1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,600 Welcome to Fit to Be Real. 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:06,480 And a little extra. 3 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,640 We have a very special day planned today. 4 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:10,640 A special. 5 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:11,640 Oh. 6 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:15,760 Oh, you have no idea. 7 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:19,720 You're going to hear some Spanish. 8 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:25,200 You're going to hear all about a story that we talked about in the Tell Your Story series 9 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:27,600 that we started in June. 10 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:29,960 And we're not even going to give too much of an intro. 11 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:39,080 We're just going to get right into it. 12 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:40,080 I'm Victoria. 13 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:42,080 Hola chicas. 14 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:43,080 Soy Carly. 15 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:46,080 Hi, this is Barbara. 16 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:47,080 Hola. 17 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:48,080 Yay. 18 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,080 She's living at you. 19 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:52,080 Oh, not with you. 20 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:53,080 Barbara. 21 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:54,080 Barbara's here. 22 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:56,480 Oh my gosh. 23 00:00:56,480 --> 00:01:04,680 So Barbara wrote in and told us her story of how she was diagnosed at a very young age 24 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:09,440 with multiple, you say it, multiple sclerosis. 25 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:10,440 Thank you. 26 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:12,680 My tongue did not want to go there. 27 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:18,000 And she's going to tell us her story of how she dealt with that diagnosis, the support 28 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:22,160 system surrounding her, and just everything in between because I really think there's 29 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:23,800 more people out there. 30 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:25,600 And I don't think it's talked about a lot. 31 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:26,600 Right. 32 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:27,600 I don't think so either. 33 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:30,080 So I think it's important to talk about. 34 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:35,920 She's also a Spanish teacher and a sea fitter. 35 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:36,920 And we love her. 36 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:37,920 We met her at Barbara. 37 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:38,920 How long ago did we meet you? 38 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:39,920 Two and a half years. 39 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:41,400 Two and a half years you've been with us? 40 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:43,440 Has it really been two and a half years? 41 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:48,080 And she is the sunshine that walks in the door. 42 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:53,360 We just told her she's a walking compliment because she is the nicest. 43 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:58,000 But anyway, that's why I'm speaking Spanish because I want her to understand me. 44 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,040 Someone has to. 45 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:02,440 Maybe you're better in Spanish. 46 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:04,600 Maybe Barbara, you're going to have to test me. 47 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:07,280 Oh, God, I already failed. 48 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:08,280 She's cursing you. 49 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:09,280 I'm just kidding. 50 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:10,280 I'm just kidding. 51 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:15,120 But no, I think of you and I stare at you every time we're doing a pitbull song. 52 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:16,600 So I'm like, what are they saying? 53 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:17,600 Yeah. 54 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:18,600 Who knows? 55 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:23,200 And Barbara's probably like, how raunchy are we getting today on a Wednesday morning? 56 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:24,200 Sometimes. 57 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:25,200 Yes. 58 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:29,920 I'm telling you, Barbara is probably the nicest person on the planet. 59 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:33,800 I don't think you mind me saying this because you are on the podcast today, but she had 60 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:34,800 texted. 61 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,320 She was a fit coaching client of ours and she had texted and said, just a heads up. 62 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:40,760 I don't tell many people this, but I have MS. 63 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:45,400 So if there's a day where I'm not feeling it, I just want to give you a heads up. 64 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:46,400 That's why. 65 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,960 But I don't like, I don't, you know, you don't start with that when you're like, hi, my name's 66 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,080 Barbara and I have MS. 67 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:53,080 Right. 68 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,200 No, I don't tell that many people. 69 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:56,200 So why? 70 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:57,200 Why did I? 71 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:58,200 Why not? 72 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:03,360 Some people react like they don't, they don't know, they don't understand what it is. 73 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:10,880 So they'll tell you stories of somebody they knew that died from it or, you know, is in 74 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:15,000 a wheelchair and, you know, or they, they, they don't, they just don't know how to react. 75 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:16,000 And then it makes you awkward. 76 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,360 It makes the whole situation awkward. 77 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:19,640 That is something I didn't think about. 78 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:20,640 Yeah, you're right. 79 00:03:20,640 --> 00:03:25,080 Well, how, how long into us knowing you did you do fake coaching? 80 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:26,880 Um, about a year. 81 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:27,880 About a year. 82 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:31,400 Because I remember side texting you going, oh my God, did you know that? 83 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,120 No, I mean, I had no idea. 84 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:35,520 We have watched you for a year in class. 85 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:37,920 Never like you're just, you're unbelievable. 86 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:38,920 You're unbelievable. 87 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:40,440 Can we start from the top? 88 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:41,440 Yeah. 89 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:44,240 And how it's a very good place to start. 90 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,440 Thank you. 91 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:51,880 How old were you when you got the diagnosis and look, what, how did you even know? 92 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:53,400 So I was 35. 93 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,480 It was March of 2013. 94 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:59,360 So now you know how old I am. 95 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:01,880 No, trust me, I'm not doing the math. 96 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:07,880 And, um, I woke up and part of my right hand was numb and I was like, that's weird, but 97 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:09,360 I'm not a doctor person. 98 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:13,640 So I just self-diagnosed myself as drinking too much Diet Coke. 99 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:14,640 Really? 100 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:17,760 Because I was, I don't drink a lot of Diet Coke, but during that time I started drinking 101 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:18,760 more Diet Coke. 102 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:19,760 I'm like, must be the Diet Coke. 103 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:20,760 Right. 104 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:21,760 Because what else could it be? 105 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:22,760 Right, exactly. 106 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:26,160 And then around Memorial Day, it was still there. 107 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:29,680 And I thought, probably Carpal Tunnel. 108 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:31,680 And, you know, again, self-diagnosing. 109 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:32,680 Yeah. 110 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,400 And I think my parents said, you should probably see a doctor. 111 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:40,160 So I went and saw an orthopedic pod, you know, orthopedic guy, thinking, you know, was something 112 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:41,160 like that. 113 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:47,600 And he wasn't sure and he sent me to a neurologist, but I didn't even think about the term. 114 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:53,720 It was like a guy in, in, it was a local hospital and it was a doctor in the, in his, on his 115 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:54,720 floor. 116 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:58,120 So in the meantime, I went to Puerto Rico with Colin and Kevin. 117 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,480 We hiked El Yunque, the rainforest and of course you did. 118 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:04,840 I act through the bioluminescent bay with a hand that you couldn't feel. 119 00:05:04,840 --> 00:05:06,800 But then during that time it spread. 120 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:10,840 So it spread through my whole right arm and then my right leg was kind of numb and it 121 00:05:10,840 --> 00:05:11,840 was just weird. 122 00:05:11,840 --> 00:05:12,840 It was just off. 123 00:05:12,840 --> 00:05:13,840 I could use it. 124 00:05:13,840 --> 00:05:14,840 Like, but I didn't know what was happening. 125 00:05:14,840 --> 00:05:15,840 I got him Puerto Rico. 126 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:16,840 Yeah. 127 00:05:16,840 --> 00:05:17,840 I'm Puerto Rico. 128 00:05:17,840 --> 00:05:21,640 Like, remember getting in the plane, I'm like, to go home and I'm like, well, hopefully figure 129 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:22,640 out what this is. 130 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:23,640 It's so weird. 131 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:24,640 Oh my God. 132 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:29,960 So then when I saw that second doctor, he gave me a test called evoked potential where 133 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:31,960 it's like this electric stimuli. 