National Happiness & Humor, Safety in the Workplace

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FOURCY Radio. Well, good evening, Good evening, and welcome to another

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segment of Setting it Straight with Ms. Greg. Welcome to you all.

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And I know folks are going to
be coming in and coming on and all

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that good stuff, so uh,
just stay tuned. But look we're gonna

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open with prayer. Father, we
just thank you, We praise you,

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we give you glory, for you
alone are worthy to be praised all the

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day long. There's not enough words
in the languages and the different cultures and

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the different dialects to praise you,
but we praise you today. And I

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thank you for the revelation. I
thank you for this opportunity to come before

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your people and to set the record
straight, to to dislodge the lies,

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and to bring to bring into the
awareness of what's going on for your people,

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for your servants, your children.
Lord. Now, as always we

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get behind the cross. We let
you do what you do. This is

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your show, this is your program. We are your children. We are

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waiting to hear from you and only
you. But we follow your voice.

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A stranger's voice, we do not
follow. We thank you. We thank

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you for tonight's topic. We love
your Lord and all that you do.

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We asked this in Jesus name.
We pray Amen and amen. Well,

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there's trade. Try Hey, how
are you? I'm good? How are

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you? I'm wonderful. Thank you
for asking. That's good. That's good.

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What our guests should be popping in
shortly, hopefully properly. If not,

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we're gonna carry it on out.
Ben. She is crying. Hey,

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Christine, how are you good?
How are you? All? Is

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well? Well, we're doing something. We're gonna do some preliminary stuff.

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So hanging there with us here today
rare to be talking about the national It

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is National Humor and Stress Awareness.
Also it is health and safety awareness this

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month, and it is also limb
loss and Limb Difference Awareness this month and

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Occupational Therapy Month. Yes, okay, okay, so we're celebrated. We're

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gonna put it all together because it
makes sense. It's about being happy.

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It's also National Happiness Day as well
or month, and right now people need

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to find their healthy but there are
steps that you need to take. And

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I thought, you know, the
Lord said to invite Christine on. She

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is my current and former but she's
my current as well occupational therapist who has

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helped me these last four or five
years since we were introduced to get to

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this place where I'm at, where
I'm able to function, and we'll talk

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more about that. I'm gonna let
her talk also. But again, I

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need everybody out there and listener land
to just I need you to woo saw.

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I need you to just exhale for
a minute, just exhale, because

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I know a lot of you are
just getting off work, some of you

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are pulling over and listen to the
show. Just I just need you to

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exhale for just a minute. And
by exhaling, it does a few things.

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It relieves you, it softens up
the body, it makes you,

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it helps you to relax because a
lot of times we're walking around like this

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and we don't know it and realize
it. So then we go, ah,

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just one breath, that's just one, and the recommendation is to do

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three, okay. And I know
probably some are going to say happiness,

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you know, look what's going on
in the world. Yes, I know,

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but for some of us, we're
not surprised. We didn't know what

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it was going to look like.
But we know that the world is becoming

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on glued unfortunately. So you have
to still find your happiness so that you

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could be what safe and where home
and in the workplace. You have to

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find your new normal as well,
especially, and I think that applies to

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the whole world since twenty twenty.
It's not just folks who've lost their limbs.

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It's not folks that have lost their
loved ones. It's everybody has had

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because they were We were all affected. So again, as I shared,

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Christine is my current and I'm not
in session right now, but I have

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to say current because I'm just a
prescription away if I have to come back

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in and get things straight out.
But she helped me, and then she

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went beyond just being an occupational therapist
working for the company ability here in Orlando,

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but she did extra stuff. She
did research on my biotic arm and

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and even my cosmetic arm and everything
that was going on. She knows me

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literally from head to toe. She
really knows me, and she will she

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can speak on anything. Don't you
all try to cruit her and get the

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secrets. Nope, you can't do
that. You can't fire out, Nope.

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Anyway, But this is big.
But I thank you again Christine for

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journeying joining us tonight. And this
is Trey, my co host. She's

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a former friend from back home,
but she lives in Virginia now and she's

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a social worker. She just didn't, you know, get all the rest

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of the degree, but she's a
social worker at heart as well. So

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trade this is Christine, and Christine, I want you to take it from

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here, and I want you to, you know, take your time whatever

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God has laid on your heart.
When we talk about the importance of humor

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and happiness and safety, you know
you can come from that. But you

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can also talk about the role of
an occupational therapist, because I do.

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I'm on the thread for Amputee Coalition
and we have like five different streams of

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thread of conversation. And there are
people all over this world that have recently

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become amputee who are having so much
difficulty with their therapists, just their PT

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and their OT. You wouldn't.
I mean, they will write it all

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out, and sometimes you don't know
what to tell them because I'm not in

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your state. I don't know how
they run things in your city. I

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can tell you what you could do
here you come to Orlando and where you

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need to go. But they're afraid
to ask questions. They're afraid to They

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just like, no, you do
this, and thenb you've told you do

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this. They can't go back in
and get their their limbs reconfigured. Some

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of them are not wearing this stuff
because they've outgrown it. It's just it's

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horrible. It's horrible. So I
know I'm throwing a lot at you,

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but I want you to let you
know that you're free, You have free

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range whatever's on your heart and what
you would want to tell us. And

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the audiences will pop in and say
hi, and they may ask a question

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and then I'll redirect it. Well
step Okay, thank you so much,

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thank you. So my job as
an occupational therapist is to help people not

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only with LIMB loss, but lind
differences to increase their independence. So I

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find one of the most important things
is to get to know each individual and

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create their occupational profile. So I
ask all the questions, even if it

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was something that they got hurt at
work doing. You know, of course,

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as a company, we have to
understand, okay, who is the

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pay sources? If it's a worker's
compensation, you have to be careful,

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you know. But I truly feel
that that is not the only thing that

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defines them, and I want them
to have a good life forever. So

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things, what do they like to
do, what is most important to them?

