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Hi friends and welcome to
another edition of NEWSTART Now.
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I'm your host, Ron Gianonni.
In our studio with me I have
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the privilege of introducing
to you Lucy Lovey from New York.
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Well actually she's from San
Diego via New York. Let's take
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a look at when she first arrived
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I had quadruple bypass and I had
a hip replacement in my right
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hip and then the year after I
had my left hip replaced. I've
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had two back surgeries, lower
back, for spinal stenosis. Then
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I had some vertebrae that had to
be fixed. There's got to be some
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place. I'm so sick of doctors.
I'm so sick of pills. I'm so
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sick of surgery and I keep
getting worse. I said there's
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got to be... I said they have
fat farms, they have this, they
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have that. They have all
kinds of programs. Isn't there
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something for people that can go
and get a real wellness place.
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I came here because my health
has been deteriorating for the
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past, actually for about the
past 20 years, but it's gotten
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much worse over the past five,
six years. And I've had numerous
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surgeries and nothing has seemed
to help me. And I've gained an
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awful lot of weight and that has
been a real detriment. I want to
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be able to have normal
blood pressure because my blood
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pressure has been very high and
even with medication it's always
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too high and has caused me
to have kidney problems. I also
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would like to lose as much
weight as I can while I'm here
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and then continue once I go
home. And I would like to have
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energy and be able to walk
and not be all out of breath.
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Welcome back friends, and as
I promised... Lucy, how are you
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dear. All right. Lucy Lovey. But
as a I called you earlier Lovey
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Buggy and I asked you if anybody
called you that. You said a lot.
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Not Lovey Buggy, just Lovey. I
didn't get that other part. Just
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Lovey. I heard something
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different. So I'm going to
call you Lovey. Is that okay?
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Okay, that's fine. All
right so you got here. We
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saw when you first arrived
we just say your interview, the
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first one. What's
changed? Has anything changed?
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A lot has changed. I didn't
know what to expect when I came
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although I knew it was going
to be positive. What I was not
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expecting was it to be like
a little bit of heaven here.
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You weren't expecting that?
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No, I was not expecting prayer
before everything, even getting
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on a bus we pray. The massage
therapist before she touches me
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she prays. The doctor prays
before... I mean I'm so prayed
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up. I mean I feel so elevated.
I mean I feel so protected with
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all these prayers constantly
every day, all the time, no
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matter who I talk to. So I was
not expecting that. That was a
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very pleasant surprise. I was
expecting everybody to be nice.
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You know I'm not surprised by
that. But you know you could be
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nice because it's your job and
it's protocol. But you guys are
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not nice because of that. You're
nice because it's in your nature
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God's nature is in you and
you're genuinely nice. You don't
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have to try, it just comes
automatically. I feel that.
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That's so precious.
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I feel that and that is what I'm
thinking and I'm going to feel
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so drastically changed too
because of it. You know people
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are nice when I am but this
is different. This is really...
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This is like it's going to
be like after Jesus comes back,
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how everybody's going to be
so loving and so carefree and so
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nice, so genuine. It's going
to be great. So I'm getting a
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little glimpse of what I think
it's going to be like in our
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next life. So how
about you physically.
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What's happened? Are
you still on medication?
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Yeah. Physically I came with a
lot of medical problems. Then I
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got sicker because there
were other things that were
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happening that just kind
of blossomed here. Not as a
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consequence of being here but
because they had them in me and
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they just... Yeah. So, but I
see the changes and I am getting
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better. But it's a long process
because you know when you have
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so much to work with, you know.
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So were you taken off
any of your medications?
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I've been kind of taking myself
off a little bit. Dr. Lukens...
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Then I got to go back because
my blood pressure shoots up.
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So we're both trying to get
me off. When the blood pressure
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goes up, so I'm back on medicine
but I don't intend to be there
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forever. I lost 10 pounds. I've
got a whole lot to go but those
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10 pounds, already I feel, you
know, I'm feeling it and that
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is a good thing. Dr.
Lukens shared with me and
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we're going to be interviewing
him in just a little bit, that
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your walk, he walked with you
back up that little slope from
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the medical facility, he
said you did really, really well
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compared to when you first
arrived. So what do you think
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of the food here?
The food is, it's good.
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It's not like we fix at home.