134 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:33,960 Stimulant or something? 135 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:34,960 Yeah. 136 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:35,960 Yeah. 137 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:36,960 Through your body. 138 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:39,320 And he was like, I'm going to send you for an MRI. 139 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:42,520 And I had Kevin who's only nine at the time in the office with me. 140 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:44,240 And I said, but what do you think it is? 141 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:45,240 What could this be? 142 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:47,840 Just not thinking anything terrible. 143 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:48,840 Yeah. 144 00:05:48,840 --> 00:05:50,400 And he said, I think you have MS. 145 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:51,400 Oh my God. 146 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:54,400 And I just leaned over and everything went black. 147 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:57,040 And I just had, they had to help me sit down and got me water. 148 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:00,480 And I'm like, I don't know how I'm going to drive home because I couldn't believe it. 149 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:01,960 And Kevin was there and he was nine. 150 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,320 Kevin was there and he was nine years old, not knowing what's happening. 151 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:11,280 So obviously made it home, but it was, it was like such a scary, scary time. 152 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:17,040 So then he sent me for the MRI and then he said, well, you don't have it, but I want 153 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:25,040 just to send you to get a lumbar puncture, which is another name for spinal tap. 154 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:28,040 And that is like, why are you laughing? 155 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:29,040 Not fun at all. 156 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:30,560 Like I had not know what I was in for. 157 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:32,320 I'm like, okay, I'll just do what he says. 158 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:33,320 That's like really painful. 159 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:34,320 It's so painful. 160 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:40,680 Yeah, I had no idea you lay like on your stomach and this big machine comes down and collects 161 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:44,320 spinal fluid and to get a bad headache from it. 162 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:46,320 So it's not like the movie. 163 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:53,000 No, just, I'm just clarifying for those who only know spinal tap as a rock movie. 164 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,800 I mean, I did think of that when you said it, but it's so funny. 165 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:57,400 Yes, but it was not fun. 166 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:02,840 So then from that result, he said, I want to start treatment for MS. 167 00:07:02,840 --> 00:07:04,240 I'm like, you just told me I didn't have it. 168 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:05,240 Right. 169 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:09,960 It was up and down roller coaster and he said, well, your results show it probably will turn 170 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:11,280 into it. 171 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:13,920 So I was just like, this guy, I was just really upset. 172 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:18,120 And like, I got to go to a different person because I'm having like, like the trauma on 173 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:19,480 the side is up and down. 174 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:25,360 So I went to a different guy, a different hospital, a cursor, and I saw him once and 175 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:26,360 then he got laid off. 176 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:27,960 I'm like, what neurologist gets laid off? 177 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:28,960 Oh my God. 178 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:29,960 So it was just like laid off. 179 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:30,960 Yeah. 180 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:31,960 It's very weird. 181 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:32,960 Okay. 182 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:37,480 So I tell my neurologist, I still go to and she's at Penn in the city and she's top of 183 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:38,480 the field. 184 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:39,480 She's awesome. 185 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:42,760 And she sent me for more MRIs and she's like, no, you do have it. 186 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:48,200 She's like, apparently the local hospitals and you know, nothing against them, obviously, 187 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:55,840 but they, their MRI machines aren't as strong as you go into this thing. 188 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:56,840 So they saw more. 189 00:07:56,840 --> 00:08:01,000 You're like, yeah, you do have MS and I didn't know that. 190 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Yeah. 191 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,040 The machines are just not, not that strong. 192 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:08,280 So that it didn't show all the lesions that I did have. 193 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:12,520 So that's why he said I didn't have MS in the beginning because he didn't see it. 194 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:13,520 Yeah. 195 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:14,520 Oh my God. 196 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:19,680 So how long was that process of you being told and then, oh no, you actually really 197 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:20,680 do. 198 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:21,680 It was about four months. 199 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:22,680 Oh my gosh. 200 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:23,680 Yeah. 201 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:24,680 But you know what? 202 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:29,440 I've read so many stories where doctors dismiss especially women with their symptoms and they 203 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:33,840 go on for years without being diagnosed because they get ignored. 204 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:35,960 And then you went to a female doctor, right? 205 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:37,800 So maybe that was, that was a key too. 206 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:38,800 Yeah. 207 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:39,800 I got lucky. 208 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:43,320 So as this four months was going on, was it getting progressively worse? 209 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:46,920 Like were you unable to feel your whole side of the body still? 210 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:51,680 Luckily it stayed about the same and then it started to resolve except for my hand. 211 00:08:51,680 --> 00:08:57,920 So it, and that's when MS attack, it usually, it'll get better to a point. 212 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:01,160 But if you have a lot of attacks, it keeps leaving damage. 213 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:06,840 So from that attack, I just, my right hand, I can't feel like my middle finger, my ring 214 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:08,000 finger, my little finger. 215 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Right now. 216 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,400 I can feel it, but it feels like it has like a thick love over it. 217 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:13,400 Wow. 218 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:17,120 So when I play tennis or the weights that see fit, I have to be really careful that I'm 219 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:18,120 not dropping. 220 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:19,560 You're not dropping them. 221 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:24,200 And we did not tell you this, but Barbara is an avid tennis player. 222 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:26,720 Like she crushes it. 223 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:30,360 She keeps trying to get us to play and she doesn't realize how unsportsy we are. 224 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:35,280 If you would like a blooper day, then yes, absolutely. 225 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:38,400 But you, yeah, you stay incredibly active through all of this. 226 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:41,000 I think we need to go back a little bit more though. 227 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:42,000 Okay. 228 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:48,240 Can you tell us like what multiple sclerosis really is as an autoimmune disease? 229 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:49,240 Yes. 230 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:54,520 So it's, it's where your body mistakenly attacks itself. 231 00:09:54,520 --> 00:10:02,040 So with MS, your, your body is attacking the myelin sheath and which it covers like your, 232 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:06,240 your brain, your spine, optical cord, optical, optical. 233 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:07,240 Yes. 234 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:10,000 And everything sounds right to me. 235 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:11,000 See. 236 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:12,000 See. 237 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:13,000 K interestante. 238 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:17,520 With a little, with a little dog go flair. 239 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:18,520 Yeah. 240 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:19,520 With the little thing. 241 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:20,520 The till day. 242 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:21,520 Yeah. 243 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:30,720 So it attacks, it attacks itself and then where it attacks, it messes up the connection 244 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:32,480 between your brain and your body. 245 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:40,880 So normal, normal systems that flow are interrupted and that interruption causes the symptoms. 246 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:44,920 So think of it as like a, a cell phone charger. 247 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:50,720 You know how when it gets frayed, that's what it looks like with MS. 248 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:56,080 When your myelin sheath gets kind of worn away and then it's the nerves are exposed and it 249 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:58,520 doesn't, it doesn't communicate well. 250 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:00,520 So that's, that's what happens. 251 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:06,280 And then the more lesions you have, they can be active or they can be dormant, but they 252 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:10,360 can, if they're just sitting there, they can cause symptoms. 253 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:11,360 Right. 