February 24, 2025 • 36 mins
This week's episode is a story of resilience and strength. Laura Slater is on sharing her breast cancer story from beginning to present moment. She opens up about the family history that prepared her, finding out at stage 3, and how her boyfriend (now husband) supported her journey. A very emotional moment happened when Laura admits how she lives her life after beating breast cancer.
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Thanks personally with Laura James Fieldsman.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
This week we have a very special guest, lauras later
joins me to share all about her breast cancer story.
I know when Breast Cancer Awareness Month rolls around, we
really focus on stories like this, but I think it's
important we highlight things outside of their dedicated.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Days or months or weeks.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
And I'm really honored that Laura decided to share her
story with you all here on the podcast. You guys
may know her as Bay from The Bobby Bone Show,
Ray Moondow's wife. This is Laura, Laura, thanks for coming on.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I'm good? Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Are you nervous?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
This tends to be a theme when I bring any
of my friends into the podcast world.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
I don't do many of these, that's for sure. So
it's more the video.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I'm like, I'm hi, you look beautiful.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I thank yeah, And we do video everything, so if
you want to go watch this on YouTube, you can
totally do that. But Laura, I'm really excited to have
you joined, and I feel really honored that you're willing
to talk and share your story because your story is
super inspirational. Thank you, and I don't want to get
to where I'm just talking, So I'm gonna let you
start to share your story. The reason we have you
here is to share your journey from getting diagnosed with
(01:32):
breast cancer and now being in remission for multiple.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Years almost seven.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, and the whole journey of it.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
But start us from the beginning and just share, like
your basic cancer story, not that it's basic, but simple version.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
So mine started.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Really we have to go back to high school for mine.
When I was seventeen, I found a lump in my
breast and I told my mom and she was just like,
we need to get this checked out. And so she
already being over forty, had a doctor, and so we
went to him and they checked it. They did a
biopsy of it, and it was called a fiber adenoma.
(02:09):
I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right, But because
of that, I kept having to get checked because I
kept having these pop up. So throughout the years, I
kept having more and more fiber autonomas pop up. So
that was going sometimes every three months, sometimes every six
months just to check up from seventeen till thirty one,
and I was going in for a six month appointment
(02:32):
when I was thirty one years old, and I almost
didn't go. This is the craziest story. I almost didn't
go because they changed our insurance and it was gonna
be like one hundred dollars to go, and I'm like,
I've been going every six months. I can put it
off for whatever. But something told me like, just go.
So I paid one hundred dollars and like whatever. I'm
in there with my same doctors and they're filing around
(02:54):
and they found a spot, which I've still don't even
realized it at the time because I just feel like, oh,
it's another fib I at home and they're finding and
they have an in office ultrasound, and I remember she
did an ultrasound and I looked up at that and
I was like, because I could tell you right now,
if you if I br KNOWM give me an ultrasound,
I'll let you know.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
This was not that like it did not look like
those looked like yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
And so she walked out of the room and went
to talk to the doctor and came right back in
and she was like, can you come in tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
For a biopsy?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Which this place is like one of the most popular
places in Nashville that doesn't happen like it would take
weeks and stuff. So I was like, okay, that's how
I already was mentally preparing myself that this is something different,
and it was and ended up at stage three breast cancer,
which we did find that out until after surgery. They
were thinking it was probably just stage one, maybe stage two,
and they ended up being stage three.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
As you're going through this, are you angry because You're like,
I've been doing these checkups for three to six months routinely.
You've been doing everything that you needed to do, and
then you've find out that it's stage three.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Yeah, just in that short amount of time, and it
wasn't like it wasn't one of those super aggressive ones.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
That's something that I still have to deal with mentally.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I'm not gonna lie. There's a few different things. I
want to first say that for some reason, I never
asked why me? Like I never was like a why
me person. I've asked that like when my parents, she
can get into later I've had cancer and I'm like
why them? But I've never was like why me? I do, though,
(04:29):
struggle with why did they not catch it sooner?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
When I was doing everything I was supposed to do.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
And when I after I had surgeries, when they told
me that was gonna need chemo, and I remember going
into my colleges and she was like the first time
I met her, she was like I look through all
these She's like, I don't understand. I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Why, why? Why? This is this thick?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
And you are found out at stage three, So it's
a hard pill to swallow. But then I also look
at it as thank god that I went in that
day because I wasn't I didn't feel it. I felt
it after she felt it. But me going every six months,
I wasn't trying to fill around as much as I
should have.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And so thank god she found it.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
So I go back and forth as in like a ugh,
like how can I swallow this pill?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Up?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I did everything I was supposed to do, but also
she saved my life, so you can't really get too
mad about that.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I want to get into more of your cancer journey
in the story, but before we start that, I would
love to hear you mention your family and the cancer
history that you have in your family, which I also
imagine it's just tough on multiple levels that you would
experience this as a family and then you were going
through it.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
So walk me through that side of this a little
bit with the breast cancer part of it. Come to
find out, like later, way later, I didn't realize. I
guess my great grandmother we think may have had breast cancer,
but we weren't. We still aren't one hundred percent sure
with that one. But my mom got diagnosed with breast
cancer a year before me, and hers was stage one,
(06:05):
and so they did what she's called a lump back
to me, so it's like with me, I did a
missectomy where they took all the tissue and everything. With hers,
they just take the tissue and the surrounding of the
cancer and then they did a they did radiation. So
that's and then she's, thank god, been maybe going on
nine years cancer free. But also that was also a
weird I don't want to say blessing, but we went
(06:27):
to the same doctor, so they did start being a
little more, Okay, we need to treat you a little
bit better. And they were telling me even then that
maybe when I turned thirty five, that we need to
do an MRI just to make sure that there's nothing
in there. Since my mom had it so I think
maybe that was you know, maybe good at as far
as helping them be more concerned with them, just be like, oh,
(06:47):
these are five broadnomas or whatever. So that was the
mom's side. My dad ended up having melanoma, and his
was again, it wasn't during my treatment, it was right
after I finished.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I'll never forget.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I just finished all of my treatment, so the chemo,
the radiation, and my dad my mom was like telling me.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I was like, it was like the end of.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
The year, right after Christmas, and my mom was like,
your dad has melanoma.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And I'm like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Like I was supposed to be cbready the end of
this and now my.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Dad has melanoma.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
So it's different cancer, but it's he's done really well
with it. It came back, but he got it taking care
of again, and so he's knock on wood doing great now.
But yeah, it's like my brother, he's I'm just waiting
for this she.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
To try what is happening, you know, He's gotta keep
that shoe up.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
But yeah, so that's like the family history and then
a few we could go back way further where it's
like my grandfather had died of cancer. My grandmother died
of cancer, but it wasn't My grandmother was lung cancer.
My grandfather I think it was a sophagal So, yeah,
we have cancer all in our family, but this was
definitely not so much breast cancer until a year before
I got diagnosed.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
There's so much with this, but I just have to
imagine that, in the hardest way possible, that it helped you. Yeah,
that your family had gone through it and you guys
had really been unfortunately adjusted.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
To that, especially my mom. I'll never forget. After I
had the biopsy, I went home and I had it
on like a Thursday or Wednesday one those days. I
remember I went home and then I like, I do
not suggest this, don't do it. I doctor would call
doctor Google. And I remember seeing from the picture in
my head of that ultrasound. I was going through and
(08:30):
looking at every picture and of online like cancer not cancer,
and I could tell, Okay, I knew that weekend that
I had cancer. My mom was like, no, you don't whatever.
And I remember going in that Monday and be getting
found out and I was like, I told you I
had it, But I remember I just told Mom was
like I told her I was like, I'm not strong
(08:51):
like you because she just went through it, and I'm like,
I'm not strong because I was.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I'd never felt strong.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Every little thing was such a huge thing to me.
