June 28, 2025 • 36 mins
A show segment got Amy really injured and she's still trying to heal. She shares updates on her boyfriend, her podcast relaunch, and perimenopause. Morgan has a realization about having a male gynecologist and shares the thing she's really nervous about right now.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Part one behind a scene with a member of the show.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Welcome to the Best Bits this weekend. Things are a
little different this weekend, Amy joins me.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
But we are doing this all via zoom because Amy
has had herself a time the last forty eight hours.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
We were supposed to record it at the station today.
But do you say station or studio?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I say studio sometimes I say station.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I know I feel like I say more studio in
the last year or so, but I always said station
early on because it felt more like a radio station.
But now we record so many other things that aren't.
Just like there's radio stuff and then there's I guess
and stuff and all the things. Anyway, just side note there.
I had to leave work early to get into the chiropractor,
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so yeah, and the knees would have been knees up challenge.
I injured myself, but I think we're on the road
to recovery now. So I'm sorry Morgan that I deraled
our board, but here we are.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
No.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It worked out, and I do hope you were on
the paths to recovery because back issues suck, and you
did get into a chiropractor so you are at least
halfway healing.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, he was like, look you that that challenge or whatever.
Like I was on the verge of needing to come
see him anyways, and the challenge is catapulted. Like it
sent me straight there because I probably would have put
off my hamstring pain forever. I had no idea that
my hamstring pain. Obviously, I knew that could come from
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somewhere else in my body, but I had no idea
that a chiropractor could help that part.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
But also, is he also a physical therapist? Does he help?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I don't think so. But the way he explained it
to me with what my back issues tend to be,
is the way it was pulling and the way my
back was so twisted it was causing this overcompensation that
then my hamstring was just really screaming at me all
the time. And for months I've been dealing with hamstring pain.
I don't know if you notice. Sometimes at work, I
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have this little ball that I get out of my bag.
It was my face fitness ball.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Okay, that's what I thought it was.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I was like, I'm going to start using this on
my leg and I would massage it into my quad
and I would just put it under my leg and
my chair and massage my hamstring with it. And it
turns out if I had gone to just see him
three months ago. But I kept thinking I could just
stretch it out or it would figure itself out. And
(02:53):
it really wasn't that painful to where it was making
me go actually do something. But anyway, the knee up challenge,
that was something that led to something so excruciating that
I finally went to the doctor and I'm like, oh, gosh, okay,
here we are, so we're better.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So let us joys of getting older.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Uh No, because when I sneezed in my early twenties.
I brought this up on the show this week. I
sneezed and bent over when I you know, at chew,
and I could not get back up, like when I
tell you I could not stand back up. I was
bit over and you could see in the mirror my
spine was twisted like my mom My mom, no joke
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had to come pick me up and help me to
her car, and she laid me down in her back
seat and she took me immediately to the chiropractor. And
so I don't think so I don't know what age
my back started to get bad. But obviously in my
early twenties I had issues. And you know, I will
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say I was sort of proud of myself for my
back being good the last couple of years, but who
knew that my hamstring was actually my back? It just
said sort of was screaming in a different place. So
it wasn't a red flag of me. I'd never had
that issue happen before. But he was like, no, no,
I think with what's going on with you, if I
get your back and hips in alignment, your hamstring's gonna
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feel great. And I was like, oh, so, anyways, all
this to just say, if you've got a little something
that's super irritating for several months but it's not driving
you to just go fix it, just go do it,
because then you're going to end up in a lot
of pain, and you're gonna have to leave work early,
and it's going to derail everybody's schedule.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
And more than anything, you're going to be sitting on
the floor like any you have to sit straight up.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
That's really more what matters.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, I am sort of being straight up on the
floor and then I've got to go over to the
wall in a minute and do my homework, which are
these butt exercises. Apparently my glut muscles have completely turned off.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Okay, so I did learn this because when I broke
my tailbone going rollerblading, I.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Started, like you, I know, stupid.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I started using like my hips more to do a
lot of things. My back was in like my tailbone,
like I was doing a lot of compensating, and so
basically I ended up injuring one of my hip flectures
and then it went down to my knee and it
was all connected. And yes, do your at home exercises,
because sometimes I didn't and it failed to help me heal,
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and so it took me like a year when it
should have taken me like six months.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
So people are getting a lot of reminders right now
of not to do so they can just be on
top of it, unlike us. So yeah, or or not
to hear that I need to do the homework. And
of course I'm motivated tonight because I'm still in a
little bit of pain, but he said I need to
keep up with it. So I can imagine in a
couple of weeks, if I'm feeling a little better, I'm
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gonna be like, eh, I don't need to do these
stand on the wall kicking my glute out thingies.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Or just you know, maybe don't go rollerblading without any
pads on, or don't do a random fitness death at
your work because you do.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
That's also well, but more man, I don't think they
make a tailbump pad.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
No, but you know, I probably would have like landed
on my knees or my elbows had I had any
version of pads on. I had nothing, So yeah, sure,
you know, just better things. Anyways, you are about to
have like a fun vacation though, which is a fun deal.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Are you excited?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah, I'm really excited. There's another reason why I was
motivated to get help because I've been looking forward to
this vacation so much that I thought, if I feel
this type of pain like that's almost gonna lead me
to tears doing certain simple day to day tasks, then
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this trip is going to be miserable.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
And flying on a plane.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, the sitting so much doesn't bother me. It's more
when I stand up and have to like walk, and
I'm like, well, if my kids want to go do
some activities and we're supposed to go you know, snorkel
and all this stuff. I mean, I guess swimming might
be kind of good, but I was just thinking walks
on the beach, sunset, sunrise, like, and I'm just gonna
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be like hunched over, like limping along.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Wait for me, guys, just put her in a wheelchair
and just bring her along.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yes, yes, that would be me deplaning, like sitting on
the plane. Fine, when we have to get up after
a four hour flight, I'm going to stand up and
be like, I need assistance.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I think you should just do it for the bit,
just be like, hi, guys, I got I go winter
off the plane.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah. And if anybody asks what happens, I just showed
them the Bobby Bone Show video of me trying to
jump up and do that. I mean, honestly, y'all made
it look so easy.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
So well also, you guys make other things look easy.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
It's just all it's all relative to your experiences, things
that you've done.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
If there's anything I've learned about our show and our
challenges and all the things, it's all relative to like
your experiences that you've had in your life.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
So that's what I talked that out too.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
But yeah, I am very excited for vacation. I don't
even I'm going to take my computer.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Oh I'm so jealous.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I said that with the nexhail, and I'm like, I
don't think, but I imagine what would pop up and
and sort of force myself to do that. And even
my friend that I'm meeting down there, I've been friends
with her, gosh since we were twenty three years old,
so I mean over twenty years. She was in my wedding,
like we go way back, and I told her that.
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I said, I don't even think I'm bringing my computer,
and she's just like, oh, are we going to get
present Amy? And I said, yeah, you are. But it
made me realize, like, oh, even my friends of a
long time, I know that. You know, sometimes I can
be like, oh I need to work on this real quick,
(09:07):
or I need to type this up, or oh oh
that could be a good show. Prep let me type
that up real quick, and you know, I guess my phone.
