September 24, 2025 • 38 mins
From full body tans to full body scans, Lala shares the recent health scare that has her looking at life through a whole new lens. Hear how her ‘views’ have changed since she took a trip to the optometrist.
Plus, Lala explains why her past has her in a panic, and why she fears for her family.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, gorgeous. It's La La Kent. Welcome to untraditionally Lala. Hey, babes,
it's La La Kent, Welcome to untraditionally Lala. Oh my gosh.
Last week, what a vibe. So I had Amber Childers
as my first guest on my Reinvented podcast, and I
was so nervous because I was coming in and I'm like, Okay,
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even though the podcast is being reinvented, like I'm still
still lalla. But there was something that happened that day
where I don't want to say that I was in
my head because it was actually quite the opposite. It
was like, for the first time doing that episode with Amber,
I was not having an out of body experience, like
I felt very much in tune with myself the conversation,
(00:44):
and that is when I knew, like, Wow, this reinvented
podcast really is ringing true to who I am. And
that was the best feeling in the world. And now
you guys have been able to hear the episode and
you've seen the new photo and the new name, and
I'm really into the fact that you guys are into it,
because that is always like nerve wracking. You're like Okay,
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we're making a change, but like, is am I gonna
like cracker barrel my ass off with this whole? Like
is my stock gonna plummet? Am I gonna have to
go back anyway? We don't even have to worry about
it because it didn't end up that way. So thank
you guys for listening, thank you for sticking with me,
thank you for remembering me on our downtime. I want
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to start with this is my first solo episode I've
ever done, and I'm tripping balls, Like I think the
only time I've done something solo solo is when I
do Amazon Live. But Easton's there so I can kind of,
like you know, talk some shit, and I feel like
I'm not talking ad people, So just roll with me.
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This is new. It's just all new experiences. I had
a really amazing and nerve racking experience last week. And
before I jump into that, because I'm really excited to
tell you guys about it, but today my daughter Ocean
is going to an eye doctor appointment. And what I've
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noticed is she's got when she looks up, and it's
only when she looks up her eyes kind of go.
And I don't want this to come across as mean.
I love my daughter. She's stunning, but she starts looking
like a lizard. And so I'm kind of freaking out
because we went to one doctor and they were like, there's,
you know, nothing we can really do. You can do
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surgery if it bothers you, but unless you know she's
got vision issues, then like, we wouldn't tell you to
go and do surgery. And I'm like, you know, I really,
at four and a half years old, don't want to
have surgery for my daughter. She's young. But at the
same time, if it's something that can't be fixed unless
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we do surgery, do I rock it until she says, like, Mom,
I want to do the surgery. They said, doing it
younger is the way to go. Like, I don't know,
you guys, I know I'm probably being a nutjob, but
this is what I've been dealing with all morning. We'll
see what this second doctor says about her eyes. I
don't know what the actual medical term for the condition is.
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I call it a lazy eye, which is like Layman's terms.
My mom has one. It's genetic less than like thirty
percent of people, which I guess seems like a lot.
Maybe that's wrong. It's a very low percentage of people
who were born with a lazy eye actually have someone
a part of their family who inherits it. That's just
what I've been told. I don't know no doctor, I'm
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no scientific science person. I'm just I'm just listening to
what I listened to and spewing it onto you. All right,
let's talk about my experience, because the past I want
to say, Well, since Ocean was born, it's you know,
four and a half years, my life has taken a
bit of a turn, and I have to think about
things that I normally wouldn't have to think about. And
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I started realizing how the stakes were much higher when
my business manager called me and said, you know, you
have Ocean. We really need to get you life insurance.
And I was like, what the fuck is this? You know,
I've seen twenty twenty where people kill people for life insurance, Like,
why do I need it? No one's trying to kill me.
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It's much much broader than that. So we're going through
just all of these questions and the process of getting
life insurance for myself in case something happens to me.
And then Sos is born and we have to go
back and do the whole bit again of like doing
the blood tests, answering the questions. It's like a very
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long process to get life insurance and then my eye
situation appears. Right. So, for those of you who don't know,
this was probably I think it was in May. I
noticed the slightest discolor on my eye and the color
was like very like a faint butter yellow. Butter yellow's
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very in these days, right, But I'm not trying to
have it on my fucking eye. I don't need my
eye wearing butter yellow. Okay, body cool ie, not happening.
And I googled it and it said, you know, this
is basically the equivalent to a callus on your hand.
Your eye with just like the natural elements will start
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forming what is called the pininguecula and it's like a
very slight yellowish discoloration. There's nothing you can do about it.
And I'm like, all right, sexy, fine whatever. This was
probably a few months before I went to the optometrist
in May. They tell me, uh, you know, not to
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worry about it at my initial appointment. But I'm starting
to notice that this faint yellow spot is now having
like these bright veins going right to it, and I'm like,
that looks not right. I'm like, this looks like these
veins may be feeding this pinguacula. I hate that fucking name.
By the way, It's so every time I say it,
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I'm like, ugh, it gives me like the ick, kind
of like moist. It's like pinguacula. Oh, vomit. So I'm
luminifying my ass off. That's working. But then it starts
to get raised and it almost looks like a blister
and it's bright red, but the actual pinguecula is like white.
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I go back into the optometrist. They're like, hey, we
need to just give you a steroid. It's inflamed. I'm like, excellent.
So I at this point in time am set to
go to film a show overseas. I'm not gonna say
what the show is. You guys know it. I'm super excited,
but I'm like, holy fuck, I can't be on camera
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with this shit on my eye. So I'm calling every
doctor i possibly can to like get myself into surgery
to remove it so I can go and film this show.
In the meantime, I have Lindsey Hubbs hitting me up
being like I had the surgery. My eyes still read.
I'm getting a lot of people in the DMS, and
I apologize if you've heard this story already, but it
leads to why I went and did what I did
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a couple days ago. So I text my friend who's
like a grandfather to me, Robert Shapiro. I've known him
for many years. He has hooked me up with a
lot of people in the past. If it's you know
something that is urgent and I need it immediately, I
call Bob. I said, I have this thing on my eye.
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I gotta get it taken care of. He sends me
to a specialist that he highly recommends. This guy is
super hard to get into. He gets me in the
next day, he takes one look at it, you guys,
and says, that's not a penguecula. That is pre cancer,
and I would like you to go to another specialist
who's also very difficult to get into, just to make sure.
