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Erin: to try to forcefully take him out.

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Erin: and while he was doing that he nicked my uterine artery.

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Tanya: Oh!

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Erin: No height.

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Erin: so I started to bleed out.

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Erin: Luckily they got Dominic out.

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Erin: They kind of rushed him and Billy out of the room because

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Erin: they had a bit of a disaster going on.

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Tanya: Yeah.

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Erin: And the whole time I could hear him and the

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Erin: residents arguing with each other over what just happened.

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Erin: No, I wouldn't wait.

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Erin: I could hear the yelling. I could hear all of it.

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Tanya: Were you panicking like what was going on in your brain?

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Erin: So I did.

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Erin: I because I could hear everything. I looked at the anesthesiologist. I hold my hand.

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Tanya: Oh, my God!

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Erin: If I'm gonna die like I want somebody here.

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Erin: Oh!

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Erin: And then, as they went on.

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Erin: I do a second.

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Erin: So as they went on.

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Erin: They got me through now.

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Erin: Got me back to the room.

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Erin: but I was in and out of consciousness.

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Erin: went on, they're like they came into the room.

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Erin: My doctor looked me at the face head.

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Erin: You know I need to send you for testing, because, you know, we might have stitched your bladder in trying to sit you up with all the complications.

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Erin: So

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Erin: they have to go for. Yes. Pm, and then

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Erin: when they ran the blood test, that's they realized I had lost almost all my blood.

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Erin: and I guess, do emergency blood transfusion.

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Erin: you know. But.

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Tanya: Was out like when they told you that you needed a blood transfusion.

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Tanya: were you?

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Tanya: How did that? Were you scared? Were you.

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Erin: Petrified, but I was also

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Erin: in and out of consciousness, so I had no idea.

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Erin: of course.

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Erin: Billy being Billy

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Erin: freaking out, but he was the one who really, you know, he took care of Dom Cause. I was unable to.

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Erin: At the time one of my sisters was living in Hawaii.

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Erin: nobody had contacted her because everybody was dealing with me.

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Erin: My oldest sister was sitting there, and she was a huge advocate for me, like

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Erin: making sure everything cuts them correctly.

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Tanya: Yeah.

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Erin: And

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Erin: I ended up that 1st day I had 4 bags of one.

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Erin: And I mean on the medical side, you could kind of attach to that.

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Erin: So my hemoglobin levels were down to a 2.6 or 8.

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Tanya: That's a miracle. You're even a alive today that is so low. That is, I've never seen a number that low ever.

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Erin: after the 4 bags of trans. After the 4 bags of blood, I ended up with

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Erin: moving up to like a 5

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Erin: They had to watch me. I stayed in the hospital for about

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Erin: They wanted to do even more blood transfusions.

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Erin: but I refused, so that was on me. I wanted to go home.

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Erin: You know they sound comfortable, saying you can go home and replenish it yourself by a bunch of iron and

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Erin: all this other stuff.

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Erin: So while I was in the hospital, I barely

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Erin: And then Dominic was

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Erin: the nurses absolutely loved him. So it was great. They all fought, overtaking him.

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Erin: Whenever we had to send him down.

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Erin: Because of all this.

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Erin: yeah. So I had a lot more complications after that.

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Erin: so, and I moved in with my parents for 2 months because I actually didn't get clear to drive

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Erin: in October. I finally got there to drive, because that's when my team of global levels finally

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Erin: So I had gotten

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Erin: And from there, you know, things were just so complicated

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Erin: I ended up having a surgery in

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Erin: January.

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Erin: because come to find out

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Erin: when they put me back together during labor.

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Erin: Yeah, put my uterus on top of my bladder

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Erin: so that way. You know, I was frequently going to the bathroom because my uterus is pushing down on my bladder.

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Erin: And at the time it was my choice I had them

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Erin: cut my tube

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Erin: so because I didn't want to experience this again.

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Erin: and one of the tubes, and one of the tubes ended up. Reattach.

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Tanya: One of the tubes ended up. What.

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Erin: Reattaching to my uterus.

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Erin: So

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Erin: I had a surgery

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Erin: not even 5 months later to fix

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Erin: So they had to, you know, move my water out of the way, put my uterus back where it should have been.

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Erin: and to remove that overy again, to make sure the 2 didn't connect.

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Tanya: Oh, my gosh! So let me get this straight. So you had Dominic in August then, and you stayed with your parents for 2 months, your

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Tanya: back in your home in October, and then in January. Dominic is what

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Tanya: September, October, November, December, January 5 months old.

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Tanya: and then you're going back for another surgery, and then you went for another surgery. After that

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Tanya: he was.

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Erin: Yeah. So it was the 5 months. So I had it in that January.

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Erin: going further out. I then had a second surgery. A year later, after that

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Erin: endometriosis and scar tissue from

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Erin: everything. All my complications, so.

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Erin: My sec. My second surgery went in clean. All of that up.

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Erin: Dominic was probably a year and a half at that point.

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Erin: and then in 2020,

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Erin: when Covid hit, I had still been having complications. So this was when Dominic was around 3 3 and a half

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Erin: my Obie and I decided

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Tanya: So why was, why was that cause? Were you like experiencing a lot of pain, or was there like heavy bleeding like? Why did they decide.

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Erin: Yup so extremely heavy, bleeding. I was in constant pain because the pain never stopped even after the 2 surgeries. Prior.

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Tanya: Yeah. Well, probably all the scar tissue, too.

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Erin: And how so, Ed.

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Erin: at that point, because, like, we've done too many surgeries, you have decided you don't want any more children like this is a

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Erin: So this is in January of 2020,

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Erin: and we were getting everything scheduled, he was actually having his own surgery. So we booked it for March.

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Erin: being miserable for all this time, and then, as soon as the operating rooms opened.

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Erin: So they at Beverly Hospital. They opened some on a

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Erin: They're like, yep. You're 1st on the list to go into these rooms because they were using the Ors as firm for Covid patients.

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Erin: So they ended up having to clean everything, and as soon as they were ready for operations

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Erin: I went into my history.

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Erin: and it was only a day surgery. They would not let me sleep overnight.

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Erin: after my surgery.

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Erin: and it was a very rough recovery, but

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Erin: at 11 o'clock at night they sent me home. So like you cannot stay through the night, you need to leave.

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Erin: They were very nice about it, like.

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Erin: obviously they didn't want to run. The rest of you get Covid or any type of infection they're like, you just need to go home like it's the best.

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Erin: kind of going into. I've met nobody in my family has autoimmune diseases.

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Erin: and this is when all mine started.

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Tanya: Yeah. And I'm not. And I've always thought that, too, that like cause I

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Tanya: I know all about your well, I don't know all. I don't wanna say I know all about your, but you've told me about your autoimmune diseases, everything that you've struggled with, and I've always thought like in the back of my mind like it

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Erin: Yeah. So I've had a lot of conversations with several different doctors.

