Hey y'all, whether it's morning, evening, or afternoon,
I'm just glad that you guys have decided to buy me.
Yes, the one and only me.
What's up, what's up y'all?
I miss y'all so freaking much.
Like y'all do not understand,
like being away from y'all from a week is really crazy.
It's crazy.
I have so much energy now.
I feel better.
I'm getting better by the day.
So today, this Bible day is gonna be really, really special,
let alone important that I hope you all learn from,
especially I'm learning as I go through this journey.
So without further ado,
I want you all to sit back, relax, and enjoy hearing my voice.
Whether you're new here, welcome, welcome, welcome.
I hope you're having an amazing day so far.
And if you're not new to this picture,
just say y'all what's happening
and I hope today is going well for y'all.
Let's go.
So without further ado, let's get into it.
So today's Bible day is health.
Yes, it's kind of crazy that today's Bible day is health
because honestly, I've been wanting to talk about health
for a minute, but I just been like straddling the fence
when it came to this topic because I'm just like,
you know, I was trying to think of the right time
but when to talk about it, you know,
because like I've been talking about other things
that's going on.
And then also in honor of Black History Month
and Lovers Month, you know,
cannot forget is Black History Month and Talbers,
you've got Valentine's Day or whatever.
I really want to like,
when February comes I always want to focus on,
I tell myself like, you know,
since I'm in it now, you know, the podcast is almost two a year,
I want to talk about, you know, I want to dig deeper,
especially within like the entrepreneurs
within African American history,
like I wanted to take like every other day,
just to think about somebody in, you know,
in our community, a historical person
that we may not know of and just, you know, talk about it.
But today with, this is the first Wednesday,
oh no, yeah, the first Wednesday of February,
we're going to talk about health
because also within the Black community,
we need to be very mindful within this topic.
So, let me answer it.
The reason why the vibe is health,
because one, I dealt with my own health problem last week
and two, like I mentioned, we are in Black History Month
and why not give a little background,
you know, a little knowledge of what I know
from going to school and, you know, doing what I do
and then going up in African American household culture.
So, let's look it down.
First, I want to talk about me.
Y'all, y'all know I'm really big on y'all
when it comes to y'all health,
I tell y'all all the time, please get checked out,
please, you know, if you feel sick,
go right away, get everything out the,
get that shit out the mud, get them checked up shots,
whatever out the mud, because baby, I'm telling you,
I've been through one of the most craziest weeks of my life.
I've been through one of the most craziest week of my life.
Like, I never thought it would happen to me,
but you gotta pay really close attention to your body.
Like, if your body is telling you,
like, you need to slow down, you need to chill out,
I think you need to do that because that's what my body did.
It scared the hell out of me because, like I said,
when you just have a person, like I mentioned on the phone,
you can tell a person that's always on the go,
always on the move, you know,
always doing something you don't rest.
Baby, I'm gonna tell you this,
you need to find some days to rest, you need to take,
Steve takes things off in their job, I don't care,
how good of a freaking employee you are.
If you know you need time, you need to mental break,
take that shit.
Physical, I don't care, take a break,
because when it comes to your health, health as well.
And baby, you have one life and you wanna live it too,
you see the brightest days because, like they say,
you know, tomorrow's not promised,
and when it comes to your health,
you have to make sure that your,
that your shit is 10 toes down
because baby, I'm telling you,
I've been through hell, like fucking hell,
and I'm still like kinda dealing with it,
but I'm learning as I go.
And I wanted to dig deep on it because, like I said,
y'all, my broadcast is like,
I tell y'all nothing but the truth,
and it's all about self empowerment
and it's self improvement.
So with this being said, and you know,
it's all about self as well.
So let me get into it.
On Saturday morning, last Saturday,
I'm sorry, yeah, what was that?
Uh, January 27th,
because my best friend, her birthday,
is, was January 29th.
Please, whatever.
So on that Saturday,
I was getting ready to go to my,
really, I was getting ready for work.
You know, like, y'all,
if y'all have a routine, get out of the bed,
you know, some people get out of the bed,
they straight make their bed up.
Nah, I got out of the bed,
I go straight in the bathroom,
you know, get the washcloth, wipe my face,
you know, about to brush my teeth, doodadah.
This particular morning,
or like sometimes too,
like I take a shower in the morning
and it's like, I sweat.
Like sometimes I sweat so bad, like,
I don't know, y'all, I don't know.