Maybe she does a biopsy. The next day they get
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me in, she takes one look at it. She was like,
you know, he wants me to buyopsy it, but I
don't need to biopsy it because I know what it is.
It's pre cancer, and we're going to be starting you
on five f you drops, which are chemotherapy drops in
the eye. And I told her, well, girl, I got
to be out of here in a few weeks. And
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she laughed at me and she was like, you're not
going anywhere. You will be in this office every two
weeks for the next three months, and after that we're
going to reevaluate, and if all goes as planned, the
five f you will help, and then I'm going to
see you every four months for the rest of your life.
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And I was like, excellent, Wow, this is really fucking weird.
I asked her, like, what causes this, and she was like, honestly,
it's bad luck. There are many people who are in
the sun all the time. There are many people who
are exposed to the natural elements of life and they
don't get pre cancer in their eyes. So cut to
where we are now, the pre cancer is gone. The
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five FU drops worked beautifully. My body responded amazing. I
had little to no side effects at all. But now
I start tweaking out because I'm hearing about all of
these people who, you know, they had a headache or
they had something on their arm and then it turned
out to be something catastrophic. So for me, I was thinking,
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where did this thing in my eye, this pre cancer
come from? Where did it start? Like I I'm all
about falling back when something makes sense the whole, you know,
just bad luck. There's no reason it doesn't work for me,
even though that could very well be the case. Right again,
I'm no doctor, so I reached out to Preneuvo. For
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those of you who don't know what Preneuvo is, they
do MRI scans. They do it for your head. They
also do full body and because this thing in my eye,
I've been experiencing weird, tingling sensations that go from the
center of my head up to the top. I don't
get headaches often, but I do suffer from migraines on occasion,
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which is why I also love botox. I love it
because it de wrinkles my forehead and makes my forehead
look like glass, but it also minimizes my migraines. So
I was like, I got to get in just for
peace of mind. And let's remember, I want to say
that I live a pretty healthy lifestyle now, like it's
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well balanced. I exercise, I feel like I eat well
on occasional smack McDonald's, like who doesn't. But also I
have to remember what I did in my past. I
was a heavy drinker back in the day. I was
a vapor back in the day, And I just want
to make sure that all of those things, although I
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don't do them now, have they followed me in too
thirty five And there's just so many things that we
talk about and hear about it. It's like the microplastics,
and then you hear about someone who lived such a
healthy lifestyle and like dropped dead from a heart attack.
I want to know what the fuck is going on
in my body period. I'm going to read this on here.
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A preneuvo scan is whole body MRI scan that detects
over five hundred potential medical conditions, including cancers, cys aneurysms,
often before symptoms even appear. So this is what I
was told when I went in and they were walking
me through it. They said, the reason why cancer is
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such a terrifying word is because there's no symptoms, and
by the time you catch it, you're in stage three
or four. So what if there was a machine that
you could do once a year that could catch it
before you hit those stages where the survival rate is
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ninety percent plus. I like those odds. I'm not a gambler,
But if you're telling me that you can put me
in a machine once a year and look at every
single thing in my body and then send me off
to the races, knowing that my children will not have
to use the life insurance that I've gotten for them, like,
I want to do that. So I go in the
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first question, though, you guys are like, so are you claustrophobic?
I'm like, well, I mean, I don't know what are
you putting me in here? I've never done this before,
Like I don't think I am, but like, no one's
putting me in small tubes on the rag, So I'm like,
not really sure before we even start or if you
guys ever choose to do this, which I highly recommend
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if you are claustrophobic, I most definitely take like a
beta blocker and on the form with prenuvo that they
send you that you fill out, like one of the
first questions is are you claustrophobic? If you are, they'll
prescribe something to you at your pharmacy and all will
be good. Let me tell you something. This place, this
is what I'm gonna rave about the most. They put
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Netflix on for me. I literally walk in there like
are you claustrophobic? I said, we're gonna find out together,
and they said would you like Netflix? And I was like,
Seinfeld is on Netflix, so that's gonna be a fuck
yeah for me. And the way that they lay you
in there, I'm like, oh, this is totally fun and
like I'm vibing. Oh no, oh no, bitches, just see
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you wait because I'm like, this is how it is.
They're gonna shoot me through the two I'm gonna have
a heyday. Oh my god. They're like patting my legs.
They've got something over my legs and I'm like, okay,
that's kind of nice. It moves to my size that
they pad and I'm like, right, it's like a way
to blink it. We're fine. Then my stomach and I
was like all right now, now I'm starting to feel
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like I'm panicking. Then they put something over your face,
your head from here down to maybe like mid tit
maybe chest, I don't know, depending if you have fake
boobs or not. And there's the smallest little hole at
the top of you, guys, and I was like, okay,
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law you know what, You're a fucking bad bitch. This
is where you're gonna sit and you're going to you
preach all the time about like if your mind is
powerful enough to talk you into something, it's most certainly
powerful enough to talk you out of something. So I'm
actively talking myself out of claustrophobia. It was the most
difficult thing I've ever fucking done, because like, too late, man,
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they can't prescribe me something like at my pharmacy. We're here.
Then they put this like mirror on top of it,
so through the hole there's a big screen TV in
the back of you, and the mirror shows you Seinfeld
or whatever you want to watch. I highly recommend Seinfeld
because they put me into the thing and in the headphones,
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you guys put me into the MRI machine. In the headphones,
I'm like balls deep Overary's Deep and Seinfeld and just
living my best life. They're telling me what to do,
like breathe in, breathe out. If it's a woman like it,
like an AI character, breathe in, breathe out, hold your breath.
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And there were a few times that I was so
so dout watching Seinfeld. I didn't fucking do it. I
was chilling. I'm sure they were looking at my brain activity,
being like this woman might be brainde because there's not
much happening, not much brain activity. He would come through
the guy like running the machine. He'd come through on
the speaker and be like, Hey, so we're just gonna
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do that again. If you could just listen to the woman,
she's gonna tell you exactly what to do. When you
just have to follow exactly what she tells you to
do him like, you would think that's simple, right, You
would think that's a simple thing to do. So I
will say the overall of like if you're claustrophobic, totally easy.