254 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:13,280 So that's, that's basically what it is. 255 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:14,280 What you feel in your hand. 256 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:17,360 That's a symptom of what a lesion would be. 257 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:20,680 I do remember at St. Francis, they would have the MS. 258 00:11:20,680 --> 00:11:21,680 Walkathon. 259 00:11:21,680 --> 00:11:26,800 Was it the danceathon or walkathon? 260 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:28,880 No, the danceathon was not for MS. 261 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:29,880 The walkathon was. 262 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:32,000 We had to raise money because, and we were walking. 263 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:33,000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 264 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,400 But we would go into the auditorium and we would have a, what's it called when they bring 265 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:38,680 someone to school and you listen to them talk? 266 00:11:38,680 --> 00:11:39,680 A guest speaker? 267 00:11:39,680 --> 00:11:41,680 Yeah, kind of like an assembly, an assembly. 268 00:11:41,680 --> 00:11:44,120 We'd have to go for assembly. 269 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:49,080 And it was always someone with MS talking about it. 270 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,160 And then I guess we would walk or maybe it was after the walk or something, but like 271 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:55,400 that, it happened every single year. 272 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:58,280 And it, they never really explained it. 273 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:04,720 They would just explain the, I remember she would talk about like buttons and the different 274 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:10,760 ways that they could start making clothes to help people that maybe couldn't do their 275 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:12,680 buttons or something like that. 276 00:12:12,680 --> 00:12:16,760 And as a kid, I remember those assemblies, assemblies. 277 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:17,760 Yes. 278 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:24,600 And that was really the only information about MS that I ever really knew. 279 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:25,840 I didn't know much either. 280 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:28,880 I just thought of wheelchairs. 281 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:34,200 That's honestly, I don't have the information that obviously you do. 282 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:36,600 And to me, it's wheelchair. 283 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:37,600 But it's not. 284 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:38,600 But it's not. 285 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:39,600 But it's not. 286 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:43,040 Look, we're going to post a picture of what Barbara looks like because she is a fox. 287 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:44,040 She's a model. 288 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:45,040 Yeah. 289 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:52,000 And she is doing it every day, but at 35, how did you, I mean, how did you deal with 290 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:53,000 that? 291 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:54,000 You have a nine year old. 292 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:55,000 I know. 293 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,280 I was really, really scared, honestly. 294 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:59,680 And I have great parents. 295 00:12:59,680 --> 00:13:05,040 I have a great sister who, you know, will do whatever just like your family. 296 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:06,040 Yeah. 297 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:07,680 If Colin, he's great. 298 00:13:07,680 --> 00:13:08,680 Colin would say to me. 299 00:13:08,680 --> 00:13:09,680 What's up, Colin? 300 00:13:09,680 --> 00:13:14,480 In that first year, I was like, you know, if I panic because I was, the first year was 301 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:18,480 tough and you say, did you run three miles a day? 302 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:19,480 Did you go to school? 303 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:20,480 Did you teach? 304 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:21,480 So it didn't stop you. 305 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:22,480 Right. 306 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:23,640 You can't worry. 307 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:27,800 So as simple as that was, it really helped me. 308 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:33,000 And then I didn't tell a lot of people at first year, my friends, Stephanie, she would 309 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,200 just take me and pick me up and like, we're doing this. 310 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:37,280 We're doing this errand to keep me occupied. 311 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:38,280 And of course, Dana. 312 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:39,280 Dana. 313 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:41,560 Dana's a Seafitter. 314 00:13:41,560 --> 00:13:42,560 She was right there with it. 315 00:13:42,560 --> 00:13:43,560 Like, what do you need? 316 00:13:43,560 --> 00:13:45,160 What do you do? 317 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:50,040 So I had great people around me, but for that first year, I feel like I would go to work. 318 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:55,720 I'd make myself work out, but I was so nervous about waking up the next day and losing ability 319 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:56,720 to do something. 320 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:00,720 Like it was, it was so scary because I didn't, in the beginning, you don't know how it's 321 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:01,720 going to progress. 322 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:02,720 So I was. 323 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:03,720 Does that happen? 324 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:04,720 Yeah. 325 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:10,760 Apparently that my, that my doctor said it's kind of almost like, like cancer, the longer 326 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:16,320 you go without more attacks, the, the better your prognosis is with it. 327 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:17,320 Okay. 328 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:21,480 So now that I've had it for this long and I just deal with the symptoms, but I've not 329 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:23,640 had another knock on wood major attack. 330 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:24,640 Right. 331 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:25,640 You're allowed. 332 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:26,640 Totally. 333 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:27,640 You're allowed. 334 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:30,680 It should continue like this, but she's, you know, I'd not cavalier about it. 335 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,880 I'd make sure I work out as much as I can and eat well and. 336 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:36,120 Is that what they say helps MS? 337 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:42,560 Because to me, I would be like, Oh, so afraid to work out or to do anything active because 338 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:47,080 I wouldn't want to lose, I don't know, whatever mobility I had, but, but that now I'm saying 339 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:48,320 it out loud and that's mean silly. 340 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:49,800 No, I felt like that. 341 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:50,800 I felt like that too. 342 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:54,560 I was afraid that I would like kick something up if I did something. 343 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:56,040 Yeah, like flair or something. 344 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:58,960 And before 1995, they had no treatments for it. 345 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:03,120 They just said like, kind of like good luck and they told people not to work out. 346 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:07,720 So now they say, be as active as you can, do what you can for people with more issues 347 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:11,320 or like do whatever it is that you can do. 348 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:14,120 So what brings on like an attack? 349 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:21,920 It's just random, like your own system attacking itself and then causing these scar tissue, 350 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:22,920 what's called lesions. 351 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:23,920 Right. 352 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:27,280 So it's just, I've been lucky and the medicine, the treatment. 353 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:31,920 I was just going to say, is there something that you're taking now? 354 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:36,280 So I started with something called copaxone and it was every day a shot I had to give 355 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:39,920 myself and so I dreaded it, but I'm like, well, it's something. 356 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:42,560 I don't do whatever I can to stay healthy. 357 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:47,880 And, and then it went to, it got approved to be three times a week. 358 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:48,880 So I did that. 359 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:51,600 And then after a few years, I was just getting tired of the needles. 360 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:55,160 So I started this, these pills called Pumarity. 361 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:58,240 I take two, twice a day. 362 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:03,320 And it's so easy, but I'll have to get my blood tested more often because it can mess 363 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:04,480 up your blood cells. 364 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:05,480 Oh gosh. 365 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:10,760 But, but I'm so lucky that they had it because now they have over 20 treatments and in 95, 366 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:13,880 that was when it, they first came out with copaxone. 367 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:16,720 So, you know, I'm lucky it's there. 368 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:20,200 And now there's a lot of options for people and now they know more and they don't tell 369 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:22,800 you like go home and lie on the couch and good luck. 370 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:24,040 You know, that's what they were saying. 371 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:25,040 That's wild. 372 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:27,040 That is so wild. 373 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:28,280 Can you imagine if you did that? 374 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:30,160 I know it's the worst thing for you. 375 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:34,520 Well, so when you had emailed us and we talked a little bit about it in the tell your story 376 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:39,080 episode, you said you had an aunt or a cousin. 377 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:40,080 A cousin. 378 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:41,080 A cousin. 379 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:42,080 Yep. 380 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,960 Who also got diagnosed and then was able to help you kind of through the process. 