You can still be on socials, but I think I'm
going to be really intentional about that as well. But
to hear her say present Amy, which she was there
with me from the beginning, like when I was auditioning
for the Bobby Bone Show and that entire journey, and
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so she's been with me in my entire career, and
I just thought, oh, it felt good to know that
I'm being really intentional about being present. But then also
kind of like, oh, dang, you know, some people in
my life just have this impression of me that I'm
going to find a way to work and not that
(09:50):
I'm a I'm not like a someone that has to
work all the time, but I just still will bring
my stuff, or oh, I should probably watch this because
then I can talk about it, or or you need
to be up to speed on what's going on here,
so anyway that you get what I'm.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Trying to say, no, And I can totally relate because
I don't think I've ever gone on a vacation where
i haven't brought my laptop because there's always something that
I have to do or some fire to put out
or and if I leave it then it's just going
to be a hot mess.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
And I can't do a lot of things on my phone.
So I get it, like.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Your job title, Yeah, I'm sorry, Yes, it's okay, though
I have gotten really good at like okay for an
hour if I have to do this.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I do this, and then you know you're not going
to see me for the rest of the day. So
I've learned to my boundaries. But it's it's a balancing act.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Well.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Also, I'll say this about taking my computer, is I
would like to read more on this trip. And I
think even on the plane sometimes I default to just
watching something on my computer or trying to get ahead
on something, and I'll be like, well, I'm forced to
sit here. But if I don't have computer, then I
will hopefully choose to read. So that's another reason why
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it's not necessarily just about work. It's also about trying
to enjoy other things that are out there besides my computer.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
No, it's trust me, it's a good thing and I'm
proud of you for doing it.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Okay, we're gonna take a quick break.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I do have a follow up question about your vacation,
but we're going to take a quick break real quick, and.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Okay, So I'm assuming vacation. The boyfriend is potentially coming.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Maybe, yeah, yeah, he's going.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Is this first vacation. No, you guys went to Charleston
for your birthday?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
We did? Yeah, Okay, to me, which we went like
a month after my birthday and that was so fun.
I could go back there easily. So, yeah, we're going
to do this trip. He's easy to travel with. We've
we've also gone to another place before, and I I
almost now it just feels like normal, like, oh, yeah,
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you're coming. It'll be fun.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Oh I love that. It feels normal.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, it feels really normal, except for you know, I
guess he's going to be meeting my friend Jill and
her husband, you know.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
So that'll be that's a big deal because that's a
friend that's been part of your life for a long time.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, they met on the phone the other night, so
they talked on speakerphone and he kind of talked to
her husband and I sort of like maybe they might
go golf or do whatever.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
So oh, it's always fun when like the the two
boys get along, because that doesn't always happen.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Like, yes, boys can get along, they're easy to like,
you know, they can mesh or whatever.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
But when they actually get along and they want to
hang out with each other, that's also fun because then
they're like, Okay, yeah, go do your thing and I
can hang out with my friend.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, and I think that that will happen, especially if
they go golf. I don't know, Jill and I might
go do something, but it should be a pretty good
trip and I'm very much looking forward to it.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
What about you, Oh, I'm this is the first trip
I'm taking you and my boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Okay, So I already know that traveling with mine is easy.
You have no idea because I feel like you travel
with someone, you learn a lot.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Yes, And it's always important to me to travel early
on with whoever I'm going to be with because I
love to travel, and Romy's coming with us too, So
this is also a test of like how he handles
traveling with me.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
And we're going on a road trip, so lots of
driving together. And but I don't I don't foresee anything.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
He's already been such a like just easy going person
that I really don't see anything being an issue. But
you never know, Traveling brings out the crazy parts of
people sometimes, so who knows.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Oh, no, it definitely does. I mean I think that
you're you see exactly how they respond when things go wrong,
because normally when you're traveling, there's something that happens, something
that'll give you a peek into how they handle stress
and how they treat people and how go with the.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Flow they are well.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
And I was already like I've already seen like a
really cool side of him because I've been dealing, you know,
with all of my stuff with my cat Hazel, and
there was a big part of me that was going
to cancel the trip because I just I felt uncomfortable.
I wasn't sure how she was going to keep doing
if I could find people who I felt comfortable to
give her all the medications that she needs to be
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on right now to stay stable. And he really has
like shown up in that in a cool way of like, listen,
if we need to cancel, we cancel, Like this is
nothing in the world, Like we're in this together, Like
I love her as much as you do, and if
you want to be here, we're going to be here.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
And like he responded super well to that. So it
wasn't like I had to.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Feel like this huge burden of potentially canceling a trip,
you know what I mean, Like he understood where my
heart really was and like what was going to be important,
what was going to make me feel comfortable?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
And thankfully, so far, I think we have it.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Figured out and who knows, Like we could be like
halfway on the trip and I'm like, we could just
have to turn around and like come back if something
hits the wall. But all of that so far, he's
just been like, yeah, like truly so easy going with
it and supportive of whatever I feel like I need
to do. And that's been a cool thing to see
through him because I don't feel like that type of
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person comes around very often.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, especially for a cat.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah, yeah, like especially guys and cats, right, like a.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Dog maybe, but.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yeah, like a guy and a cat. Yeah, No, that's
that's huge. So you were able to find someone that
you feel good about.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Yeah, his sister is actually one of the ones that's
helping us. And then one of my good friends are
kind of tag teaming it because she has to be
given medication like twelve every twelve hours. It's trying to
like she has she has an equal eye infection and
it's in her kidneys, so it's just really hard for
her body to fight without a lot of medication because
that's kind of what happened the first go round, and
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it's just been a whole nightmare. I didn't even realize
that animals can.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Get equal eight. That was a new experience for me.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
But it's just one of those things that she has
to be on antibiotics for like six weeks, so it's
not even just now, she has to be on it
for the next month and a half. But I think
so I feel really comfortable about who's watching her, and
I've like walked them through all the steps and have.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
All of her food plan laid out.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
But in true crazy cat parent mom mode in this moment.
But yeah, so that hopefully it'll be chill enough that
I can enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
So yeah, what sounds like You've got two people that
you'll trust and so hopefully you can detach and relax,
because I know this last week with that has been very,
very stressful.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Yes, yeah, I don't wish any version of hospitalization for
human or animal, upon anyone.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
It's just not a enjoyable experience.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
A lot of questions and a lot of waiting, and
a lot of just finances like that, everything, A whole
gamut of stuff pops up when you're dealing with that,
and also just the sadness that comes of spending a
lot of time in a hospitalization. I saw just so
many sad things happening around me as I'm like sitting
here crying over my own animal, you know.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
So yeah, I'm ready for that part to be over.
I don't want to do any more of that, hopefully.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah. So with y'all's road driven stuff, like you're gonna
be you're checking in like everybody's we've got you on
what life through sixty? Or your parents know where you're coming?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Like, oh yeah, so many people have my location?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Okay, good?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Yeah, are you worried I'm gonna get kidnapped or like
taken along the way?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Well, I don't know. I'm just like, Okay, first trip
with the boyfriend who we trust, I'm sure, and all
the things. It's not even really about him, but I'm
just picturing you out. I don't know. Maybe I just
watched too many things. I'm not going to bring up
Inny specific cases or anything, but you know, I just
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making sure that everyone knows where you are.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yes, plenty of location things.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
We also have Remy with us, So I do think
Remy in times of crisis will come to my aid.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
If Formy the.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Rescue pup, the teeny tiny little puppy, Okay, in all.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Fairness, would she rescue me now home invasion, No, probably not.