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Erin: When you have a blood transfusion. The only thing that they search for is any

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Erin: and there's 1 more, and I forget what it is. But one more. Oh, West Nile, they check for right now. West Nile.

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Erin: So they don't test for other things.

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Erin: And I and I never recall having a sick bite.

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Erin: I just. I'm not an outdoor person, so I don't know how I got it but in having conversations with several of my doctors.

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Erin: they have stated that they don't test for this stuff in blood trans. In blood transfer.

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Tanya: So it probably so was from the blood transfusion.

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Erin: And that's the only thing we can attribute that part to.

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Erin: I do have

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Erin: all my autoimmune diseases, you know. Some of them. It depends on who you speak to some state that. No, it's, you know, genetic.

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Erin: But when nobody in your family has it, how can they say it's genetic

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Erin: eventually. Yeah, it could have been related

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Erin: your body's response. It could be dormant in your body, and when it goes to something traumatic it, triggers it, and hope it out.

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Tanya: Right.

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Erin: so I got over one hurdle, and now I'm living with

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Tanya: Yeah. And then, just for the people.

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Tanya: do you mind? So the auto immune disease that you've been diagnosed with is

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Tanya: the lime. But also you said.

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Erin: Yeah, I have.

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Tanya: You! Up.

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Erin: I have Jeliac.

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Erin: and I have rheumatoid Oxford.

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Tanya: So, and then what about? So with the line.

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Tanya: You said that they treated it so once they treat cause I remember you telling me that they put you on antibiotics for that.

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Erin: Yep. So it was a 4 week stint of antibiotics.

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Erin: And then from that point on, once it's kind of one of those things once it's in your system. If you test again, you'll always test positive for line. So if I got a ticket down the road.

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Erin: I already have the market testing process, so they'll

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Erin: never truly know.

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Erin: Like, did I actually get lying from the next site, or was it, just reoccurring from the last.

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Tanya: Okay.

346
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Tanya: but say so. Say you never get a tick bite in your life like, are you.

347
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Tanya: will you? Could you?

348
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Tanya: Could the symptoms come back of lyme disease.

349
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Erin: They could. Yeah, however.

350
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Erin: depending on the doctors, you talk to Lyme disease. Also.

351
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Erin: the symptoms for Lyme are similar to that of lupus.

352
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Erin: Ms. Rheumatoid arthritis. So they attribute all different.

353
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Tanya: So what symptoms were you having.

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Erin: So mine. Actually, it was. I got diagnosed with that right before one of our friends got married.

355
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Erin: We were actually supposed to be leaving for her Bachelorette party.

356
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Erin: and I ended up in the emergency room because my hands, my fingers were paralyzed.

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Tanya: Oh, my God!

358
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Erin: Would it move where you think.

359
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Tanya: Thinking you were having a stroke

360
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Tanya: business.

361
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Tanya: Now.

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Erin: No, no, I it was just a very weird experience. My fingers were very swollen. They wouldn't move. They were stiff in the way that they were

363
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Erin: So when I went to the emergency room, they're like, yeah, this is typical of lime, like

364
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Erin: it showed up. So the initial test comes back

365
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Erin: within a day or 2,

366
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Erin: and then the western block test, which shows the 10 of 13 markers, takes up to 2 weeks to get those results. So I went almost to give me a salary that day. But it

367
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Erin: takes almost 2 weeks to get those other results back, and they couldn't treat me until then.

368
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Erin: so I had to wait.

369
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Tanya: Oh, they knew what it was. Yeah.

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Erin: So then I started the course.

371
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Erin: and in the meantime I had also gone to a orthopedic for my hands.

372
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Erin: and he did cortisone injections in both my hands.

373
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Erin: It provided relief.

374
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Erin: But at that point that's when we decided they wanted to do all the blood work, for I got tested for lupus. I got tested for Ms. I got tested for the lumber arthritis.

375
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Erin: and that's when

376
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Erin: we discovered the rheumatoid arthritis.

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Tanya: Okay.

378
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Erin: Yeah, so they do.

379
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Tanya: Feeling.

380
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Erin: Yeah, the same

381
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Erin: which I'm still dealing with.

382
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Erin: in.

383
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Erin: So that diagnosis came.

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Erin: How old is Rocco?

385
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Tanya: He's that was 20. Why did I just say he's 2.

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Erin: Yes.

387
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Tanya: 4. I don't know where. Okay, 4. Maybe I'm I don't even know.

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Erin: So right when Rocco was born, was when I found all of her.

389
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Tanya: Okay.

390
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Tanya: Oh, my gosh.

391
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Erin: And the time that started

392
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Erin: so now till about a year ago.

393
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Erin: So what? 3 years, 3 and a half years, my rheumatoid arthritis started as

394
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Erin: unknown to severe.

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Tanya: Yeah, and then tell, and everybody tell everybody how old you are. I mean, this is just and what it

396
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Tanya: she you're 38.

397
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Erin: 30 like that.

398
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Tanya: I mean, what are did they? Are they telling you like, what are the odds like? How cause? How many 38 year olds

399
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Tanya: like people that's young

400
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Tanya: are dealing with this

401
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Tanya: diagnose like what the stats are or cause to me. I'm just like this is.

402
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Tanya: I mean, this.

403
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Erin: I

404
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Erin: don't know the statistics. It's not something I truly looked into other than you know a lot of people just

405
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Erin: every time I meet a doctor, though, like you're too young for this.

406
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Tanya: Yeah.

407
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Erin: Thank you. I understand.

408
00:24:54.270 --> 00:24:57.410
Tanya: Yeah, I feel the same way, like it doesn't make.

409
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Erin: I. I'm 30, and I feel like I'm 90.

410
00:25:02.390 --> 00:25:03.800
Erin: But yeah, I

411
00:25:04.120 --> 00:25:09.509
Erin: I can tell you. So I am to the point that I am seeing specialists in Boston.

412
00:25:10.060 --> 00:25:16.029
Erin: and I am definitely the youngest person whenever I'm in the waiting room by decades.

413
00:25:17.380 --> 00:25:18.410
Erin: And

414
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Erin: I mean, you know, I am now doing infusion as my treatment.

415
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Erin: and

416
00:25:26.990 --> 00:25:29.049
Erin: every time I go they're like, you're too young.

417
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Tanya: Yeah.

418
00:25:31.900 --> 00:25:32.530
Tanya: how are the.

419
00:25:32.530 --> 00:25:33.150
Erin: I.

420
00:25:33.150 --> 00:25:34.150
Tanya: Working.

421
00:25:34.600 --> 00:25:36.169
Erin: They are working amazing.

422
00:25:36.320 --> 00:25:37.400
Tanya: Oh, good!

423
00:25:37.550 --> 00:25:38.379
Tanya: Because I remember you'd be.

424
00:25:38.380 --> 00:25:38.790
Erin: In, the.

425
00:25:38.790 --> 00:25:40.840
Tanya: Shared when you 1st started.