Sometimes like when I'm sleeping,
I be sweating, sometimes it's real bad, like, I don't know.
But that day, I did, I was sweating,
I was a little hot, so I was about to get in the shower.
Y'all, right before I got in the shower,
I noticed my feet were like, swollen.
Mind you, I work, you know, one of my jobs,
I work at a shoe store.
It's all on my feet all day.
And that Friday night in the city,
in my city in Baltimore, it was like, what,
60, almost down there fucking 70 degrees that day.
My ass was indoors.
I was in the mall the whole time,
like I didn't leave till probably like
when the sun went down and before the mall,
like an hour or two before the mall had closed.
And I was out with my friend.
I was out with Naya, if y'all didn't listen to the video,
Naya and Deon go check it out.
So me and her was out because we were just shopping
and talking, catching up or whatever.
So, you know, after me and her had, you know,
had our little day or whatever, I was fine.
I came home and fine and everything.
But some odd reason my feet were hurting
and I'm thinking because if you have a sneaker head like me,
you know, certain shoes, you just cannot wear
for a certain amount of time,
especially if you have narrow ass feet.
I had a pair of leavens on y'all, the highs and that.
The shit was making my feet hurt so black.
And that was, well, maybe I'll wait home
and start to hurt, you know, like, I don't know why.
Like sometimes my body does, I'm like,
damn, well, I'm like, what the hell?
So I got home, my straights with my,
straights with the motherfuckers off, got myself together.
I didn't know, shut up.
That morning, going back to them when they know,
I was about to get in the shower.
I noticed my feet were swollen.
I'm thinking because of the leavens,
because I'm like, okay, my feet was hurting.
But like usually when my feet be swollen, it goes down.
Like I just like put some icy hot or something on there
or cold or hot compress or whatever and I'm cool.
And, but then I was like, hold up.
Something ain't right.
My feet were swollen, to my leg, to my thigh,
to my stomach, to my chest, to my neck, to my arms.
I was red and I was breaking out in high jaw.
When I tell y'all, I don't, the first thing
that went through my mind was what just happened?
Like what more am I, what's going on?
Like, oh, I'm like, I have a low reaction.
Well, we don't have a low reaction too.
If you know, if you know, if you know, you know.
Like, if you're a person like me that will eat anything
without having a problem and then feels though like,
you know, you can eat stuff and you don't have to worry about,
you're not allergic to anything.
So that's the moment I have like only thing,
like when it comes to allergies or seasonal allergies.
So it's like things like that wasn't food allergy,
it never occurred to me.
Until within the process of me dealing with the allergic
reaction that I had, I learned that when you get older,
you can have food allergies and, you know,
usually they're like, it happened when you were younger?
No, I'm telling y'all now, you can have it at 20, 30,
40, 50, 60, 70 years old, which was crazy to me
because it was like, whoa.
And the way that I eat, I try to monitor everything I eat,
especially when it comes to sweets.
Like at times I'm doubting me having sweets to you
to the point where like, yeah, I need to have something sweet,
especially if I'm in my job.
And I feel like sweets the only thing that's gonna keep me
up for the moment, cause if I eat a full meal or a real meal,
or I'm ready to go to sleep, you know?
So when it happened y'all, like right when I got in the shower,
I had to turn the shower off.
I said, okay, let me get into some hot water
to see what's going on.
I got an oatmeal bath, I'm like, okay.
Mind y'all, this was an hour before I was getting ready for work.
But then when I seen it on my face, I was like, nah, son.
I was like, I can't go in there with my face
like breaking out.
And then by me being like skinned too,
it's like, I get red within, I feel like anything
just makes me red.
Like you could tell me a joke.
I could be dialed if anything, I'm give very easily.
And it takes a while for the redness to go down.
Like it just, it takes a while.
So then when it comes to like, you know, halves,
I was like, oh yeah, I can't.
And I said, I'm not gonna do that.
And I said, I'm not for the skinned body.
And I'm not gonna put myself, you know, on the line
for something that might, it might not be contagious.
Thank God it's not contagious.
But my instant thought was right there.
I was like, oh my gosh, I was like, bro,
I'm so polite, like, yeah, sometimes I might come to work
late, but I'm mature and the man's like, hey,
that's what it says, you know, I'm on my way.
I'll let you know by like 15, 30 minutes to the head.