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What are their goals? Because your
goals aren't the same as someone else's

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goals, right, I don't want
to think, oh, miss Gray is

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a woman, she needs to learn
how to cook. Again, you told

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me you don't really like cooking,
so we didn't work much on cooking activities.

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Right, So doing what they want
versus what you think they want or

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you think they need. So asking
lots of questions even each day, Okay,

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think about what you want to work
on next time. Even asking them

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what do you think of today's session? You will not offend me. If

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you were like I didn't benefit from
that, that's okay, thank you for

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telling me that. And you should
have a good connection with your therapist to

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be able to say things like that, if you want to work on this

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next time. Absolutely, these are
your sessions, not mine. So of

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course there are goals that we have
to work towards, but it should be

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steered by the patient and not the
the therapist. And also to be mindful

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and respectful about where they are in
their grieving process. If they are dealing

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with limb loss, that's a huge
thing. And I feel like in the

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therapy world we are so excited to
have a prosthetic and oh my gosh,

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look at this cool limb and look
what it can do. But the person

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is still grieving about oh my gosh, I don't have my arm, or

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I don't have my leg. What
do I do? And you have someone

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coming out you saying, look at
isn't this so cool? No? I

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want my arm back. So being
respectful and giving them space, giving them

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time to breathe, and allowing that
it's okay, stop breathe, cry,

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I'll cry with you. Don't mean
too when it happens, and all of

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that is just so important. Again, you're seeing these people seeing patients,

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especially with limb loss, for years. This is not just a quick few

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sessions. This is Okay, you
have your first prosthetic, Okay, that's

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great. Well a few years later, whether it's a different size where you

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need a different limb. Technology changes
constantly, same with iPhones, same with

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limbs, So to always have that
connection. And then also as a therapist,

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I not with everyone, but I
give my number out so please or

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email address at least contact me if
you ever have anything. Please. I

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don't want you to think that you're
alone. You know, the prosthetists are

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wonderful and they give you this device
and then they just say here you go

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figure it out. And I think
the job of the therapist is the hardest

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because you are now having to to
figure out and fine tune what they need

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now and how they're going to use
this for the better and to become independent.

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And again it all comes down to
listening to the patient and understanding and

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helping through all the processes. One
thing with occupational therapy that I really like

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is adaptive equipment. Educating people on
the adaptive equipment is necessary, but also

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having to make sure that they know
how to do things without that equipment,

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because if you want to go out
for a weekend or go to your family's

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house, you don't want to tote
a suitcase full of jar openers and hooks

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and all these things. So at
first starting with the adaptive equipment and then

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understanding how to get away from that. You know when it's expensive too.

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Not everyone has a lot of money
to buy all the gadgets. There are

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lots of gadgets, but it's it's
a lot of money, and that's another

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thing to consider. Sometimes I'll even
make some for patients if I can figure

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it out, or we can figure
it out together. Patients all the time,

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Oh I think if you did this, that would be great, Like,

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oh my gosh, you're acting like
an occupational therapist. I love it

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so getting ideas from them too of
what they have figured out at home,

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and then okay, how can we
make that a little easier for them to

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use? Yeah I can. I
can remember when I was in therapy.

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Country Sea and Misty have joined us, and yes, Country, see,

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I want to acknowledge that there are
a lot of things going on in the

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world, and there ave but where
does this too? And so that's what

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we do is let you know what's
going on. And Misty said, you

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know, you have to have compassion. And this young lady you see before

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you is compassion when God made her. I don't know when she realized that

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she was going to be an occupational
therapy. Is there a fund that would

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help those in need to get things
needed? Oh, Hanastasia, thank you,

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I'll get back. I'll try to
cover that definitely, because you have

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to be creative with that as well. I know there many people are limited

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by their insurance coverage. That's why
the MPT Coalition is a national nonprofit organization

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nationwide that's try that has influenced in
that lobby our needs and they listen for

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what's the needs per state, what's
going on and everything. So they're doing

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a lot of networking and you know, sending us information. I'll talk about

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that in a minute. But that's
one thing with Christine. She she knew

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me so well that she could just
look at the way when she'd come to

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the reception area to call my name, she was already looking back at me

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like, okay, something you're not
you're not you're not with it today.

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And she could tell when I would
be I'll be exhausted. Just try a

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park downtown and you know, find
a parking space. She gave me that

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moment and she protected me. And
it was just in my physical therapy.

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Folks were right in the same space
and so they worked well together. I

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don't know what they did behind closed
doors as far as I'm not in front

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of the patient, but both her
and Caitlyn knew me very well. How

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can people get the word out took
for better awareness? Well, Missy,

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you just have to know that it
exists. Because I'm a social worker with

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a mental health background. I've told
you, I've shared with you all.

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I've only maybe had one patient in
over thirty years that had had a limb,

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but he wasn't coming there for that. He had our problem. We

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had to sit him for detox.
Now, I don't know which came first,

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was the alcoholism or was the loss
of the limb that caused the alcoholism

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dependency. I don't even know which
came first. But we never talked about

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that. I could never get to
that point. But going back to Christine,

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she was able to. She she
got to know me, and like

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I said, I couldn't fool her
because I mean I'd be like oooh okay,

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and she goes, okay, miss
Gray, look what we're doing.

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This is what we're gonna do now. She they have to be governed by

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insurance and those limitations. They have
to, but not once I'm in a

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special situation. But still not once
did she or Caitlin make me feel some

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kind of way like, Okay,
you know we only have six weeks.