426
00:25:41.420 --> 00:25:41.720
Tanya: but.

427
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Erin: I was.

428
00:25:42.070 --> 00:25:44.060
Tanya: Totally understandably, yeah.

429
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Erin: I mean, I had my meltdown to you in the middle of the parking lot before I went in.

430
00:25:51.520 --> 00:25:55.380
Erin: but yet, though they're working amazing. I feel

431
00:25:55.850 --> 00:26:00.509
Erin: great, you know. Obviously a few days actors the infusion.

432
00:26:01.172 --> 00:26:02.740
Erin: I don't feel awesome.

433
00:26:03.210 --> 00:26:06.579
Erin: but other than that, I am doing things that I could do

434
00:26:06.780 --> 00:26:08.550
Erin: be for all of my complications.

435
00:26:09.350 --> 00:26:10.710
Tanya: Oh, God!

436
00:26:11.700 --> 00:26:12.639
Erin: So

437
00:26:14.650 --> 00:26:16.160
Erin: And I still take

438
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Erin: every Sunday I do have to take

439
00:26:20.140 --> 00:26:21.340
Erin: I 7

440
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Erin: hills.

441
00:26:24.050 --> 00:26:25.578
Erin: I think it's devin

442
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Erin: 6 or 7. I can't remember what I think

443
00:26:28.390 --> 00:26:33.170
Erin: developers together. I still have to take weekly pills which

444
00:26:34.500 --> 00:26:35.780
Erin: those are unpleasant.

445
00:26:36.610 --> 00:26:37.870
Tanya: Wait, what pills.

446
00:26:39.226 --> 00:26:40.929
Erin: So I take Methotrexate.

447
00:26:41.460 --> 00:26:42.720
Tanya: Okay. Yeah.

448
00:26:43.970 --> 00:26:46.070
Erin: So they're one of the

449
00:26:47.460 --> 00:26:53.220
Erin: 1st line of recommendation of medication for anybody with room to arrive.

450
00:26:53.960 --> 00:26:56.110
Erin: Most people farewell on them.

451
00:26:58.050 --> 00:27:04.469
Erin: I can tolerate them. It's if I needed extra. So that's why I take these with the infusion.

452
00:27:07.150 --> 00:27:07.740
Erin: Okay.

453
00:27:07.740 --> 00:27:08.350
Tanya: Time.

454
00:27:09.560 --> 00:27:11.889
Tanya: Oh, my gosh! And this all.

455
00:27:13.100 --> 00:27:15.090
Erin: This is all there, and within

456
00:27:15.240 --> 00:27:17.679
Erin: 8 years, coming up on 8 years.

457
00:27:17.820 --> 00:27:19.220
Tanya: Oh, my! Gosh!

458
00:27:20.120 --> 00:27:23.460
Erin: So I started at 30 years old. With all of these applications.

459
00:27:25.630 --> 00:27:27.080
Tanya: Oh, my! Gosh!

460
00:27:28.430 --> 00:27:29.190
Erin: So

461
00:27:30.010 --> 00:27:30.740
Erin: yeah.

462
00:27:31.270 --> 00:27:32.690
Erin: a very long.

463
00:27:33.180 --> 00:27:35.410
Erin: very long, bumpy road for us.

464
00:27:36.750 --> 00:27:44.620
Tanya: It really has been, and but yet you still like you've not given up like I love, that you

465
00:27:45.280 --> 00:27:51.399
Tanya: don't give up hope, and that I feel like you're really resourceful in finding.

466
00:27:51.820 --> 00:27:52.790
Tanya: Yeah.

467
00:27:55.320 --> 00:27:56.640
Tanya: solutions.

468
00:27:57.670 --> 00:27:59.640
Erin: Yeah. So I actually off.

469
00:28:00.040 --> 00:28:02.287
Erin: I also started seeing,

470
00:28:05.360 --> 00:28:06.480
Erin: what is it?

471
00:28:06.890 --> 00:28:07.500
Erin: A holistic.

472
00:28:07.500 --> 00:28:09.180
Tanya: Social medicine. Yeah. Okay.

473
00:28:09.180 --> 00:28:12.209
Erin: That's what I was looking for function here a year ago.

474
00:28:12.590 --> 00:28:13.050
Tanya: Yeah.

475
00:28:13.050 --> 00:28:13.630
Erin: So? How.

476
00:28:13.630 --> 00:28:15.170
Tanya: Yeah, tell us about that.

477
00:28:16.400 --> 00:28:17.240
Erin: So

478
00:28:17.900 --> 00:28:20.529
Erin: I started seeing her, because obviously

479
00:28:21.830 --> 00:28:27.209
Erin: my rheumatoid arthritis was so bad I actually started spontaneously rupturing tendon.

480
00:28:28.509 --> 00:28:33.180
Erin: Which is a whole nother story. I ended up having to have a

481
00:28:33.760 --> 00:28:39.509
Erin: my wrist, Redone. They had to do a pendant transfer from my index finger to my thumb.

482
00:28:39.880 --> 00:28:44.610
Erin: and it's because of all the inflammation due to my Mormon arthritis.

483
00:28:44.630 --> 00:28:47.929
Erin: So I started to see this functional medicine doctor.

484
00:28:49.270 --> 00:28:52.329
Erin: and we had a great game plan.

485
00:28:53.810 --> 00:28:55.150
Erin: Diet wise.

486
00:28:55.600 --> 00:28:57.940
Erin: you know. Mental.

487
00:28:58.510 --> 00:29:01.030
Erin: just stability.

488
00:29:02.360 --> 00:29:04.950
Erin: So I've been seeing her for over a year.

489
00:29:05.160 --> 00:29:07.370
Erin: and she has been great.

490
00:29:07.940 --> 00:29:11.410
Erin: The only problem is.

491
00:29:11.790 --> 00:29:18.240
Erin: we don't know if it's truly the diet that has worked for me, or if it's medication works.

492
00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:21.629
Tanya: Yeah, cause you still did both at the same time. Yeah.

493
00:29:21.630 --> 00:29:22.696
Erin: We did

494
00:29:24.260 --> 00:29:25.350
Erin: So

495
00:29:25.430 --> 00:29:28.350
Erin: I mean, I feel great after both.

496
00:29:28.440 --> 00:29:31.749
Erin: So you know, I'm just gonna continue on the course.

497
00:29:31.840 --> 00:29:33.140
Erin: My

498
00:29:34.360 --> 00:29:41.519
Erin: unfortunate part was so I have to every 4 months for this fusion, and I pushed it off 7 months

499
00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:45.249
Erin: for my last round, and my markers went through the roof

500
00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:47.739
Erin: my inflammation records.

501
00:29:47.750 --> 00:29:48.810
Erin: So

502
00:29:49.360 --> 00:29:51.820
Erin: at the time I had also had

503
00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:55.179
Erin: pneumonia and whoopin cough, so that was fine.