I definitely deal with anxiety, so that was like up
to the thousand I remember just being like, I don't
I'm not strong. And the reason I say that is
because I'm stronger than I ever knew. I'm stronger than
It's just crazy what you can do and what you're like.
(09:17):
Mine makes you think that maybe you can't, maybe you're
not strong. And so for my reason to say this
is one thing I did want to say, come on here,
is that anyone that's going through this that's feeling you're
not strong. Everyone's strong. You just have to feel you
have to be. You just have to be presented, unfortunately,
with something like this to make you feel like, wow,
(09:37):
I got through this, I got through all of this.
I'm on the other side of this. And another thing
I will never it is the craziest thing, but cancer
is the best thing that ever happened to me, which
is the weirdest thing to say.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
But to look in the world differently was.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I'm looking at you, Laura. I would have never known
that you felt that way. I would have never known
that you were sitting there battling with this. I you
know that I can't do this or that I'm not
strong enough to handle Yes, because you are. You're an
incredibly inspiring person and watching you live your life, you
are confident and you live your life fully. So I
love that you shared that piece because perception is reality, right,
(10:17):
and what we see on social media, we often get
really caught up in this idea that this is who
this person is without understanding that they're also human and
they can crumble too when things happen. Now you say
that cancer is the best thing that happened to you,
Is it because of the strength or is there more
to that?
Speaker 4 (10:35):
I never wanted it again, So I do you want
to say that I would never want that?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
But what for me personally?
Speaker 4 (10:43):
It's given me the craziest outlook on life to where
I dealt, like I said, I doubt with anxiety. So
any little thing was just the hugest thing to me.
And now that I've had the hugest thing, those little
things are easier to be like yeah, like whatever, Like
that's nothing. We can deal with that one I'm not
to say I don't have.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
My moments, because I do. Again, you're human, I'm human.
But it really has changed my life. It's opened your
mind to see like things in the world that really
do matter. And it's not so much, I don't know,
it's just like.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
It just makes you so grateful, makes you grateful for
your family, makes me grateful for my husband, it makes
me it's just it's really it's the best thing that
ever happened to me in the weirdest, horrible way.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Sometimes the worst things that happen to us do just
change our lives for the better.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Unfortunately. Yeah, but you never want that for anyone.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
But it makes you who you are, and it's now
a part of your story, which is why you were
strong enough to come on and share it with other people.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
When we were talking about your.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Family too, you, I feel like you're the perfect person
to ask this because you've experienced personally. You've experienced it
with your family. When you're dealing with someone going through cancer,
what are the things that you can do, one to
support them and one that you definitely probably shouldn't do.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Okay, So I'm glad you asked that, actually, because this
is one of the things and it's so random, but
one of the favorite things that anyone did for me
was ray I'll the husband, but he made me a
playlist of songs that from when you're having a hard
time to listen to, and that's something you could do
for any of your friends. And that just big songs
(12:25):
like my favorite one by the Ways fight song Rachel
plattin like that is that was So that was my
song the whole time going through it. But there's so
many amazing songs you can put in as songs as therapy,
and so that was one of the things you can
do to help the people you love.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Another thing.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Everyone's different with the way they went through it. When
my mom went through it, she was more conservative. She
didn't want a lot of people to know. She wanted
to get through it and whatever. Whereas I was like,
as soon as I got it, I was like, God
gave me this, and I do think for a reason,
and because I had like this is actually a craziest
(13:00):
worry back out I tell it. So when I was
I remember it was probably like November December the year
I got diagnosed in February, so it was like November
December before that, and I remember praying that because I
just felt like I was in a job where I
wasn't really helping people that much of now was, but
I just felt like I needed to do more. Be
careful what you pray for, because I remember praying, I
just want. I wish like that I could have something,
(13:22):
a job or something that would be able to help
people more. And fast forward to February and I get
diygnosed with breast cancer and I'm like, I hear you.
Not what I was expecting, but okay, job.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I feel like some messaging got along.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yeah, but I do.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
So as soon as I got diagnosed, in my view,
I was like, I am wanting I know this is
for a reason I'm thirty one years old. It's unheard
of for me. I just didn't hear of it and
I wanted to share. So to me, sharing my story
was super important. That being said, when you come about
helping people or what to do, some people are more
private with things. But for me personally, being treated normally,
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being not really looked as like a sick person just
asking me to still do things. You want to go
have brunch, heck, yeah, I do. Just treat them normally
and uber Eats gift cards is another great one because
when especially if it's someone's going through chemo like I did,
you never know what you're going to feel like as
far as what you want. I've pretty much lived off
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cheese fries, which I don't recommend it.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Probably it was.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Not great, but that's literally what I felt like. And
I was like, cheese fries and burgers. I'm to me, but.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
You never know.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
So I literally would have be able to just, you know,
as people would give me gift cards.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I could just go on there and order what I
felt like that day.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
And because Ray is not a cook, so you know,
like that was bless It's hard.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Made me a fried egg and it was not fried.
It was like gooey, and I'm like, oh god, Uber
e helped.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Me a piece of this.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
You're like, yeah, there's a lot of things getting missed
in translation here. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
And then for the things not to do, I think
anything you are doing that you are you think you're
doing the good of heart is great. But I do
say one of the things that's hard for any answer
patient going through it is being like, oh, I know
so and so that had it and she died or
he died, and that's not where you need your mind
(15:14):
at during these times. And even though it's of course
unfortunate and of course you feel bad and whatever, and
I'm sure that people are trying to help, but you
get so much of that and that's putting me down
a whole different mindset that I'm trying to be positive
and be just in this and know that I'm going
to kick a spot, and when I hear that someone died,
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it just doesn't really help with that.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
So maybe keep those dum minimum.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
This is good.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
That's funny because you never think about again when you
hear somebody go through something really hard and they say,
all you want to do is try and find words
to help them, and then words come out. You're like,
that probably wasn't the best thing that I could have said,
But we don't know. We don't handle grief in talks
of things that could potentially.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Death very well.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
No, we're not sensitive in that capacity that it just
makes everybody very uncomfortable, absolutely, so they blurt things out.
So it's good to sometimes make sure just filter it
through the brain a little bit before it comes out exactly.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
And I'll also say some the people don't realize is
you can lose friends during this treatment. Because there was
a friend of mine that she was a pretty good
friend and she just stopped talking to.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
You, and I'm like, okay.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Then we ran into her, like not even a year later,
and she was like, I'm just sorry. It was really
hard for me, and I'm like, okay, and I get in.
I respect it, but be there for those people that
are going through it, because we need you, we need
and that's the best thing I me sharing my story.
I'm so glad I did because I had so much support,
which I really think is what got me through it.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
So I think, as you mentioned, cancer helped you in
a lot of ways. I think it helped you filter
through some friends because that was not a friend that
was clearly gonna happen for anything important in your life. Yeah,
so I'm glad that it showed you the way in
the terms of who the people are that you really need. Absolutely,
it sounds like it helped you there. And this is
kind of a tough, weird question to ask. If it's uncomfortable,
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tell me, when you are sitting there and you get
diagnosed and there is this possibility that you may not
make it, do you have to constantly fight that battle
of that being in your head.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I still do to be honest.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Sorry, No it's okay, and we absolutely do not have
to go down this road.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
No, it's okay. But yeah, I mean I'm still you know,
it's still good.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
My sorry, I still good in my six months of
appointments and is always scary.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
So yeah, I mean it's still in your brain. And sorry,
I hold.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Your hand to it.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
But yes, I did have on your card dirt. I'll
be honest. Sorry, I'll be honest during it.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
During it, I was way better. I didn't really think
of it. I did a little bit, but it wasn't
super on my mind. And I actually just sent our friend,
We're gonna this whole like Mel Robbins situation, like this podcast,
because she had someone on that was like explaining this.