If you get claustrophobic, take a beta blocker. They have
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twenty two locations prenew Vo does, and they have said
that their goal is to have some They want it
in every major city so that no matter where you
are in the United States, there's one that you can
drive to. And I loved this because when I was
talking to I guess the tech she was so kind,
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but she was like, if you think about it, when
you go into a doctor, you're allotted. Let's just say
an average, give or take of seven minutes. They have
seven minutes per patient, and you, in that moment, are
a statistic to them. No, doctors do great work. I
don't want to dismiss what doctors do for us, like
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I'm all about science and all of the thing. But
she put it so perfectly. You at thirty five years old, La, La,
You go into a doctor and you say, I'm having
something going on in my head. I'm concerned. Tell me
what you're feeling. I'm feeling this. I'm concerned that I
may have something going on in my head, tumor whatever
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word you want to place in there. They're immediately going
to say, from her chart, she's thirty five years old,
she doesn't drink, doesn't smoke. They're going to say, statistically,
this is a healthy human. The likelihood of her having
a brain tumor is very low. They're not going to
give you an MRI. It's basically like a prescription. A
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doctor prescribes you a pill. A doctor prescribes you an MRI,
and those MRIs that you have done run upwards. And
this blew my mind when she told me this run
upwards of twenty thousand dollars and they take three to
four hours to do a full body MRI. Preneuvo has
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the location I went to. They have five machines. The
overall appointment in total was seventy minutes. I was in
the machine for forty five So for context, I watched
two episodes of Seinfeld and then the beginning stand up
part of like Jerry Seinfeld. That's that's how long the
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appointment while I was in the machine. And these full
body scans at Preneuvo are twenty five hundred dollars. Now,
I know that everyone is going to hear that. I
know that that is. That's a lot of money that
is not lost on me. If we're going to compare
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twenty five hundred dollars, No one needs to say to you, yes,
this is what you need. I'm going to give you
a phone number. You're gonna call them, tell them that
this is your doctor. I'll send over your paperwork. You
literally pick up the phone, you call them, and you say,
I want a full body MRI. No questions asked, You're there, right,
you can get the sky on twenty five hundred dollars.
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I know it's a lot of money, but that compared
to twenty thousand plus to see what's going on in
your body. There's nothing more important than your health. My
mom has always said, without your health, you have nothing.
You would have all the money in the world, you
could be doing all of the funniest, most fantastic things
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on the planet. If you're not healthy, there's a really,
really big problem. Right, you can't live a happy life.
So I don't know when it switched for me. I
used to be in the mindset of keeping my blinders
on and not knowing something. I'm better off because then
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I'll stress about it. But there's so many things that
you could be feeling in your legs, your arms, your back,
whatever it may be. And the tech was talking to
me saying, you know, you could be feeling something in
your head and it has nothing to do with your head,
because your body, it's all connected, it's all firing to
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each other. And what this scan is going to do
is get to the root of the problem. And you know,
me thinking about my health. You know, I think most
people that listen to this podcast, you know, we have
loved ones, we're parents. We think about what life would
be like if we weren't here. Anymore, at least I
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do since I had children and I have a very
as you guys know, untraditional households. I have a four
year old Ocean with somebody. She has a dad. It's
very not normal, but I had her the old fashioned way,
and then Sosa, who was conceived via donor. If something
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were to happen to me, you guys, I'm not going
to get a mo I'm going to keep my head
on straight and breathe. Something were to happen to me,
And I thought about this while I was doing my
life insurance as well. Ocean has a dad, so we
know where where she would go. And there is a
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very high possibility because I don't trust the other side
and the other side probably doesn't trust me, and that's fine.
It is what it is. There's a high possibility that
my brother, my mom, and Sosa, Ocean's sister would never
see Ocean again till you know, she was old enough
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to reach out. That would be a possibility, and that's
something that has always weighed heavy on me, and I've
put in in paperwork. You know, if something happens to me,
there needs to be a significant amount of money that
goes to my family. Not just to take care of them,
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but if they need to fight for ocean, they have
the means to do so. Sosa. I know this sounds horrible.
If I weren't here anymore, this is so morbid. I'm
sorry that I'm even going here, but I think it's
important to talk about because we all need to be
on our game and have a plan B. I live
by a plan B, Sosa, I worry less about because
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if something were to happen to me, I know that
she is in the best of hands. She's got my mom,
she's got my brother. But the real reasoning for me
going into preneuvo was to know that God forbid, I
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have something going on which I don't have the results
back yet I will be able to get a hold
of it before it's too late, and if everything goes
to shit for real, I just want to know what's
going going on so that my girls are going to
have each other. I know that sounds so dark, but
that's where my mind goes when I think about things
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like this. So that's where my mind goes. And I'm
sorry that I got maybe a little too deep and
dark and a little morbid, but that's just the way
my perspective and life and outlook have shifted since since
having kids, and I know I'm not the only one
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who who looks at life this way. I really really
do take I like to think great care of myself.
You know, my kids are my number one priority and
I live and breathe for them. They're the They're the
besides my sobriety, because without my sobriety, I wouldn't be
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able to do any of the things I do. But
they're the proudest thing that I have ever done in
my life. And without me taking care of myself, everything
is just kind of gonna fall apart. And I do
when people ask me when they say, how do you balance?
How do you prioritize? And that's not always easy, and
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I understand that. You know, it's hard when we're waking
up and taking care of kids, making lunches, doing drop off.
You know you could fit time before all of that
to go work out, But like, who wants to fucking
do that? Or this sounds like so much fun, you guys,
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after the longest day of taking care of everybody else,
then you go work out. I'm not trying to fucking
do that either, Like it's a lot. The balancing act
you are seen, I am with you. There's got to
be a version of us being able to be present
for our families and also taking care of ourselves. So
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I'm going to be totally honest. When the clock hits
a certain point at night and my daughter, Ocean, who
still sleeps with me, you guys, and you know, last
night she was moving all over the bed and I
was like, that's it. Tomorrow night, she's going in her
own bed. We're gonna start sleeping in our own bed.
And I had a moment of pause, going if I
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put her in her own bed, that's another phase of
life that has just closed that will never come back.
And then of course I cry because that's just who
I am. And I'm like, okay, we're not putting her
in her own bed because I'm gonna miss the moving around.
I'm not ready for that phase to close. We'll just
wake up and look tired and puffy every day, like
I don't give a fuck, right, we'll look hot at
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some point. Again, today's not the day. Tomorrow won't be either.