And I should have been like, okay,
we can talk together and just say, you know,
I'm gonna be late, blah, blah, blah.
Responsible employee, okay?
Yeah, this is my first time ever calling out
from any of my jobs for like reasons being
like legit ass reasons.
And it had me like, oh my gosh, bro.
I just, all I ever think about was money at the time,
you know, we get young, that's what you think about.
We think about money.
And the back of my mind also is like,
it was a scale, basically going back and forth
on a scale like, bro, you missing out on money for a day,
damn, then it's like, bro, look at your body.
But we don't need to be worried about
no fucking money right now.
That's what you have another source of income for.
And that's what you have savings and chill like that for.
This right here is important.
Okay, y'all, boom, got an oatmeal bath, so good.
I got out, somewhat looked like it was getting
a little bit bigger.
Took the Benadryl, woke up y'all, hey, God, where's?
So by my mom shots, my mom's a being in the health field.
Cause if it wasn't for her and my assistant manager
and my dad, I think I would be fucked.
Cause I just was like, I didn't know what to do.
And then my mom had to work.
So I was okay.
I gotta do the best of my ability.
Even though I'm grown, you still at times
have to depend on your parents, especially when it comes
to health reasons because they know more than we do.
Certain stuff can help.
So you won't have to, you know, go to a screen.
So I told my mom, and one thing about me,
I document everything.
I don't care how big or small the issue is,
I have to document everything to show proof.
And within the process of me breaking out,
I had documented from like when it was so little
to how it got bigger.
So like when I had gotten a shot before I got in the tub,
I took pictures, I was like, okay, let me see
if it's gonna go down, hopefully, you know,
just to take, you know, keep documentation.
When I woke up y'all from the net, my legs got worse.
And it scared the hell out of me.
Cause I'm like, bro, I'm all, like I said, I'm like skin.
And my thighs are big.
That shit scared the hell out of me.
It's like bumps all around me.
And like, hi, I was scared as hell.
Call my mother, she was like, make it eat.
Call an e-visit.
An e-visit is like, instead of you going to, you know,
usually you go straight to either urgent care
or the emergency room, you can have a virtual session
with the doctors that are like having to go in.
And it's quicker.
However, within that time for me,
it was okay for me to do that because the break out
didn't get burst up until that Sunday.
So y'all, the whole thing is I had two e-visits
in the same day, but I was apart.
So I had an e-visit with a doctor, a nice doctor.
She told me, like, you know, she wanted to make sure,
cause you know, when you have allergic action at times,
your tongue gets swelled up.
Your throat, your lips, but they really pay attention
to that tongue and your throat because you know,
you don't want to close within your vocal cords
and you don't want that to swell up.
And then, let me tell y'all that too, that happened to me.
But I'm gonna try not to make it so long,
but it's like, I need y'all to listen to this
because y'all is scared me.
And in the process of me, like dealing with this,
I'm learning as I go.
So I had the first, when I had the first e-visit with her,
like I'm telling her, explaining to her,
cause I also broke down what I ate that day.
And it was crazy cause I was like,
that Friday I remember, I really didn't have breakfast
cause usually if I work Fridays at my job,
I probably get Starbucks or I probably
will get something from my house.
And usually it would be Starbucks,
but that day I just didn't get it.
So I had Slim Jim, Wild Brass Skittles,
Strawberry Kiwi ever first.
Then I had Chick-fil-A, an eight count,
nine and one eight cheese with big and big, after that,
I had a Popherz Strawberry Lemonade Frosty.
Came home, my mom had fried rice and,
I think I had some chocolate.
And I had some Champagne y'all.
So out of all that stuff, I'm thinking,
okay, something got me fucked up.
And then I'm thinking I have some water,
but I didn't have enough cause usually like,
you know, you're supposed to drink,
you all know that now, I'm not ready to tell y'all.
And I'm slipping.
So like, I like probably could be two.
So I told her that and she was like, okay,
show her the marks everything.
And she told me to put, I think it's hydrocodone,
you might be saying it wrong.
Cream on, okay, boom, call my mom, let her know.
Mom came home, we doing the cream, getting together.
I laid back down, tried to go to sleep cause like, you know,
when you're going through things y'all,
all you wanted to was sleep it off.
You wanted to go away.
I tried my hardest to sleep the pain away.
And you know, just then,
you want to wake up from this nightmare.
You know, I was like, this should really happen
and it's happening.