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They never said that to any patient
in my in my presence, even though

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they knew they only had six weeks
to get this patient to some level of

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functioning, you know. So it
made me. I know, I knew

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the behind the scenes, by the
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I'm trying not to wear the social
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the patient when I come before her, and and she just met me where

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you know, where I was at. She did what our social worker creed

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is, you meet the client.
In our world, we meet the client,

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but in her world, she met
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times I would be crying and she
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it's like, look what has happened
to me? And Okay, I don't

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want to talk about it. I
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remember one particular time the Lord had
whispered in my ear. He said,

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you got to you gotta push,
you gotta push. And what that meant

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for me was to tell her and
Caitlin, I give you permission to push

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me today. And because they were
very sure, like, okay, it's

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great nose, she knows this,
she knows, she's adapted, she's okay,

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and you know, but they they
were patient enough with me, and

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they allowed each session. And I
did some pushback sometime like Ahn, you

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know, I'm hot, my socket
is hot. I gotta get this off.

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And Chris sees, okay, you
know what, We're gonna get up

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and we're gonna throw some balls.
Let's look, let's take let's rest the

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hand, let's take your arm off, let's go. Okay, she goes,

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you know what, I know,
you do the laundry. I came

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in one day and I noticed I
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to the section, you know,
and then I just she goes, we're

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gonna do something different today. I
was like, okay, you dripped this

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up, so let's go, you
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she had the laundry. They haven't
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in this drink room because they washed
the towels that that that the clock the

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patients used. But it's also to
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Because I said to her, what
I want to do the lawn.

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I can do the laundry. So
she was listening. That was way in

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early assessment. But she but she
look at me and tell, okay,

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we're not gonna I can't make her, you know, catch things. You

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know, we can't. We're not
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oh, she'll look at my arms. She said, your arm looks swollen.

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I wonder what that was. And
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She'll try to, you know,
put my armor and it was not gone

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on. She goes, we need
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calling my procethesses and they became they
they were on the phone all the time.

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She even came to some appointments of
readjusting to learn my new arm.

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I got new censors, and Christine
showed up and her company. I don't

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know what they said and what she
said, you know, to get there.

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I'm going for miss great and okay
go just go, okay go.

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That's pretty much what I said,
because it's so important to learn, you

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know, it's not how am I
supposed to grow also as a therapist,

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how am I supposed to help you? When I don't understand how your prosthetic

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works. That's just bad for both
of us. So, you know,

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and I think that's the part of
the therapist that is difficult for them to

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comprehend or to take that next step. Is some of this stuff that I'm

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doing, it's on my time.
But again it's one I need to learn

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this for you, But I truly
care. I mean especially for you,

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Miss Gray. I just love you. But all of my patients, you

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know, you guys are my sisters, my aunt's, my you know,

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mom and dad's. You do feel
like family. Her father, I don't

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know what she went home to just
share her case load with, but she's

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promising. I got one patient and
she's having this phantom sensation and I don't

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know. And her dad builds a
glass mirror for me. Stand because there's

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a process where because you've lost this
hand. I still feel my hand in

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my arm. I can I want
to itch my hand my left hand,

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I don't have it anymore, but
you could do something with my right hand.

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I still have my palm. And
if I position my hand right in

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the mirror, my other hand is
thinking this is thinking, okay, that's

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the hand, and I could be
doing this in the mirror. But I'm

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looking in the mirror and my hand
is feeling my hand is being affected in

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here, even though I don't have
a hand in there. I know this

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is so hard to even imagine,
but trust me, it is so real.

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And her father I come to my
next session, she didn't say nothing

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to me. Oh you know,
my dad was. I was talking and

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my dad came up with this idea. This is last thing I should have

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brought it and put it on the
table. I still have it, and

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I still there times I had to
pull it out and use it after discharge,

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after discharge. So I'm circling back, and I know my audience is

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really listening intentively. How she gonna
bring this back to humor and happiness.

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I went in being myself. I'm
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be and we're always laughing and stuff
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I knew I had to come out of

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that, you know. And Christine, I don't know if you are were

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aware, but I think you also
you should be. You should have been

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a social worker as well, because
you knew to close. That's one thing

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we need to do when we open
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on episode Okay, on house Bumps. There you go. That's real.

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But Christine knew, like she wouldn't
let me go out fragile, she wouldn't

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let me go out raw. And
she said, okay, me scare.

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You got homework. You know,
you got homework now, so you got

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to do this. You got to
do that. And we'll probably work on

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that a little bit when you come
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like twice a week and things,
and there's some people who have to come

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every day for six weeks and then
insurance will pay for that and that's it.

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They can't circle back, you know. So and then on top of

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that, I'm I'll say this and
then you know, tray, if you

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have any questions or anything, please
The MPT Coalition had their annual conference here

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in Orlando during the week of my
birthday last year. And get us who

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came that young lady right there.
She came and she was involved, and

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we walked the the you know,
the different tables that in between, and

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she was just on and but she
was looking out for me because she knows

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that I had to tell them I
have to walk looking down at the if

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the surface is not smooth, I
don't want to fall. So she's like,

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okay, mister, they doubloped these
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she didn't often she realized it,
but she was, you're normally I'm like,

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oh, yeah, there's a cord
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then we met some of the lead
people. You know, Ausher is a

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lead company that does you know,
this type of uh uh this development and

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everything. And we were able to
talk to these people and stuff like that.