And when you're going through it, your brain pretty much
just like shuts off anything like that and you're just
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surviving and you're trying to get through it. I'll never
forget my last day of chemo. My uncolloge List nurse.
She came to me and I loved her. She was awesome,
always funny and great, and she came to me she
is my last chemo. She want to be like, yeah, absolutely,
let's go celebrate. And she came to me, she goes,
I want you to know that it's totally normal to
after you leave here to feel scared, and I was
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like what, And I get it because the reasoning is
you're actively treating yourself. So as much as chemo sucks,
you go to chemo and you're knowing.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
You're fighting it. There's a hope to that.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
There's a hope to that, so that after it you
just have to pray and hope that it's gonna stay gone.
And with mine being stage three, which they found out
after my surgery, that was a tough pol to swallow
because obviously it was very progressed.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
It was in my lyft notes.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
So that was something that I'm really glad she told
me about so that I could prepare myself to have
the feelings. And I don't know, I just think that's
something that a lot of people don't realize and I'm
glad that's all. I just sent that to Morgan because
her sister's going through and I was like, I just
want you to know that this is normal, Like these
feelings are normal. So yeah, I never really felt it
(19:33):
going through it, I feel it. I still live my
life like you never know. Each appointments. I've pretty much
lived my life every for every six months.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
And that's horrible, but it's just the truth.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
You get that great check up and you're like, good,
I'm good for six months, and that's just how you live.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Unfortunately well, And I'm.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Really glad that you shared this, even though I know
that was really hard for you.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Sorry, No, that's totally normal.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I'm asking you about something that's really hard, and having
those emotions shows to the people, anybody who may be
going through it or just got a diagnosis, whatever it
may be, that feeling that is real. Right, Having those
experiences is a real part of this. That we get
so laser focused on helping people fight it, and we
help them to get their way through, and we send
(20:19):
food and we do things to help them. But what
happens after, Yeah, and that's what you're speaking to. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Hearing you say I really live six months to six
months is heart wrenching.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I hate that for you, but I understand that's part
of your experience. And again, you've come to very beautiful
terms with the way that this has happened in your life,
but the fact that that is how you have to
have your perspective like that hurts my heart for you.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Thank you, And yeah it's not I guess every day
like so literally the week before go into an appointment,
I'm just like a mess usually, But it's just again,
I wouldn't take it back.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I really wouldn't and take that well you want to, No.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
It's okay.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I seriously thank you for sharing that piece of your
heart and that experience. I don't think you're alone in
that feeling, and I think you saying those words it's
more powerful than you know.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah, for a lot of people, myself.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
To hopefully it helps you heal a little piece of that.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
And it's funny when Ray had come to me, He's like,
Lord's going to be on your podcast.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
I was like, yes, right, I know.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I sent her the tiest like we have this conversation
and he goes, yeah, everybody always wants her to share
a story, but like she's choosing you, And I was like, well,
my hope is that she can just send this podcast. Yeah,
she doesn't have to keep reliving over and over again
all of these minds.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, first of all, I just love what you're doing.
I think it's so important and I'm and I do
love to share my story. Like I said, it's just
I'm so much easier to write.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
I'm a better writer or better just like random story.
Then it's like they sit down with it.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Because it is. It doesn't make you go back, especially
right now.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
I'm a month, not even a month from being my
seven years. So it's just it's always in my fills,
and I feel like every time someone wants to ask me,
it's usually around breast cancer wearing a smile that I'm like.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
No, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
I know that's horrible, but I'm so like, that's like
the worst month for me in the worst way.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Not really though, because.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Again, when you're sharing this, these parts of your story,
it's bringing up everything all over again. Yeah, it's like
asking somebody to relive one of the hardest parts of
their life multiple times over. And as much as you
want to be an advocate for this and share your story,
it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Mean it's not hard to do.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
And I think we forget that because we can look
at you and say, yes, you're a survivor, and yes
you've gone through this, and correct me if that's the
wrong terminology times, but again, we're missing this piece of
the person after it happens.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yeah, we really were like, oh you're you did it.
It's done.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
I think it's done. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
I hear that a lot from my cancer survivor friends.
It is like you have a celebration and it's just done,
which is great, that's how it should be. But then
the person mentally, I'm seven years out and I'm just cried,
like what, But it's just like you deal with it
every day every day. This more now is feeling around
in my boobs like you just eat. It's something I
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do multiple times a day every day, fill my boobs
all the time.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
But I do.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Because it's like I want to just know if there's
something that's there that shouldn't be and it's something that
you do.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
So yeah, treatment's over, but it's never over.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
This is now forever part of your life. And that's
the point that I wanted to make sure was really
driven home for people who have people like you in
their life, or maybe they're about to have this experience
and they just don't know it yet. Yeah, whatever it
may be, but thank you for sharing that side. I
want to focus on some more Happy podcast this. I
love who you are and who you've become as a
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person too, And I think this is a huge testament.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
To your story.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
What do you feel like is like the thing that's
really helped you from this to be who you.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Are today again, it comes to a strength, it really does.
And I think that to realize that I'm not week
and it's that's eye opening to me because I really
don't know why. I just never I think because it's
just I am emotional, a little person. I still am,
but I feel like I just never, like never realized
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how strong I am. And now I realize if it's
going in for a job interview or whatever, it's like,
that's nothing like you know what I mean, Like I
can do that. I can, like, you know, ask me
what my weakest strength is. I'll tell you something like
you know what I mean. But it's literally like I'm
I feel like it just gives you a whole I
just gave me strength and I needed it more than
I realized. So I think that's honestly the thing that
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I took most away from it.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
And I do feel like you have a newfound confidence
as well to act with that.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yeah, it's more or less kind of don't give a
crap f off attitude because you're like, you think you
can put me into something.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Yeah, trust me, I've been poor Ray.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
What was that like with you and Ray and him
being such a big support system for you?
Speaker 4 (25:07):
This is I try not to carry on this one too,
because so most of my treatments with chemo, Ray was
having to work because it was during the mornings. So
my dad, who always is working, but he was able
to go with me to every appointment. And I'll never
forget one of our appointments were waiting for my doctor
to come in and my dad just looks at me
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and again, this is a man. He's my hero, and
so don't think blessed of him for this because I'm
so it's something that stuck with me that makes me
appreciate Ray more than I could.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
We were waiting for my doctor to come in.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
My dad was like, I just He's like, I want
you to know, And my mom and my dad have
been married for fifty plus years and he was like,
I want you to know. I don't know if I
could have done it with your mom if we were
just dating at the time and her having to go
through this because of such how crazy and how emotional,
how deep it is, and so he goes for the
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fact that Ray not only like I mean I was bald,
you know, I was bald. My face was fat from steroids.
I had no boobs at some point, like I mean,
you know now I do, but thank you doct Drunker.
I literally, like, you know, was not cute, you know,
And he's stuck with me. And that's such a testament
(26:21):
that I knew, like from my dad saying it though
just made it so much more real that like my dad,
who I he's my hero, was like, I don't know
if I could have done this back in the day,
like if we were in the same situation, And I'm like, wow,
so I ever since then of course, right, we had
our hard times at the beginning, but he's amazing, Like
he's literally he I just love him so much. He'll
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do anything for me. He's such a supporter. Yeah, I
just love him.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
So he has just made us way closer obviously.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
But speaking of Ray, you guys, obviously if you're just
listening to this, just picture of this.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Ray did come with Laura for THO podcasts.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
But he's actually sitting downstairs in my life room just
watching football, so just picture what's happening. He's he really
is an amazing guy.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
I called him yesterday because he was laughing. He was
like posting about some stupid real I did, and I
was like, you're being like Spencer Pratt like with Heidi
right now.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
It's like you.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Honestly we all need a switcher Fred No, we.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Too, So I'm very happy even though he's crazy.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
I'm about a real At what point were you guys
in in your dating kind of light?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I was talking about it before we came over here.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
We my gosh, we dated six years before we got engaged,
which is another whole story. So that was in I'm
like twenty to twenty. So I would let me think,
when did we start dating. It was like twenty I
was like twenty sevens.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
We were probably three three four years into it, so
a while.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
But still he could have left. He didn't have to stay,
and I don't know how he did.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
I just really know.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
It's crazy to think about because he was still young.