So, laid back down, got myself together,
y'all it got worse.
So then, I had to call the doctor again, let her know,
if she had to put me on these pills,
and the pills y'all are called partner zone.
So, let me tell y'all this, partner zone is like,
10 milligrams pills.
And they are to help fight allergic reactions.
And any infection that is going on
when packed in here, like immune system.
So, I was on the pills, she prescribed me the pills
and I started the pills what that Sunday,
that Sunday was the 28th and I did it up until the 31st,
I think, if I'm not mistaken.
No, no, it was three days.
I don't know.
So, I was on the pills.
I've seen a little bit of progress.
However, that Monday when I went out
to my best friend for her surprise dinner,
I was out of it.
Like usually when I go outside,
when I go out with my friends, they know,
like I'm turn, you know,
had to have a good time,
no, we're gonna joke, ha ha.
I was there mentally, but physically I wasn't.
Like I was so drained.
And then within my appearance too,
it was just like, I had a cool fit on,
but I just felt like I was left out.
Because, you know, it's my best remember day.
I wanted to just rest up,
but the way my body was,
because you know, the rashes was still like going,
the rashes and the highs was still like,
on me, I was like, I didn't want nobody to see.
And it was so hard to even let like my real close friends know,
because like, bro, hey, they, if anything,
they know I am the last to say anything that's moving.
I want to know everything that's moving within,
before they know anything,
you know, with me when it comes to personal reasons,
because I'm the type that is willing to take care of somebody
before somebody is willing to take care of me.
And I know it's crazy, but it's like,
we have the nurturing people,
and I'm just gonna,
so when I told them they was all up for me, like,
well, please take your medicine, you know,
wait till you get it, you know,
you got to call out, let it know, like, you're school,
you know, you got to let them know what's going on,
you know, cause like, you come first, bro,
like this is some serious shit.
Y'all that Monday, that night,
that Monday night at the dinner with my best friend,
it was so nice, he looks so pretty,
came home, got myself together, I was so weak,
I was so weak.
Woke up, next day, I had to go to work,
had to work, I was only there for two hours,
two or three hours, my sister-in-law was like,
oh, you got to go, she was like,
you say you okay, I'm fine, I'm good, I'm okay,
you know, like, mentally, like I said,
I'm here, but physically, I was trying,
she was like, you need to go home,
your face is swollen,
I can tell you about your top lip is swollen,
that's nothing to y'all, my lips started to swell,
and I was like, bro, I said,
I do feel like I got some lip filters,
I'm like, bro, my top lip was so swollen,
you know, like when you can play with your lip,
you don't like the little noises you make with the babies,
and they do things, I tried to do that y'all,
I couldn't even do it, cause my lip was so swollen,
and bad enough that my lips are like, a little bit pudged,
so I was like, bro, this is some shit.
So that Tuesday, so I went home,
got my stuff together, my mother was like,
yeah, you not looking a little good,
so I need you to chill out,
mind you, the pills that the doctor put me on,
the first time she only hit me on for three days,
so it was something Monday, Tuesday,
so after that Tuesday, it was no more,
that Tuesday night, I went to class y'all,
everybody can tell me, don't go nowhere, don't do it,
I said, bro, I gotta go to class,
I'm the term, I was like, well, I'm the term,
I gotta get everything done, got the class,
came home, my sister was like, something not right,
you don't look right, bro,
mother gave me this stuff to like,
cause it was still like, I was eating scratch,
like crazy, that's the thing too,
you have allergic reaction y'all,
please try not to scratch, because it will hurt,
and then once you scratch, you will not stop.
So the mother gave me the cream and stuff,
this weird shit get real, and it scared the hell out of me.
Wednesday, four o'clock in the morning, I wake up,
I can't see, my eyes are like shut,
like they are so like squinted,
underneath my eyeballs puff, top part of my eyes puff,
my whole face is swollen, to the teeth,
to lips, both lips are swollen, eyeballs swollen,
cheeks are swollen, everything,
arms swollen, back swollen,
my whole body was swollen to the point where
I couldn't even really scream,
I couldn't talk, cause that's how bad it got.
When I told the mother, like, I took pictures,
mind you, everything that was going on,
I took pictures, my mom was very upset with me,
when I didn't wake her up at four o'clock in the morning,
but I'm like, mom, why would I wake you up
at four o'clock in the morning?