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So again it made it made my
journey a lot more smooth. I

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had to learn a heck of a
lot. I had to relearn some things

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because but they got them right hand
dominant, but still to put the pressure

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on this on this hand and just
I only have my thumb and you know,

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my four fingers are gone. You
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But they've worked with me on balance
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So Trey, did you have anything
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want to go back to Anna Stage's
question about things, and then I want

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Christina to come back on to stay
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No. I I was just gonna, you know, commend miss Christaine for

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stepping up. And but I think
that's part of the social work, the

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social work therapy peace. And I
appreciate that, and I know miss Lisha

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does too. So the world needs
a whole lot more people just like you

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to make it better, because you
know, it could have gone a whole

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different way. So I appreciate you
on on behalf of not only miss Leash

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and I know she does, but
she's a friend and and a sister and

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I'm glad you were able to take
care of her. And thank you.

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And yeah, and esthesia you were
talking about you're asking about proceeds and resources

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and stuff, and that's a big
thing because you need to know what your

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insurance will cover. And because some
and some of it when it comes to

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the arms, the bionic arms and
things like that, we still have they

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still have censors that were made from
the nineteen sixties in them, and they're

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trying to amputee coalition is trying to
push legislature bring this to their attention that

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we've got to update and upgrade,
you know, because it's not doing us

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any good. And Christine correct me
if I'm wrong. When I had the

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nineteen sixty censors in, I basically
had to do what the arm told me

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to do. Like even though I
would I had those little flat sensors.

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If I raised wave the armor with
that and I wanted to get a cup

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from the cupboard, it would know
that's the number ten sensor, number ten,

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this little flat thing. I would
have to rub my hand right.

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And now with the new sensors,
that's ten years old, Yeah, about

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ten years old. I'm telling my
arm what I want to do. And

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I know that sounds really weird to
the lay person, but if you could

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expound upon that for me, I'd
appreciate it. Yes, So there are

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still a lot of people that are
using your initial device, which was made

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by Oser, where you contract your
muscle and then you move your hand forward

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or sideways or backwards, and then
it would do a preset control, so

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you would open your muscle and then
jump forward then it'll close, so it's

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you can make it smooth. But
if someone's just watching you, it looks

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a little awkward where you're staring at
this ro robot arm and then it went,

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oh, go forward grab Oopsno,
I accidentally pointed my finger or you

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know, I sneezed and this happened. So now your new and a lot

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of new technology learns your body patterns, so it's more natural to use the

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electric device. So what you think
this pinch is, you can make it

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whatever you want, and your prosthetic
will learn how to do this pinch.

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So you train it, You train
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I think that is a huge difference
between again, you having to learn this

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crazy robot arm after dealing with an
injury, and technology continues to expand and

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grow and it's wonderful and hopefully one
day they'll actually have the ability to touch

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to feel that because when you're using
your prosthetic device, you have to make

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sure that you know that there's a
cup in your hand, because if you

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let go and you're looking over here
and it let's go, that's it.

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So the tactile sensation you just don't
have. So when you're opening something,

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you have to look at it or
else you don't know where your arm is

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in space? Do you even have
are you holding the ziploc bag? You

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have no idea. You have to
look at it and you know it's something

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that you have to do. And
it's not relearning, it's learning because you

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didn't have that before, so you
are learning something completely new. So learning

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these tips and tricks again is with
your procetists and occupational therapist. But it's

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just a whole nother world, a
whole different way of doing things. And

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when you see, like we met
Jason miss Gray who has both arms that

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are robotic devices and my electric arms, and he was, oh my gosh,

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oh but the can drink that did
all this And that's a lot of

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practice, you know when he asked
three kids, so he had to figure

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it out and that was it.
But uh, it's it's a lot.

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It's a lot. Yeah, and
until you if you come into my world

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and walk with me through a day
of therapy, you would get an idea,

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but you also would see the difference
different people. There was a patient

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in there. They had no muscle
in his arm. It was it was

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just and the muscles were gone,
and he was upset that he couldn't take

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his fork and get the peas.
He was trying to just eat peas,

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and it was he was tremble so
and he had no no, no,

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nothing, no flexibility in his arms, and and he and he was just

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in her colleague was trying to tell
him, go on am talk about you

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know, assistant devices. Amazon has
taken over. I applaud them because I

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don't I couldn't go to a specialty
store. There's no specialty store here in

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Orlando. You got on Amazon,
and you from scissors to can openers to

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every I mean almost everything. You
just type in search bar assisted devices,

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it's gonna pop up, it's gonna
it's gonna run for a minute. And

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I remember that particular day, I
think I shared it on the show that

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he was just really adamant. He's
like, now I've got to pay for

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something. Now I got to buy
something. And I'm like, and they've

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got all kinds of things at their
in the at their place, you know,

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at the office that you can,
I mean, and how to help

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us to be able to throw things
and catch things and and and do exercises

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and things like that. And he
was just not hearing it. And I

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was just like, oh, he's
getting on my nerves, you know,

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because he was not appreciative. They
were just trying to just show him.

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They got their cell phones out,
saying they see Amazon, you could use

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this, and here's a grip work
that will help you grip. And you

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know, he didn't want to hear
it. So I got up. I

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was called to the physical therapy side
and I went over there and I was

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just like shaking my hand and Kateman's
looked at me like, oh boy,

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it's great. You all right?
I said, yeah, I'll be all

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right, just shaking my head.
But I said, just give me a

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minute. Who So the gentleman comes
over and he's getting ready to do his

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physical therapy and then he said he
stopped. He said, excuse me a

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minute, and he came over to
me. He said, young lady,

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I'm so sorry. I don't act
like that, he said, And the

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next time you hear me do that, just tap me on the show.