But if like it's funny, like my dad will mess
with me, and if he ever tries to like kind
of wrestle me, Remy will come and try and like attack.
She's not very scary, but she'll be like, no, that's
my mom, leave her alone. So I think she would
at least try, although probably unsuccessfully, she would at least
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make an effort.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Do you not feel like Kara would for you? I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I mean car is at least a little bit bigger,
but I don't know. This is a good question. She's
laying with me right now. She definitely he loves me,
like even the kids would be like, oh, Cara choose
his mom over any of us all the time. And
even Ben, we used to do fifty to fifty with
Kara and then it just ultimately wasn't good on her anxiety.
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And but Ben was like, I think it's a no brain, nurse.
She should be with you. Obviously, I can be homeward
during the day because of our work hours versus his,
and he travels more. But I think he also is like,
and Cara just freaking loves you, like she does want
to be around me. But I've never been in a
position where she's had to show any kind of get
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away from my mom or I'm going to protect you,
so tbd, TBD.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Well, I hope you're never in a position where she
has to show that.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I think we'd, you know, we'd prefer not to have
to see that side of her.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I feel like Maggie could get a little spicy if
she needs to.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Oh, Maggie does not care. She can get.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Spicy with the On an Instagram post, I saw, Yes, she.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Gets spicy with me. She cuddles with me at night,
and then if it's daylight, she wants nothing to do
with me. I think at night she does look after me,
but I don't know what she would do. She would
just grarow and then maybe squat at who whatever. But
she definitely is so near me at night, and it's
so sweet. I don't know what Hazel's like. But then
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after she wakes up or night time is over, because
even if she's not sleeping, she's still buy me kind
of looking around right next to me. But then once
it's daytime, she doesn't want to be around me at all.
Like I could be laying in my bed doing the
same thing I do at night, and she's not going
to come late by me only at night.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I would say that's like some version of nocturnal, but
that's kind of like the reverse.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Yeah, I don't know, she just I feel like that's ale.
Like a lot of cats are like that is Hazel,
not oh.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
No, Hazel is a color. This was fun. This in
the midst of all the craziness at the hospital.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Hazel is such a lover that they were trying to
get her temperature, which I don't know if you've ever
had to see how they get a cat's temperature, you
could imagine, you know, go from behind. So they're doing
that and she's literally laying there in their arms purring.
They're like, why is this cap hurrying while this is happening.
Then they tried to get like her heart rate, and
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they're like and she just literally wouldn't stop purring. They're like, Hazel,
we don't know how your heart rate is because you
just keep over purring the heartbeat sounds.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
So that's just hers.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
But I think that's also coming from such a bad
situation where who knows what happens in her life for
seven and a half years. That No, she just loves
attention so much, like if you even touch her, she'll
just lean right into you, like, oh you want to
give me attention?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yes please?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yeah, or Maggie has had zero bit of a rough life,
so that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Queen treatment, she's had it. She knows.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
It's like, yeah, i'll talk to you later.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Okay, we're gonna take one more quick break and we'll
be right back. How else is everything else going in
your life?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
We talked about boyfriend, the vacation, the animals. How's yeah,
pre menopause, anything you want to talk about.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
How's the change in podcast going? There's so many things?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah, I mean my perimenopause is still there.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Harry menopause or pre menopause, it's Harry, is there also
pre menopause?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Well that's what Perry. Menopause is.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Okay, they're the same.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Or menopause. Okay, Harry menopause is. It's a whole thing.
It's very unpredictable. It's fun. I think even my boyfriend.
I said something yesterday about how I was just feeling
really down, but I think it was because of my back,
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but I also was just feeling down, defeated, like just sad, almost,
but I think it's because I was frustrated and I
couldn't move well, so I ended up laying around and
that just didn't help me. And he made some comment
and he's like, well, that could be any given day
for you, because it is like a roller coaster. I
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do go in and out of emotions and sadness or
feeling down, like life can be going so great and
like better than it has been in a really long time.
And then and I'm like, why can't I enjoy this
right now? I don't understand it. I really really really
want to, and all I could can do is just
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maybe cry or not tap into those emotions of or
tap into the enjoyment of, like, look at everything that
is great. I literally could not tell you why I
feel down, because normally when you feel down or sad,
you can I can say, oh, well, this happens, so
that makes sense. Yes, two things can be true at once.
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I can be happy about this and sad about this.
But it's like, Okay, I'm happy about this and I'm
sad about this, but I don't have a reason, which
really the reason is perimenopause. But it just sucks that
it's just there. It just don't know when it's going
to show up, and you don't. It's not always my
go to. I try to go through a checklist of like, okay,
well what happened here and what happened here? Is this why?
(24:25):
Or is this causing me to behave this way? Which
therapy cat speaking of my podcast and the change that
is going so great, the best decision we ever made.
I'm so happy, she's happy. We're both having a great time,
and she's on a fertility journey and she has some
(24:45):
stuff going on hormonally, and so we have a little
saying like if we because when you're working closely with
a friend, it can get weird because then you're like, shoot,
we want to maintain our friendship above all else. But
we're having to communicate about work stuff now too and
not just friendship stuff. And so we now have a
(25:06):
code if either one of us is a little hormonal
or you know, bitchy and we don't know why, but
so we just say sib SIB and it's sorry ib G.
So it's our acronym that just helps us know. I
(25:28):
think this is what's going on. So don't take my
tone or how I'm saying or my overreaction or maybe
you know, maybe tomorrow we check in on this and
I'll have a totally different vibe, because that's how it
feels like that, if I could sum it up, it's
like you just never know, and I feel like I've
got stomach issues and I'm like, is that periman apostle
(25:50):
which I need to make an appointment with my OBG
I in and go over some things. But I took
to share it to her first appointment, which that might
be team but anyway, she's eighteen now, and I didn't
know they don't. I was like prepping her for a
pap smear and you know all that. I was like,
this is what's going to be, like just take a
(26:12):
deep breath, picture happy things, ice cream, will go get
some after like this whole thing. And we get there
and they're like, oh, yeah, we don't do perap smears
till you're twenty one, I guess, unless, of course, maybe
you have other activities going on which we don't began.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Us and.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I didn't know that. And then they said, and we're
also we don't do a breast exam, like we don't
feel around on her boobs until twenty five and I
thought that seems late, Like, you know, I guess you
can do self exams, but at that young age, Like
I know, a girl I went to college with I
got breast cancer before twenty five, so I just thought
(26:56):
that was interesting to me. But they will meet with you.
So we went and we had a long talk and
she answered a lot of questions and I felt like
I learned some things. And then it just reminded me, oh,
maybe I need to book an appointment with my obj
in and just sit and have a talk, like I
just have questions and I want you to help me.