My mother was like, I don't care,
and my parents was like, you know, my dad was like,
who kid, you know, yes, look at your face,
you know, like, it was so scary,
y'all, to the point where I didn't even,
I couldn't even look at my siblings in the eyes,
especially my nurses, because it's like,
I look like a monster,
cause it's getting the shit out of me,
I'm taking, ooh, excuse me,
taking pictures of myself, like bro, what the fuck?
So, my mother was like, you have to go to emergency room,
and my mother kept telling me like,
I need to go to emergency room,
but I just kept playing off, like,
I'm good, you know, I'm good, like, you know,
us black people, we will make sure,
we will not sit in an emergency room, we will not,
like, I was the time, I said, I'm not going to emergency room,
if I gotta take these pills,
if I gotta walk around with patents or like,
I'm gonna do it,
cause I don't want to in emergency room,
because I feel like within our community too,
when things happen, when one thing's happened,
you find out something else,
and that was my issue,
like, when they happen, right in there,
I'm like, bro, I don't wanna go in there,
and then, like, you know, the reaction,
and it tells me, you know, from the reaction,
if something else involves, so like,
okay, you got this reaction because of this,
or it's something that's causing it,
and it also, y'all, another thing too,
I want y'all to really, really think about,
and probably change your self-care,
because I am, when it comes to shaving,
underarms, anywhere, with the razors,
I feel like, bro, get sensitive products, period,
especially if you don't have sensitive skin,
cause some people are like, I don't have sensitive skin,
and then, please get it,
cause I think that's another reason why
I also got a breakout, so,
semi a little bit, but then not.
My underarm was breaking out really bad,
because of one of the, shave,
the razors, or shaving cream I was using,
it broke out so bad that it was to the point
where I couldn't even put my right arm down,
so I was like, I had enough going on,
but my, my underarm was going,
was getting healed from the pills,
then my, the rashes, and the, the hires and stuff,
so I was just all, well, all fucked up,
and like I said, when it comes to y'all body of,
you know your body, your body is a temple,
point blank barrier, house is about point blank barrier,
as a black person, especially as African American woman,
when it comes to our body,
we need to be 10 toes down on everything,
because the number one cause for us is heart attacks,
diabetes, men, you got the prostate cancer,
things like that, those are very serious,
because, you know, it's, some of this,
some of that stuff is passed down
from generation to generation to generation,
so when it comes to your health at times, you know,
if it's a little bit of pain,
but if you feel it over and over and over again,
get it checked out, get it done,
I don't care if you gotta be out for a week,
a month or two, you gotta make sure you're good,
because I'm telling y'all, bro,
dealing with the process of me having this allergic reaction,
it fucked me up so bad, because, you know, like I said,
I just pushed off not going to the emergency room,
because you know, you don't wanna wait and stuff,
but it's like, hey, you gotta do what I do,
and I thank God also for the people that were,
the doctors and nurses that was in that emergency room,
because when they see me, they instantly was like,
I gotta put you, I gotta,
we have to put you back here, because one,
your face is swollen, two, your throat is getting swelled up,
that's bad, you know, and we have allergic reactions,
you know, you, like I said, they don't want you
to get the throat swollen up,
because once you do, you can't talk,
like when I was trying to explain to my parents
what's going on, how I'm feeling, I was getting spiked,
my voice was just like swelling up so bad.
So the mom story show with an emergency room,
you all know, they had to like,
a lot of IVs, a lot of tests, he was going on,
I was on the observation that see what's going on,
everything came back clear, but it was like,
there was like, there's something that you need
to go to a specialist like the allergy specialist
to see what's going on, because this shit is crazy,
it's crazy, you know, it's really, really important,
and by being young, you know, allergies happen,
like you could start building an allergy
within your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and up,
you usually see people like,
oh, you're pulling with an allergy,
sometimes you are, and sometimes you're not,
because you don't know, and so you get older, like,
starting to shit your body can't maintain no more,
and it might be something my body can't maintain no more
that I love, and it's just like,
it was a sacrifice that we had to put down,
for example, like when it comes to high blood pressure,
like I said, but then the black community,
or then our community, that's one of the really high costs
of that high blood pressure, heart attacks,
things like that, anything involving with the heart,
that's number one, very, very common,
and it's things like, you know, greasy food,
stress, depression, anxiety, things like that,
we need to work on our health,
and we need to make sure that we are living
in a very healthy, uncomfortable life,
having a good, having an uncomfortable, healthy life,
as well as putting the right products into our bodies,
and making sure that we are not putting
so much stress on us, that's why also, you know,
at times when people are like,
you too young to be stressing shit,
I've seen, I grew up with some people,
that's my age that had reasons to be stressing,
and like I say, you know, we're human in a day,
shit happens, and people need to understand that,
I don't care if you freaking 15 years old,
you don't know what's going on with these people,
you don't know what's going on,
so I, he's so like, we gotta stop that narrative
of you too young to be stressed,
because this is some, within this generation now,
within today's world, you'd be surprised
that we people are going through, you just never know,
and by me being a social work major and learning,
and digging especially within my community,
the urban community, you'd be surprised at things
that children are dealing with at a young age,
as well as they get older because it's stressing them out,
and it's affecting their health,
or it's dealing with their health that they didn't even know
anything about.