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And I said, no, I'm
gonna do you better. I'm going to

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00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:37.480
Target to get some nerve balls and
bring them with me. And when you

409
00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:40.519
start showing out, because these people
are trying to help you. You know,

410
00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:41.880
they don't have to do that,
right, All they have to do

411
00:31:41.960 --> 00:31:45.519
is do your exercise and you're for
forty five minutes and you're out. He

412
00:31:45.559 --> 00:31:48.039
said, you're right. I said, no, you need to tell and

413
00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:52.319
you're sorry and apologize even to Christine
because we had to be subject to that.

414
00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:55.359
But you don't need to tell me. But I promise you, I'm

415
00:31:55.359 --> 00:31:56.680
gonna bring the nerve balls in.
I'm just gonna throw one at you and

416
00:31:56.720 --> 00:32:00.319
you'll know what I'm thinking. So
know. But it was a family type

417
00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:05.079
you know, uh situation. Patients
were feeling bad, but they were looking

418
00:32:05.079 --> 00:32:07.319
at me in my arm and everything. So you get these stairs and the

419
00:32:07.400 --> 00:32:09.519
people were like, oh, this
is this poor girl. And I'm like,

420
00:32:09.559 --> 00:32:12.400
no, I don't need you.
I don't need your sympathy. I

421
00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:16.119
got work to do because I got
to become independent as independent as I can.

422
00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:22.880
I got to embrace it and I
got to you know, and I

423
00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:25.960
go in for maintenance every year for
both my arms. Not everyone can adjust

424
00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:30.000
the changes. It takes time to
come to terms with loss. You're very

425
00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:34.880
You're very much right. And guess
what. I've been discharged for what about

426
00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:38.759
two years now? About a year
at least. I'm five years in since

427
00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:44.400
all this happened to me in a
stage and I've just been discharged from both

428
00:32:44.440 --> 00:32:47.400
PT and OT, but I still
have a director. I still call in,

429
00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:52.519
and I just had my new arm
done and I'm not having to go

430
00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:55.079
in, you know, be trained
on that. So yeah, this is

431
00:32:55.119 --> 00:33:00.839
that's why you have to have a
new normal every day. You don't let

432
00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:05.000
yesterday trip you up. Once upon
a time, I didn't think I would

433
00:33:05.039 --> 00:33:07.920
be able to drive, and I
asked my foot surgeon, is there a

434
00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:12.480
special class I can go to because
I can't rely on I don't want to

435
00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:15.839
rely on my kids. They've already
been through enough. And he said,

436
00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:17.000
well, I'll tell you what you
do, miss Graysy. No, there's

437
00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:21.799
some classes out there, but you
know what, just get find an empty

438
00:33:21.839 --> 00:33:24.839
parking lot on a Sunday, gutt
your car fifty five sixty five, a

439
00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:29.079
slam on the brake. See how
you feel. I've been driving ever since.

440
00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:34.000
I was like, thank you,
doc, you know, but he

441
00:33:34.079 --> 00:33:37.920
knew he knows me, just like
this young lady has gotten to know me.

442
00:33:37.559 --> 00:33:42.440
He was my foot surgeon. He
removed my toes on both feet,

443
00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:45.880
you know, And I go and
see him every six weeks, and he

444
00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:51.880
wants to make sure I'm okay.
You know. So you talk to your

445
00:33:51.920 --> 00:33:54.039
people, talk to your doctors and
things like that. When we're talking from

446
00:33:54.039 --> 00:33:58.440
the medical perspective, tell them what
you're going through. And if they're not

447
00:33:58.599 --> 00:34:02.440
listening, I would say, go
get a second opinion. Yes, don't

448
00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:06.799
get a second opinion. Don't sit
there. You're already going through struggle.

449
00:34:06.839 --> 00:34:08.719
And then you go to the appointment
to the person that's supposed to kind of

450
00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:13.719
shed a little light and they're making
it darker. No, I'm not gonna

451
00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:15.800
keep you in my life like that. I'm not gonna do that, you

452
00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:22.599
know, So finding look up on
Amazon if you need it. Adaptive equipment

453
00:34:22.920 --> 00:34:29.119
from scissors to I mean cups.
It was so funny. A lady was

454
00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:34.280
watching me and I went to the
movies and I was by myself, I

455
00:34:34.280 --> 00:34:37.880
think this time, and the lady. I had my other cup holder.

456
00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:39.119
I don't have any front of me, but I have a whole bunch of

457
00:34:39.119 --> 00:34:44.280
these, and I got them from
Amazon, okay, because it helps me

458
00:34:44.360 --> 00:34:47.119
to hold my cup. And I've
got single ones as well, and it

459
00:34:47.239 --> 00:34:52.119
just comes right up and I'm just
fine. So I took my huge Mel

460
00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:55.159
Luca bag into the movies so I
can put my popcorn in there, and

461
00:34:55.199 --> 00:34:59.320
I have my hand my holder,
and I walked in and the lady said,

462
00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:01.880
oh, that's now, you know. But she was like wondering,

463
00:35:02.039 --> 00:35:06.119
how is she going to carry her
slurpery cup and her popcorn? And my

464
00:35:06.159 --> 00:35:08.000
popcorn went in the bag. They
helped me put They know me at the

465
00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:10.519
movie theater, so they put my
popcorn in the back and I went on

466
00:35:10.880 --> 00:35:15.599
to the handicap area and enjoyed myself. Now I'm on the level sea by

467
00:35:15.599 --> 00:35:19.360
myself. So I mean, I
went up three stairs, got in the

468
00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:22.800
middle, and I said it's roll. See now I won't sit in the

469
00:35:22.840 --> 00:35:25.719
handicapped area by myself anymore. I
can send it, you know, put

470
00:35:25.719 --> 00:35:29.880
my cup down in the cup holder. I enjoyed my movie. I left

471
00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:31.960
that way. I was able to
take everything to the trash done, and

472
00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:37.719
I'm on my way home. So
that's my new normal. I have to