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No but it's... The people use
good imagination and they can
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do miracles with vegetables.
The only thing is that since I
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love a lot of seasoning, I
think I would do with even more.
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Amen. See that's the way my wife
cooks. We use a lot of seasoning
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A lot of garlic and
onions and a little seasoning.
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I says I'll die of anything but
I'll never die of cancer, not
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with all the garlic I eat.
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So are you satisfied with the
results, really, truly satisfied
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I'm looking forward to coming
back. Yes, I'm looking forward
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to coming back when I get quite
a bit thinner because I wasn't
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able to do what the other people
did. I wasn't able to go on
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hikes, I wasn't able to do all
the... They would go and they
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would come back. Oh I did three
miles. I'd be pooped out just
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going to the doctor's office
and back, I'm panting, so I knew
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I couldn't do it.
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Well, we're going to get you
back here and when you come back
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can we interview you again?
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Oh absolutely. So
our viewers can see how
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you've changed. Yeah.
I would love to bring my
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son here, one of my sons. He's
in the restaurant business and
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you know he goes to the kitchen
and he'll pick a little and he's
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getting... He's very muscular
but he's getting a big gut.
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And I tell him, I don't
want you to wind up like me.
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So we already covered the
medication but have you stopped
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any of the medication at all?
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I'm on very little medication.
It's only on blood pressure
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medication.
Primarily blood pressure.
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That's all I take. So
how's your heart feel after
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being here for
a couple of weeks?
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Good. I'm out of
breath but it's not
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from my heart.
It's from my lungs.
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Yes. And how about your
cholesterol numbers? Did they
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change? I think
they got a little higher
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The doctor told me this morning
the triglycerides went up a
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little bit but he says those
things happen. Some somehow I
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wasn't concerned about
that because I trust Dr. Lukens.
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I feel that I lose a few more
pounds and that will go down.
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And I definitely am not
going back to no cholesterol
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medication. Lovey,
we're out of time but I
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wanted to thank you for coming
here and sharing with us and
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God bless you. I'll be in touch
with you in about three weeks.
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Yes okay. Friends
don't go away, we'll be
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back after this.
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Welcome back friends and
help me welcome Dr. Lukens.
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It's a pleasure. This is a
very interesting case and it's a
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little different than some so
I think a lot of people can be
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edified by this. Well
it's a special case for me
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because this is my sister, as I
told you earlier. You said, well
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how are you related. I said
we're both members of the zipper
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club. And the people who've had
open heart surgery know what I'm
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talking about. You have a
big scar down your chest as you
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know and it looks like a zipper
for some folks. In any case,
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let's talk about
her and how she's doing.
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Okay the main thing for her is
that her heart has not been good
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and that any time you have a
major operation like that it's
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tough on you and she kind of
wishes that she had done this
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instead because her heart could
have gotten stronger and it's
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getting stronger now. The thing
is even after she's had the
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operation the heart is still
large and it's flabby and it's
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not beating well. She still has
a high blood pressure that she
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had and she's still got marginal
kidneys. The doctor said you
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know Lucy your kidneys are just
kind of holding their own but
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they're not really good. You've
got to stay on top of this.
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So you know your kidneys are
going to function for as long as
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you need them. Then another
thing is when she came in and
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we didn't know this, because
we didn't know her, she had high
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blood pressure. We knew that
she was on medications for heart
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failure, we knew that she was on
medications for edema; she was
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having swelling in her legs and
she was having all these things
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but she just kept coughing.
So the nurses go in to find out
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what her O2 saturation was and
it would go way, way down. So
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then actually one of the nights
both of them were right with her
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during the night, they were
really concerned about it. So we
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couldn't tell is this because of
heart failure, is this because
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of ones that have like emphysema
Is this because of some kind of
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an acute process. Then when we
got her blood back, we thought
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oh no, her hemoglobin is
only 9. You know and for a woman
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labs are different but 12-14
is about right and when you have
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kidney disease, chronic kidney
disease, your kidneys stop
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sending messages through to the
bone marrow "make more red blood
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cells. We're running out of
oxygen. We need more red blood
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cells. And we need more
hemoglobin in the red blood
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cells and we're starving for
oxygen so make more. " When the
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kidneys are damaged if
it's diabetes, if it's from high
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blood pressure, whatever, when
the kidneys stop functioning
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well and they stop sending
that message through to the bone
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marrow and when your hemoglobin
gets low enough you're just kind
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dragging around and you're not
oxygenating your blood and then
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you just feel very weak and
you're just not functioning well
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So then the idea would be to
treat the kidneys. That'll take
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care of a multitude of problems.