So with the experience that I've been through,
within this breakout, it took me a valuable lesson.
No matter how bad you think this is,
how real the situation is, it can get bad,
and when you feel the need, like you don't feel right,
and your body is telling you, and your body is not
cooperating like how we usually do on a daily basis,
go see somebody, go to that doctor,
go to the emergency room, go to the doctor,
go to the hospital, it's sad because,
like you know, when people have heart attacks,
they could be just going by their day,
and then something just happened, heart attacks,
seizures, things like that, like we really have to
pay attention to our body because,
like I say, the body is a simple health as well,
and you only get one life, you wanna live it up
to the fullest, and you wanna make sure you're healthy.
So I say this to say, within me dealing with this,
and if anybody has ever dealt with an alert reaction,
or a health illness that like, you know,
similar to what I've gone through or what I'm saying,
or knows my or whatever the case may be,
we need to take a lot of accountability within our health.
We really need to, we really, really, really need to
put ourself first, and if you know me, you know,
like I said, I'm all about the self because,
there's only one you, there's only one you,
there's only one you, you need to make sure that
you are able to deal with everything that comes your way,
especially at times when it's not the best timing,
you know, for me, like when the alert reaction,
I'm like, this shit cannot be happening.
Well, God was telling me like,
you need to sit your ass down.
Oh God, forgive me.
You need to sit down.
Well, you need to sit down because this is important,
it's so crazy y'all because, like I say,
the time is the part for the motherfucking thing.
At my job, I was talking to one of my coworkers,
I was like, you know, I'm not the type to call out,
like, even times I came to work y'all,
I had a freaking science infection,
let alone the stomach virus,
and I was still holding 10 toes down.
I said, like, it's been situations where
I should not have been here, but I've been here.
And I don't know how, but somehow I always like,
like since now, like I have the energy to,
like I'm feeling a little bit like better,
feeling a little bit fully energetic.
I was like, bro, was that a sign right there for me?
Because I was just like, I just have not been sick.
I'm like, I'm sick of nothing, and nothing like that.
And then me, as a female, you know,
you're supposed to get checkups frequently anyway.
And I've been like, and I'm telling my mom,
like, all right, I gotta make my appointment
for a checkup, a dentist, and all that stuff.
When that happened, I was like, yeah y'all,
I gotta be really, really serious on these appointments
because like I said, you, if you're young,
if you're your 20s, baby, please get this in your head.
Get checked out every chance you get.
See y'all doctor every chance you get.
From head to toe, because like I said,
you never know what's going on.
Like your body can tell you something
and you don't even know what it is.
But I'm guaranteeing them people that went to medical school
and all that can tell you when the heartbeat was going on
before you get.
And that's the thing about us,
but if we are so determined, like I said,
I was determined not to put my ass in that head medicine room.
But once, I seen it for myself, like once my face swelled up
and my throat almost swelled all the way the fuck up.
It was like, oh yeah, you thought,
huh, take that ass, like girl, come here,
get the trick what you do, you shit.
Like in that right there y'all, it was like, okay.
When it comes to me being a young African-American woman,
that's part of the African-American community,
I need some safe consideration of making sure
I'm good from here to talk.
Cause like I said, you could feel good mentally,
but physically things can change.
And it's always refers to like physically you're good,
but mentally you may not be.
So y'all within this episode,
I talked a lot about myself,
but that experience like is just,
it was one of an eye opener for me
because I haven't experienced anything like this.
And you know, like we go to doctors and they be like,
you know, have experience before anything.
I said, no.