I was still young, like I was thirty one, he
was thirty two.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah, he was thirty two at the time, So I
don't know it's crazy, I.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Know, but still I love you guys together, and you
guys worked out for a reason. Yeah, beyond all of this,
Like you guys are meant to be together. And I
do have to ask you because I know there's gonna
be some Bobby Bone Show listeners tuning into this. What
is your perspective on Ray? On the Bobby Bone Show.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
He's an idiot but the best guy.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
I love him because he's just guess what you'd get Literally,
what you hear him on the radio is exactly how
he acts at home. It's he's loud. He's so loud.
Everything he does is loud. Like he sneezes loud, he
coughs loud, he like blows his nose loud.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Everything is so loud. But it's like endearing because he's
just right. His laugh is ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Or you're like blinded by love.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
I don't know, I know what I'm saying all and
I'm like the thing, like why are you? But no,
he's but he also people don't see all the time
that he's just such a good guy, Like he's he
could do anything for anybody. He loves his family, loves
my family, my mom and dad are and he can't
do anything wrong. Like anytime he does and I'll say something,
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they're like, I'm on race side. I'm like, really, he's
just an amazing guy, he really is.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I was giving him a hard time because I keep
seeing on your both of your Instagram shorts how your
dad's always over fixing things allway great.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
He can't fix anything.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Dude, this is partially your job. You know that.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Right now, I'm like, God forbid, please Dad never die,
because I don't know what we're gonna do. I'll have
just do that tackle or whatever that app is, because
he literally he didn't even know. Remember, he didn't even
know how to put winschel wipe or fluid in his car.
And I knew that. I was like, how do you
not know that? Like it's just literally the smallest things.
If he hunk one picture and my mom's still at
(29:53):
our all apartment and she was every time she walk in,
sho oh god, it was so bad.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
It was so bad.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
It was like when all had those plaques or whatever,
and he did, my mom had him done, and then
he put one just like.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
It was just horrible.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
So I don't know so for what he will have
in his ability to fix thing.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Yeah, really do anything wrong any.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah, he makes up for it and being supportive of
yeah and laugh.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
He's a comedian.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Is he clickbait Ray at the house?
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Click Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I don't know if you've heard this, but I have
heard clibait right.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
I don't think he's clickbiit clipbick click bait Ray, but
he is. He'll tell a story to me and I'm like, Okay, now,
don't elaborate and tell me like the truth. No, but
that's all of you guys, not you necessarily, but in radio,
so you tell a story, but that it's got to
be like a lot, put some like bows and stuff
on and make him sparkly.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I'm always like okay, but now like that.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
And I love when like he's telling a story about
something and him did to like one of our friends,
and I'm like I was there for that and no
one did not say that.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Like, please stop?
Speaker 4 (30:58):
So, yeah, I don't know about clickbit why I keep
saying that click bait Ray, But he definitely likes to
tell some stories.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
He really even just still it's funny.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
I often tell him like, Ray, I cannot tell if
you're being serious with me or if this is our
sarcastic moment.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
I'm not really sure.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Yeah, same, but that's me, it's anyone. I'm so gullible
with anything. I just want to trust what everyone's saying.
I'm always like what, and they're like no.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Oh no.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Those boys of the show had made me question everything.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
I want to believe everything.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Yeah, I'm question here, like what, there's nothing that I
believe this is true?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yeah, you're surrounded by.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
I don't want to keep you forever, and you guys
deserve to keep.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Living it up.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Brunch plans, all the kind thanks, and Ray will kill
me if we keep going, which we could die. He
would be napping on the couch. He'd be like, dude,
what did I come over here for. I do want
to end on maybe a little piece of advice who
you have for someone who is going through what you
went through, or maybe just found out about it, or
they're pass the phase there in your phase. Just advice
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in general.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
So especially for someone going through it, always get a
second opinion. First of all, I even went with the
first opinion I had with everything, but I wanted just
to make sure and when I got that second opinion,
it and match.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
My first one. It made me feel better.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
I was more confident in my treatment, so that but
also just if you're going through it, the best thing
you can do is take it one day at a time.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
You don't want to look too far in the future.
You just don't.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
You want to get through that day, and when you do,
you'll be shocked at how fast it goes. And then
you're like, okay, like I'm on the other side of this.
What just happened because you were taking that one day
at time. So take it one day at a time.
Don't do doctor Google like I did. At the same time,
I'm happy in a way I did because it just
gave me a lot of information. I know way too
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much about all the different types of breast cancer.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
So if you have any questions, ask me.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
But yeah, I think staying away from Internet and more
focusing on just day by day because if you start
looking at which I did, five year survival rates for
mine was I think it happened, seventy five percent of
people will still be alive and I'm year seven. So
I'm like, don't do that because that did not help mentality.
(33:14):
So don't look at any of that. Every person and
every cancer is different. So just because someone has the
same type of cancer as you, it doesn't mean you're
gonna end up the same way they're going to end up.
So just take it day by day. And that's what
I still do basically, it is.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Day by day.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I think that's a great piece of advice for everything. Yeah,
also especially this, Yeah, to just focus on living in
the present moment and getting through each day as you can.
Sometimes we really love to get caught up in what
could be in the future and what's happening in the past,
and we forget what's happening in this present moment exactly.
That's really great advice all the way around. And I
do want you to mention too. I know we were
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going to end on that, but I wanted.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
To ask you are you happy?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
I know, because this is such a very big topic,
especially breast cancer. Is getting your breast done after? Are
you really happy that you did that? Was that probably
the most helpful decision after?
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Can I tell you, first of all, the hardest thing
I did was lose my hair. That was the hardest
thing I did, which it sounds absolutely insane. The easy,
like the whole take in, do the misectomy. That was
like an easy decision to me because I saw the
doctor I was going to and I was like the
plastid surgeon, and I was like, it's amazing what they've
(34:28):
how far they've come with reconstruction surgery is insane for
my mine in general, I was able to save dou
skin sparing, so basically I still have my nipples, I
still have all the things.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
I just scooped it all out.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
If you look at an orange, you scoop out the
orange and you keep this stuff like it's so advanced
and so amazing, and they just would take fat transfer
and have it's what they can do now is insane,
Like you would never know that I even had it,
And that to me wasn't a hard decision. And I'm
very glad I did it. Because I'm still young. I'd
be different. I guess if I was probably eighty, I
haven like, just take them, I don't need reconstruction.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
But no, it's I'm very glad I did it. Each
to their own.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
I respect every decision you have to do a try
for you, but for me, very glad I made that decision.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Okay, I'm really glad that you mentioned that part too,
because I do think that's a big topic coma with
breast cancer as well.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Laura, thank you for being here. Thanks for sharing your story.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
I'm really sorry that we got a little sorry right,
don't be sorry.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
I'm sorry that I've made it happen.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
But I'm really happy that you just shared so many
pieces of your heart and who you are as a person,
because you're fabulous.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
You are too.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Thank you, sister.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
If there's any guests you think would be a great
fit for this podcast, or that you'd love to hear
talking about a particular topic, send them my way. I
want this podcast to be a space where we're all
constantly learning and growing together about those topics that some
people may be.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
A little afraid to discuss.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
We've got the podcast Instagram page at Take this Personally.
You can follow me at web Girl Morgan and send
me a message there. I love hearing you guys a's feedback.
I hope you're enjoying this podcast, and if you are,
share it with your friends, like and subscribe.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Anything you can do is always helpful. Thanks for being here.