504
00:29:55.180 --> 00:29:56.539
Tanya: Oh, so that just.

505
00:29:56.540 --> 00:29:57.250
Erin: So I come.

506
00:29:57.610 --> 00:30:01.677
Erin: So I kind of had a lot going on kinda got off that.

507
00:30:01.990 --> 00:30:02.590
Tanya: Yeah, and.

508
00:30:02.590 --> 00:30:03.659
Erin: People, that they express.

509
00:30:03.660 --> 00:30:05.250
Tanya: From that could have

510
00:30:05.730 --> 00:30:06.740
Tanya: probably.

511
00:30:06.740 --> 00:30:08.840
Erin: So I ended up

512
00:30:09.030 --> 00:30:16.960
Erin: kind of getting off track from everything. So as of the beginning of April, I did. You know I had my infusion.

513
00:30:16.980 --> 00:30:18.840
Erin: and I started fresh again.

514
00:30:19.512 --> 00:30:25.340
Erin: So I mean again, I feel great. I'm doing things that I couldn't have done years ago.

515
00:30:25.800 --> 00:30:26.590
Erin: So

516
00:30:27.230 --> 00:30:28.620
Erin: it's huge, huge.

517
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Tanya: I hear that. So are you. Gonna have to do the infusions now, for the rest, is that every 4 months for the rest of your life, or what are they saying like? Is you.

518
00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:37.510
Erin: Yeah.

519
00:30:37.690 --> 00:30:39.190
Erin: So until

520
00:30:39.320 --> 00:30:41.570
Erin: you know this. So I've tried

521
00:30:41.990 --> 00:30:43.080
Erin: 4 different

522
00:30:43.220 --> 00:30:45.010
Erin: pill medication

523
00:30:45.170 --> 00:30:48.140
Erin: plus one at home injection

524
00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:50.030
Erin: and none of that work.

525
00:30:50.080 --> 00:30:56.011
Erin: So this is kind of our last line before I have to go on like February permanently.

526
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Erin: so I will be on this until it stops working, or hopefully.

527
00:31:01.340 --> 00:31:03.090
Tanya: Better comes along right.

528
00:31:03.090 --> 00:31:04.849
Erin: Exactly. So. Yeah.

529
00:31:05.260 --> 00:31:15.340
Erin: I think you know. Now, going back to that diet, I'll be able to judge if I can push everything out further, and if we can start going further with the infusion.

530
00:31:15.830 --> 00:31:17.950
Erin: then I do feel as though

531
00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:19.680
Erin: diet is

532
00:31:20.170 --> 00:31:21.479
Erin: one of the biggest

533
00:31:22.155 --> 00:31:24.090
Erin: factors. So yeah.

534
00:31:24.450 --> 00:31:26.069
Erin: it's just a little bit about that.

535
00:31:26.870 --> 00:31:29.809
Erin: Yeah. So a little bit about rheumatoid arthritis is

536
00:31:29.860 --> 00:31:34.639
Erin: in Europe and Australia. They believe it all starts in the gap.

537
00:31:35.050 --> 00:31:36.240
Tanya: Yeah, I've heard this.

538
00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:36.920
Erin: So

539
00:31:37.300 --> 00:31:38.949
Erin: so for gut health.

540
00:31:39.350 --> 00:31:42.659
Erin: Once you get that under control, it will

541
00:31:42.860 --> 00:31:48.939
Erin: control everything from there. So that's kind of what we're really working on right now to control that.

542
00:31:49.220 --> 00:31:50.613
Erin: The ciliac

543
00:31:51.940 --> 00:31:54.066
Erin: which is just a whole nother problem.

544
00:31:54.640 --> 00:31:55.900
Erin: Yeah. But Nope.

545
00:31:57.470 --> 00:31:58.090
Erin: yeah.

546
00:31:58.090 --> 00:32:05.400
Tanya: Because at the root of every all of these auto immune diseases, it's inflammation. So it's what is causing the inflammation.

547
00:32:06.558 --> 00:32:11.169
Tanya: So what kind of a diet. Did they have you on? Or.

548
00:32:11.980 --> 00:32:12.549
Tanya: yeah, like.

549
00:32:12.550 --> 00:32:13.400
Erin: So ha!

550
00:32:13.630 --> 00:32:15.440
Tanya: Things that you are eliminating

551
00:32:15.630 --> 00:32:16.130
Tanya: right?

552
00:32:16.130 --> 00:32:22.339
Erin: So it was a huge elimination diet. Pretty much. The only thing I could eat was

553
00:32:22.540 --> 00:32:23.530
Erin: plant-based.

554
00:32:23.830 --> 00:32:24.829
Erin: So you know.

555
00:32:24.830 --> 00:32:25.989
Tanya: Oh, great!

556
00:32:25.990 --> 00:32:26.925
Erin: Vegetables.

557
00:32:28.960 --> 00:32:34.570
Erin: Anything lean so like I could eat chicken turkey. Lean

558
00:32:35.330 --> 00:32:38.098
Erin: read me if I wanted it.

559
00:32:38.800 --> 00:32:40.113
Erin: no dairy

560
00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:41.150
Tanya: Not.

561
00:32:41.150 --> 00:32:42.860
Erin: Obviously no gluten, which

562
00:32:43.270 --> 00:32:45.461
Erin: I'm just used to anyways.

563
00:32:46.620 --> 00:32:48.679
Erin: So I did that for 3 months.

564
00:32:51.630 --> 00:32:52.440
Erin: It then started.

565
00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:57.750
Tanya: Is that hard like planning for cause you've got a who's.

566
00:32:57.750 --> 00:32:58.529
Erin: I do

567
00:33:00.300 --> 00:33:04.270
Tanya: I mean, I don't know about your kids, but Mike, because they're so picky and.

568
00:33:04.270 --> 00:33:06.869
Erin: Yes, extremely. Extremely.

569
00:33:06.870 --> 00:33:12.850
Tanya: Are you just like making meals separately for yourself, or like would Billy eat that? The food that you.

570
00:33:12.850 --> 00:33:13.190
Erin: Huh!

571
00:33:13.510 --> 00:33:13.830
Tanya: Here.

572
00:33:14.730 --> 00:33:17.198
Erin: No, we did do separate meals.

573
00:33:17.780 --> 00:33:19.980
Erin: So him and Dominic would eat

574
00:33:20.940 --> 00:33:27.139
Erin: the meals that they made, I mean Dilly would make me my own meal, or I would make my own meal. So it's basically just really

575
00:33:27.240 --> 00:33:29.789
Erin: eating salad snacks.

576
00:33:31.137 --> 00:33:35.260
Erin: I'm not a big breakfast person, anyway. So I didn't really eat much

577
00:33:35.870 --> 00:33:37.236
Erin: for bracket.

578
00:33:38.070 --> 00:33:40.979
Erin: just a little snack here and there, but it was

579
00:33:41.390 --> 00:33:43.230
Erin: extremely difficult.