473
00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:39.519
make sure I have my cup holders. I have to make sure I have

474
00:35:39.639 --> 00:35:42.719
my large bag in the car just
in case. I'd just said, you

475
00:35:42.760 --> 00:35:44.599
know what, I can go,
let me go to a movie. I'm

476
00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:50.559
not doing anything so going back to
happiness now, Christina, want to just

477
00:35:50.599 --> 00:35:52.840
segue a little bit to safety in
the workplace because there are people who are

478
00:35:52.880 --> 00:36:00.360
still try to work and and get
back to some sort of work, people

479
00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:04.039
unfortunately have been laid off. Because
will you be willing to share your story

480
00:36:04.079 --> 00:36:07.559
with us on how the things did
things happen? Will let up to the

481
00:36:07.559 --> 00:36:10.800
amputation? Maybe I will once soon, Missy. I've done in bits and

482
00:36:10.800 --> 00:36:15.960
pieces, but I will one day. And also getting ready to write the

483
00:36:15.960 --> 00:36:21.559
first worker on the fourth book,
we'd be Warrior Part two when the practitioner

484
00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:25.880
becomes the patient. So that's gonna
be out by this year. So you

485
00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:30.159
may want to wait a little bit
and grab a book, but CHRISTI will

486
00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:36.800
be in that you'll have her own
chapter. But let's talk about that a

487
00:36:36.840 --> 00:36:38.719
little bit. You know, because
of finding you're happy, and like I

488
00:36:38.760 --> 00:36:45.760
said before, you know it's hard, I mean, and when you don't

489
00:36:45.800 --> 00:36:51.119
have all of this like what I've
had to deal with. But you know,

490
00:36:52.599 --> 00:36:57.000
what are you seeing now coming in
to the office. Is it the

491
00:36:57.039 --> 00:37:05.679
same type of hopelessness and despair?
Are people eager to try to get better?

492
00:37:06.920 --> 00:37:08.920
Because now we've had COVID, now
we post COVID and now we still

493
00:37:08.960 --> 00:37:13.880
have nineteen other variances out there.
What are you seeing now? I'm just

494
00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:19.079
curious if you can share a little
bit on that. I feel like people

495
00:37:19.239 --> 00:37:24.880
are a little more happy. You
know, COVID was really dark and I

496
00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:30.400
was pretty much people's only friend and
interaction. We weren't allowed to leave anywhere.

497
00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:36.280
And the patients are my friends and
I'm their friends. And you know,

498
00:37:36.440 --> 00:37:40.119
either way, whether COVID or not, we always try and keep a

499
00:37:40.239 --> 00:37:45.559
positive attitude. No one wants to
be in therapy and I get that,

500
00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:52.760
so at least make it enjoyable,
right, And of course you can't always

501
00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:57.360
be laughing like there are things that
are really sad why they were here.

502
00:37:57.800 --> 00:38:01.920
We have people with domestic abuse,
you know, where their partner hurt them

503
00:38:02.360 --> 00:38:07.960
and that's why they're there, or
self harm, you know, so things

504
00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:13.119
that you want to avoid talking about. So I redirect and I don't know,

505
00:38:13.239 --> 00:38:16.679
I start talking about whatever, my
kid or you know, something fun,

506
00:38:17.239 --> 00:38:22.159
you know, just funny little stories, whatever, and getting them into

507
00:38:22.119 --> 00:38:30.400
what they enjoy. But you know, because I try and be upbeat and

508
00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:35.199
keep it on a lighter note again, not being too bubbly and annoying I

509
00:38:35.639 --> 00:38:42.119
figure that out. Is that for
miss Gray, I'm sure of course you

510
00:38:42.159 --> 00:38:47.760
got in her strength? Was that
for Christine or was that for me?

511
00:38:50.360 --> 00:38:52.960
I think it's for Christine, but
in a strength. Yeah, this is

512
00:38:53.000 --> 00:39:00.400
who she is. She didn't school
didn't teach her this because you know spoken,

513
00:39:00.599 --> 00:39:06.119
I've been through through knowing these folks, you know, through my treatment.

514
00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:09.719
I was asked to be on the
advisory board of an occupational therapy program

515
00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:14.679
for four year college. So I'm
on the advisory board. I'm the only

516
00:39:14.719 --> 00:39:17.960
person that's not a professor in the
field. And I've then from there,

517
00:39:19.239 --> 00:39:23.480
I've spoken to several classes to talk
about mental health and and things like that

518
00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:28.800
and how to be and I'm having
to I've used draw up on my experiences

519
00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:31.440
with you know, Caitlin and Christine. Everyone on the panels. See they

520
00:39:31.480 --> 00:39:35.679
seems to have inny strength. Praise
God. Okay, yeahnna. I'm gonna

521
00:39:35.719 --> 00:39:37.679
make trade. Also addressed that we
only have five more minutes. I'm gonna

522
00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:43.679
be quiet, trade, go for
it. I don't know how to go

523
00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:47.480
for that. I mean, everything
said before me he was great. But

524
00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:52.920
but I think too, it's the
people that you surround yourself with, and

525
00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:54.840
so there are people who are gonna
list you up, and there are people

526
00:39:54.840 --> 00:39:59.280
that are gonna bring you down,
and so you try to gravitate to those

527
00:39:59.800 --> 00:40:04.000
who are gonna lift you up.
And because you know it's so to step

528
00:40:04.039 --> 00:40:06.960
away from being down. You know
it could be one thing that can trigger

529
00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:10.719
you being down, and sometimes it's
easy to stay there, you know,

530
00:40:12.039 --> 00:40:21.280
So finding ways to make yourself happy
or laugh. I now use this TikTok

531
00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:25.760
is actually hilarious. I find some
things on in there that are just hilarious,

532
00:40:25.800 --> 00:40:34.519
whether it has to do with animals
or situations. People have really become

533
00:40:35.400 --> 00:40:43.360
creative in creat in developing content,
and so that makes that's become something that

534
00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:47.000
I've done. I mean, I'm
on Facebook some but when I say TikTok,

535
00:40:47.119 --> 00:40:51.880
some of those pages on tiktoks and
you get the animals, somebody's acting

536
00:40:51.960 --> 00:40:57.039
like the animal talking and then you're
seeing these bizarre situations and people's reactions to

537
00:40:57.079 --> 00:41:02.000
it that is hilarious. So try
to At one point I was a news

538
00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:07.199
buff. I've slowed that down tremendously. I don't turn it on much.