We've got makeup. Fuck it. So Ocean sleeps with me,
but there are times where she'll get out of bed
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like I'm very I don't want to I say strict,
but I'm I like my routine. I am a virgo.
If the wind blows in a direction that I was
not planning, I panic, so I start. I remember saying
to my mom the other day, because she was like,
we're gonna bake cookies. I go, it's five thirty and
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my mom goes, ooh. I was like, I'm such a
fucking square. But I said that because I'm like, you're
you're telling her you're gonna bake cookies. She still has
a plate of food. You're gonna spend the next hour
try and get her to eat that, and now you've
promised this is putting us at the seven o'clock hour.
I'm panicking because that's going to infringe on mom time.
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I like to get my kids. Sosa's in bed by
six six thirty, okay, And I've taught her. She's a
year old. I've taught Sosa. I'm sure, Well, I'm gonna
say this and then she's gonna regress and it's gonna
be a fucking nightmare. But it's okay. We roll with
the punk. She will sit in her crib and talk
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to herself for like twenty minutes before she goes to bed.
I'm cool with it. She needs her alone time, right,
that's Sosa's time. Ocean is obsessed with watching sharks murder things.
That's how she likes to go to bed. We get
in bed at seven, enjoy watch the shark fuck up
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this person. I don't know, like if that's what puts
you to bed, This is Ocean time. And guess what
Once those two things are done, it is mommy time.
If Ocean gets out of that fucking bed and comes
in and asks me for anything, I tell her, Mom's
off the clock. My day's done. I'm no longer mom anymore.
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I love you so much. I adore you. Get in
the bed, but I'm hungry. Kitchen's closed. Kitchens closed, Mom
is closed. Everything that you need right now is closed,
except for that fucking bed and the shark attacks you're watching.
Those are open. Go for it, have a hayday. I'm
trying to teach her to also take time for herself.
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You know it's been a long day. She's in preschool.
You know that finger painting is no fucking joke. Take
time for yourself. Mom time is so important. I will
sit in the bath and literally stare into the oblivion
thinking about probably for me, thinking about a lot. I
need to work on meditation, clearing the mind, thinking about
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everything I've ever done wrong in my life, saying the
Serenity prayer twenty seven times to get me out of
the funk. But I really do feel like we, as moms, especially,
we suffer from that mom guilt where we feel like
we have to be on for everybody. Twenty four to seven.
My kid's upset and doesn't want to go to bed,
Get the fuck to bed. It is mom time, And
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I think if you start there, it always starts at home.
Home is your safe space. You're supposed to feel comfortable.
You're supposed to feel like you can take a load off.
The pressures of life are so high. You gotta worry
about the husband and feeding and doing whatever it is
that he fucking needs. We are put on the back burner. Stress,
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you guys, is the number one killer of all of us.
I believe stress is what took my dad at the
age of sixty four. I believe that stress not. I
believe it's fact. It causes ulcers, It puts a tremendous
amount of stress on your heart, and I am a stressor.
So when people look at me and they're like, wow,
I's a square, she goes about it at like seven.
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I have to my health is very very important to me.
I want to be present. I want to be on
my fucking game. I want to try to look my best.
Doesn't always happen, but who cares? And you have to
sit and prioritize yourself in moments that you feel like
it's just it's just too much. I used to watch
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regular TV where you would have ads, and I remember
this woman, I think, like a Milano's cookie ad, and
she was sitting in the bathroom and she had the
door locked and there's kids banging on the door, and
I was like, this is like such a freaking weird ad,
Like who would ever eat Milanal cookies next to a toilet? Me? Now, me,
that's what I do. I eat Milano's next to the
(30:18):
fucking toilet just to get one little bit of just
WU saw time. And I hope with this scan, this
prenuva scan, when it comes back that we're in the clear. Right.
I think my biggest thing that I'm concerned about, which
is wild because I was talking to you guys for
(30:38):
those of you who watched The Valley Zach Wickham his
boyfriend is an optometrist, and I was talking to him
about the ice situation and I was like, I'm just worried,
Like where did it come from? Is something going on
in my head? He was like, I really don't think
one has anything to do with the other. So after
this prenuvo scan, I would say, my two biggest things
(30:59):
that I'm concerned about. One is my head. I don't
know why I would be having tingling sensations cooling sensations.
I want to know what's going on there. The next
would be I'm extremely concerned about the level of stress
and pressure that I put on myself and how it
has manifested itself inside of my body. That's the second
(31:22):
thing that I'm I'm really very much concerned about. And
the third I would say is the sea word because
cancer runs in my family, and the women in my
family have been older when they've gotten that diagnosis. But
my grandmother on my dad's side passed away from cancer,
(31:45):
and my grandmother on my mom's side passed away from cancer.
So those things scare me and keep in mind you guys,
I go and get my ultrasounds on my boobs. And
anybody who tells you we do mammograms after the age
of forty, I want you to fight for yourselves and
advocate for your health. Get in there. If you don't
(32:07):
do a mammogram, then what do you do For a
woman of my age, I want to say, they're gonna
give you an ultrasound. And I remember, at the age
of fourteen, my grandmother was diagnosed with caner or no.
My aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer, and I was
terrified that I had breast cancer. You guys, I was
fourteen and I went in to get an ultrasound on
my boops. There was It wasn't a lump that I
(32:30):
was feeling. It was breast tissue because I was getting
my tig old bitties. Lucky for me, right, but I
was concerned. Advocate for your health. You don't have anyone
else to do it. I am going to have a
discount code that Prenuvo was nice enough to give to
my listeners and to my followers. I will post that
(32:51):
you can go onto their website and you can see
all of the locations that they have. I also didn't
realize that these machines, you guys, cost one point three
million dollars. They are insanely high tech, their state of
the art, their brand new. A lot of hospitals that
you go to, y'all that I just realized, they bring
(33:13):
in the machinery, the MRI machines, and they actually build
the hospital around those machines because you can't get them
through the fucking door. So these machines that other hospitals
are using, they could be twenty years old because you
just can't bring in new machines, you know, whenever you
want PRENEUVEO, I highly recommend. I'm very nervous. I should
(33:35):
have my results back in just a couple of days.
I'll keep you guys updated on what is said. But
I think my main thing with this podcast beyond just
prioritizing yourselves and making yourself someone who has a voice.
It's so easy to lose our voice in this world.