(27:16):
I don't even need the the pap smear because I
just go in for it. Made me think like maybe
I should just book an appointment to where I get
to have some time with her because I feel like
mine comes in, does my pap smear and she's like, okay, cool,
you're gonna go by, And then I'm like, oh, I mean,
of course, if I had things to talk about, but
when you're when you have to have that part done,
I think I'm just focused on that and hiding my
(27:37):
underwear and.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
The whole process that goes.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
But I don't like it would be much easier if
I just had all my clothes on and I could
just talk instead of laying there and stirrups trying to
think of things I want to ask, So anyway I
might do that.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
You know, it's really funny.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
So you know obd wayans and you should definitely should
do this because right your obgyn is like a regular
doctor just for your lady stuff, so this.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Makes sense you should make that appointment. But it's really funny.
My obgyn is the.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Guy who gave birth to me. He gave birth to
me and all my sisters.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
And I just had this thought of how I've gone
to a man before. Don't get me wrong, I have.
It's fine, But I was thinking with Sashira because we
booked with a female, because I was like, there's no
way she's gonna go to a mail And then I'm like,
I could never go to a man, and that's so
wrong of me. I went once and then I saw
(28:37):
him at a barbecue and I was like, this is
over never doing this. An that's a good reason, but
it seems like your whole family knows him, and if
he's in Wichita, I'm sure you could run into him
at the grocery store.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
We you know what, and we never have. But it's funny.
He like keeps up with my life. He'll ask me,
he'll listen to us on the radio, and I'll be
like doing it. He's like, so, how's Nashville?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Because I always do it when I go home because
I don't right now I have a reason to have
one here, and so I've just kind of kept up
with that every time I go home for Christmas, and
and he knows all my history, and it's just you know, sometimes.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
It's easier to keep it that way.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
But yeah, he'll talk to me and I'm like, okay,
I'm like bracing for impact, and he's over here like so, yeah,
I heard you was talking about on the show and
like da dad d I'm.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Like, okay, yeah, that's that's lovely.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
And but he's so great, like genuinely, I mean he's
in his i don't know, late seventies now, likes he's
given birth to all of us.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
So I just don't think I've ever thought a single
thing about it.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
What I don't think he gave birth to you? Hed, Yeah,
saved same safe, same, we know what you mean.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Yeah, yeah, so he delivered all of us.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
But yeah, I've never really thought about that being weird
until this moment.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I shouldn't make it a thing. I guess I just
am like, what guy, Oh cars making noises? Sorry, but
what guy? I don't know. Well, I get maybe he's part,
but then the checking of vagina and getting to like
rub or inspect all day. I should have called him rub,
(30:19):
but like you know, like, yeah, I just never want
to make sure I'm I'm going to a legit doctor
that all he cares about is helping people. He's not
some weird now.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Maybe because he's like always been my mom's and everything.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
That's why I didn't.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
But it's funny that you say it that way, because
I don't choose like in a preferent situation. If I
have a choice, I always choose like a male massage
therapy or a woman massage therapist, and I always say.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
No to getting a male.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
So tell me why I always say, like, no male
in a massage therapist situation.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
But I hope c y N. I have no problem.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Well because that was sort of you know, you and
him like everybody in your family, so that seemed normal
and natural, and I think it is more medical and
you're like in you're out, it's more sterile. I think
a massage is more intimate and rubbing all over you.
I'm the same way, but I will also go to
a guide. Do I say I prefer a girl? And
(31:20):
you know, we had that whole thing on the show
not too long ago. My friend that her boyfriend was
so mad that she went so I can't remember exactly
how it went down, but I remember it was a
big deal, so much so that I brought it to
the show what would y'all do? Because he was not happy.
(31:40):
It was causing a major issue in the relationship because
she didn't think it was that big of a deal.
And then I'm like, I didn't know if it made
him seem insecure or if he's just overprotective or he's
heard of terrible stories, but maybe something has happened. But
I know there's a lot of really great male missuits
or uh, you know, physical therapists, and you know, but
(32:04):
then you think about the the I do. Other people
might not, but my brain immediately goes to the US
Olympic Gymnastics. Oh yeah, guy that was doing all kinds
of shady stuff that those poor girls that that you
can that seem like oh, like, hey, I'm going to
(32:24):
do this. This is part of the adjustment, you know,
and it's not there's ways they get like sneaky with it,
you know, like I went to the carpactor today and
he was having to adjust me in certain places and
like he is a guy, But I mean I was
fully closed. It's not like he was like your pants
(32:47):
offer this. I'd be like, well, that's weird. I'm going
to leave out.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Usually to use your discernment, I think it's not a
blanket statement. Unfortunately, sometimes I I probably present it is
that of like, no, I'm not going to ever see
a male whatever.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
But anyway, it's definitely funny.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
I just like, I had never thought about that until
you start talking about OBGBI and all of that, to
say that you should definitely go and get an OBGYN
appointment just to talk about all of that stuff, because
that's what they're there for.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah, they are, and I'm grateful for it, and I'm
grateful that I have the opportunity to do it. I've
just never booked an appointment in between my yearly, so
that's what feels weird. But I liked how it was
with Stashira being calm and fully clothed and like comfortable
and not having to because I tell you where, Yeah,
I am just so tense when I'm in there for
(33:42):
exam that I don't think I talk about all the things,
and I have more I mean keeping more of a
list and I have I think I have more questions
now than ever, and I don't even know for sure
that she'll really be able to answer them, because I
feel like the more women are talking about it, the
more they're learning. It's not it's not until recently that
(34:03):
you see all of these women sort of talking about
it like you we don't even know how to pronounce
it right, Like this is something we should know. If
this was happening to men, we would already have a problem,
like a solution to the problem, because they would have
started researching eight years ago. But women have just you know,
dealt with it sort of.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
I was gonna say it, because women have been dealing
it with it for decades. They've just never had the
resources or the information or research.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Yes, and so now that a lot of the women
that are in the medical field going through perimenopause and menopause,
and they are researchers, they are you know, they want
to figure out what's going on. This is their line
of work. They're very passionate about it, and they're watching
what's happening to their own bodies and so they're like,
hold up, we need to figure this out. So thankfully
(34:56):
this generation of women, that's what they're doing. And and
I'm very very grateful for it, and for Instagram and TikTok,
because I mean, you got to take what you see
on there with the grain salt. But there are a
lot of medical professionals that are very credited that are
at least bringing light to certain things that help you
feel not crazy and not alone. And you're like, oh,
(35:18):
because also too, when you do have that, oh, this
is likely what it is. It helps you feel better
because you do feel you know, I hate using the
word crazy over and over again, but just sort of
how you feel. You just feel all over the.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Place, very out of body experience.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Yeah, or just like who am I multiple? Multiple personality?
So anyway, sib sib.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I like that saying I like it? Okay, well, and
we tell everybody where they can find your how are
you phrasing it?
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Re branded?
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Yeah, that's the word. Rebrandom podcast and I'll like that
stuff on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
It is at Feeling Things podcast and then I am
at Radio with Me.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
I love that. Okay, well, Amy, thanks for jumping on
to Zoom.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Words zoom with me, and we're gonna jump over and
do some listener Q and A.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Now, so go check out part three while you're here.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Okay, bye, that's the best bits of the week with Morgan.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Thanks for listening. Be sure to check out the other
two parts this weekend.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
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Speaker 1 (36:30):
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for next week's episode.