381 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:46,960 Yeah. 382 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:47,960 She was great. 383 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:53,440 She said, this is, you just have to deal with the new normal and don't let it stop you. 384 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:54,960 Don't use it as an excuse. 385 00:16:54,960 --> 00:17:00,240 And so I had her in my ear thinking that she's, she had, it was totally different because 386 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:04,720 they call this the snowflake disease where everybody experiences it differently and there's 387 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:08,200 over 50, I think symptoms you can have. 388 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:11,680 So people have it from varying degrees, different types of MS. 389 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:16,600 Hers, she had these bigger attacks like she was driving to work and she just forgot where 390 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:17,600 she was going. 391 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:18,600 Oh my gosh. 392 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:19,600 And she didn't know. 393 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:20,600 And so she went to the hospital. 394 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:24,080 She drove herself to the hospital and she, then she couldn't walk. 395 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:25,200 Like that never happened to me. 396 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:30,760 But then she regained fully where I have the little, you know, my hand didn't come back. 397 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:35,120 So we had experienced different things, but she said, you know, don't use as an excuse 398 00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:38,520 and don't, and don't let it stop you. 399 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:39,920 Do whatever you can do. 400 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:40,920 Push it. 401 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:42,160 So snowflake effect. 402 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:43,160 Yeah. 403 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:44,160 Because every snowflake is different. 404 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:45,160 It's different. 405 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:46,160 That's incredible. 406 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:50,800 Do you, so when you got diagnosed, did they say it runs in families or it just MS just 407 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:52,120 picks randomly? 408 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:54,840 Like they're not sure what causes it. 409 00:17:54,840 --> 00:18:00,760 There are some, some doctors will say there is a genetic component, but others say it is 410 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:05,680 a combination of environmental and genetic factors combined. 411 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:12,680 So interestingly, when you're closer to the equator, there's a lower incidence of MS. 412 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:16,800 The further away you are, the more MS occurs. 413 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:20,040 Like the more sunlight, the less cases. 414 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:21,040 Wow. 415 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:22,040 Yeah. 416 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:23,040 Interesting. 417 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:24,640 I wonder how Alaska's doing. 418 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:28,000 Like they're in the dark all the time. 419 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:29,320 That's wild. 420 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:32,640 Do they say seasons? 421 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:34,760 There are better seasons for you than others. 422 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:37,760 Like is winter horrible, but summer is great. 423 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:38,760 That's a good question. 424 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:42,760 Some, most people will say the heat gets them. 425 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:45,120 You know, their symptoms come out and they hate the heat. 426 00:18:45,120 --> 00:18:46,640 They have cooling vests. 427 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:48,120 I have the opposite. 428 00:18:48,120 --> 00:18:53,720 During the winter time, I struggle more where I get these electric shocks down my legs and 429 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:56,040 it doesn't do, I can move through it. 430 00:18:56,040 --> 00:19:01,280 It's just more annoying, but it's winter time that for me, but most people say the 431 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:03,640 sun, the summer gets them more. 432 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:04,640 Really? 433 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:05,640 Yeah. 434 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:10,560 Everybody's story is different, but like you said earlier, I think more people out there 435 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:13,880 are going through something like this, but it's invisible. 436 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:15,200 So you don't know. 437 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:20,080 It's like a silent disease until it's not. 438 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:24,400 And you don't have the feeling in your hands still since that trip to Puerto Rico when 439 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:25,400 you first... 440 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:26,400 Really? 441 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:27,400 Right. 442 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:28,400 Yeah. 443 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:29,400 No, I lost it. 444 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:30,400 Like it doesn't just come back like sometimes. 445 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:31,400 No, never. 446 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:36,040 So if they say within a year is how long after attack and attack. 447 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:38,560 And so once the year is up, I'm like, well, guess this is it. 448 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:39,560 Yes, this is it. 449 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:44,520 But I'm lucky I can still use it, play tennis, even though it does drive me crazy. 450 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:48,680 Like if I put my hand in my purse to grab something, I can't really feel it that well 451 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:54,200 or even like at school drop pens, markers, my hand rating is worse than it would be, 452 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:55,200 I feel like. 453 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:56,200 Are you right handed? 454 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:57,200 Yeah. 455 00:19:57,200 --> 00:19:58,200 Oh my gosh. 456 00:19:58,200 --> 00:19:59,200 Wow. 457 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:05,240 And you're a teacher on your feet all day long, speaking in a language that I don't understand. 458 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:11,720 Well, that's a you problem, but I feel like the being active is... 459 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:13,560 I mean, that's a different type of act. 460 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:14,560 It's exhausting. 461 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:15,560 Yes. 462 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:16,560 I can't imagine. 463 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:20,760 Even if you didn't have MS, I know it's exhausting as a teacher, but I feel like being on your 464 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:24,880 feet and keeping moving and mobile is kind of like a win too. 465 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:25,880 Oh yeah. 466 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:26,880 Yeah. 467 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:27,880 It's hard. 468 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:33,200 I mean, I feel like the biggest, one of the biggest symptoms people complain about or 469 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:34,880 deal with is fatigue. 470 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:40,560 And I do have that and where it's just not a normal tired. 471 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:46,640 So I make myself go to bed early, especially during this school year to be able to handle 472 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:51,320 everything because if not, I don't want to not work out. 473 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:54,200 But if you're too exhausted to it, you shouldn't either. 474 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:55,200 It's not beneficial. 475 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:57,000 It's gonna, yeah, it'll hurt you. 476 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:00,840 I remember you saying like, if I'm having a bad day, I'll let you know. 477 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:02,960 I hope it doesn't happen. 478 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:07,560 And she did the program and had not one bad day that she told us about whether or not 479 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:11,760 she had a bad day and she shouldn't have worked out or, you know, done what she was supposed 480 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:12,760 to do. 481 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:13,760 She never did. 482 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:14,760 She never skipped a day. 483 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:19,680 And I feel like that says a lot about you as a person because you're such a positive 484 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:20,920 person. 485 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:24,720 And I don't know if you're like that all the time, but when we see you, I mean, the first 486 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:28,880 thing she asks us when she walks in the door, no matter what day you've had is, Hey, how 487 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:29,880 are you? 488 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:30,880 How are you doing? 489 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:32,520 And I'm like, Oh my God, percent. 490 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:37,400 Now that I know what you go through, she's so gonna yell at you. 491 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:38,400 Oh, yeah. 492 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:39,400 She's gonna be a borrower. 493 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:40,400 Where were you? 494 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:41,400 That's not gonna change. 495 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:44,920 I haven't seen you in less than 24 hours. 496 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:49,320 But the fact that you can walk in a room and ask how somebody else is when you're going 497 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,080 through what you're going through is such. 498 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:53,640 I don't think I could do it. 499 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:54,640 It's a gift. 500 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:55,640 It's a gift in itself. 501 00:21:55,640 --> 00:22:01,240 Well, no, I almost feel like it, not that I'm lucky to have it, but it makes you more 502 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:02,240 aware. 503 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:07,280 Everybody has something going on, whether it's physical, mental, something in their family, 504 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:08,280 something going on. 505 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:11,320 So I feel like it makes you realize that. 506 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:15,000 And it's helped me to appreciate every day. 507 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,760 I don't like getting up for, I love my job, but I don't like getting up so early for work. 508 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:22,480 And I'll drive to school and be like, well, I'm lucky I can do this. 509 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:24,960 And if I'm not in the mood for working out, I do the same thing. 