580
00:33:43.480 --> 00:33:45.070
Erin: Had to give up caffeine.

581
00:33:45.210 --> 00:33:47.050
Erin: giving up coffee with

582
00:33:47.150 --> 00:33:48.679
Erin: very difficult.

583
00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:55.800
Erin: especially with a kid who doesn't sleep. That means I don't sleep so.

584
00:33:55.800 --> 00:33:56.640
Tanya: Yeah.

585
00:33:57.190 --> 00:33:59.249
Erin: Copy is what I ran on.

586
00:33:59.730 --> 00:34:00.800
Erin: But

587
00:34:01.440 --> 00:34:02.984
Erin: yeah, so I felt

588
00:34:03.910 --> 00:34:07.899
Erin: It took a while, but after 3 months started reintroducing food.

589
00:34:08.630 --> 00:34:11.190
Erin: I definitely knew my limitations.

590
00:34:14.850 --> 00:34:16.620
Tanya: so did it.

591
00:34:17.250 --> 00:34:37.500
Tanya: So without the caffeine, though. But then you also on the other end of it. You're on this like strict diet. So did you notice that you got like it? But it will take some time, obviously. But after being on the diet like that for so long did you notice, like your energy come back from that? Even despite the fact that you were off caffeine?

592
00:34:37.650 --> 00:34:38.510
Tanya: Or was it.

593
00:34:38.510 --> 00:34:41.966
Erin: I did. No, I I felt great

594
00:34:43.060 --> 00:34:44.860
Erin: But again it was also

595
00:34:45.020 --> 00:34:48.400
Erin: hard to tell, because I had just had the infusion.

596
00:34:48.550 --> 00:34:50.649
Tanya: Oh, yeah. Yeah.

597
00:34:50.659 --> 00:34:54.449
Erin: So I I don't know if I feel a great mat or this diet, but

598
00:34:54.979 --> 00:34:56.799
Erin: I could do

599
00:34:56.839 --> 00:35:04.699
Erin: everything that I wanted to do like I was able to go for a walk, I was able to dress myself, which I wasn't able to do prior

600
00:35:05.690 --> 00:35:07.380
Tanya: Did you say? Dress yourself.

601
00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:08.570
Erin: Yeah.

602
00:35:09.310 --> 00:35:11.780
Tanya: No way. Oh, my gosh.

603
00:35:12.260 --> 00:35:16.784
Erin: So Billy would have to help me get dressed in the morning. He'd have to help me get down the stairs.

604
00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:18.389
Tanya: Oh, my! Gosh!

605
00:35:18.960 --> 00:35:19.780
Erin: So.

606
00:35:20.850 --> 00:35:22.719
Erin: but it's been a year.

607
00:35:22.730 --> 00:35:26.919
Erin: So I started last April, April of 2023, and.

608
00:35:26.920 --> 00:35:27.630
Tanya: Yeah.

609
00:35:28.160 --> 00:35:29.600
Erin: I have been

610
00:35:30.270 --> 00:35:31.520
Erin: great then.

611
00:35:32.260 --> 00:35:34.549
Tanya: Oh, my God! I'm so glad to hear that.

612
00:35:34.550 --> 00:35:36.730
Erin: I don't love going for the infusion.

613
00:35:38.050 --> 00:35:40.550
Erin: but if it's gonna help me until I can

614
00:35:41.540 --> 00:35:42.820
Erin: figure out

615
00:35:42.900 --> 00:35:44.430
Erin: other resources.

616
00:35:45.130 --> 00:35:45.830
Tanya: Yeah.

617
00:35:45.830 --> 00:35:48.999
Erin: You know, keep going for them. But I'm truly hoping that

618
00:35:49.500 --> 00:35:52.519
Erin: you know the diet is what helpful it makes

619
00:35:52.690 --> 00:35:54.929
Erin: most of the medications that I have to take.

620
00:35:55.630 --> 00:35:59.130
Tanya: Right? Well, plus yeah. And I'm sure

621
00:35:59.200 --> 00:36:00.240
Tanya: in all these

622
00:36:00.430 --> 00:36:02.479
Tanya: medications have side effects.

623
00:36:02.490 --> 00:36:04.190
Tanya: 2. Which.

624
00:36:04.720 --> 00:36:07.220
Tanya: I. And I'm guessing like a lot of them

625
00:36:08.410 --> 00:36:12.790
Tanya: can kind of like steal. Your energy, too, like a lot of the side effects can be

626
00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:16.660
Tanya: fatigue right.

627
00:36:16.660 --> 00:36:19.619
Erin: Yeah, yeah, that's 1 of the biggest ones.

628
00:36:21.180 --> 00:36:25.420
Erin: I am exhausted. Usually in the afternoons I lay down for a little bit

629
00:36:26.200 --> 00:36:31.530
Erin: kind of close my eyes, Dom, to the point that he can just watch a movie. If it's just him and I he'll just leave.

630
00:36:31.530 --> 00:36:32.320
Tanya: Yeah.

631
00:36:32.750 --> 00:36:33.335
Erin: Be

632
00:36:34.620 --> 00:36:35.470
Erin: I have.

633
00:36:36.310 --> 00:36:42.970
Erin: So my infusion is also used for certain cancers. So I my hair has been

634
00:36:43.230 --> 00:36:48.720
Erin: significantly I used to have really thick hair. And now it's super thin and

635
00:36:49.290 --> 00:36:51.580
Erin: it used to curls doesn't grow anymore.

636
00:36:55.380 --> 00:36:58.224
Erin: my, yeah, my exhaustion is the number one.

637
00:36:58.880 --> 00:37:00.149
Erin: trying to think of what else?

638
00:37:02.590 --> 00:37:04.790
Erin: Oh, my vision in my right eye

639
00:37:05.080 --> 00:37:05.880
Erin: is

640
00:37:06.500 --> 00:37:13.089
Erin: a side effect of rheumatoid arthritis. So I am starting to have vision issues in my right eye.

641
00:37:15.350 --> 00:37:22.680
Tanya: Oh, my gosh! So what are you doing for that? Is there anything that they could do for it? Or you're just kind of like dealing with it.

642
00:37:22.680 --> 00:37:23.330
Erin: Yeah, like.

643
00:37:23.330 --> 00:37:26.259
Tanya: Going to see an eye, doctor.

644
00:37:26.570 --> 00:37:35.928
Erin: Yup. So I see the eye, doctor. So that's why I now have classes, because it's only in my one eye that I have a prescription for not both.

645
00:37:36.750 --> 00:37:40.160
Erin: so it's just something that they're starting to monitor

646
00:37:42.010 --> 00:37:44.250
Erin: So I started my glasses and

647
00:37:44.910 --> 00:37:50.170
Erin: December of this year, so they'll just continue to watch the progress on that to see if it

648
00:37:51.730 --> 00:37:55.780
Erin: increases, or if I lose vision, let's see what happens.