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Yeah, but how do you treat the
kidneys when you're ready for
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dialysis. That's your job.
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That's nobody's job. But
there are companies that make
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injections, they're very
expensive and the injections
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now tell the bone marrow now
make more red blood cells, kick
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up the hemoglobin so we
can get more oxygen. But I mean
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that's... But how is it that the
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hemoglobin has raised to 10 and
she's been here now and after
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the second blood draw it
is increased. Did she receive
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injections. No but
she forgot to tell us
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that she was hemorrhaging.
And that was the greatest thing,
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that was the thing that just
lifted my spirits because when
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we got the first one they sent
us the alert, you know, this is
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too low. So then what I thought
of that, Oh no. Now here's
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somebody whose kidneys have
failed enough she's going to
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have to be on these injections
at 85 years of age, you know,
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who's going to pay for the
injections and all this stuff.
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So I was so thrilled
because when she stopped the
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hemorrhaging then within
a little bit over a week the
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hemoglobin came up to a gram-
and-a-half more. She was in the
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10s and so that was great. You
know I was just like ho good and
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that left a load off of me.
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Now what about the heart?
The heart has gotten better and
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there's evidence of that.
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Yeah, she was having trouble
because trying to go down to the
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clinic, you know, they had
to help her down to the clinic.
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And then she's one of these
go getters. She's, like they
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say, a self-made person. She's
done a lot of things in her life
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but she would try to get back up
from the clinic and it's quite
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an uphill climb. And so I would
walk with her and I'd say now
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Lucy use your walker and go
along. You don't have to sit in
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it you don't have to stand
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there and puff to try to get
your oxygen level back up again,
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but just go slower so that
on the next to the last visit, I
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walked up with her. It was
a beautiful, sunny day and she
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would keep pushing on. I'd
say no, no, no. So then what she
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finally realized was let's just
walk slowly and she walked all
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the way from the clinic all
the way up to the lodge and she
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didn't have to stop. She's happy
She knows this is the beginning
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she's got to do this. There are
two things that really help the
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kidneys. One is is that
the heart gets stronger. So her
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heart when it's stronger it's
going to pump better and so it's
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going to have more pressure into
the kidneys, more blood will go
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into the kidneys and more blood
will be filtered. The other
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thing is, is that the plant
based foods, the amino acids
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the ratio of amino acids in
plant based foods are the very
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amino acids that the body needs
to build good human albumin.
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There's two factors here, two
main factors. One is that within
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three days her
heart is pumping better.
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Three days, wow!
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Yeah we have people that pump
a lot of water out of their legs
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between Monday and Thursday.
I think the record so far for a
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week is 30 pounds of water
pumped out. So anyway when the
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heart is stronger then it
can pump more blood through the
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kidneys and then that makes
the kidneys function better. The
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other thing is the protein in
the plant-based died is the very
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protein, the amino acids, that
the body needs and not the ones
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that it doesn't need. So
it's not such a big load on the
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kidneys to try to get it all
out. So those two main things
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help and we have a lot of
people that have never had to
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go on dialysis. Well
I'm so glad to hear that
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she's doing better. What's
the prognosis? What does she do
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after she leaves here?
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Well, she realizes she needs
to stay on the diet and then...
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See she was coughing, coughing,
coughing because she also had
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pneumonia when she came here.
So she's got all these different
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things. I saw her today and
she's looking great compared to
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then. I said, you were pretty
sick when you came here. And she
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said I was very sick.
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I gave a lecture and you walked
in last Sabbath and she coughed
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most of the time.
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Yeah, that was the last part of
her pneumonia, yes. Yeah, we had
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to put her on antibiotics too.
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Well she looks better in any
case and I will be following up
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with her as I do with all
guests that want us to follow up
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and hopefully
inspire her to continue on.
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Yeah, well she feels strong
enough now to be directive to
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her children again so they're
going to realize that she's
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better and they
want her to do well.
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Now how'd she do on the second
treadmill, did she do okay?
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No she didn't do the treadmill.