510 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:30,400 And then when once you get to see fit, everybody's, you know, it's everybody's so happy to be 511 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:31,400 there. 512 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:32,400 Yeah. 513 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,080 You get 50 cents. 514 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:40,560 That's the perspective change where you kind of live in gratitude now, not that you weren't 515 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:48,280 before, but it allows you to acknowledge gratitude in every situation. 516 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:49,280 Right. 517 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:51,960 I don't take things for granted like I did. 518 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:55,920 And, you know, I'm just, I'm so lucky to be able to take my dogs for a walk. 519 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:59,080 I'm so lucky that I'm able to work because some people can't. 520 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:03,560 So I, you know, I think that I tried it, remind myself of that every day. 521 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:04,560 And it does help you. 522 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:08,440 Does it help your students when you're grading their tests? 523 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,080 Does it help them? 524 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:13,080 Sometimes. 525 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:18,200 Oh, no, so, Tros, estamos muy emocionadas. 526 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:19,200 Oh, no. 527 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:20,200 Try it again. 528 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:21,200 Okay. 529 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,200 No, so, Tros, estamos muy emocionadas. 530 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,600 Did you just say John Stamos? 531 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,160 What did I say, Barbara? 532 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:30,480 We are very happy, excited. 533 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:31,480 Yes. 534 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:32,800 But you said no, so, Thras, because you're. 535 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:33,800 Oh, shoot. 536 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:34,800 You're feminine, right? 537 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:35,800 Yeah, we're all. 538 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:36,800 You're feminine. 539 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:37,800 All of us. 540 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:38,800 Oh, yeah. 541 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:42,040 Me, acharias de la clase. 542 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,400 Why are you so doco? 543 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,480 I just asked her if I, what did I just ask you? 544 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:49,800 Me, acharias de la clase. 545 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:51,800 I'm not sure. 546 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:56,520 Something from the class. 547 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:57,520 Me, acharias. 548 00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,520 Did you look that up? 549 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:00,520 Yes. 550 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:06,480 I think I said, would you like me in your class or would I be good in your class? 551 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:08,280 See, you'd be right with them. 552 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:09,280 Shut up, Barbara. 553 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:10,280 Track three. 554 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:11,280 Track three. 555 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:13,680 That's how I knew I would make it if you told me to shut up. 556 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,000 I literally made it. 557 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:20,640 She told her husband before she left, Colin, if she tells me to shut up, then I'm in. 558 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:21,640 That's right. 559 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,240 One time you told Victoria to shut up and you're like, I'm not talking to you, Barbara. 560 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:26,240 But I wish she was. 561 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:29,320 Barbara, how do you say shut up in Spanish? 562 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:31,320 Calle te. 563 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:32,320 Yeah. 564 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:33,320 But she's going to say that all through glass. 565 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:34,320 You're coming to class tonight. 566 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:35,320 Calle te, Barbara. 567 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:37,320 No, you got to use it right. 568 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:38,320 Calle te. 569 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:39,320 Calle te. 570 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:40,320 You got it. 571 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,720 I also really want to know what you wrote down. 572 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,080 You have no idea what I'm about to ask her. 573 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,120 Yeah, amazing. 574 00:24:47,120 --> 00:24:54,680 When you were 35, because to me, that is so young and MS in my mind, in my uneducated 575 00:24:54,680 --> 00:25:00,280 mind is for 80 year olds and so I had gone into a doctor's office with my nine year 576 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:07,560 old and at 35, which I'm 38, even now, I would have been like, and I'm dying. 577 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:08,560 What do I do now? 578 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,040 Is that like, how did you deal with that? 579 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:17,960 Yeah, I was so afraid that I wasn't going to be there for Kevin and I felt you feel 580 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:18,960 different. 581 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:24,120 Like you don't belong, you don't fit in because it's such a, even if people have it, you don't 582 00:25:24,120 --> 00:25:25,120 know. 583 00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:31,880 So I remember doing a ninth grade orientation right after I got diagnosed and there was a 584 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:37,160 student incoming student with his mom and the mom, they were my group and she was in 585 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,880 a wheelchair, so she had to use the elevator. 586 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:43,880 I don't know what happened to her, but I remember panicking like, is this going to be me at 587 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:45,840 Kevin's high school orientation? 588 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:46,840 Oh, wow. 589 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:50,360 And, you know, and then weird things happened. 590 00:25:50,360 --> 00:25:57,200 There was a secretary we all loved at my school and she had it and she died from it. 591 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:00,240 Like just probably six months after I got diagnosed. 592 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:01,240 Oh my God. 593 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:02,840 You know, it was just these awful things. 594 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:03,840 Right. 595 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:05,840 Nobody at school knew, so I was just going to school. 596 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,080 I almost felt like I didn't belong there. 597 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:11,480 I was an outsider until, you know, about a year. 598 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:13,680 Then I was like, all right, you know, I read something. 599 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:17,200 I'm totally stealing this, but it was, I have MS, MS doesn't have me. 600 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:18,320 So I'm like, you know what? 601 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:19,960 I'm going to adopt that. 602 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:21,560 I'm going to overcome this. 603 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:25,200 I'm not going to let it run my life, but it did take me a year because I would come home. 604 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,640 I would sit on the couch at night and drink wine and feel sorry for myself. 605 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,960 I mean, but I feel like that's so normal. 606 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:35,720 And I feel like that's the, that would probably be the majority of people's, I mean, who goes 607 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:39,240 into something like that and be like, I got this right off the bat. 608 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:40,240 No. 609 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:47,320 At that, it's such a jarring, it's a jarring, what feels like a life sentence, I'm assuming. 610 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:48,320 It does. 611 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:49,320 Because you, there's no cure. 612 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:55,200 So the treatments, the goal is it slows down the progression where stops it. 613 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:59,680 I mean, stopping it would be ultimate goal, but slowing it down so that you don't have 614 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:00,680 disability. 615 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:01,680 That's the goal. 616 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:02,680 Right. 617 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:08,000 So that's why it's important to get diagnosed quickly and to, to get on a treatment plan. 618 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:13,000 Is there something connected to MS with keeping a healthy diet? 619 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:17,240 I know we talked about the activity and keeping your body moving and all of that. 620 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:23,160 And I think in turn keeping your mind, you know, in a good place, but does eating well 621 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:30,600 factor into keeping everything kind of, I don't know what the word is, not flaring up? 622 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:31,600 Yes. 623 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:32,600 Totally. 624 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:33,600 That's a great question. 625 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:41,640 It, there's anti-inflammatory foods and inflammatory foods like burgers and fries, not good. 626 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:49,360 If you eat clean, eat healthy that, you know, fruits, vegetables, lean meats, fish, those 627 00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:53,720 are anti-inflammatory, especially fish with the omegas in it. 628 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:57,280 It's supposed to be so good for an autoimmune disease. 629 00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:02,760 So, you know, they, they will, there's extreme diets out there, but I just try to do the 630 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:08,320 moderation, but there are diets where it's like the walls protocol where it's, it's very 631 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:09,320 strict. 