649
00:37:56.370 --> 00:37:58.479
Tanya: Okay, so they're just monitoring it.

650
00:37:58.980 --> 00:38:01.819
Tanya: Oh, okay. So through all of this.

651
00:38:02.570 --> 00:38:03.970
Tanya: you know, like that.

652
00:38:04.510 --> 00:38:08.019
Tanya: you lost that birth experience, as I mean.

653
00:38:08.160 --> 00:38:16.109
Tanya: I'm guessing. Like most women like you have a vision of what that's gonna be. And it was.

654
00:38:17.110 --> 00:38:17.970
Erin: Not that.

655
00:38:18.860 --> 00:38:21.850
Tanya: Oh, shit show excuse my language, but.

656
00:38:21.850 --> 00:38:22.950
Erin: It was.

657
00:38:23.746 --> 00:38:24.579
Tanya: And then.

658
00:38:24.580 --> 00:38:25.750
Erin: You're unpleasant.

659
00:38:25.750 --> 00:38:32.849
Tanya: No, and then not only that, but you. Ha! I'm sure, had this vision of what it would be like afterwards, and

660
00:38:33.390 --> 00:38:34.490
Tanya: you couldn't

661
00:38:34.510 --> 00:38:40.100
Tanya: even hardly take care of yourself. And then you have this other little baby.

662
00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:46.369
Tanya: So you have that to kind of reconcile with.

663
00:38:46.680 --> 00:38:49.360
Tanya: So did you? My question is like, did you?

664
00:38:50.450 --> 00:38:54.439
Tanya: I mean, I'm sure. But if I'm just picturing myself

665
00:38:54.630 --> 00:38:59.130
Tanya: in your situation, and I know I would fall into a depression.

666
00:38:59.460 --> 00:39:00.760
Tanya: Did you

667
00:39:01.290 --> 00:39:02.120
Tanya: have you.

668
00:39:02.580 --> 00:39:03.460
Tanya: That at all.

669
00:39:04.920 --> 00:39:05.930
Erin: You know

670
00:39:06.850 --> 00:39:08.370
Erin: I don't think

671
00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:11.322
Erin: I never saw anybody for it.

672
00:39:12.200 --> 00:39:15.110
Erin: I never went on any medication for it. I think

673
00:39:15.290 --> 00:39:18.629
Erin: I had a really good support system around me.

674
00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:19.760
Tanya: Thank God!

675
00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:20.530
Erin: Dream.

676
00:39:21.180 --> 00:39:22.500
Erin: My parents.

677
00:39:22.770 --> 00:39:27.279
Erin: Billy's parents, you know. Billy, was amazing through all of it.

678
00:39:28.180 --> 00:39:31.769
Erin: so I think that it was just more family support than

679
00:39:32.120 --> 00:39:38.500
Erin: you know, speaking anything out. The only thing that I did do I never returned back to work.

680
00:39:40.210 --> 00:39:51.830
Tanya: Well, the job that you have before cause now. Well, now you're working, but you're doing something completely different. And it took you, I mean. And then but you did take what, how how many years off, before you went back.

681
00:39:52.620 --> 00:39:54.919
Erin: So I stopped working.

682
00:39:56.070 --> 00:40:00.499
Erin: So I so really quickly. I worked in retail for very long.

683
00:40:00.500 --> 00:40:01.150
Tanya: Yeah.

684
00:40:01.330 --> 00:40:09.909
Erin: And I had Dominic in August, and my maternity leave. I was expected to go back to work the week of Black Friday, Thanksgiving in November.

685
00:40:09.910 --> 00:40:11.726
Tanya: Oh, my God, yeah, right?

686
00:40:12.270 --> 00:40:12.900
Tanya: Oh, we go.

687
00:40:12.900 --> 00:40:13.330
Erin: Hello!

688
00:40:13.330 --> 00:40:14.330
Tanya: Friday, after you just

689
00:40:14.580 --> 00:40:16.020
Tanya: almost died.

690
00:40:16.630 --> 00:40:19.430
Erin: So I ended up working for about

691
00:40:19.760 --> 00:40:20.750
Erin: 4 weeks.

692
00:40:21.330 --> 00:40:29.226
Erin: I got through Christmas, and then came January when I was due, for when I was having the next surgery. I was done.

693
00:40:29.570 --> 00:40:30.010
Tanya: Yeah.

694
00:40:30.010 --> 00:40:32.490
Erin: I just couldn't do it anymore because I was working

695
00:40:32.680 --> 00:40:36.597
Erin: away from home. I wasn't local, so it was even harder.

696
00:40:37.750 --> 00:40:40.420
Erin: So I then stayed home.

697
00:40:40.660 --> 00:40:43.914
Erin: Billy had his own business, so I helped run that

698
00:40:44.700 --> 00:40:49.060
Erin: and then I went back to work part time in

699
00:40:49.530 --> 00:40:51.390
Erin: 2,018.

700
00:40:51.730 --> 00:40:53.880
Erin: So I took almost a year and a half off

701
00:40:54.240 --> 00:40:58.319
Erin: from working full time, and then I went back part time.

702
00:40:59.670 --> 00:41:02.379
Erin: And I'm still just working kind of part time.

703
00:41:02.680 --> 00:41:06.420
Erin: I work about 25 to 30 HA week where I am

704
00:41:06.700 --> 00:41:08.319
Erin: I still take.

705
00:41:08.460 --> 00:41:16.490
Erin: You know my boss is amazing. I can take any time off that I need for my infusions, or anything for Dominic.

706
00:41:17.350 --> 00:41:20.319
Erin: So this past year I helped out a lot at the school.

707
00:41:20.684 --> 00:41:23.970
Erin: So I took a bunch of days off. Yeah. So I got to be

708
00:41:24.150 --> 00:41:26.001
Erin: a part of all of that.

709
00:41:26.350 --> 00:41:28.520
Erin: I feel like I'd miss so much when he was in

710
00:41:28.780 --> 00:41:33.130
Erin: baby and infant that now I get to participate in all of these. And

711
00:41:33.870 --> 00:41:39.140
Erin: again, my boss is supportive. Billy is great if I need to, you know.

712
00:41:39.500 --> 00:41:41.559
Erin: Go to the school for a

713
00:41:42.450 --> 00:41:47.370
Erin: work of events at night, or anything like that. So it's been great.

714
00:41:48.700 --> 00:41:53.449
Tanya: Oh, that's good. And then I wanted to. So what would you say? I kind of have

715
00:41:54.160 --> 00:42:02.249
Tanya: an idea of like what your answer is gonna be. But so like, through all of this, like, what do you think has been able to? What? What's like? The

716
00:42:02.270 --> 00:42:05.240
Tanya: one, or maybe multiple, maybe like 3

717
00:42:06.207 --> 00:42:09.280
Tanya: one to 3 biggest things that you

718
00:42:10.100 --> 00:42:19.289
Tanya: give credit to you getting through all of these health issues that have been going on since that traumatic experience.