I'll talk to you guys next week.
Thanks personally with Laura James Fieldsman.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
This week we have a very special guest, lauras later
joins me to share all about her breast cancer story.
I know when Breast Cancer Awareness Month rolls around, we
really focus on stories like this, but I think it's
important we highlight things outside of their dedicated.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Days or months or weeks.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
And I'm really honored that Laura decided to share her
story with you all here on the podcast. You guys
may know her as Bay from The Bobby Bone Show,
Ray Moondow's wife. This is Laura, Laura, thanks for coming on.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I'm good? Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Are you nervous?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
This tends to be a theme when I bring any
of my friends into the podcast world.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
I don't do many of these, that's for sure. So
it's more the video.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I'm like, I'm hi, you look beautiful.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I thank yeah, And we do video everything, so if
you want to go watch this on YouTube, you can
totally do that. But Laura, I'm really excited to have
you joined, and I feel really honored that you're willing
to talk and share your story because your story is
super inspirational. Thank you, and I don't want to get
to where I'm just talking, So I'm gonna let you
start to share your story. The reason we have you
here is to share your journey from getting diagnosed with
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breast cancer and now being in remission for multiple.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Years almost seven.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, and the whole journey of it.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
But start us from the beginning and just share, like
your basic cancer story, not that it's basic, but simple version.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
So mine started.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Really we have to go back to high school for mine.
When I was seventeen, I found a lump in my
breast and I told my mom and she was just like,
we need to get this checked out. And so she
already being over forty, had a doctor, and so we
went to him and they checked it. They did a
biopsy of it, and it was called a fiber adenoma.
(02:09):
I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right, But because
of that, I kept having to get checked because I
kept having these pop up. So throughout the years, I
kept having more and more fiber autonomas pop up. So
that was going sometimes every three months, sometimes every six
months just to check up from seventeen till thirty one,
and I was going in for a six month appointment
(02:32):
when I was thirty one years old, and I almost
didn't go. This is the craziest story. I almost didn't
go because they changed our insurance and it was gonna
be like one hundred dollars to go, and I'm like,
I've been going every six months. I can put it
off for whatever. But something told me like, just go.
So I paid one hundred dollars and like whatever. I'm
in there with my same doctors and they're filing around
(02:54):
and they found a spot, which I've still don't even
realized it at the time because I just feel like, oh,
it's another fib I at home and they're finding and
they have an in office ultrasound, and I remember she
did an ultrasound and I looked up at that and
I was like, because I could tell you right now,
if you if I br KNOWM give me an ultrasound,
I'll let you know.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
This was not that like it did not look like
those looked like yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
And so she walked out of the room and went
to talk to the doctor and came right back in
and she was like, can you come in tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
For a biopsy?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Which this place is like one of the most popular
places in Nashville that doesn't happen like it would take
weeks and stuff. So I was like, okay, that's how
I already was mentally preparing myself that this is something different,
and it was and ended up at stage three breast cancer,
which we did find that out until after surgery. They
were thinking it was probably just stage one, maybe stage two,
and they ended up being stage three.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
As you're going through this, are you angry because You're like,
I've been doing these checkups for three to six months routinely.
You've been doing everything that you needed to do, and
then you've find out that it's stage three.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Yeah, just in that short amount of time, and it
wasn't like it wasn't one of those super aggressive ones.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
That's something that I still have to deal with mentally.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I'm not gonna lie. There's a few different things. I
want to first say that for some reason, I never
asked why me? Like I never was like a why
me person. I've asked that like when my parents, she
can get into later I've had cancer and I'm like
why them? But I've never was like why me? I do, though,
(04:29):
struggle with why did they not catch it sooner?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
When I was doing everything I was supposed to do.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
And when I after I had surgeries, when they told
me that was gonna need chemo, and I remember going
into my colleges and she was like the first time
I met her, she was like I look through all
these She's like, I don't understand. I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Why, why? Why? This is this thick?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
And you are found out at stage three, So it's
a hard pill to swallow. But then I also look
at it as thank god that I went in that
day because I wasn't I didn't feel it. I felt
it after she felt it. But me going every six months,
I wasn't trying to fill around as much as I
should have.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And so thank god she found it.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
So I go back and forth as in like a ugh,
like how can I swallow this pill?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Up?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I did everything I was supposed to do, but also
she saved my life, so you can't really get too
mad about that.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I want to get into more of your cancer journey
in the story, but before we start that, I would
love to hear you mention your family and the cancer
history that you have in your family, which I also
imagine it's just tough on multiple levels that you would
experience this as a family and then you were going
through it.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
So walk me through that side of this a little
bit with the breast cancer part of it. Come to
find out, like later, way later, I didn't realize. I
guess my great grandmother we think may have had breast cancer,
but we weren't. We still aren't one hundred percent sure
with that one. But my mom got diagnosed with breast
cancer a year before me, and hers was stage one,
(06:05):
and so they did what she's called a lump back
to me, so it's like with me, I did a
missectomy where they took all the tissue and everything. With hers,
they just take the tissue and the surrounding of the
cancer and then they did a they did radiation. So
that's and then she's, thank god, been maybe going on
nine years cancer free. But also that was also a
weird I don't want to say blessing, but we went
(06:27):
to the same doctor, so they did start being a
little more, Okay, we need to treat you a little
bit better. And they were telling me even then that
maybe when I turned thirty five, that we need to
do an MRI just to make sure that there's nothing
in there. Since my mom had it so I think
maybe that was you know, maybe good at as far
as helping them be more concerned with them, just be like, oh,
(06:47):
these are five broadnomas or whatever. So that was the
mom's side. My dad ended up having melanoma, and his
was again, it wasn't during my treatment, it was right
after I finished.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I'll never forget.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I just finished all of my treatment, so the chemo,
the radiation, and my dad my mom was like telling me.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I was like, it was like the end of.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
The year, right after Christmas, and my mom was like,
your dad has melanoma.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And I'm like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Like I was supposed to be cbready the end of
this and now my.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Dad has melanoma.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
So it's different cancer, but it's he's done really well
with it. It came back, but he got it taking care
of again, and so he's knock on wood doing great now.
But yeah, it's like my brother, he's I'm just waiting
for this she.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
To try what is happening, you know, He's gotta keep
that shoe up.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
But yeah, so that's like the family history and then
a few we could go back way further where it's
like my grandfather had died of cancer. My grandmother died
of cancer, but it wasn't My grandmother was lung cancer.
My grandfather I think it was a sophagal So, yeah,
we have cancer all in our family, but this was
definitely not so much breast cancer until a year before
I got diagnosed.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
There's so much with this, but I just have to
imagine that, in the hardest way possible, that it helped you. Yeah,
that your family had gone through it and you guys
had really been unfortunately adjusted.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
To that, especially my mom. I'll never forget. After I
had the biopsy, I went home and I had it
on like a Thursday or Wednesday one those days. I
remember I went home and then I like, I do
not suggest this, don't do it. I doctor would call
doctor Google. And I remember seeing from the picture in
my head of that ultrasound. I was going through and
(08:30):
looking at every picture and of online like cancer not cancer,
and I could tell, Okay, I knew that weekend that
I had cancer. My mom was like, no, you don't whatever.
And I remember going in that Monday and be getting
found out and I was like, I told you I
had it, But I remember I just told Mom was
like I told her I was like, I'm not strong
(08:51):
like you because she just went through it, and I'm like,
I'm not strong because I was.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I'd never felt strong.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Every little thing was such a huge thing to me.
I definitely deal with anxiety, so that was like up
to the thousand I remember just being like, I don't
I'm not strong. And the reason I say that is
because I'm stronger than I ever knew. I'm stronger than
It's just crazy what you can do and what you're like.