632 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:13,280 But the cleaner you can eat basically the healthier you will be. 633 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,840 And when I do eat terribly, I feel it. 634 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:16,840 Really? 635 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:17,840 I know the difference. 636 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:19,960 I'm like, oh, you're paying for that right now. 637 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:20,960 Oh, wow. 638 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:22,120 Now, did you know that before? 639 00:28:22,120 --> 00:28:25,440 Like, did you look into all of that when you got diagnosed or is? 640 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:26,440 Yes. 641 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:30,840 I bought so many books and read them and, and then just, you know, sometimes you go on 642 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:34,360 vacation and you're, you're eating pizza and you're eating ice cream and you're, you 643 00:28:34,360 --> 00:28:38,240 know, then the next day of like, oh, I feel this, I feel more symptoms. 644 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,600 So it does connect. 645 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,600 And that's a fast turnover too. 646 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:43,600 Like the day after. 647 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:44,600 Yeah. 648 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:45,600 Yeah. 649 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:46,600 Interesting. 650 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:47,600 Oh, wow. 651 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:52,720 So that, and so if you eat well or clean, however, whatever word you want to use and have your 652 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:59,200 medication or the treatment with it, then it slows, slows the progress a little bit more. 653 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,680 It's what's in our hands to, to what we can do. 654 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:03,680 Right. 655 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:04,680 To pair with. 656 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,960 To pair with the medication, the exercise, eating well. 657 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:08,960 Yes. 658 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:09,960 That's what's in our controller. 659 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:10,960 Power basically. 660 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:11,960 Yeah. 661 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:12,960 That's what you can do. 662 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:13,960 So that's what I try to do. 663 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,640 Just try to fight it and be as healthy as you can. 664 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:18,440 So it gives you power. 665 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:20,840 Like it gives you the power as well though. 666 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:21,840 That's true. 667 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:25,880 Like a little bit of impairment of like, I, I can control how I feel tomorrow. 668 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:31,880 I can control maybe how slow this process goes or not that you would ever speed it up, 669 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:35,920 but you have, there's a piece of it that's not out of your control, which is interesting. 670 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:36,920 Yeah. 671 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:37,920 I'm trying for a test. 672 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:38,920 Yeah. 673 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:41,520 I study real hard for the Spanish test. 674 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,920 I could tell. 675 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:45,920 Be minus. 676 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:46,920 She said I could tell. 677 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:50,920 Because your brain was working so hard. 678 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:52,920 Oh, so hard. 679 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:53,920 So hard. 680 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:54,920 How do you say hard in Spanish? 681 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:55,920 Defeat. 682 00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:56,920 So defecial. 683 00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,920 Oh, are you constipated? 684 00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:01,920 So defecial. 685 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:06,680 Barbara, I, we, she walked in the door today and I was like, please don't be nervous because 686 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:10,000 no one's going to make more of a fool of themselves than me. 687 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:16,280 And we are not trying to lessen the seriousness of this subject, but also I feel like sometimes 688 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,800 it's okay to laugh and lighten the mood a little bit. 689 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:23,120 So here's my problem slash question. 690 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:26,920 Like you felt something in your hand that wasn't right, right? 691 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,880 So Victoria had, I'm not saying this about you, but I'm like, oh, she has numbing in 692 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:32,440 her hand sometimes. 693 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:38,200 What made you go to the doctor because of that versus Victoria who literally has carpal 694 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:39,200 tunnel. 695 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:40,200 Right. 696 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:41,720 You said it lasted a long time. 697 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:42,720 Right. 698 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:47,400 It March, I woke up one day and this is where my hand is numb. 699 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,640 I thought it was asleep and not waking up. 700 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:54,200 And then it took until Memorial Day for me to think of that same year. 701 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:55,200 I'm like, you know what? 702 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:56,200 I should see a doctor. 703 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:57,200 Like this is long lasting. 704 00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,840 I don't know what it is and it's not. 705 00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:00,840 It's not going away. 706 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:01,840 It's not going away. 707 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:03,160 It's like carpal tunnel goes away. 708 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:04,160 Okay. 709 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:05,480 It like depends on how you sleep. 710 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:10,160 It would happen when I would wake up and call her like we get to class and I would tell 711 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:14,720 you, I woke up at 3am because I couldn't feel up to my elbows and then it goes away. 712 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:19,480 So that you had it consistently and that's, that's a huge factor. 713 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:23,240 I just think it's so hard sometimes because we don't ever want to say that something's 714 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:27,880 wrong to like go get a checkup or like go to the doctor. 715 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,480 If you know when you know, you know, I guess you knew something was wrong. 716 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,000 I'm just not a doctor person. 717 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,360 I was never, I'd be like, I'll be fine kind of thing. 718 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:36,360 Yeah. 719 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:37,360 That's how far it is. 720 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:38,360 Yeah, it's fine. 721 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:39,360 I feel like a lot of people are like that. 722 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:40,360 Yeah. 723 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,880 And the younger I was at 35, I'm like, ah, it'll pass. 724 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,400 And then, but then I was like, you know, maybe I should get a checked out. 725 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:46,400 Summer's coming. 726 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:48,600 I have time to go to the doctor. 727 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:50,600 That's why I made the appointment then. 728 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:52,760 And Barbara is a huge traveler. 729 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:53,840 She goes places. 730 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,040 She drinks the wine at all the wineries. 731 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:59,360 She goes to Bruce Springsteen every time he comes around. 732 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,600 How many Bruce concerts you go to this summer? 733 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:05,320 Well, this will be the only time this week, tomorrow and Friday. 734 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:06,480 Wait, didn't you go? 735 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:08,800 I feel like you just went like three times. 736 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:10,320 Well that was a couple of years ago now. 737 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,240 But every time we come, I'm going. 738 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:13,920 Yeah, she's going to be up on stage. 739 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:14,920 We're paying so much money. 740 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:15,920 Yeah, I'm playing. 741 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:16,920 Don't tell Colin. 742 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:17,920 Okay, I won't. 743 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:18,920 Colin, don't listen. 744 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:24,120 I'm planning to be on stage next Courtney Cox. 745 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:25,120 Yeah, that's exactly right. 746 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:26,720 Yes, with my Seafit moves. 747 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:27,720 Oh my gosh. 748 00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:31,800 And Colin says I look like Elaine from Seinfeld when I dance. 749 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:33,200 You just laughed at me. 750 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:34,800 Tell Colin to come back to class. 751 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:35,800 I know. 752 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:37,680 Colin is Barbara's husband. 753 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:39,680 We have not established who Colin is. 754 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,960 And Colin has come to Seafit before and we scared him away. 755 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:43,960 He's a boss. 756 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,040 But what I'm, well, says Bruce Springsteen. 757 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:47,040 Literally. 758 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:48,440 Yeah, I know, the boss. 759 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,640 But what I mean by this is it has not stopped you. 760 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:55,800 You are yoloing all over the place. 