719
00:42:19.290 --> 00:42:19.990
Erin: Yes, like.

720
00:42:19.990 --> 00:42:21.099
Tanya: For me. My.

721
00:42:21.240 --> 00:42:25.730
Tanya: what I'm taking out of it is number one. So your support system.

722
00:42:26.230 --> 00:42:26.640
Erin: Yeah.

723
00:42:26.640 --> 00:42:27.110
Tanya: But what.

724
00:42:27.110 --> 00:42:27.870
Erin: So

725
00:42:28.070 --> 00:42:31.099
Erin: silly has been huge through all of it

726
00:42:33.300 --> 00:42:34.160
Erin: again.

727
00:42:34.440 --> 00:42:36.759
Erin: I'm sure it was not easy for him.

728
00:42:37.338 --> 00:42:41.519
Erin: Those of you who don't know me. My husband is a firefighter.

729
00:42:41.610 --> 00:42:46.590
Erin: so that makes things also complicated. When he's gone for 24 h.

730
00:42:46.590 --> 00:42:48.069
Tanya: Yeah, yeah.

731
00:42:48.070 --> 00:42:48.790
Erin: So

732
00:42:49.230 --> 00:42:50.090
Erin: he was.

733
00:42:51.340 --> 00:42:53.690
Erin: you know. It was the learning curve, for both of us

734
00:42:53.860 --> 00:42:59.301
Erin: had a baby. He was working as a firefighter. I was unable to function.

735
00:43:00.030 --> 00:43:02.249
Erin: So he has been my rock.

736
00:43:03.640 --> 00:43:05.520
Erin: I have to say, you know.

737
00:43:06.640 --> 00:43:08.459
Erin: when he's not home.

738
00:43:09.380 --> 00:43:13.700
Erin: My anxiety through the room like if something gonna happen to me while he's at work.

739
00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:15.580
Erin: So

740
00:43:15.890 --> 00:43:18.249
Erin: that's still in the back of my head. But

741
00:43:19.400 --> 00:43:22.956
Erin: you know he's just the biggest support supporter that I have.

742
00:43:23.700 --> 00:43:24.250
Tanya: Oh!

743
00:43:24.250 --> 00:43:24.620
Erin: Dominic.

744
00:43:24.620 --> 00:43:25.380
Tanya: Dominic.

745
00:43:25.380 --> 00:43:32.110
Erin: He's been huge like. I want to be able to do everything for him and be at everything for him. So

746
00:43:33.560 --> 00:43:35.109
Erin: you know it has to get better.

747
00:43:35.500 --> 00:43:37.000
Erin: It's not fair for him.

748
00:43:37.930 --> 00:43:38.870
Erin: -

749
00:43:39.780 --> 00:43:42.049
Erin: And then, obviously, my family family

750
00:43:43.030 --> 00:43:43.810
Erin: huge.

751
00:43:45.120 --> 00:43:47.030
Erin: I am fortunate enough that

752
00:43:47.560 --> 00:43:51.089
Erin: where we live both of our parents live

753
00:43:51.450 --> 00:43:55.410
Erin: maybe a mile to a mile and a half each direction, so we have both.

754
00:43:55.410 --> 00:43:57.320
Tanya: So awesome! Oh.

755
00:43:57.320 --> 00:43:57.760
Erin: And then.

756
00:43:57.760 --> 00:43:58.940
Tanya: Thank God!

757
00:43:59.470 --> 00:44:03.035
Erin: Both my sisters are currently woe

758
00:44:04.210 --> 00:44:10.830
Erin: So they're around to, you know, from my cousin, my aunt. I literally have such a huge family

759
00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:12.520
Erin: that everybody's around.

760
00:44:13.780 --> 00:44:15.690
Erin: We ever needed anything so.

761
00:44:17.900 --> 00:44:27.329
Tanya: That's awesome. And then what would you say to those who don't have a support system that might be going through something like this, or

762
00:44:28.140 --> 00:44:35.150
Tanya: they have gone through something like this, or if they, if something like this ever happens in their future, like, what would you say to

763
00:44:35.520 --> 00:44:36.100
Tanya: people.

764
00:44:36.100 --> 00:44:43.559
Erin: It's not easy. It's not easy. I would definitely, you know, if you don't have a support system, you need to find one. If that.

765
00:44:43.560 --> 00:44:44.470
Tanya: Yeah.

766
00:44:44.670 --> 00:44:48.056
Erin: You know, finding somebody to talk to.

767
00:44:49.400 --> 00:44:51.060
Erin: I don't love

768
00:44:51.230 --> 00:44:52.900
Erin: taking medication.

769
00:44:53.170 --> 00:44:53.970
Erin: but

770
00:44:54.330 --> 00:45:00.174
Erin: if you need to do it for yourself and for your family. Then you need to do what you need to do.

771
00:45:00.440 --> 00:45:03.163
Tanya: Yeah, just to get you through to like to bring you to.

772
00:45:03.390 --> 00:45:04.200
Erin: Captioning.

773
00:45:04.200 --> 00:45:05.700
Tanya: Right, yeah.

774
00:45:05.700 --> 00:45:09.529
Erin: Yeah. And then, once you're in a good space.

775
00:45:10.310 --> 00:45:12.220
Erin: then you can find alternatives.

776
00:45:13.180 --> 00:45:13.540
Tanya: Yeah.

777
00:45:13.540 --> 00:45:15.630
Erin: I am a huge

778
00:45:16.130 --> 00:45:18.260
Erin: functional medicine disorder.

779
00:45:18.970 --> 00:45:21.479
Tanya: Me, too. Yeah, I agree.

780
00:45:21.480 --> 00:45:27.964
Erin: If you can find one year, you unfortunately, the ones around here don't accept insurances.

781
00:45:28.380 --> 00:45:29.040
Tanya: Yeah.

782
00:45:29.040 --> 00:45:32.899
Erin: So it is costly to pay out of pocket. However.

783
00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:34.840
Erin: I think it's well worth every penny.

784
00:45:35.710 --> 00:45:36.410
Tanya: Yeah.

785
00:45:38.680 --> 00:45:56.019
Erin: and it's just an outsider's perspective. An outsider who hasn't been treating you so. You know your regular doctor, that you're talking to. This is a completely, you know. 3rd party. They don't know you, but they want to help you, and they listen to your true problems and really want to help from the root cause.

786
00:45:57.130 --> 00:45:59.930
Tanya: Yeah, and they really do. They take a holistic.

787
00:46:00.660 --> 00:46:00.979
Erin: On, the.

788
00:46:00.980 --> 00:46:03.489
Tanya: At you like right like, whereas.

789
00:46:03.490 --> 00:46:03.979
Erin: Yup, and.