(33:55):
We find it so much easier to just shut up,
you know. We find it so much easier with all
of the information that's so accessible at all times, to
kind of shut down. I feel like we're all running
on autopilot, and I get it. It's a lot, but
I'm hoping with this podcast that we can take a
moment to say, you know what, I'm going to advocate
(34:17):
for myself when someone tells me no, and I think
something is wrong. You know you better than anybody else,
better than any doctor. You know when something is not right.
And if you go to a doctor and they're giving
you an answer that just does not sit right in
the tummy, Please make that known because I want everyone
(34:43):
to catch things before it's it's too late. We've seen,
you know, Teddy Mellencamp who has been advocating and she
single handedly changed the dermatologist game. I said that on
an episode. I want to say a few months back,
I went to the dermatologist because I've also been obsessing
over that where I'm like, there's a shreckle popped up,
(35:04):
what the fuck is this? And he's like, you're fine.
I just saw you last week, just saw you last week.
And I told him, I was like, you know, Teddy
is a friend of mine, and I'm just like, you know,
she's out here and she's being a voice. And he said,
let me tell you something about Teddy Mellencamp. She has
single handedly changed the dermatology game and beyond, and I
(35:26):
just found that. I sent her a text and I
was like, you don't have to respond to this, but
I find it important for you to know that while
you're in the fight for your own life, how many
lives that you're saving. I'm so sorry. So I found
(35:49):
it very important to talk about my experience with prenuvo.
I know that we hear the twenty five hundred dollars
and we lose our That is a lot fucking money.
And I know we all work so hard for our money.
I highly highly encourage you guys to make it a
priority prioritize yourselves. I know that we all get caught
(36:13):
up in life and it becomes very intense and sometimes
not not knowing we think is better than knowing. And
I really want to break that. You know, my mom
lives in this world of like everything's fine, mind over matter,
and I'm trying to break that cycle with my mom
(36:34):
as well. I don't know if that's a generational thing,
but I'm like, no, like we she hadn't had a mammogram,
I want to say, in ten years. And when I
heard that, my jaw dropped to the floor. I was like,
what what are you doing? So if you're not doing
it for yourselves, do it for the people who love you. Wow,
(36:56):
I did not expect that. I'm really sorry because we
like you around. So I'm gonna post the discount code,
use it, take advantage of it. Prenuvo is so excited
to be getting the word out. I am very hopeful
that they're going to have locations in every major city
(37:17):
so it's accessible to everybody. And I find that to
be a very, very beautiful thing. I'm very excited about
what they're doing. And isn't that crazy. Other things used
to excite me write like a new handbag, maybe like
some Cubic Zirconia's from Bloomingdale's. Now I'm like, oh my gosh,
pre Nuvo mri machines are going to be in every
(37:40):
major city. Oh I am a square and I'm only
thirty five, and I feel like I act like I'm ninety,
but mentally I feel twenty one. Anyway, you guys, I
hope that you enjoyed this episode. I love you. Prioritize yourselves,
go love on yourselves. If you ain't doing it for you,
do it for the people you love. I'm going to
catch you for a bonus on Monday and then again
(38:02):
next Wednesday. Love you guys. Bye,
Hello, gorgeous. It's La La Kent. Welcome to untraditionally Lala. Hey, babes,
it's La La Kent, Welcome to untraditionally Lala. Oh my gosh.
Last week, what a vibe. So I had Amber Childers
as my first guest on my Reinvented podcast, and I
was so nervous because I was coming in and I'm like, Okay,
(00:21):
even though the podcast is being reinvented, like I'm still
still lalla. But there was something that happened that day
where I don't want to say that I was in
my head because it was actually quite the opposite. It
was like, for the first time doing that episode with Amber,
I was not having an out of body experience, like
I felt very much in tune with myself the conversation,
(00:44):
and that is when I knew, like, Wow, this reinvented
podcast really is ringing true to who I am. And
that was the best feeling in the world. And now
you guys have been able to hear the episode and
you've seen the new photo and the new name, and
I'm really into the fact that you guys are into it,
because that is always like nerve wracking. You're like Okay,
(01:06):
we're making a change, but like, is am I gonna
like cracker barrel my ass off with this whole? Like
is my stock gonna plummet? Am I gonna have to
go back anyway? We don't even have to worry about
it because it didn't end up that way. So thank
you guys for listening, thank you for sticking with me,
thank you for remembering me on our downtime. I want
(01:27):
to start with this is my first solo episode I've
ever done, and I'm tripping balls, Like I think the
only time I've done something solo solo is when I
do Amazon Live. But Easton's there so I can kind of,
like you know, talk some shit, and I feel like
I'm not talking ad people, So just roll with me.
(01:49):
This is new. It's just all new experiences. I had
a really amazing and nerve racking experience last week. And
before I jump into that, because I'm really excited to
tell you guys about it, but today my daughter Ocean
is going to an eye doctor appointment. And what I've
(02:12):
noticed is she's got when she looks up, and it's
only when she looks up her eyes kind of go.
And I don't want this to come across as mean.
I love my daughter. She's stunning, but she starts looking
like a lizard. And so I'm kind of freaking out
because we went to one doctor and they were like, there's,
you know, nothing we can really do. You can do
(02:35):
surgery if it bothers you, but unless you know she's
got vision issues, then like, we wouldn't tell you to
go and do surgery. And I'm like, you know, I really,
at four and a half years old, don't want to
have surgery for my daughter. She's young. But at the
same time, if it's something that can't be fixed unless
(02:56):
we do surgery, do I rock it until she says, like, Mom,
I want to do the surgery. They said, doing it
younger is the way to go. Like, I don't know,
you guys, I know I'm probably being a nutjob, but
this is what I've been dealing with all morning. We'll
see what this second doctor says about her eyes. I
don't know what the actual medical term for the condition is.
(03:16):
I call it a lazy eye, which is like Layman's terms.
My mom has one. It's genetic less than like thirty
percent of people, which I guess seems like a lot.
Maybe that's wrong. It's a very low percentage of people
who were born with a lazy eye actually have someone
a part of their family who inherits it. That's just
what I've been told. I don't know no doctor, I'm
(03:40):
no scientific science person. I'm just I'm just listening to
what I listened to and spewing it onto you. All right,
let's talk about my experience, because the past I want
to say, Well, since Ocean was born, it's you know,
four and a half years, my life has taken a
bit of a turn, and I have to think about
things that I normally wouldn't have to think about. And
(04:01):
I started realizing how the stakes were much higher when
my business manager called me and said, you know, you
have Ocean. We really need to get you life insurance.