The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Part one behind a scene with a member of the show.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Welcome to the Best Bits this weekend. Things are a
little different this weekend, Amy joins me.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
But we are doing this all via zoom because Amy
has had herself a time the last forty eight hours.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
We were supposed to record it at the station today.
But do you say station or studio?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I say studio sometimes I say station.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I know I feel like I say more studio in
the last year or so, but I always said station
early on because it felt more like a radio station.
But now we record so many other things that aren't.
Just like there's radio stuff and then there's I guess
and stuff and all the things. Anyway, just side note there.
I had to leave work early to get into the chiropractor,
(00:56):
so yeah, and the knees would have been knees up challenge.
I injured myself, but I think we're on the road
to recovery now. So I'm sorry Morgan that I deraled
our board, but here we are.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
No.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It worked out, and I do hope you were on
the paths to recovery because back issues suck, and you
did get into a chiropractor so you are at least
halfway healing.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, he was like, look you that that challenge or whatever.
Like I was on the verge of needing to come
see him anyways, and the challenge is catapulted. Like it
sent me straight there because I probably would have put
off my hamstring pain forever. I had no idea that
my hamstring pain. Obviously, I knew that could come from
(01:47):
somewhere else in my body, but I had no idea
that a chiropractor could help that part.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
But also, is he also a physical therapist? Does he help?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I don't think so. But the way he explained it
to me with what my back issues tend to be,
is the way it was pulling and the way my
back was so twisted it was causing this overcompensation that
then my hamstring was just really screaming at me all
the time. And for months I've been dealing with hamstring pain.
I don't know if you notice. Sometimes at work, I
(02:24):
have this little ball that I get out of my bag.
It was my face fitness ball.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Okay, that's what I thought it was.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I was like, I'm going to start using this on
my leg and I would massage it into my quad
and I would just put it under my leg and
my chair and massage my hamstring with it. And it
turns out if I had gone to just see him
three months ago. But I kept thinking I could just
stretch it out or it would figure itself out. And
(02:53):
it really wasn't that painful to where it was making
me go actually do something. But anyway, the knee up challenge,
that was something that led to something so excruciating that
I finally went to the doctor and I'm like, oh, gosh, okay,
here we are, so we're better.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So let us joys of getting older.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Uh No, because when I sneezed in my early twenties.
I brought this up on the show this week. I
sneezed and bent over when I you know, at chew,
and I could not get back up, like when I
tell you I could not stand back up. I was
bit over and you could see in the mirror my
spine was twisted like my mom My mom, no joke
(03:36):
had to come pick me up and help me to
her car, and she laid me down in her back
seat and she took me immediately to the chiropractor. And
so I don't think so I don't know what age
my back started to get bad. But obviously in my
early twenties I had issues. And you know, I will
(03:58):
say I was sort of proud of myself for my
back being good the last couple of years, but who
knew that my hamstring was actually my back? It just
said sort of was screaming in a different place. So
it wasn't a red flag of me. I'd never had
that issue happen before. But he was like, no, no,
I think with what's going on with you, if I
get your back and hips in alignment, your hamstring's gonna
(04:19):
feel great. And I was like, oh, so, anyways, all
this to just say, if you've got a little something
that's super irritating for several months but it's not driving
you to just go fix it, just go do it,
because then you're going to end up in a lot
of pain, and you're gonna have to leave work early,
and it's going to derail everybody's schedule.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
And more than anything, you're going to be sitting on
the floor like any you have to sit straight up.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
That's really more what matters.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, I am sort of being straight up on the
floor and then I've got to go over to the
wall in a minute and do my homework, which are
these butt exercises. Apparently my glut muscles have completely turned off.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Okay, so I did learn this because when I broke
my tailbone going rollerblading, I.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Started, like you, I know, stupid.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I started using like my hips more to do a
lot of things. My back was in like my tailbone,
like I was doing a lot of compensating, and so
basically I ended up injuring one of my hip flectures
and then it went down to my knee and it
was all connected. And yes, do your at home exercises,
because sometimes I didn't and it failed to help me heal,
(05:29):
and so it took me like a year when it
should have taken me like six months.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
So people are getting a lot of reminders right now
of not to do so they can just be on
top of it, unlike us. So yeah, or or not
to hear that I need to do the homework. And
of course I'm motivated tonight because I'm still in a
little bit of pain, but he said I need to
keep up with it. So I can imagine in a
couple of weeks, if I'm feeling a little better, I'm
(05:54):
gonna be like, eh, I don't need to do these
stand on the wall kicking my glute out thingies.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Or just you know, maybe don't go rollerblading without any
pads on, or don't do a random fitness death at
your work because you do.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
That's also well, but more man, I don't think they
make a tailbump pad.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
No, but you know, I probably would have like landed
on my knees or my elbows had I had any
version of pads on. I had nothing, So yeah, sure,
you know, just better things. Anyways, you are about to
have like a fun vacation though, which is a fun deal.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Are you excited?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah, I'm really excited. There's another reason why I was
motivated to get help because I've been looking forward to
this vacation so much that I thought, if I feel
this type of pain like that's almost gonna lead me
to tears doing certain simple day to day tasks, then
(06:52):
this trip is going to be miserable.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
And flying on a plane.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, the sitting so much doesn't bother me. It's more
when I stand up and have to like walk, and
I'm like, well, if my kids want to go do
some activities and we're supposed to go you know, snorkel
and all this stuff. I mean, I guess swimming might
be kind of good, but I was just thinking walks
on the beach, sunset, sunrise, like, and I'm just gonna
(07:18):
be like hunched over, like limping along.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Wait for me, guys, just put her in a wheelchair
and just bring her along.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yes, yes, that would be me deplaning, like sitting on
the plane. Fine, when we have to get up after
a four hour flight, I'm going to stand up and
be like, I need assistance.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I think you should just do it for the bit,
just be like, hi, guys, I got I go winter
off the plane.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah. And if anybody asks what happens, I just showed
them the Bobby Bone Show video of me trying to
jump up and do that. I mean, honestly, y'all made
it look so easy.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
So well also, you guys make other things look easy.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
It's just all it's all relative to your experiences, things
that you've done.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
If there's anything I've learned about our show and our
challenges and all the things, it's all relative to like
your experiences that you've had in your life.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
So that's what I talked that out too.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
But yeah, I am very excited for vacation. I don't
even I'm going to take my computer.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Oh I'm so jealous.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I said that with the nexhail, and I'm like, I
don't think, but I imagine what would pop up and
and sort of force myself to do that. And even
my friend that I'm meeting down there, I've been friends
with her, gosh since we were twenty three years old,
so I mean over twenty years. She was in my wedding,
like we go way back, and I told her that.
(08:45):
I said, I don't even think I'm bringing my computer,
and she's just like, oh, are we going to get
present Amy? And I said, yeah, you are. But it
made me realize, like, oh, even my friends of a
long time, I know that. You know, sometimes I can
be like, oh I need to work on this real quick,
(09:07):
or I need to type this up, or oh oh
that could be a good show. Prep let me type
that up real quick, and you know, I guess my phone.