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Oh, she didn't do that. Okay.
So how is it that you're aware
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that the heart is
doing a better job?
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Well when she first came they
had to bring her down to the
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clinic to take her to her first
appointment and then now she's
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able to walk down and then on
the way back she'd have to just
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stop and walk a few steps and
then stop and walk a few steps.
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Now she's able to
walk without any problems.
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Yeah. She still uses her
walker for her balance, yeah.
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Okay, well that's good news.
So any other problems that we
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could talk about
with regards to her?
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No. The fact that she's going to
tell you that she's doing better
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Well I want to thank you once
again. You're always so welcome
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here and it's always great
to see you and talk with you.
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Friends thank you for joining
us. We've got a message to
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follow. Hold on
there. Don't go away.
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First deadly psychological sin
is criticism. Criticism. I don't
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know if you've borne the brunt
of being raised in a critical
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home but human beings are by
nature negatively focused and
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problem focused. In fact,
research has shown that 75 per
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cent of the interactions between
teachers in elementary school
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and their students is negative.
Research has also shown that in
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a child's lifetime from birth to
18 years old he hears the word
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no from his parents 148,000
times. Bottom line of all this
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is that positive interaction,
and particularly affirmation
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versus criticism is a learned
skill. It's something we have to
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do proactively and intentionally
or we will revert back to our
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critical patterns. The story
is told of a young man who was
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complaining about the hymns at
church. He said they were very
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boring. His father said well if
you're going to complain about
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it then write one of your own.
The boy went into his bedroom
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and he wrote the hymn When I
Survey the Wondrous Cross. The
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young man was Isaac Watts
and he went on to write over 350
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many of them famous hymns
including Joy to the World.
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So there's a place for criticism
Criticism serves a function. We
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by nature as human beings are
capable of reason and what we
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call critical thinking. All
criticism is not bad but we need
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to sort of capture this beast
and train it so that it benefits
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us and others. Scientific
research has shown that people
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that are raised in critical
environments where there's much
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criticism among the family
of origin tend to have more
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depression diagnoses and more
depressive symptoms. In fact a
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critical environment at
home has been associated with a
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broad spectrum of mental
illnesses such as schizophrenia
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and other psychotic disorders.
I have a quote here from
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Abraham Lincoln...
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In order to find out if you have
the heart to help that person I
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recommend that you ask
yourself three questions before
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criticizing them. Number one: Do
I love to criticize or do I hate
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to criticize. If you love it I
think you need to give yourself
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pause there. Number two: Am
I doing it to help? Is that my
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motive? Number three: Will I
do it kindly and will I do it to
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that person's face? Beware of
Cyber criticism. Cyber criticism
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can easily turn into a form of
cyber bullying. It's really best
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when you're addressing sensitive
topics to talk to that person
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eyeball to eyeball so to speak.
The replacement for criticism
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I'm sure you're dying to know.
Very simple. It's affirmation.
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Learn to affirm people. This
does not come naturally to us.
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I recommend that if you're a
critiholic, we might call it,
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that you go on a criticism fast
for two to three weeks where
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you criticize nothing, no one,
not even yourself, for three
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weeks. I challenge you to try
that. Then after than when you
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issue a criticism always do it
in affirmation sandwich style.
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You affirm that person, then you
issue the criticism and then you
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follow it up with another
affirmation. This helps to
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soften the blow. Marriage expert
John Godman says that in order
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to neutralize the emotional
impact of the criticism one must
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affirm five times. So remember
that ratio. Five affirmations
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to one criticism. What is
the effect of an affirming
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environment in the home. We've
talked about the effect of a
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critical environment. What's
the effect of an affirming
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environment? Some research has
shown that there's a positive
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correlation between fatherly
affirmation and high self-
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esteem in girls. There's a
negative correlation between
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fatherly affirmation
00:26:49.74\00:26:51.27
and fear of intimacy. So in
other words, if fathers affirm
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their daughters, they're likely
to feel good about themselves
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and they're likely to be able
to develop healthy relationships
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Sounds like a good thing to
do. Try starting today affirming
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someone that you would normally
criticize. And usually, I hate
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to say it, but it's those that
are closest to us that we tend
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to be so critical of. But
try turning that around and
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intentionally proactively
affirming that person.
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They won't know what happened.
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