And I was like, what the fuck is this? You know,
I've seen twenty twenty where people kill people for life insurance, Like,
why do I need it? No one's trying to kill me.
(04:22):
It's much much broader than that. So we're going through
just all of these questions and the process of getting
life insurance for myself in case something happens to me.
And then Sos is born and we have to go
back and do the whole bit again of like doing
the blood tests, answering the questions. It's like a very
(04:44):
long process to get life insurance and then my eye
situation appears. Right. So, for those of you who don't know,
this was probably I think it was in May. I
noticed the slightest discolor on my eye and the color
was like very like a faint butter yellow. Butter yellow's
(05:08):
very in these days, right, But I'm not trying to
have it on my fucking eye. I don't need my
eye wearing butter yellow. Okay, body cool ie, not happening.
And I googled it and it said, you know, this
is basically the equivalent to a callus on your hand.
Your eye with just like the natural elements will start
(05:30):
forming what is called the pininguecula and it's like a
very slight yellowish discoloration. There's nothing you can do about it.
And I'm like, all right, sexy, fine whatever. This was
probably a few months before I went to the optometrist
in May. They tell me, uh, you know, not to
(05:51):
worry about it at my initial appointment. But I'm starting
to notice that this faint yellow spot is now having
like these bright veins going right to it, and I'm like,
that looks not right. I'm like, this looks like these
veins may be feeding this pinguacula. I hate that fucking name.
By the way, It's so every time I say it,
(06:12):
I'm like, ugh, it gives me like the ick, kind
of like moist. It's like pinguacula. Oh, vomit. So I'm
luminifying my ass off. That's working. But then it starts
to get raised and it almost looks like a blister
and it's bright red, but the actual pinguecula is like white.
(06:34):
I go back into the optometrist. They're like, hey, we
need to just give you a steroid. It's inflamed. I'm like, excellent.
So I at this point in time am set to
go to film a show overseas. I'm not gonna say
what the show is. You guys know it. I'm super excited,
but I'm like, holy fuck, I can't be on camera
(06:55):
with this shit on my eye. So I'm calling every
doctor i possibly can to like get myself into surgery
to remove it so I can go and film this show.
In the meantime, I have Lindsey Hubbs hitting me up
being like I had the surgery. My eyes still read.
I'm getting a lot of people in the DMS, and
I apologize if you've heard this story already, but it
leads to why I went and did what I did
(07:17):
a couple days ago. So I text my friend who's
like a grandfather to me, Robert Shapiro. I've known him
for many years. He has hooked me up with a
lot of people in the past. If it's you know
something that is urgent and I need it immediately, I
call Bob. I said, I have this thing on my eye.
(07:37):
I gotta get it taken care of. He sends me
to a specialist that he highly recommends. This guy is
super hard to get into. He gets me in the
next day, he takes one look at it, you guys,
and says, that's not a penguecula. That is pre cancer,
and I would like you to go to another specialist
who's also very difficult to get into, just to make sure.
Maybe she does a biopsy. The next day they get
(08:00):
me in, she takes one look at it. She was like,
you know, he wants me to buyopsy it, but I
don't need to biopsy it because I know what it is.
It's pre cancer, and we're going to be starting you
on five f you drops, which are chemotherapy drops in
the eye. And I told her, well, girl, I got
to be out of here in a few weeks. And
(08:22):
she laughed at me and she was like, you're not
going anywhere. You will be in this office every two
weeks for the next three months, and after that we're
going to reevaluate, and if all goes as planned, the
five f you will help, and then I'm going to
see you every four months for the rest of your life.
(08:43):
And I was like, excellent, Wow, this is really fucking weird.
I asked her, like, what causes this, and she was like, honestly,
it's bad luck. There are many people who are in
the sun all the time. There are many people who
are exposed to the natural elements of life and they
don't get pre cancer in their eyes. So cut to
where we are now, the pre cancer is gone. The
(09:04):
five FU drops worked beautifully. My body responded amazing. I
had little to no side effects at all. But now
I start tweaking out because I'm hearing about all of
these people who, you know, they had a headache or
they had something on their arm and then it turned
out to be something catastrophic. So for me, I was thinking,
(09:26):
where did this thing in my eye, this pre cancer
come from? Where did it start? Like I I'm all
about falling back when something makes sense the whole, you know,
just bad luck. There's no reason it doesn't work for me,
even though that could very well be the case. Right again,
I'm no doctor, so I reached out to Preneuvo. For
(09:49):
those of you who don't know what Preneuvo is, they
do MRI scans. They do it for your head. They
also do full body and because this thing in my eye,
I've been experiencing weird, tingling sensations that go from the
center of my head up to the top. I don't
get headaches often, but I do suffer from migraines on occasion,
(10:15):
which is why I also love botox. I love it
because it de wrinkles my forehead and makes my forehead
look like glass, but it also minimizes my migraines. So
I was like, I got to get in just for
peace of mind. And let's remember, I want to say
that I live a pretty healthy lifestyle now, like it's
(10:35):
well balanced. I exercise, I feel like I eat well
on occasional smack McDonald's, like who doesn't. But also I
have to remember what I did in my past. I
was a heavy drinker back in the day. I was
a vapor back in the day, And I just want
to make sure that all of those things, although I
(10:56):
don't do them now, have they followed me in too
thirty five And there's just so many things that we
talk about and hear about it. It's like the microplastics,
and then you hear about someone who lived such a
healthy lifestyle and like dropped dead from a heart attack.
I want to know what the fuck is going on
in my body period. I'm going to read this on here.
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A preneuvo scan is whole body MRI scan that detects
over five hundred potential medical conditions, including cancers, cys aneurysms,
often before symptoms even appear. So this is what I
was told when I went in and they were walking
me through it. They said, the reason why cancer is
(11:40):
such a terrifying word is because there's no symptoms, and
by the time you catch it, you're in stage three
or four. So what if there was a machine that
you could do once a year that could catch it
before you hit those stages where the survival rate is
(12:02):
ninety percent plus. I like those odds. I'm not a gambler,
But if you're telling me that you can put me
in a machine once a year and look at every
single thing in my body and then send me off
to the races, knowing that my children will not have
to use the life insurance that I've gotten for them, like,
I want to do that. So I go in the
(12:35):
first question, though, you guys are like, so are you claustrophobic?