790
00:46:03.980 --> 00:46:09.410
Tanya: Compare it to like the medical doctors would, and God bless the medical all the like, you know Western

791
00:46:09.800 --> 00:46:25.139
Tanya: trained medical doctors out there, but they're so busy and just the way that they were trained. And just the way that the system is designed is they have it. They're so overworked. They have way too many patients, and they just they don't have

792
00:46:25.310 --> 00:46:27.429
Tanya: the time to spend.

793
00:46:27.770 --> 00:46:31.619
Tanya: Whereas, yeah, functional medicine, they they

794
00:46:31.970 --> 00:46:42.270
Tanya: I mean, you can speak to this, but they spend a lot more time with you, right? And looking at the whole picture and understanding like your history.

795
00:46:43.421 --> 00:46:45.980
Erin: Yes. And I, I mean

796
00:46:46.130 --> 00:46:48.549
Erin: fair wording for the one that I saw.

797
00:46:48.857 --> 00:46:50.679
Erin: there was a lot of blood work involved.

798
00:46:50.880 --> 00:46:52.290
Erin: But it was a lot of

799
00:46:52.870 --> 00:46:55.269
Erin: testing that your normal

800
00:46:55.320 --> 00:46:57.890
Erin: Tcp. Or specialist

801
00:46:57.930 --> 00:46:59.479
Erin: is not looking for.

802
00:46:59.750 --> 00:47:02.720
Erin: So I think that was a huge.

803
00:47:04.250 --> 00:47:09.019
Erin: you know. Advantage is they're looking from a different perspective.

804
00:47:09.080 --> 00:47:12.539
Erin: They're looking to help you in a different way.

805
00:47:15.020 --> 00:47:18.510
Erin: and that's how I mean, when we did a lot of my

806
00:47:19.400 --> 00:47:20.420
Erin: lab.

807
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Erin: you know there was random things like, Hey your vitamin d, which everybody is vitamin d deficient?

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Erin: you know. I want to get you on a supplement for that, and you know my vitamin B. 12 was

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Erin: horrendous. So just the things that you don't think of. They're small.

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Erin: but they can.

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Tanya: But it could make a big.

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Erin: You can brand.

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Tanya: Once, yeah, with your energy levels. And just how you feel overall. Right?

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Erin: Yup exactly. And again, it is costly around here, because they're not covered by insurance. You get to pay for these vitamins out of pocket.

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Tanya: Yeah.

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Erin: But if it's gonna help.

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Erin: then I fully support it.

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Tanya: Yeah, like, what's yeah, what's you feeling good worth to you? And like.

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Tanya: how is? And like thinking of the ripple effect of that like, how is you're feeling good? How's that gonna

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Tanya: affect like how you show up for both yourself, for your family, for your kids?

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Tanya: And yep.

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Erin: Exactly.

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Tanya: Yeah. And then, like, what is the end result of that? Gonna be like, it's gonna foster a better relationship with your kids. And that's gonna affect their future. Even.

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Erin: Exactly. Yeah.

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Tanya: Long term relationships and bonds that you're gonna have with your kids?

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Tanya: Yeah.

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Tanya: So one more thing, do you? So how did you find your functional medicine, doctor.

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Tanya: Was it just word of mouth or.

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Erin: So actually one of the chiropractors that I was seeing

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Erin: recommended cause she started me out on just

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Erin: basic vitamins like, Oh, I think you should try this like, just start adding it in. She's like, but I think in the future you should.

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Erin: you know. Go I partner with her.

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Erin: I think you should go and see

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Erin: this doctor. I'm like, Okay.

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Tanya: So kai.

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Erin: So

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Erin: I finally did.

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Erin: and I'm very happy that I.

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Tanya: Oh, good.

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Tanya: yeah. And maybe I can even look up

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Tanya: like, how like some sort of functional medicine directory and link that and the show on it, so I'll try. I'll

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Tanya: put that on my list of things to do.

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Erin: Yeah.

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Tanya: Alright. Well, we're gonna start to wrap this up Erin and I just wanna before you go. I wanna ask you to like.

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Tanya: how has this experience shaped your life, and like what is the biggest lesson that you've taken from it? What have you come away.

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Erin: That's a loaded question.

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Tanya: Oh.

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Tanya: oh, whoops! Sorry! That's my mom. Let me decline that, mom. Come on.

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Erin: We haven't talked to mom.

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Erin: right?

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Tanya: Oh, I gotta have to edit that out later, or maybe I'll just leave it in.

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Erin: That's fine. We love mom.

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Erin: I mean not to be cliche, but I mean don't take anything for granted.

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Erin: I think we had for us. I mean, it was a miracle. We even

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Erin: can see you.

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Erin: I didn't have any complications until the end, and then it was almost like, Hey, here's Karma.

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Erin: i i i'd say that was the biggest thing.

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Tanya: Yeah, for granted.

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Erin: I, personally

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Erin: don't like to tell my story.

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Erin: Do people who are.

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Erin: you know, currently pregnant or trying to get pregnant because I don't want my story to discourage anybody. I don't. Wanna you know.

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Tanya: Yeah.

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Erin: Them. I do tell a lot of people. I won't tell you my story until that

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Tanya: Yeah.

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Erin: Just because it's a very uncommon experience.

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Tanya: Extraordinary.

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Erin: Land.

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Tanya: In thank goodness.

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Erin: Hi.

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Tanya: So sorry that it happened to you.

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Erin: Yeah, I mean.

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Erin: things happen at this point. I'm just not surprised. I think. Also, you know, I'm not surprised by anything at this point.

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Erin: So with all of my medical issues and history.

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Erin: if something new comes about.

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00:51:39.620 --> 00:51:42.460
Erin: you know it, it's not a surprise to me anymore.

877
00:51:42.490 --> 00:51:45.599
Erin: like, I feel like anything and everything that's done at me.

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Erin: It comes to me, and I'll get over it.

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Tanya: Yeah. But don't you think to do? You have, like

880
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Tanya: like a new found

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Tanya: like

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Tanya: trust in yourself and your ability, though with all that you've been through like.

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Tanya: because I feel like with everything that you've been through like it just shows you what you're capable of like. Can you believe

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Tanya: everything that you've gone through, and you're still here standing. And not to mention, like, you're a great friend, an amazing wife, an awesome mom like you guys. Her son is the sweetest little boy like I can remember. I can't remember when it was. It was a few years ago.

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Tanya: and we were I was home visiting like in the Boston area, and we were sitting at my dad's pool. And I wanna say Dominic was the only kid that was there, and it was just us, and like a few of our friends, and we're talking for Don only knows how long it was, and I was just so taken back and impressed at how patient

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Tanya: he was. And now even more, that my kids are older, and probably now they're the age that he was now, but like just how Pete, like he never once was like mommy come like, and you would think like he must have been bored to tears like we're just sitting around talking.

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Tanya: and there's no other kids around. Not once was he like mommy, can we go, or just

888
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Tanya: completely content, just sitting on your lap.

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Tanya: But he's just such a sweet little boy. So.

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Erin: Renewing.891
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