And it was very, very trick,
it was very tricky for me and it was sad
because it was like, bro, like I said,
I'm always the one that is willing to take care of somebody.
And then one of the ones that didn't care of me.
Of course my parents, you know, yes.
My friends, I didn't want them blowing up my phone.
I didn't want them worried about me.
I'm like, I'm good, I'm good.
Whole time I'm over here like, bro, I'm good,
but cause when I talk about it, y'all, it just made me cringe.
But now I'm like, every day I'm getting through it.
Like I had the medication and stuff I have
and it's helping me day by day.
It's like I'm learning and I'm teaching while I'm learning
as well and I wanted to teach y'all because like I said,
somebody, somebody I may have been with the same thing
I went through and they found out what was going on with them
and they could probably help me, you know.
There's another thing too within this podcast is
let me help you and you help me.
If, like I say, if my podcast don't help,
a lot of people, long as it helps somebody,
long as they do something for somebody,
that's all they need, my job is done.
And the net girl show I'm doing something worth living for
and worth striving for, striving for because, hey,
like I said, everybody needs somebody to talk to.
Everybody needs to listen to somebody.
Everybody needs somebody, period.
Relationships are not, friendships are not.
Like somebody just needs somebody for something
within things that are meant for them,
especially within this, like I said,
within this episode within health,
it just was like I was dying to get to go,
first of all, to let y'all know what's going on
because, you know, if you follow the page,
I put it in there and I was like, what's going on?
So I was like, you know what, that's not,
let's see, why not talk about health?
And then also put out there too, like,
we need to make sure that we are standing
10 toes down, let alone we're doing everything
on power to make sure that we're good.
Like, you know, we say we good,
but sometimes like you could be feeling normal,
you could be looking normal as hell,
but people be like, like, are you sick or you okay?
People be like, nah, I'm cool, they're broke,
they be like, bro, who are you?
You know, because especially the people you be around
on a daily or every other day will know you,
like the back of their hand,
they can even know what something ain't right.
So take the little hints and signs, things like that.
Take it with a grand assault and get checked out.
I know at times we don't wanna do it, we gotta do it.
And I say this because I'm gonna stretch this enough
because when it comes to us black people,
we fail to get the help that we need,
especially when it comes to our mental physical health.
When it comes to our mental and physical health,
we need to make sure that we are in the right stable bracket
because until we are every other day,
something is going on within our community
and if it's not due to shooting or anything,
it's due to our health concerns.
Like, you know, we have to say you have to eat right,
you gotta do this, you gotta do that.
They ain't lying, they not lying.
Because you know, like I said, we try our hardest
not to go to emergency rooms,
we have remedies, stuff like that.
Y'all, I was in this house listening to everything
my father telling me to do.
My mother, she was gonna be like,
I work in Hellfield, you gonna do this.
I'm listening to my dad.
He's like, no, you gonna do these old remedies that I did.
So I'm doing all this stuff.
And it's just like, you know,
sometimes the old remedies are working,
and sometimes like, please take your SSEs away.
Like, I was just stuck between a heart,
but boys, there's a place in a heart right,
whatever the heck it is, y'all, no, shoot.
I was just like, my thing was,
I just needed to get better.
I just was worried about getting myself back together.
I was worried about going by my day
because y'all, well, I tell y'all,
like when you do get sick and stuff like that,
it does mess up your routine.
And like I said, I'm the type to build my feet on day.
When I was in that bed, I was like, bro,
all I wanted to do was sleep.
I didn't want to do nothing else.
Like, this was like,
cause like, you know, I couldn't really talk to y'all.
I couldn't really shit all my,
I couldn't even have my mic before
I had a mic in my hand.
I couldn't do it.
And that was just like, it made me cry.
Like y'all really cried about it because it was like, bro,
when you're dealing with situations like this,
it hurts so bad.
It makes you wanna cry.
Cause it's like, you know,
you never would have thought it would happen to you.
Cause you know, things happen and you know,
you know what happens?
And then also it was just like,
for me, I was like, how long will this be?
Cause I was like, bro, I just started school.
I just started my spring semester.
Like, I started spring semester.
I'm working like, I'm grinding, hustling every day.
And I got the park has,
like I'm going harder and harder on the park has
each time I get in.
I was just like, bro, what am I gonna do?
But like I said,
at times you need to give yourself the mental breaks.
The mental breaks are key to everything.