761 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:57,680 I hate that you said that. 762 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:04,440 I really hate that you said that, but I agree with the sentiment. 763 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,040 How's your yoloing going? 764 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:07,040 It's true. 765 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,760 I, it's almost like I want to do things to prove I can. 766 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:11,760 Right. 767 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:12,760 I'm like, you know what? 768 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:13,760 To yourself? 769 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:15,720 I'm not going to let this stop me. 770 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:16,720 I'm not going to. 771 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:18,160 I know I'm going to be tired. 772 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,720 Sometimes I'll take a day off of work because I'm tired. 773 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:21,720 Right. 774 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:22,720 Then I'm going to Seafit. 775 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:23,720 I know. 776 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:24,720 I'm always like, oh Barbara, do you have off from school today? 777 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:28,120 She's like, no, I took a day and she comes to work out. 778 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,440 Do you ever prove it to yourself? 779 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:31,440 I do. 780 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:32,440 I'm like, you know what? 781 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:33,440 I'm kind of a badass. 782 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:34,440 Yeah. 783 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:35,440 Yeah, I do. 784 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,400 And because I do this and I don't let it stop me and some people, you know, look at all the 785 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,200 people that can't run two, three miles. 786 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:45,560 Look at the people that, you know, choose not, choose not to even try. 787 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:46,760 So I think, you know what? 788 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,840 I have these symptoms, but I'm going to still do it. 789 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:50,840 Right. 790 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,720 You know, when I was on vacation, when you guys were on vacation, I fell when I was 791 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:54,720 running and I had bruises. 792 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:56,600 Gosh, she scraped her knee. 793 00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:00,440 I was bloody everywhere and I, because I have foot drop, that was one of my symptoms. 794 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:03,120 So when I get tired, my right foot kind of drags. 795 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:07,120 So I just wiped out blood everywhere, but I'm like, I'm going to keep running. 796 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,720 You know, if I fall, I fall, I'm going to get back up, you know. 797 00:34:09,720 --> 00:34:10,720 Oh my gosh. 798 00:34:10,720 --> 00:34:15,080 Good for you because that's a gnarly scab that you have on your knee. 799 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:19,240 So much blood. 800 00:34:19,240 --> 00:34:26,440 We're going to play this game that I like to call Fuego Rapido O'Neillio. 801 00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:29,720 Fire Rapidly O'Neill. 802 00:34:29,720 --> 00:34:30,720 Rapid Fire O'Neill. 803 00:34:30,720 --> 00:34:31,720 Oh, you got it. 804 00:34:31,720 --> 00:34:33,520 Is that, was she right? 805 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:34,520 Yeah. 806 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,720 So I'm going to ask you questions in English, mostly. 807 00:34:37,720 --> 00:34:38,720 Hold on. 808 00:34:38,720 --> 00:34:39,720 It's O'Neillio? 809 00:34:39,720 --> 00:34:40,720 No, it's not O'Neillio. 810 00:34:40,720 --> 00:34:41,720 It's O'Neillio. 811 00:34:41,720 --> 00:34:42,720 O'Neillio, no. 812 00:34:42,720 --> 00:34:43,720 O'Neillio. 813 00:34:43,720 --> 00:34:44,720 Now it's like Italian. 814 00:34:44,720 --> 00:34:45,720 Yeah, that's right. 815 00:34:45,720 --> 00:34:46,720 O'Neillio. 816 00:34:46,720 --> 00:34:50,800 I just added an O because Fuego had an O and Rapido had an O. 817 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:52,640 That's not how Spanish works. 818 00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:53,640 O'Neillio. 819 00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:59,200 I'm going to say something you rapid fire off in English and that's how we play the 820 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:00,200 game. 821 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,000 Fuego Rapido O'Neillio. 822 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:03,000 Mm-hmm. 823 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,000 Okay, ready? 824 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,000 See. 825 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,000 The first thing that comes to your mind. 826 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,000 Favorite song? 827 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:08,000 Badlands. 828 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,080 Ooh, I'm assuming that's Bruce Springsteen. 829 00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:11,080 Mm-hmm. 830 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:12,080 Movie. 831 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:13,080 Jerry Maguire. 832 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:14,080 Food. 833 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:15,080 Ice cream. 834 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:16,080 Yes. 835 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:17,080 Drink. 836 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:18,080 Um, tequila. 837 00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:21,360 Ooh, I was going to say wine. 838 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:22,360 Very good. 839 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:23,360 Okay, TV show. 840 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:24,360 Um, Friends. 841 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:25,360 Ah, good. 842 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:26,360 You can stay. 843 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:27,360 Love it. 844 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:28,360 Season. 845 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:29,360 Summer. 846 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:30,360 Oh, sport. 847 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:31,360 Tennis. 848 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:32,360 Yeah. 849 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:33,360 Animal. 850 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:34,360 Dog. 851 00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:35,360 Yeah, she loves her dog. 852 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:36,360 Color. 853 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:37,360 Blue. 854 00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:38,360 You can stay. 855 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:39,360 Decade. 856 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:40,360 80s. 857 00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:41,360 Yeah. 858 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:42,360 Music genre. 859 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:43,360 Mm. 860 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:44,360 I do like pop. 861 00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,360 You do? 862 00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:47,360 Mm-hmm. 863 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:49,360 That makes me happy. 864 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:50,360 Meal. 865 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:51,360 Like full meal. 866 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:52,360 She didn't say dirty pop. 867 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:54,360 She heard dirty pop. 868 00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:55,360 We'll get there. 869 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:56,360 Okay. 870 00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:57,360 Um, dinner. 871 00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:58,360 Love it. 872 00:35:58,360 --> 00:35:59,360 Place to visit. 873 00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:00,360 Wow. 874 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:01,360 Anywhere in Europe. 875 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:02,360 Anywhere in Europe. 876 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,360 Okay, these might be hard. 877 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:10,360 Synchrono-Zae-Sian-O-Muchachos-Del-Backstreet. 878 00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:11,360 Mm. 879 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:12,360 Intink. 880 00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:13,360 Thank you. 881 00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:14,360 I said, in-stranger. 882 00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:16,360 In-stranger Backstreet Boys. 883 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:17,360 In-stranger. 884 00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,360 Synchrono-Zae-Sian-O-Muchachos-Del-Backstreet. 885 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:20,360 It's, yep. 886 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:21,360 Okay. 887 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:22,360 Last one. 888 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:26,360 This is the hardest one of them all, Barbara. 889 00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:29,360 C. Aju-Stay-Hermana. 890 00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:30,360 Carmella. 891 00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:33,360 Do you say who's your favorite sister? 892 00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:38,360 Who's your favorite C-fit sister? 893 00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:42,360 C. Aju-Stay-Hermana means C-fit sister. 894 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:46,360 It's really how hard it is for you to say the sentence. 895 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:48,360 She said, Carmella. 896 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:49,360 So I said it right. 897 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:50,360 She knew. 898 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:51,360 Guess what, Barbara? 899 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:52,360 You won. 900 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:53,360 You won. 901 00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:55,360 You didn't look up you won in Spanish. 902 00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:56,360 Ganaste. 903 00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:57,360 Yay. 904 00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:58,360 Wait, so. 905 00:36:58,360 --> 00:36:59,360 You won EO. 906 00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:00,360 You won EO. 907 00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:09,360 When I looked up favorite C-fit sister, clearly C-fit doesn't exist in the Spanish dictionary. 908 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:10,360 You said a C-fit. 909 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:16,360 Right, so I just put a C in front of fit sister. 910 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:17,360 It works. 911 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:18,360 It works. 912 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:19,360 It works, right? 913 00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:24,360 Barbara, you won Rapido, nope, Fuego, Rapido, O'Neillio. 