539
00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:10.039
I might turn it on, flip
it on USA. Okay, that's that's

540
00:41:10.159 --> 00:41:15.519
enough until next week and I might
turn it on, but finding television shows

541
00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:20.880
that make you laugh or or talking
about things that make you happy, and

542
00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:22.760
and so, because like I said, it's so easy coming from the mental

543
00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:27.559
health fields, you know, it's
so easy to stay down. You know,

544
00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:31.920
it's very easy to stay down.
And so you have to reach out

545
00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:36.800
to a friend or like I said, use those things that will make you

546
00:41:36.920 --> 00:41:42.480
laugh just to kind of get out
of it. And typically I find myself

547
00:41:42.559 --> 00:41:47.679
laughing a lot and trying to smile
and make lighter things. My aunt used

548
00:41:47.679 --> 00:41:52.559
to say, better than a blood
pressure peel. Then laugh laugh is better

549
00:41:52.599 --> 00:41:57.559
than that. And so, like
I said, find those people who are

550
00:41:57.599 --> 00:42:01.480
gonna support and lift you up and
try to stay away on limit your time

551
00:42:01.639 --> 00:42:07.239
with things that bring you down.
That's pretty much what I have to say.

552
00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:12.360
Amen to that. And they would
be times I'm in physical therapy and

553
00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:19.400
and and either Christine or Caitlin or
g the next person that came to interacted

554
00:42:19.440 --> 00:42:22.400
with on the next round, and
he's stretching me right, and I'm like,

555
00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:28.440
gee, what happens when people pass
gas? Because you know you're moving

556
00:42:28.519 --> 00:42:32.239
us. I mean, do you
do you laugh? He said? It's

557
00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:36.360
great? Stop, I said,
no. See, this is why there's

558
00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:40.719
certain careers is not for me.
I would be like, what you're doing

559
00:42:40.760 --> 00:42:44.119
up, parole juice when you come
here out, don't be doing that.

560
00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:46.320
You know what's what to do with
that? Then you go get the lights

561
00:42:46.320 --> 00:42:51.000
off. It's you. You got
the white favorite thing down. And I

562
00:42:51.079 --> 00:42:52.840
know they have to be embarrassed because
you're like, oh my god, they're

563
00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:57.599
stretching and making all these noises,
and I'm like, how do y'all people

564
00:42:57.719 --> 00:43:00.199
stream things? You know, But
it's just little things like that you can

565
00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:05.119
make light of. You know.
You can also tell those who are very

566
00:43:05.199 --> 00:43:08.760
very serious and they have a very
serious face, and so I don't push

567
00:43:08.800 --> 00:43:12.239
them to because they don't know me. You know, my girls are out

568
00:43:12.280 --> 00:43:14.559
on vacation or whatever, so I
have to take whoever, you know,

569
00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:16.599
and they're like, oh, you
know, they got to quickly get to

570
00:43:16.679 --> 00:43:22.320
know me in forty five minutes and
stick to the lesson plan as well,

571
00:43:22.840 --> 00:43:27.119
you know. And so I know, being a humorous person, I know

572
00:43:27.239 --> 00:43:29.960
my limit. I could tell by
body language. Okay, I'm not gonna

573
00:43:29.960 --> 00:43:31.639
mess with this because she's not gonna
get what I'm saying, so I'm gonna

574
00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:36.920
leave that alone. Where's Christine coming
back? But I give her a hard

575
00:43:36.920 --> 00:43:37.840
time when she goes back, you
know, I like, they'll put me

576
00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:40.519
over anybody. I'll just take the
week off until you get back, because

577
00:43:42.039 --> 00:43:46.000
oh no, you know, but
yeah, the industry comes from my faith.

578
00:43:47.079 --> 00:43:51.280
Always had my faith, Thank God, I had my faith prior to

579
00:43:51.320 --> 00:43:54.199
this happening to me. I increased
my faith evermore because even though I was

580
00:43:54.199 --> 00:43:59.360
in the hospital for ninety seven days
and dying twice, and in a coma

581
00:43:59.400 --> 00:44:01.320
three weeks and all that, and
then six months later, you know,

582
00:44:01.880 --> 00:44:07.280
actively amputated, you know, self
amputating, I had to still minister the

583
00:44:07.320 --> 00:44:13.719
people in the hospital. I still
had to talk about God in the hospital.

584
00:44:14.519 --> 00:44:16.400
And when it's it's when it's who
you are, it's it's who you

585
00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:20.360
know, everybody's it brought me and
then the Lord will get after me.

586
00:44:20.360 --> 00:44:22.960
He said, Now, don't you
give for seeing a hard time today?

587
00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:24.599
I said, God, I don't
want to go, but I can't call

588
00:44:24.639 --> 00:44:28.320
it in because I know there are
other patients that could have You know,

589
00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:30.840
I can't call it a night before
because she will call me and say what's

590
00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:35.079
going on? What's going on?
And I know she would go and tell

591
00:44:35.119 --> 00:44:37.960
stepping at the prosthetic office, and
she'll go and talk to my foot surgeon.