I salute all y'all that are hardworking and dedication.
People put them telling y'all,
you need, like I say also,
we need to have the mirror conversations.
We need to have 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 an hour or so
to tear for ourself because,
man, we go through shit on a daily.
And sometimes that shit can affect you real bad.
When it comes to your mental and it will
juggle down to your health.
So I'm saying this to say,
in honor of Black History Month,
as well as what I just thought through,
please get checked out.
Please get them checked out,
especially with your kids.
You need to, if you have kids,
think you have a lead, whatever,
if you have parent, guardian, whatever the case may be,
please get yourself checked out.
We also get them babies checked out.
So, and the older generation checked out too.
Because we need to make sure that we're able to see
and witness a lot of beautiful things,
even though we're going,
even though we are seeing some of the craziest shit going on,
we need to be able to see
the beautiful things that's going on.
Like I always say, I wanna see it to 100.
You know?
Oh, hopefully to God, I'll be able to see 100.
You know?
You wanna be able to leave your mark on this world
to leave a purpose,
especially within the Black community.
We need to come together and,
we need to come together, stick together,
to do a lot of things when it comes to being able
to make sure we see each other when it also,
making sure that we let each other know
that we're here for each other.
Like, don't be afraid, you know?
That's why I always shout out to my HBC youth.
Shout out to all y'all that are in the field,
within the health field.
Even if you're working with a mental or the physical,
if you're working with a mental-y, the mental side
or the physical side, shout out to y'all
because baby, it's not easy,
especially when it comes to us, like,
you know the HBC youth,
I love the HBC youth because you learn all about your community.
And by maybe a social work nature,
everything I learned about my community,
it put an effect on me to the point where I need,
I'm not gonna say, I'm not gonna say what,
I need to put my voice out there.
And that's why I use my platform to speak my mind
and to also drop you with me, y'all,
because this is important to me.
And why not be one of the voices to make a difference?
Why not put your best foot forward
for a positive cause and not for the bullshit?
Okay?
So with that being said, y'all, health is wealth.
Your body is a temple.
Take control of them, mental wellness,
whatever days they're called.
I don't care if it's during a work or school.
That's when people know like, bro, I worked too hard.
Today I just need to, whoo-sa,
I need this day or two to get myself together.
Cause if not, I'm gonna have a mental breakdown.
And mental breakdowns are very, very, very high risk
as well as heart attacks and things of that nature
that impacts within the African American culture,
especially when it comes to our women and men
that are like the peak of the age, I believe,
in the 40s and up of her.
So without further ado, I thank you all
for taking the time out your busy day
to hear my so, so crazy story.
I hope you guys have learned from this
or also, you know, give me something from this, you know?
Uh-uh, something about that thing.
I should be a professor.
Oh no, I'm still thinking about it.
But like I say, if my broadcast don't help a few y'all,
long as it helps somebody,
cause I'm all about self-self-improvement,
self-empowerment, self-care,
and all about nothing but the truth.
And I tell y'all nothing but the truth.
Like I ain't ashamed, I ain't ashamed of it
because it's real.
Why not listen to somebody that's gonna skew that ball
and uncut rather than that stuff that's just made up,
try to make it look good?
No, we like real, we love real, we need real.
Okay, so without further ado,
I wish you guys nothing but a happy Wednesday.
Have a happy, safe, and conductive weekend
in honor of Black History Month, please.
Take a day, you know, take a little hour
to watch our busy day, just to dig deep into your history.
I'm running it every day, like I'm running something new,
doing little things, doing little research,
and hopefully that I can do like every Wednesday
that we have to just talk about somebody
that people don't really talk about.
I'm looking to the media side because, you know,
why not talk about the pockets?
Find somebody that was really deep to the pockets, you know?
Mm, y'all got me, thank you, Bill.
But yes, without further ado,
I wish y'all nothing but peace and blessings.
Please be safe out here, please get checked out,
please make sure you're bundling up
because it's still cold outside, still a little shaky, you know?
You know, it's still a little shaky, you know?
Sometimes it's like it's cold and it's warm,
just bop or ass, whether if you're from the city,
if you're in my city, you know how this is,
and if you're not, brush your heart
if you're in the wrong parts of the world.
But with that being said, y'all, please be safe out here,
and I wish y'all nothing but best.
In other words, you guys will hear some nice battle with E
next Wednesday.
Thank you, Scottish