914 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:25,360 Yay. 915 00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:26,360 Yes. 916 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:31,360 I feel like if there was ever a life when that was it. 917 00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:32,360 So true. 918 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:33,360 So true. 919 00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:34,360 All right. 920 00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:40,320 Barbara, this has been so informative and just so you all know, she came in with 921 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:46,720 a notepad written like she knows what she's talking about and she was ready for this and 922 00:37:46,720 --> 00:37:53,040 I thank you for that because I did not know 90% of what you said today. 923 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:57,520 And I think we all have those judgments in our head of what we think something is and 924 00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:05,200 how different it actually is because I honestly, I didn't know that you had MS. 925 00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:06,360 I'm so happy. 926 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,800 I do know though, because it makes me feel. 927 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:10,800 It's more inspiring. 928 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:11,800 Yeah. 929 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:12,800 So inspired by you. 930 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:16,280 And sometimes when I'm like, I do not feel like doing this, Barbara's doing it. 931 00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:20,280 I'm going to do it because if you can do it, there's no reason for me to do it. 932 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:21,280 With a smile. 933 00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:22,280 With a smile. 934 00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:23,280 Yeah. 935 00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:24,280 You have bad days, right? 936 00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,800 You have days that you're not happy, right? 937 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:27,800 Yeah. 938 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:28,800 Yeah. 939 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:29,800 You're a normal person. 940 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:30,800 She's like, let me think. 941 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:34,480 I mean, my family sometimes calls me the queen of mean. 942 00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:36,280 Do you believe that? 943 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:37,280 No. 944 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:38,280 No. 945 00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:39,760 Actually, I cannot believe that. 946 00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:44,240 Because she's saying it with the biggest smile right now and her eyes are twinkling. 947 00:38:44,240 --> 00:38:46,640 Like, do you see the twinkle in her eyes? 948 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:48,760 She's like a little elf. 949 00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:49,760 Like no. 950 00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:55,680 Or you're that mean where you are just crushing the manipulation right now. 951 00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:57,120 Oh my gosh. 952 00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:58,760 Family, back off. 953 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:04,720 Well, I want to give you the real tip because I want you to end this with some words of 954 00:39:04,720 --> 00:39:10,400 wisdom, not only to people with MS who might be struggling with it, but just some words 955 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:15,840 of inspiration of you get up and do it every day and like how you get yourself up. 956 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:21,200 So you're the real tip today. 957 00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:29,800 I would say we all deal with something and we need to look at what we have and be appreciative 958 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:30,800 for it. 959 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,400 Look at what you can do, what you're able to do. 960 00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:38,080 Keep pushing, keep thinking positively and it makes all the difference. 961 00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:45,080 If anyone out there is feeling with anything like MS, autoimmune, if it's a C-fitter, if 962 00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:48,600 they want to talk to me, that's why I'm sharing too. 963 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:56,000 If I can help someone progress through that fear stage faster, I'd be happy to do that. 964 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:57,640 Fear stage, that's incredible. 965 00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:03,280 That was the best real tip we've ever had because it was the most genuine. 966 00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:04,600 And inspiring. 967 00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:08,680 And that's very nice of you because it's hard to talk about and if somebody wants to come 968 00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:14,440 up and talk to you about it and they might be afraid that that's very generous of you. 969 00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:16,920 I love your perspective too. 970 00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:17,920 Thank you. 971 00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:21,400 You guys help so much because you're always smiling too and you're always, I know that 972 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:27,400 sometimes you're not wanting to do class, but you're up there and doing it and moving 973 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:28,400 so fast. 974 00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:29,400 All the time. 975 00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:30,400 Muchos. 976 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:31,400 Gracias. 977 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:32,400 De nada. 978 00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:33,400 Oh, she understood. 979 00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:34,400 I'm so upset. 980 00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:40,040 Well, thank you so much, Barbara. 981 00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:41,680 It was a pleasure being here. 982 00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:49,040 I think this resonates way more than I even anticipate to so many people, whether you're 983 00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:55,520 on the end of a Barbara side of the story or you're a support system for somebody. 984 00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:59,400 I think this is something to take a lot away from. 985 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,120 You're looking at me very hard. 986 00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:02,840 I am just very... 987 00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:03,840 And I can't talk. 988 00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:05,920 I agree with what you're saying. 989 00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:08,560 I've never seen you look at me like that. 990 00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:11,040 I agree with what you're saying and I agree. 991 00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:13,800 I need a support system for this right now. 992 00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:15,520 Go talk to Barbara. 993 00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:16,520 She is everybody's support system. 994 00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:18,120 I'm going to call you now. 995 00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:19,440 I is not me. 996 00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:20,440 I is not me. 997 00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:21,440 I is not me. 998 00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:25,480 Oh, I also wanted to mention that you know how we talk about rise all the time? 999 00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:28,200 Guess who introduced us to rise mushroom coffee? 1000 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:29,200 Yeah. 1001 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:30,200 Barbara. 1002 00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:31,920 When she introduced us, she bought it for us. 1003 00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:34,160 She said, you should drink this. 1004 00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:35,800 And then we did. 1005 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,840 And now we can't stop paying for it. 1006 00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:39,840 Like subscription wise. 1007 00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:41,480 We're like, wait, it's here again. 1008 00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:43,000 We got to keep drinking. 1009 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:47,560 And thank you Barbara for that because you have blessed our lives in more ways than one. 1010 00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:48,880 Well, you're welcome. 1011 00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:50,880 I like it too. 1012 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:52,880 All right. 1013 00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,880 Well, thank you Barbara for taking the time out before school started. 1014 00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:59,640 We wanted to get you in before your life completely gets booked. 1015 00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:01,280 At least for the nine to five hours. 1016 00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:02,440 Boo. 1017 00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:03,440 And thank you for having me. 1018 00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:04,440 Oh, awesome. 1019 00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:06,400 Such a good day. 1020 00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:15,920 So just remember you are always fit to be real and always allowed to be a little extra. 1021 00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:16,920 Extra. 1022 00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:17,920 Extra. 1023 00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:18,920 I'm sorry. 1024 00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:19,920 I have to leave. 1025 00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:20,920 I'm sorry. 1026 00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:21,920 I have to leave. 1027 00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:22,920 I'm sorry. 1028 00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:23,920 I have to leave. 1029 00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:24,920 I'm sorry. 1030 00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:25,920 I have to leave. 1031 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:26,920 I'm sorry. 1032 00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:27,920 I have to leave. 1033 00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:28,920 I'm sorry. 1034 00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:33,280 It's the same way. 1035 00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:41,780 For legal reasons, we have to tell you that this podcast is meant for entertainment and 1036 00:42:41,780 --> 00:42:46,880 educational purposes, only We are not health care professionals, for all of your health, 1037 00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:48,940 wellness, fitness and self care needs. 1038 00:42:48,940 --> 00:42:52,720 Please refer to the medical professional and your life, your primary care physician, 1039 00:42:52,720 --> 00:42:56,660 your therapist, a certified coach, whoever it may be. 1040 00:42:56,660 --> 00:43:00,660 And then let us know what they say because I guarantee we need to know what to. 1041 00:43:00,660 --> 00:43:01,660 Okay? 1042 00:43:01,660 --> 00:43:21,660 Okay, bye.