I'm like, well, I mean, I don't know what are
you putting me in here? I've never done this before,
Like I don't think I am, but like, no one's
putting me in small tubes on the rag, So I'm like,
not really sure before we even start or if you
guys ever choose to do this, which I highly recommend
(12:58):
if you are claustrophobic, I most definitely take like a
beta blocker and on the form with prenuvo that they
send you that you fill out, like one of the
first questions is are you claustrophobic? If you are, they'll
prescribe something to you at your pharmacy and all will
be good. Let me tell you something. This place, this
is what I'm gonna rave about the most. They put
(13:19):
Netflix on for me. I literally walk in there like
are you claustrophobic? I said, we're gonna find out together,
and they said would you like Netflix? And I was like,
Seinfeld is on Netflix, so that's gonna be a fuck
yeah for me. And the way that they lay you
in there, I'm like, oh, this is totally fun and
like I'm vibing. Oh no, oh no, bitches, just see
(13:41):
you wait because I'm like, this is how it is.
They're gonna shoot me through the two I'm gonna have
a heyday. Oh my god. They're like patting my legs.
They've got something over my legs and I'm like, okay,
that's kind of nice. It moves to my size that
they pad and I'm like, right, it's like a way
to blink it. We're fine. Then my stomach and I
was like all right now, now I'm starting to feel
(14:02):
like I'm panicking. Then they put something over your face,
your head from here down to maybe like mid tit
maybe chest, I don't know, depending if you have fake
boobs or not. And there's the smallest little hole at
the top of you, guys, and I was like, okay,
(14:22):
law you know what, You're a fucking bad bitch. This
is where you're gonna sit and you're going to you
preach all the time about like if your mind is
powerful enough to talk you into something, it's most certainly
powerful enough to talk you out of something. So I'm
actively talking myself out of claustrophobia. It was the most
difficult thing I've ever fucking done, because like, too late, man,
(14:44):
they can't prescribe me something like at my pharmacy. We're here.
Then they put this like mirror on top of it,
so through the hole there's a big screen TV in
the back of you, and the mirror shows you Seinfeld
or whatever you want to watch. I highly recommend Seinfeld
because they put me into the thing and in the headphones,
(15:05):
you guys put me into the MRI machine. In the headphones,
I'm like balls deep Overary's Deep and Seinfeld and just
living my best life. They're telling me what to do,
like breathe in, breathe out. If it's a woman like it,
like an AI character, breathe in, breathe out, hold your breath.
(15:25):
And there were a few times that I was so
so dout watching Seinfeld. I didn't fucking do it. I
was chilling. I'm sure they were looking at my brain activity,
being like this woman might be brainde because there's not
much happening, not much brain activity. He would come through
the guy like running the machine. He'd come through on
the speaker and be like, Hey, so we're just gonna
(15:46):
do that again. If you could just listen to the woman,
she's gonna tell you exactly what to do. When you
just have to follow exactly what she tells you to
do him like, you would think that's simple, right, You
would think that's a simple thing to do. So I
will say the overall of like if you're claustrophobic, totally easy.
If you get claustrophobic, take a beta blocker. They have
(16:08):
twenty two locations prenew Vo does, and they have said
that their goal is to have some They want it
in every major city so that no matter where you
are in the United States, there's one that you can
drive to. And I loved this because when I was
talking to I guess the tech she was so kind,
(16:35):
but she was like, if you think about it, when
you go into a doctor, you're allotted. Let's just say
an average, give or take of seven minutes. They have
seven minutes per patient, and you, in that moment, are
a statistic to them. No, doctors do great work. I
don't want to dismiss what doctors do for us, like
(16:57):
I'm all about science and all of the thing. But
she put it so perfectly. You at thirty five years old, La, La,
You go into a doctor and you say, I'm having
something going on in my head. I'm concerned. Tell me
what you're feeling. I'm feeling this. I'm concerned that I
may have something going on in my head, tumor whatever
(17:20):
word you want to place in there. They're immediately going
to say, from her chart, she's thirty five years old,
she doesn't drink, doesn't smoke. They're going to say, statistically,
this is a healthy human. The likelihood of her having
a brain tumor is very low. They're not going to
give you an MRI. It's basically like a prescription. A
(17:42):
doctor prescribes you a pill. A doctor prescribes you an MRI,
and those MRIs that you have done run upwards. And
this blew my mind when she told me this run
upwards of twenty thousand dollars and they take three to
four hours to do a full body MRI. Preneuvo has
(18:06):
the location I went to. They have five machines. The
overall appointment in total was seventy minutes. I was in
the machine for forty five So for context, I watched
two episodes of Seinfeld and then the beginning stand up
part of like Jerry Seinfeld. That's that's how long the
(18:26):
appointment while I was in the machine. And these full
body scans at Preneuvo are twenty five hundred dollars. Now,
I know that everyone is going to hear that. I
know that that is. That's a lot of money that
is not lost on me. If we're going to compare
(18:46):
twenty five hundred dollars, No one needs to say to you, yes,
this is what you need. I'm going to give you
a phone number. You're gonna call them, tell them that
this is your doctor. I'll send over your paperwork. You
literally pick up the phone, you call them, and you say,
I want a full body MRI. No questions asked, You're there, right,
you can get the sky on twenty five hundred dollars.
(19:09):
I know it's a lot of money, but that compared
to twenty thousand plus to see what's going on in
your body. There's nothing more important than your health. My
mom has always said, without your health, you have nothing.
You would have all the money in the world, you
could be doing all of the funniest, most fantastic things
(19:30):
on the planet. If you're not healthy, there's a really,
really big problem. Right, you can't live a happy life.