You can still be on socials, but I think I'm
going to be really intentional about that as well. But
to hear her say present Amy, which she was there
with me from the beginning, like when I was auditioning
for the Bobby Bone Show and that entire journey, and
(09:29):
so she's been with me in my entire career, and
I just thought, oh, it felt good to know that
I'm being really intentional about being present. But then also
kind of like, oh, dang, you know, some people in
my life just have this impression of me that I'm
going to find a way to work and not that
(09:50):
I'm a I'm not like a someone that has to
work all the time, but I just still will bring
my stuff, or oh, I should probably watch this because
then I can talk about it, or or you need
to be up to speed on what's going on here,
so anyway that you get what I'm.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Trying to say, no, And I can totally relate because
I don't think I've ever gone on a vacation where
i haven't brought my laptop because there's always something that
I have to do or some fire to put out
or and if I leave it then it's just going
to be a hot mess.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
And I can't do a lot of things on my phone.
So I get it, like.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Your job title, Yeah, I'm sorry, Yes, it's okay, though
I have gotten really good at like okay for an
hour if I have to do this.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I do this, and then you know you're not going
to see me for the rest of the day. So
I've learned to my boundaries. But it's it's a balancing act.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Well.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Also, I'll say this about taking my computer, is I
would like to read more on this trip. And I
think even on the plane sometimes I default to just
watching something on my computer or trying to get ahead
on something, and I'll be like, well, I'm forced to
sit here. But if I don't have computer, then I
will hopefully choose to read. So that's another reason why
(11:06):
it's not necessarily just about work. It's also about trying
to enjoy other things that are out there besides my computer.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
No, it's trust me, it's a good thing and I'm
proud of you for doing it.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Okay, we're gonna take a quick break.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I do have a follow up question about your vacation,
but we're going to take a quick break real quick, and.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Okay, So I'm assuming vacation. The boyfriend is potentially coming.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Maybe, yeah, yeah, he's going.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Is this first vacation. No, you guys went to Charleston
for your birthday?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
We did? Yeah, Okay, to me, which we went like
a month after my birthday and that was so fun.
I could go back there easily. So, yeah, we're going
to do this trip. He's easy to travel with. We've
we've also gone to another place before, and I I
almost now it just feels like normal, like, oh, yeah,
(12:00):
you're coming. It'll be fun.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Oh I love that. It feels normal.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, it feels really normal, except for you know, I
guess he's going to be meeting my friend Jill and
her husband, you know.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
So that'll be that's a big deal because that's a
friend that's been part of your life for a long time.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, they met on the phone the other night, so
they talked on speakerphone and he kind of talked to
her husband and I sort of like maybe they might
go golf or do whatever.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
So oh, it's always fun when like the the two
boys get along, because that doesn't always happen.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Like, yes, boys can get along, they're easy to like,
you know, they can mesh or whatever.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
But when they actually get along and they want to
hang out with each other, that's also fun because then
they're like, Okay, yeah, go do your thing and I
can hang out with my friend.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, and I think that that will happen, especially if
they go golf. I don't know, Jill and I might
go do something, but it should be a pretty good
trip and I'm very much looking forward to it.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
What about you, Oh, I'm this is the first trip
I'm taking you and my boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Okay, So I already know that traveling with mine is easy.
You have no idea because I feel like you travel
with someone, you learn a lot.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Yes, And it's always important to me to travel early
on with whoever I'm going to be with because I
love to travel, and Romy's coming with us too, So
this is also a test of like how he handles
traveling with me.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
And we're going on a road trip, so lots of
driving together. And but I don't I don't foresee anything.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
He's already been such a like just easy going person
that I really don't see anything being an issue. But
you never know, Traveling brings out the crazy parts of
people sometimes, so who knows.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Oh, no, it definitely does. I mean I think that
you're you see exactly how they respond when things go wrong,
because normally when you're traveling, there's something that happens, something
that'll give you a peek into how they handle stress
and how they treat people and how go with the.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Flow they are well.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
And I was already like I've already seen like a
really cool side of him because I've been dealing, you know,
with all of my stuff with my cat Hazel, and
there was a big part of me that was going
to cancel the trip because I just I felt uncomfortable.
I wasn't sure how she was going to keep doing
if I could find people who I felt comfortable to
give her all the medications that she needs to be
(14:29):
on right now to stay stable. And he really has
like shown up in that in a cool way of like, listen,
if we need to cancel, we cancel, Like this is
nothing in the world, Like we're in this together, Like
I love her as much as you do, and if
you want to be here, we're going to be here.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
And like he responded super well to that. So it
wasn't like I had to.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Feel like this huge burden of potentially canceling a trip,
you know what I mean, Like he understood where my
heart really was and like what was going to be important,
what was going to make me feel comfortable?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
And thankfully, so far, I think we have it.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Figured out and who knows, Like we could be like
halfway on the trip and I'm like, we could just
have to turn around and like come back if something
hits the wall. But all of that so far, he's
just been like, yeah, like truly so easy going with
it and supportive of whatever I feel like I need
to do. And that's been a cool thing to see
through him because I don't feel like that type of
(15:24):
person comes around very often.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, especially for a cat.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah, yeah, like especially guys and cats, right, like a.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Dog maybe, but.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yeah, like a guy and a cat. Yeah, No, that's
that's huge. So you were able to find someone that
you feel good about.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Yeah, his sister is actually one of the ones that's
helping us. And then one of my good friends are
kind of tag teaming it because she has to be
given medication like twelve every twelve hours. It's trying to
like she has she has an equal eye infection and
it's in her kidneys, so it's just really hard for
her body to fight without a lot of medication because
that's kind of what happened the first go round, and
(16:05):
it's just been a whole nightmare. I didn't even realize
that animals can.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Get equal eight. That was a new experience for me.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
But it's just one of those things that she has
to be on antibiotics for like six weeks, so it's
not even just now, she has to be on it
for the next month and a half. But I think
so I feel really comfortable about who's watching her, and
I've like walked them through all the steps and have.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
All of her food plan laid out.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
But in true crazy cat parent mom mode in this moment.
But yeah, so that hopefully it'll be chill enough that
I can enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
So yeah, what sounds like You've got two people that
you'll trust and so hopefully you can detach and relax,
because I know this last week with that has been very,
very stressful.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Yes, yeah, I don't wish any version of hospitalization for
human or animal, upon anyone.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
It's just not a enjoyable experience.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
A lot of questions and a lot of waiting, and
a lot of just finances like that, everything, A whole
gamut of stuff pops up when you're dealing with that,
and also just the sadness that comes of spending a
lot of time in a hospitalization. I saw just so
many sad things happening around me as I'm like sitting
here crying over my own animal, you know.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
So yeah, I'm ready for that part to be over.
I don't want to do any more of that, hopefully.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah. So with y'all's road driven stuff, like you're gonna
be you're checking in like everybody's we've got you on
what life through sixty? Or your parents know where you're coming?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Like, oh yeah, so many people have my location?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Okay, good?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Yeah, are you worried I'm gonna get kidnapped or like
taken along the way?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Well, I don't know. I'm just like, Okay, first trip
with the boyfriend who we trust, I'm sure, and all
the things. It's not even really about him, but I'm
just picturing you out. I don't know. Maybe I just
watched too many things. I'm not going to bring up
Inny specific cases or anything, but you know, I just
(18:07):
making sure that everyone knows where you are.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yes, plenty of location things.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
We also have Remy with us, So I do think
Remy in times of crisis will come to my aid.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
If Formy the.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Rescue pup, the teeny tiny little puppy, Okay, in all.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Fairness, would she rescue me now home invasion, No, probably not.