592
00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:40.400
She'll go talk to my hand surgery. He's right down the hall,

593
00:44:40.800 --> 00:44:45.400
you know. So I couldn't and
I don't lie, so I couldn't make

594
00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:49.840
a fitty I go in like I
don't want to be here today. She

595
00:44:49.880 --> 00:44:52.360
goes, Okay, that's good,
come on this masage. It's just stupid

596
00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:58.559
size. I'm like, you know, but I had to love her and

597
00:44:58.599 --> 00:45:01.239
I couldn't be bad at her for
two and she accepted it. You know.

598
00:45:01.400 --> 00:45:06.159
So you've got to find your happiness
now. You've got to no matter

599
00:45:06.199 --> 00:45:09.280
what is going on, You've got
to find your happiness. Once you find

600
00:45:09.360 --> 00:45:15.159
it, you need to embrace because
that's another thing. A lot of times

601
00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:19.199
we're told to do things but we
don't like it. But if you embrace

602
00:45:19.239 --> 00:45:22.920
it, it's gonna make it just
a little bit more easier going down it

603
00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:25.639
really does. You have to find
your happy place. You got to find

604
00:45:25.679 --> 00:45:29.880
out what you need to do.
What's your purpose in this world? There

605
00:45:29.960 --> 00:45:32.280
is everybody's a purpose. Don't let
the voices in your head tell you not.

606
00:45:32.679 --> 00:45:36.280
Oh, there's no reason for you
to live. There's nothing for you

607
00:45:36.360 --> 00:45:38.119
to do. What good are you
get those voices out your head? Give

608
00:45:38.199 --> 00:45:40.760
us a call. We will walk
you through. What do you like to

609
00:45:40.760 --> 00:45:45.679
do if you didn't have if money
wasn't an issue, what would you like

610
00:45:45.719 --> 00:45:47.039
to do? What do you see
yourself doing? What do you see yourself

611
00:45:47.079 --> 00:45:52.239
living? Then that should be your
vacation spot the next time you go on

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vacation. Well a no alone.
Last week we had the library, one

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of the librarians on the development manager
of our local library from downtown and Christine,

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You'll be amazed at what the library
downtown does. And they have three

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social workers and they helped over forty
four hundred people last year. Social workers

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in a library, So there's always
things that there's interactive things they've got down

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there that you can rent a studio
room down there. You can go and

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learn how to crochet, you can
learn how how to do and let me

619
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tell you talk to my older people. I know you want to stay off

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the grid and you don't want to
learn the computer, but you are doing

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yourself a disservice. If you don't
have an iPad, an active one,

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you're doing yourself a disservice and you're
making yourself depressed. You need to keep

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up with technology. You don't have
to have the fitbit watching and the fitbit

624
00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:54.079
watch kind of told on a lady
that a boyfriend was cheating because his heart

625
00:46:54.199 --> 00:46:57.280
rate was up at two am in
the morning, and she said, what

626
00:46:57.320 --> 00:46:59.679
were you doing at two am?
You weren't here? He said, well,

627
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I went to workouts. You know
you didn't because the gym pulls up

628
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early to night. So where were
you to a club? What were you

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doing with the fitbit watch told ratted
him out. So you gotta be careful

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with some of these devices. But
anyway, go to your local library.

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Wrought at what they do if there's
a need. I'm pretty sure they're interactive.

632
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They're trying to proceeed funding. If
you tell them, well, why

633
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is it that we don't have a
quilting club here, well, they're probably

634
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saying, do you know three people
who quill? If you do, we'll

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make a spot for you. Do
you need resources? All you have to

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do is ask. All you have
to do is ask. All right,

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Christine, we're down to two more
minutes. Anything you will leave our loving

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audience with speaking about happiness, you
know, just celebrating the little accomplishments,

639
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little things add up to big things. Surround yourself with good people. It's

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hard to stay positive all the time, and you can have your little pity

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party. Wait then get yourself out
of it and keep going. Amen.

642
00:48:05.480 --> 00:48:07.840
Amen, And that's the key.
Realize that you're in You had to go

643
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to the valley for a minute.
We all have to do it. This

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may. We may look good on
here, but there are times we have

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to go. I will shut down
from everybody. I come off the grid.

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You don't hear from me. I
tell my attitude is right because I'm

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ninety percent spiritual, but I'm ten
percent flesh. Remember that that ten goes

648
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a long way. But I know
when I have to go to my valley,

649
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I get quiet, I regroup what's
going on. But can I change

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or I can't change that. I'm
gonna back away from that. Okay.

651
00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:43.159
I delete people out of my phone. I don't I don't have a thousand

652
00:48:43.159 --> 00:48:45.559
people in the phone. If I
haven't heard from you in a minute,

653
00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:49.360
you deleted folks. I have students
that will come back after ten years.

654
00:48:49.400 --> 00:48:51.440
Hey, it's cray. You remember
me and I put out I don't know

655
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who you are. Oh that's right, I forgot you. Do delete people

656
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if you don't hear from it.
I said, yes, I do it.

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I don't wait a year. Anyway, that's our time. Christine,

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God bless you, and thank you
so much for joining us tonight. And

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this is so important to me,
and you're always gonna be a part of

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00:49:08.800 --> 00:49:13.400
my family. You're always family with
me. And I'm here and i'd probably

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00:49:13.400 --> 00:49:16.320
be coming in soon for just a
little touchup just to make sure I'm on

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right where I need to be.
So but anyway, Trey, thank you,

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Rebel, thank you. We'll see
y'all next week, same time,

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same stations. Night night, good
night.