(09:17):
Mine makes you think that maybe you can't, maybe you're
not strong. And so for my reason to say this
is one thing I did want to say, come on here,
is that anyone that's going through this that's feeling you're
not strong. Everyone's strong. You just have to feel you
have to be. You just have to be presented, unfortunately,
with something like this to make you feel like, wow,
(09:37):
I got through this, I got through all of this.
I'm on the other side of this. And another thing
I will never it is the craziest thing, but cancer
is the best thing that ever happened to me, which
is the weirdest thing to say.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
But to look in the world differently was.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I'm looking at you, Laura. I would have never known
that you felt that way. I would have never known
that you were sitting there battling with this. I you
know that I can't do this or that I'm not
strong enough to handle Yes, because you are. You're an
incredibly inspiring person and watching you live your life, you
are confident and you live your life fully. So I
love that you shared that piece because perception is reality, right,
(10:17):
and what we see on social media, we often get
really caught up in this idea that this is who
this person is without understanding that they're also human and
they can crumble too when things happen. Now you say
that cancer is the best thing that happened to you,
Is it because of the strength or is there more
to that?
Speaker 4 (10:35):
I never wanted it again, So I do you want
to say that I would never want that?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
But what for me personally?
Speaker 4 (10:43):
It's given me the craziest outlook on life to where
I dealt, like I said, I doubt with anxiety. So
any little thing was just the hugest thing to me.
And now that I've had the hugest thing, those little
things are easier to be like yeah, like whatever, Like
that's nothing. We can deal with that one I'm not
to say I don't have.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
My moments, because I do. Again, you're human, I'm human.
But it really has changed my life. It's opened your
mind to see like things in the world that really
do matter. And it's not so much, I don't know,
it's just like.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
It just makes you so grateful, makes you grateful for
your family, makes me grateful for my husband, it makes
me it's just it's really it's the best thing that
ever happened to me in the weirdest, horrible way.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Sometimes the worst things that happen to us do just
change our lives for the better.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Unfortunately. Yeah, but you never want that for anyone.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
But it makes you who you are, and it's now
a part of your story, which is why you were
strong enough to come on and share it with other people.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
When we were talking about your.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Family too, you, I feel like you're the perfect person
to ask this because you've experienced personally. You've experienced it
with your family. When you're dealing with someone going through cancer,
what are the things that you can do, one to
support them and one that you definitely probably shouldn't do.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Okay, So I'm glad you asked that, actually, because this
is one of the things and it's so random, but
one of the favorite things that anyone did for me
was ray I'll the husband, but he made me a
playlist of songs that from when you're having a hard
time to listen to, and that's something you could do
for any of your friends. And that just big songs
(12:25):
like my favorite one by the Ways fight song Rachel
plattin like that is that was So that was my
song the whole time going through it. But there's so
many amazing songs you can put in as songs as therapy,
and so that was one of the things you can
do to help the people you love.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Another thing.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Everyone's different with the way they went through it. When
my mom went through it, she was more conservative. She
didn't want a lot of people to know. She wanted
to get through it and whatever. Whereas I was like,
as soon as I got it, I was like, God
gave me this, and I do think for a reason,
and because I had like this is actually a craziest
(13:00):
worry back out I tell it. So when I was
I remember it was probably like November December the year
I got diagnosed in February, so it was like November
December before that, and I remember praying that because I
just felt like I was in a job where I
wasn't really helping people that much of now was, but
I just felt like I needed to do more. Be
careful what you pray for, because I remember praying, I
just want. I wish like that I could have something,
(13:22):
a job or something that would be able to help
people more. And fast forward to February and I get
diygnosed with breast cancer and I'm like, I hear you.
Not what I was expecting, but okay, job.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I feel like some messaging got along.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yeah, but I do.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
So as soon as I got diagnosed, in my view,
I was like, I am wanting I know this is
for a reason I'm thirty one years old. It's unheard
of for me. I just didn't hear of it and
I wanted to share. So to me, sharing my story
was super important. That being said, when you come about
helping people or what to do, some people are more
private with things. But for me personally, being treated normally,
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being not really looked as like a sick person just
asking me to still do things. You want to go
have brunch, heck, yeah, I do. Just treat them normally
and uber Eats gift cards is another great one because
when especially if it's someone's going through chemo like I did,
you never know what you're going to feel like as
far as what you want. I've pretty much lived off
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cheese fries, which I don't recommend it.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Probably it was.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Not great, but that's literally what I felt like. And
I was like, cheese fries and burgers. I'm to me, but.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
You never know.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
So I literally would have be able to just, you know,
as people would give me gift cards.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I could just go on there and order what I
felt like that day.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
And because Ray is not a cook, so you know,
like that was bless It's hard.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Made me a fried egg and it was not fried.
It was like gooey, and I'm like, oh god, Uber
e helped.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Me a piece of this.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
You're like, yeah, there's a lot of things getting missed
in translation here. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
And then for the things not to do, I think
anything you are doing that you are you think you're
doing the good of heart is great. But I do
say one of the things that's hard for any answer
patient going through it is being like, oh, I know
so and so that had it and she died or
he died, and that's not where you need your mind
(15:14):
at during these times. And even though it's of course
unfortunate and of course you feel bad and whatever, and
I'm sure that people are trying to help, but you
get so much of that and that's putting me down
a whole different mindset that I'm trying to be positive
and be just in this and know that I'm going
to kick a spot, and when I hear that someone died,
(15:36):
it just doesn't really help with that.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
So maybe keep those dum minimum.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
This is good.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
That's funny because you never think about again when you
hear somebody go through something really hard and they say,
all you want to do is try and find words
to help them, and then words come out. You're like,
that probably wasn't the best thing that I could have said,
But we don't know. We don't handle grief in talks
of things that could potentially.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Death very well.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
No, we're not sensitive in that capacity that it just
makes everybody very uncomfortable, absolutely, so they blurt things out.
So it's good to sometimes make sure just filter it
through the brain a little bit before it comes out exactly.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
And I'll also say some the people don't realize is
you can lose friends during this treatment. Because there was
a friend of mine that she was a pretty good
friend and she just stopped talking to.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
You, and I'm like, okay.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Then we ran into her, like not even a year later,
and she was like, I'm just sorry. It was really
hard for me, and I'm like, okay, and I get in.
I respect it, but be there for those people that
are going through it, because we need you, we need
and that's the best thing I me sharing my story.
I'm so glad I did because I had so much support,
which I really think is what got me through it.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
So I think, as you mentioned, cancer helped you in
a lot of ways. I think it helped you filter
through some friends because that was not a friend that
was clearly gonna happen for anything important in your life. Yeah,
so I'm glad that it showed you the way in
the terms of who the people are that you really need. Absolutely,
it sounds like it helped you there. And this is
kind of a tough, weird question to ask. If it's uncomfortable,
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tell me, when you are sitting there and you get
diagnosed and there is this possibility that you may not
make it, do you have to constantly fight that battle
of that being in your head.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I still do to be honest.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Sorry, No it's okay, and we absolutely do not have
to go down this road.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
No, it's okay. But yeah, I mean I'm still you know,
it's still good.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
My sorry, I still good in my six months of
appointments and is always scary.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
So yeah, I mean it's still in your brain. And sorry,
I hold.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Your hand to it.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
But yes, I did have on your card dirt. I'll
be honest. Sorry, I'll be honest during it.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
During it, I was way better. I didn't really think
of it. I did a little bit, but it wasn't
super on my mind. And I actually just sent our friend,
We're gonna this whole like Mel Robbins situation, like this podcast,
because she had someone on that was like explaining this.
And when you're going through it, your brain pretty much
just like shuts off anything like that and you're just
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surviving and you're trying to get through it. I'll never
forget my last day of chemo. My uncolloge List nurse.