But if like it's funny, like my dad will mess
with me, and if he ever tries to like kind
of wrestle me, Remy will come and try and like attack.
She's not very scary, but she'll be like, no, that's
my mom, leave her alone. So I think she would
at least try, although probably unsuccessfully, she would at least
(18:46):
make an effort.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Do you not feel like Kara would for you? I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I mean car is at least a little bit bigger,
but I don't know. This is a good question. She's
laying with me right now. She definitely he loves me,
like even the kids would be like, oh, Cara choose
his mom over any of us all the time. And
even Ben, we used to do fifty to fifty with
Kara and then it just ultimately wasn't good on her anxiety.
(19:16):
And but Ben was like, I think it's a no brain, nurse.
She should be with you. Obviously, I can be homeward
during the day because of our work hours versus his,
and he travels more. But I think he also is like,
and Cara just freaking loves you, like she does want
to be around me. But I've never been in a
position where she's had to show any kind of get
(19:38):
away from my mom or I'm going to protect you,
so tbd, TBD.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Well, I hope you're never in a position where she
has to show that.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I think we'd, you know, we'd prefer not to have
to see that side of her.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I feel like Maggie could get a little spicy if
she needs to.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Oh, Maggie does not care. She can get.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Spicy with the On an Instagram post, I saw, Yes, she.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Gets spicy with me. She cuddles with me at night,
and then if it's daylight, she wants nothing to do
with me. I think at night she does look after me,
but I don't know what she would do. She would
just grarow and then maybe squat at who whatever. But
she definitely is so near me at night, and it's
so sweet. I don't know what Hazel's like. But then
(20:24):
after she wakes up or night time is over, because
even if she's not sleeping, she's still buy me kind
of looking around right next to me. But then once
it's daytime, she doesn't want to be around me at all.
Like I could be laying in my bed doing the
same thing I do at night, and she's not going
to come late by me only at night.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I would say that's like some version of nocturnal, but
that's kind of like the reverse.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Yeah, I don't know, she just I feel like that's ale.
Like a lot of cats are like that is Hazel,
not oh.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
No, Hazel is a color. This was fun. This in
the midst of all the craziness at the hospital.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Hazel is such a lover that they were trying to
get her temperature, which I don't know if you've ever
had to see how they get a cat's temperature, you
could imagine, you know, go from behind. So they're doing
that and she's literally laying there in their arms purring.
They're like, why is this cap hurrying while this is happening.
Then they tried to get like her heart rate, and
(21:24):
they're like and she just literally wouldn't stop purring. They're like, Hazel,
we don't know how your heart rate is because you
just keep over purring the heartbeat sounds.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
So that's just hers.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
But I think that's also coming from such a bad
situation where who knows what happens in her life for
seven and a half years. That No, she just loves
attention so much, like if you even touch her, she'll
just lean right into you, like, oh you want to
give me attention?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yes please?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yeah, or Maggie has had zero bit of a rough life,
so that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Queen treatment, she's had it. She knows.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
It's like, yeah, i'll talk to you later.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Okay, we're gonna take one more quick break and we'll
be right back. How else is everything else going in
your life?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
We talked about boyfriend, the vacation, the animals. How's yeah,
pre menopause, anything you want to talk about.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
How's the change in podcast going? There's so many things?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah, I mean my perimenopause is still there.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Harry menopause or pre menopause, it's Harry, is there also
pre menopause?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Well that's what Perry. Menopause is.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Okay, they're the same.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Or menopause. Okay, Harry menopause is. It's a whole thing.
It's very unpredictable. It's fun. I think even my boyfriend.
I said something yesterday about how I was just feeling
really down, but I think it was because of my back,
(22:57):
but I also was just feeling down, defeated, like just sad, almost,
but I think it's because I was frustrated and I
couldn't move well, so I ended up laying around and
that just didn't help me. And he made some comment
and he's like, well, that could be any given day
for you, because it is like a roller coaster. I
(23:20):
do go in and out of emotions and sadness or
feeling down, like life can be going so great and
like better than it has been in a really long time.
And then and I'm like, why can't I enjoy this
right now? I don't understand it. I really really really
want to, and all I could can do is just
(23:42):
maybe cry or not tap into those emotions of or
tap into the enjoyment of, like, look at everything that
is great. I literally could not tell you why I
feel down, because normally when you feel down or sad,
you can I can say, oh, well, this happens, so
that makes sense. Yes, two things can be true at once.
(24:03):
I can be happy about this and sad about this.
But it's like, Okay, I'm happy about this and I'm
sad about this, but I don't have a reason, which
really the reason is perimenopause. But it just sucks that
it's just there. It just don't know when it's going
to show up, and you don't. It's not always my
go to. I try to go through a checklist of like, okay,
well what happened here and what happened here? Is this why?
(24:25):
Or is this causing me to behave this way? Which
therapy cat speaking of my podcast and the change that
is going so great, the best decision we ever made.
I'm so happy, she's happy. We're both having a great time,
and she's on a fertility journey and she has some
(24:45):
stuff going on hormonally, and so we have a little
saying like if we because when you're working closely with
a friend, it can get weird because then you're like, shoot,
we want to maintain our friendship above all else. But
we're having to communicate about work stuff now too and
not just friendship stuff. And so we now have a
(25:06):
code if either one of us is a little hormonal
or you know, bitchy and we don't know why, but
so we just say sib SIB and it's sorry ib G.
So it's our acronym that just helps us know. I
(25:28):
think this is what's going on. So don't take my
tone or how I'm saying or my overreaction or maybe
you know, maybe tomorrow we check in on this and
I'll have a totally different vibe, because that's how it
feels like that, if I could sum it up, it's
like you just never know, and I feel like I've
got stomach issues and I'm like, is that periman apostle
(25:50):
which I need to make an appointment with my OBG
I in and go over some things. But I took
to share it to her first appointment, which that might
be team but anyway, she's eighteen now, and I didn't
know they don't. I was like prepping her for a
pap smear and you know all that. I was like,
this is what's going to be, like just take a
(26:12):
deep breath, picture happy things, ice cream, will go get
some after like this whole thing. And we get there
and they're like, oh, yeah, we don't do perap smears
till you're twenty one, I guess, unless, of course, maybe
you have other activities going on which we don't began.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Us and.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I didn't know that. And then they said, and we're
also we don't do a breast exam, like we don't
feel around on her boobs until twenty five and I
thought that seems late, Like, you know, I guess you
can do self exams, but at that young age, Like
I know, a girl I went to college with I
got breast cancer before twenty five, so I just thought
(26:56):
that was interesting to me. But they will meet with you.
So we went and we had a long talk and
she answered a lot of questions and I felt like
I learned some things. And then it just reminded me, oh,
maybe I need to book an appointment with my obj
in and just sit and have a talk, like I
just have questions and I want you to help me.
