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they do to help people fight cancer.

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Yeah, I think I will second that.

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And I would say that trying to beat cancer or

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overcome it, I think it's a whole lifestyle change, right?

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You have to change the way you

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eat, yes change your outlook on life.

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You have to hold on to your faith.

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So it's a whole lifestyle change.

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And it could be a lot coming at you so fast.

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But take it in small doses, take it

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in stride, and you will definitely beat cancer. Definitely

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And my hair is growing back. Niecey see it?

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It's growing back. Aww its growing back everyone, its growing back

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I'm super excited for her. I love it.

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So cancer is definitely not a death sentence today.

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You can definitely beat it.

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So now it is time for the quote of the episode.

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Take it away, Auntie.

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I stand on Hebrews eleven one now.

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Faith is the substance of things hoped for

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and the evidence of things not seen.

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And I think that just encompasses this

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whole episode as a whole, right?

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It may look like something, but that doesn't necessarily

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mean it has to turn out like that.

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If you hold on to your faith

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and you believe, everything will work out. So

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Thank you so much Auntie, for coming on.

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I really appreciate it.

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Not a problem, Niecey Anytime.

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And I hope and pray that

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this podcast has helped someone.

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If you want to find out about the Juicing, you can get

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in touch with Latavia and she will have her mom contact you

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or she will give you the information to her mom.

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And believe me, this woman has helped

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quite a few people in the Juicing.

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They are doing well also.

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So if you want more about the juicing information, you

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can contact Latavia and she will put you in contact

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with her mother and she will give you all the

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information about the Juicing and how it works.

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Yes, I definitely will give you all the information.

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You guys can reach

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me at queensonaroll.podcast@gmail.com.

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Again, my email is queensonaroll.podcast@gmail.com

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and you guys have been amazing.

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Any questions you may have for me,

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please send it to the email.

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Any questions you may have for my mom about

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the juicing, please send it to the email.

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And if you would continue to like to donate to Queens

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On A Roll podcast, I have my patreon account up there.

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Again, Auntie, thank you for coming on.

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I appreciate it.

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You're welcome, Niecey.

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Thank you everyone for listening.

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Bye, Auntie. Bye bye.

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And bye everyone out there.

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