She came to me and I loved her. She was awesome,
always funny and great, and she came to me she
is my last chemo. She want to be like, yeah, absolutely,
let's go celebrate. And she came to me, she goes,
I want you to know that it's totally normal to
after you leave here to feel scared, and I was
(18:41):
like what, And I get it because the reasoning is
you're actively treating yourself. So as much as chemo sucks,
you go to chemo and you're knowing.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
You're fighting it. There's a hope to that.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
There's a hope to that, so that after it you
just have to pray and hope that it's gonna stay gone.
And with mine being stage three, which they found out
after my surgery, that was a tough pol to swallow
because obviously it was very progressed.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
It was in my lyft notes.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
So that was something that I'm really glad she told
me about so that I could prepare myself to have
the feelings. And I don't know, I just think that's
something that a lot of people don't realize and I'm
glad that's all. I just sent that to Morgan because
her sister's going through and I was like, I just
want you to know that this is normal, Like these
feelings are normal. So yeah, I never really felt it
(19:33):
going through it, I feel it. I still live my
life like you never know. Each appointments. I've pretty much
lived my life every for every six months.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
And that's horrible, but it's just the truth.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
You get that great check up and you're like, good,
I'm good for six months, and that's just how you live.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Unfortunately well, And I'm.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Really glad that you shared this, even though I know
that was really hard for you.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Sorry, No, that's totally normal.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I'm asking you about something that's really hard, and having
those emotions shows to the people, anybody who may be
going through it or just got a diagnosis, whatever it
may be, that feeling that is real. Right, Having those
experiences is a real part of this. That we get
so laser focused on helping people fight it, and we
help them to get their way through, and we send
(20:19):
food and we do things to help them. But what
happens after, Yeah, and that's what you're speaking to. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Hearing you say I really live six months to six
months is heart wrenching.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I hate that for you, but I understand that's part
of your experience. And again, you've come to very beautiful
terms with the way that this has happened in your life,
but the fact that that is how you have to
have your perspective like that hurts my heart for you.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Thank you, And yeah it's not I guess every day
like so literally the week before go into an appointment,
I'm just like a mess usually, But it's just again,
I wouldn't take it back.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I really wouldn't and take that well you want to, No.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
It's okay.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I seriously thank you for sharing that piece of your
heart and that experience. I don't think you're alone in
that feeling, and I think you saying those words it's
more powerful than you know.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah, for a lot of people, myself.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
To hopefully it helps you heal a little piece of that.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
And it's funny when Ray had come to me, He's like,
Lord's going to be on your podcast.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
I was like, yes, right, I know.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I sent her the tiest like we have this conversation
and he goes, yeah, everybody always wants her to share
a story, but like she's choosing you, And I was like, well,
my hope is that she can just send this podcast. Yeah,
she doesn't have to keep reliving over and over again
all of these minds.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, first of all, I just love what you're doing.
I think it's so important and I'm and I do
love to share my story. Like I said, it's just
I'm so much easier to write.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
I'm a better writer or better just like random story.
Then it's like they sit down with it.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Because it is. It doesn't make you go back, especially
right now.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
I'm a month, not even a month from being my
seven years. So it's just it's always in my fills,
and I feel like every time someone wants to ask me,
it's usually around breast cancer wearing a smile that I'm like.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
No, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
I know that's horrible, but I'm so like, that's like
the worst month for me in the worst way.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Not really though, because.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Again, when you're sharing this, these parts of your story,
it's bringing up everything all over again. Yeah, it's like
asking somebody to relive one of the hardest parts of
their life multiple times over. And as much as you
want to be an advocate for this and share your story,
it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Mean it's not hard to do.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
And I think we forget that because we can look
at you and say, yes, you're a survivor, and yes
you've gone through this, and correct me if that's the
wrong terminology times, but again, we're missing this piece of
the person after it happens.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yeah, we really were like, oh you're you did it.
It's done.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
I think it's done. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
I hear that a lot from my cancer survivor friends.
It is like you have a celebration and it's just done,
which is great, that's how it should be. But then
the person mentally, I'm seven years out and I'm just cried,
like what, But it's just like you deal with it
every day every day. This more now is feeling around
in my boobs like you just eat. It's something I
(23:17):
do multiple times a day every day, fill my boobs
all the time.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
But I do.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Because it's like I want to just know if there's
something that's there that shouldn't be and it's something that
you do.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
So yeah, treatment's over, but it's never over.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
This is now forever part of your life. And that's
the point that I wanted to make sure was really
driven home for people who have people like you in
their life, or maybe they're about to have this experience
and they just don't know it yet. Yeah, whatever it
may be, but thank you for sharing that side. I
want to focus on some more Happy podcast this. I
love who you are and who you've become as a
(23:55):
person too, And I think this is a huge testament.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
To your story.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
What do you feel like is like the thing that's
really helped you from this to be who you.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Are today again, it comes to a strength, it really does.
And I think that to realize that I'm not week
and it's that's eye opening to me because I really
don't know why. I just never I think because it's
just I am emotional, a little person. I still am,
but I feel like I just never, like never realized
(24:24):
how strong I am. And now I realize if it's
going in for a job interview or whatever, it's like,
that's nothing like you know what I mean, Like I
can do that. I can, like, you know, ask me
what my weakest strength is. I'll tell you something like
you know what I mean. But it's literally like I'm
I feel like it just gives you a whole I
just gave me strength and I needed it more than
I realized. So I think that's honestly the thing that
(24:46):
I took most away from it.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
And I do feel like you have a newfound confidence
as well to act with that.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yeah, it's more or less kind of don't give a
crap f off attitude because you're like, you think you
can put me into something.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Yeah, trust me, I've been poor Ray.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
What was that like with you and Ray and him
being such a big support system for you?
Speaker 4 (25:07):
This is I try not to carry on this one too,
because so most of my treatments with chemo, Ray was
having to work because it was during the mornings. So
my dad, who always is working, but he was able
to go with me to every appointment. And I'll never
forget one of our appointments were waiting for my doctor
to come in and my dad just looks at me
(25:27):
and again, this is a man. He's my hero, and
so don't think blessed of him for this because I'm
so it's something that stuck with me that makes me
appreciate Ray more than I could.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
We were waiting for my doctor to come in.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
My dad was like, I just He's like, I want
you to know, And my mom and my dad have
been married for fifty plus years and he was like,
I want you to know. I don't know if I
could have done it with your mom if we were
just dating at the time and her having to go
through this because of such how crazy and how emotional,
how deep it is, and so he goes for the
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fact that Ray not only like I mean I was bald,
you know, I was bald. My face was fat from steroids.
I had no boobs at some point, like I mean,
you know now I do, but thank you doct Drunker.
I literally, like, you know, was not cute, you know,
And he's stuck with me. And that's such a testament
(26:21):
that I knew, like from my dad saying it though
just made it so much more real that like my dad,
who I he's my hero, was like, I don't know
if I could have done this back in the day,
like if we were in the same situation, And I'm like, wow,
so I ever since then of course, right, we had
our hard times at the beginning, but he's amazing, Like
he's literally he I just love him so much. He'll
(26:45):
do anything for me. He's such a supporter. Yeah, I
just love him.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
So he has just made us way closer obviously.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
But speaking of Ray, you guys, obviously if you're just
listening to this, just picture of this.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Ray did come with Laura for THO podcasts.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
But he's actually sitting downstairs in my life room just
watching football, so just picture what's happening. He's he really
is an amazing guy.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
I called him yesterday because he was laughing. He was
like posting about some stupid real I did, and I
was like, you're being like Spencer Pratt like with Heidi
right now.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
It's like you.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Honestly we all need a switcher Fred No, we.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Too, So I'm very happy even though he's crazy.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
I'm about a real At what point were you guys
in in your dating kind of light?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I was talking about it before we came over here.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
We my gosh, we dated six years before we got engaged,
which is another whole story. So that was in I'm
like twenty to twenty. So I would let me think,
when did we start dating. It was like twenty I
was like twenty sevens.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
We were probably three three four years into it, so
a while.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
But still he could have left. He didn't have to stay,
and I don't know how he did.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
I just really know.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
It's crazy to think about because he was still young.