(27:16):
I don't even need the the pap smear because I
just go in for it. Made me think like maybe
I should just book an appointment to where I get
to have some time with her because I feel like
mine comes in, does my pap smear and she's like, okay, cool,
you're gonna go by, And then I'm like, oh, I mean,
of course, if I had things to talk about, but
when you're when you have to have that part done,
I think I'm just focused on that and hiding my
(27:37):
underwear and.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
The whole process that goes.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
But I don't like it would be much easier if
I just had all my clothes on and I could
just talk instead of laying there and stirrups trying to
think of things I want to ask, So anyway I
might do that.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
You know, it's really funny.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
So you know obd wayans and you should definitely should
do this because right your obgyn is like a regular
doctor just for your lady stuff, so this.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Makes sense you should make that appointment. But it's really funny.
My obgyn is the.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Guy who gave birth to me. He gave birth to
me and all my sisters.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
And I just had this thought of how I've gone
to a man before. Don't get me wrong, I have.
It's fine, But I was thinking with Sashira because we
booked with a female, because I was like, there's no
way she's gonna go to a mail And then I'm like,
I could never go to a man, and that's so
wrong of me. I went once and then I saw
(28:37):
him at a barbecue and I was like, this is
over never doing this. An that's a good reason, but
it seems like your whole family knows him, and if
he's in Wichita, I'm sure you could run into him
at the grocery store.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
We you know what, and we never have. But it's funny.
He like keeps up with my life. He'll ask me,
he'll listen to us on the radio, and I'll be
like doing it. He's like, so, how's Nashville?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Because I always do it when I go home because
I don't right now I have a reason to have
one here, and so I've just kind of kept up
with that every time I go home for Christmas, and
and he knows all my history, and it's just you know, sometimes.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
It's easier to keep it that way.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
But yeah, he'll talk to me and I'm like, okay,
I'm like bracing for impact, and he's over here like so, yeah,
I heard you was talking about on the show and
like da dad d I'm.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Like, okay, yeah, that's that's lovely.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
And but he's so great, like genuinely, I mean he's
in his i don't know, late seventies now, likes he's
given birth to all of us.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
So I just don't think I've ever thought a single
thing about it.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
What I don't think he gave birth to you? Hed, Yeah,
saved same safe, same, we know what you mean.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Yeah, yeah, so he delivered all of us.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
But yeah, I've never really thought about that being weird
until this moment.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I shouldn't make it a thing. I guess I just
am like, what guy, Oh cars making noises? Sorry, but
what guy? I don't know. Well, I get maybe he's part,
but then the checking of vagina and getting to like
rub or inspect all day. I should have called him rub,
(30:19):
but like you know, like, yeah, I just never want
to make sure I'm I'm going to a legit doctor
that all he cares about is helping people. He's not
some weird now.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Maybe because he's like always been my mom's and everything.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
That's why I didn't.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
But it's funny that you say it that way, because
I don't choose like in a preferent situation. If I
have a choice, I always choose like a male massage
therapy or a woman massage therapist, and I always say.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
No to getting a male.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
So tell me why I always say, like, no male
in a massage therapist situation.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
But I hope c y N. I have no problem.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Well because that was sort of you know, you and
him like everybody in your family, so that seemed normal
and natural, and I think it is more medical and
you're like in you're out, it's more sterile. I think
a massage is more intimate and rubbing all over you.
I'm the same way, but I will also go to
a guide. Do I say I prefer a girl? And
(31:20):
you know, we had that whole thing on the show
not too long ago. My friend that her boyfriend was
so mad that she went so I can't remember exactly
how it went down, but I remember it was a
big deal, so much so that I brought it to
the show what would y'all do? Because he was not happy.
(31:40):
It was causing a major issue in the relationship because
she didn't think it was that big of a deal.
And then I'm like, I didn't know if it made
him seem insecure or if he's just overprotective or he's
heard of terrible stories, but maybe something has happened. But
I know there's a lot of really great male missuits
or uh, you know, physical therapists, and you know, but
(32:04):
then you think about the the I do. Other people
might not, but my brain immediately goes to the US
Olympic Gymnastics. Oh yeah, guy that was doing all kinds
of shady stuff that those poor girls that that you
can that seem like oh, like, hey, I'm going to
(32:24):
do this. This is part of the adjustment, you know,
and it's not there's ways they get like sneaky with it,
you know, like I went to the carpactor today and
he was having to adjust me in certain places and
like he is a guy, But I mean I was
fully closed. It's not like he was like your pants
(32:47):
offer this. I'd be like, well, that's weird. I'm going
to leave out.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Usually to use your discernment, I think it's not a
blanket statement. Unfortunately, sometimes I I probably present it is
that of like, no, I'm not going to ever see
a male whatever.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
But anyway, it's definitely funny.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
I just like, I had never thought about that until
you start talking about OBGBI and all of that, to
say that you should definitely go and get an OBGYN
appointment just to talk about all of that stuff, because
that's what they're there for.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah, they are, and I'm grateful for it, and I'm
grateful that I have the opportunity to do it. I've
just never booked an appointment in between my yearly, so
that's what feels weird. But I liked how it was
with Stashira being calm and fully clothed and like comfortable
and not having to because I tell you where, Yeah,
I am just so tense when I'm in there for
(33:42):
exam that I don't think I talk about all the things,
and I have more I mean keeping more of a
list and I have I think I have more questions
now than ever, and I don't even know for sure
that she'll really be able to answer them, because I
feel like the more women are talking about it, the
more they're learning. It's not it's not until recently that
(34:03):
you see all of these women sort of talking about
it like you we don't even know how to pronounce
it right, Like this is something we should know. If
this was happening to men, we would already have a problem,
like a solution to the problem, because they would have
started researching eight years ago. But women have just you know,
dealt with it sort of.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
I was gonna say it, because women have been dealing
it with it for decades. They've just never had the
resources or the information or research.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Yes, and so now that a lot of the women
that are in the medical field going through perimenopause and menopause,
and they are researchers, they are you know, they want
to figure out what's going on. This is their line
of work. They're very passionate about it, and they're watching
what's happening to their own bodies and so they're like,
hold up, we need to figure this out. So thankfully
(34:56):
this generation of women, that's what they're doing. And and
I'm very very grateful for it, and for Instagram and TikTok,
because I mean, you got to take what you see
on there with the grain salt. But there are a
lot of medical professionals that are very credited that are
at least bringing light to certain things that help you
feel not crazy and not alone. And you're like, oh,
(35:18):
because also too, when you do have that, oh, this
is likely what it is. It helps you feel better
because you do feel you know, I hate using the
word crazy over and over again, but just sort of
how you feel. You just feel all over the.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Place, very out of body experience.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Yeah, or just like who am I multiple? Multiple personality?
So anyway, sib sib.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I like that saying I like it? Okay, well, and
we tell everybody where they can find your how are
you phrasing it?
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Re branded?
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Yeah, that's the word. Rebrandom podcast and I'll like that
stuff on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
It is at Feeling Things podcast and then I am
at Radio with Me.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
I love that. Okay, well, Amy, thanks for jumping on
to Zoom.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Words zoom with me, and we're gonna jump over and
do some listener Q and A.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Now, so go check out part three while you're here.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Okay, bye, that's the best bits of the week with Morgan.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Thanks for listening. Be sure to check out the other
two parts this weekend.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
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