I was still young, like I was thirty one, he
was thirty two.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah, he was thirty two at the time, So I
don't know it's crazy, I.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Know, but still I love you guys together, and you
guys worked out for a reason. Yeah, beyond all of this,
Like you guys are meant to be together. And I
do have to ask you because I know there's gonna
be some Bobby Bone Show listeners tuning into this. What
is your perspective on Ray? On the Bobby Bone Show.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
He's an idiot but the best guy.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
I love him because he's just guess what you'd get Literally,
what you hear him on the radio is exactly how
he acts at home. It's he's loud. He's so loud.
Everything he does is loud. Like he sneezes loud, he
coughs loud, he like blows his nose loud.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Everything is so loud. But it's like endearing because he's
just right. His laugh is ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Or you're like blinded by love.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
I don't know, I know what I'm saying all and
I'm like the thing, like why are you? But no,
he's but he also people don't see all the time
that he's just such a good guy, Like he's he
could do anything for anybody. He loves his family, loves
my family, my mom and dad are and he can't
do anything wrong. Like anytime he does and I'll say something,
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they're like, I'm on race side. I'm like, really, he's
just an amazing guy, he really is.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I was giving him a hard time because I keep
seeing on your both of your Instagram shorts how your
dad's always over fixing things allway great.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
He can't fix anything.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Dude, this is partially your job. You know that.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Right now, I'm like, God forbid, please Dad never die,
because I don't know what we're gonna do. I'll have
just do that tackle or whatever that app is, because
he literally he didn't even know. Remember, he didn't even
know how to put winschel wipe or fluid in his car.
And I knew that. I was like, how do you
not know that? Like it's just literally the smallest things.
If he hunk one picture and my mom's still at
(29:53):
our all apartment and she was every time she walk in,
sho oh god, it was so bad.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
It was so bad.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
It was like when all had those plaques or whatever,
and he did, my mom had him done, and then
he put one just like.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
It was just horrible.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
So I don't know so for what he will have
in his ability to fix thing.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Yeah, really do anything wrong any.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah, he makes up for it and being supportive of
yeah and laugh.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
He's a comedian.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Is he clickbait Ray at the house?
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Click Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I don't know if you've heard this, but I have
heard clibait right.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
I don't think he's clickbiit clipbick click bait Ray, but
he is. He'll tell a story to me and I'm like, Okay, now,
don't elaborate and tell me like the truth. No, but
that's all of you guys, not you necessarily, but in radio,
so you tell a story, but that it's got to
be like a lot, put some like bows and stuff
on and make him sparkly.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I'm always like okay, but now like that.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
And I love when like he's telling a story about
something and him did to like one of our friends,
and I'm like I was there for that and no
one did not say that.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Like, please stop?
Speaker 4 (30:58):
So, yeah, I don't know about clickbit why I keep
saying that click bait Ray, But he definitely likes to
tell some stories.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
He really even just still it's funny.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
I often tell him like, Ray, I cannot tell if
you're being serious with me or if this is our
sarcastic moment.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
I'm not really sure.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Yeah, same, but that's me, it's anyone. I'm so gullible
with anything. I just want to trust what everyone's saying.
I'm always like what, and they're like no.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Oh no.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Those boys of the show had made me question everything.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
I want to believe everything.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Yeah, I'm question here, like what, there's nothing that I
believe this is true?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yeah, you're surrounded by.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
I don't want to keep you forever, and you guys
deserve to keep.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Living it up.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Brunch plans, all the kind thanks, and Ray will kill
me if we keep going, which we could die. He
would be napping on the couch. He'd be like, dude,
what did I come over here for. I do want
to end on maybe a little piece of advice who
you have for someone who is going through what you
went through, or maybe just found out about it, or
they're pass the phase there in your phase. Just advice
(32:02):
in general.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
So especially for someone going through it, always get a
second opinion. First of all, I even went with the
first opinion I had with everything, but I wanted just
to make sure and when I got that second opinion,
it and match.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
My first one. It made me feel better.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
I was more confident in my treatment, so that but
also just if you're going through it, the best thing
you can do is take it one day at a time.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
You don't want to look too far in the future.
You just don't.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
You want to get through that day, and when you do,
you'll be shocked at how fast it goes. And then
you're like, okay, like I'm on the other side of this.
What just happened because you were taking that one day
at time. So take it one day at a time.
Don't do doctor Google like I did. At the same time,
I'm happy in a way I did because it just
gave me a lot of information. I know way too
(32:49):
much about all the different types of breast cancer.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
So if you have any questions, ask me.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
But yeah, I think staying away from Internet and more
focusing on just day by day because if you start
looking at which I did, five year survival rates for
mine was I think it happened, seventy five percent of
people will still be alive and I'm year seven. So
I'm like, don't do that because that did not help mentality.
(33:14):
So don't look at any of that. Every person and
every cancer is different. So just because someone has the
same type of cancer as you, it doesn't mean you're
gonna end up the same way they're going to end up.
So just take it day by day. And that's what
I still do basically, it is.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Day by day.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I think that's a great piece of advice for everything. Yeah,
also especially this, Yeah, to just focus on living in
the present moment and getting through each day as you can.
Sometimes we really love to get caught up in what
could be in the future and what's happening in the past,
and we forget what's happening in this present moment exactly.
That's really great advice all the way around. And I
do want you to mention too. I know we were
(33:52):
going to end on that, but I wanted.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
To ask you are you happy?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
I know, because this is such a very big topic,
especially breast cancer. Is getting your breast done after? Are
you really happy that you did that? Was that probably
the most helpful decision after?
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Can I tell you, first of all, the hardest thing
I did was lose my hair. That was the hardest
thing I did, which it sounds absolutely insane. The easy,
like the whole take in, do the misectomy. That was
like an easy decision to me because I saw the
doctor I was going to and I was like the
plastid surgeon, and I was like, it's amazing what they've
(34:28):
how far they've come with reconstruction surgery is insane for
my mine in general, I was able to save dou
skin sparing, so basically I still have my nipples, I
still have all the things.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
I just scooped it all out.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
If you look at an orange, you scoop out the
orange and you keep this stuff like it's so advanced
and so amazing, and they just would take fat transfer
and have it's what they can do now is insane,
Like you would never know that I even had it,
And that to me wasn't a hard decision. And I'm
very glad I did it. Because I'm still young. I'd
be different. I guess if I was probably eighty, I
haven like, just take them, I don't need reconstruction.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
But no, it's I'm very glad I did it. Each
to their own.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
I respect every decision you have to do a try
for you, but for me, very glad I made that decision.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Okay, I'm really glad that you mentioned that part too,
because I do think that's a big topic coma with
breast cancer as well.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Laura, thank you for being here. Thanks for sharing your story.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
I'm really sorry that we got a little sorry right,
don't be sorry.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
I'm sorry that I've made it happen.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
But I'm really happy that you just shared so many
pieces of your heart and who you are as a person,
because you're fabulous.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
You are too.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Thank you, sister.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
If there's any guests you think would be a great
fit for this podcast, or that you'd love to hear
talking about a particular topic, send them my way. I
want this podcast to be a space where we're all
constantly learning and growing together about those topics that some
people may be.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
A little afraid to discuss.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
We've got the podcast Instagram page at Take this Personally.
You can follow me at web Girl Morgan and send
me a message there. I love hearing you guys a's feedback.
I hope you're enjoying this podcast, and if you are,
share it with your friends, like and subscribe.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Anything you can do is always helpful. Thanks for being here.
I'll talk to you guys next week.
Host
Morgan Huelsman
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