So I don't know when it switched for me. I
used to be in the mindset of keeping my blinders
on and not knowing something. I'm better off because then
(19:50):
I'll stress about it. But there's so many things that
you could be feeling in your legs, your arms, your back,
whatever it may be. And the tech was talking to
me saying, you know, you could be feeling something in
your head and it has nothing to do with your head,
because your body, it's all connected, it's all firing to
(20:11):
each other. And what this scan is going to do
is get to the root of the problem. And you know,
me thinking about my health. You know, I think most
people that listen to this podcast, you know, we have
loved ones, we're parents. We think about what life would
be like if we weren't here. Anymore, at least I
(20:34):
do since I had children and I have a very
as you guys know, untraditional households. I have a four
year old Ocean with somebody. She has a dad. It's
very not normal, but I had her the old fashioned way,
and then Sosa, who was conceived via donor. If something
(20:56):
were to happen to me, you guys, I'm not going
to get a mo I'm going to keep my head
on straight and breathe. Something were to happen to me,
And I thought about this while I was doing my
life insurance as well. Ocean has a dad, so we
know where where she would go. And there is a
(21:19):
very high possibility because I don't trust the other side
and the other side probably doesn't trust me, and that's fine.
It is what it is. There's a high possibility that
my brother, my mom, and Sosa, Ocean's sister would never
see Ocean again till you know, she was old enough
(21:42):
to reach out. That would be a possibility, and that's
something that has always weighed heavy on me, and I've
put in in paperwork. You know, if something happens to me,
there needs to be a significant amount of money that
goes to my family. Not just to take care of them,
(22:03):
but if they need to fight for ocean, they have
the means to do so. Sosa. I know this sounds horrible.
If I weren't here anymore, this is so morbid. I'm
sorry that I'm even going here, but I think it's
important to talk about because we all need to be
on our game and have a plan B. I live
by a plan B, Sosa, I worry less about because
(22:26):
if something were to happen to me, I know that
she is in the best of hands. She's got my mom,
she's got my brother. But the real reasoning for me
going into preneuvo was to know that God forbid, I
(22:46):
have something going on which I don't have the results
back yet I will be able to get a hold
of it before it's too late, and if everything goes
to shit for real, I just want to know what's
going going on so that my girls are going to
have each other. I know that sounds so dark, but
that's where my mind goes when I think about things
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like this. So that's where my mind goes. And I'm
sorry that I got maybe a little too deep and
dark and a little morbid, but that's just the way
my perspective and life and outlook have shifted since since
having kids, and I know I'm not the only one
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who who looks at life this way. I really really
do take I like to think great care of myself.
You know, my kids are my number one priority and
I live and breathe for them. They're the They're the
besides my sobriety, because without my sobriety, I wouldn't be
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able to do any of the things I do. But
they're the proudest thing that I have ever done in
my life. And without me taking care of myself, everything
is just kind of gonna fall apart. And I do
when people ask me when they say, how do you balance?
How do you prioritize? And that's not always easy, and
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I understand that. You know, it's hard when we're waking
up and taking care of kids, making lunches, doing drop off.
You know you could fit time before all of that
to go work out, But like, who wants to fucking
do that? Or this sounds like so much fun, you guys,
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after the longest day of taking care of everybody else,
then you go work out. I'm not trying to fucking
do that either, Like it's a lot. The balancing act
you are seen, I am with you. There's got to
be a version of us being able to be present
for our families and also taking care of ourselves. So
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I'm going to be totally honest. When the clock hits
a certain point at night and my daughter, Ocean, who
still sleeps with me, you guys, and you know, last
night she was moving all over the bed and I
was like, that's it. Tomorrow night, she's going in her
own bed. We're gonna start sleeping in our own bed.
And I had a moment of pause, going if I
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put her in her own bed, that's another phase of
life that has just closed that will never come back.
And then of course I cry because that's just who
I am. And I'm like, okay, we're not putting her
in her own bed because I'm gonna miss the moving around.
I'm not ready for that phase to close. We'll just
wake up and look tired and puffy every day, like
I don't give a fuck, right, we'll look hot at
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some point. Again, today's not the day. Tomorrow won't be either.
We've got makeup. Fuck it. So Ocean sleeps with me,
but there are times where she'll get out of bed
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like I'm very I don't want to I say strict,
but I'm I like my routine. I am a virgo.
If the wind blows in a direction that I was
not planning, I panic, so I start. I remember saying
to my mom the other day, because she was like,
we're gonna bake cookies. I go, it's five thirty and
(26:19):
my mom goes, ooh. I was like, I'm such a
fucking square. But I said that because I'm like, you're
you're telling her you're gonna bake cookies. She still has
a plate of food. You're gonna spend the next hour
try and get her to eat that, and now you've
promised this is putting us at the seven o'clock hour.
I'm panicking because that's going to infringe on mom time.
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I like to get my kids. Sosa's in bed by
six six thirty, okay, And I've taught her. She's a
year old. I've taught Sosa. I'm sure, Well, I'm gonna
say this and then she's gonna regress and it's gonna
be a fucking nightmare. But it's okay. We roll with
the punk. She will sit in her crib and talk
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to herself for like twenty minutes before she goes to bed.
I'm cool with it. She needs her alone time, right,
that's Sosa's time. Ocean is obsessed with watching sharks murder things.
That's how she likes to go to bed. We get
in bed at seven, enjoy watch the shark fuck up
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this person. I don't know, like if that's what puts
you to bed, This is Ocean time. And guess what
Once those two things are done, it is mommy time.
If Ocean gets out of that fucking bed and comes
in and asks me for anything, I tell her, Mom's
off the clock. My day's done. I'm no longer mom anymore.
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I love you so much. I adore you. Get in
the bed, but I'm hungry. Kitchen's closed. Kitchens closed, Mom
is closed. Everything that you need right now is closed,
except for that fucking bed and the shark attacks you're watching.
Those are open. Go for it, have a hayday. I'm
trying to teach her to also take time for herself.
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You know it's been a long day. She's in preschool.
You know that finger painting is no fucking joke. Take
time for yourself. Mom time is so important. I will
sit in the bath and literally stare into the oblivion
thinking about probably for me, thinking about a lot. I
need to work on meditation, clearing the mind, thinking about
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everything I've ever done wrong in my life, saying the
Serenity prayer twenty seven times to get me out of
the funk. But I really do feel like we, as moms, especially,
we suffer from that mom guilt where we feel like
we have to be on for everybody. Twenty four to seven.
My kid's upset and doesn't want to go to bed,
Get the fuck to bed. It is mom time, And
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I think if you start there, it always starts at home.
Home is your safe space. You're supposed to feel comfortable.
You're supposed to feel like you can take a load off.
The pressures of life are so high. You gotta worry
about the husband and feeding and doing whatever it is
that he fucking needs. We are put on the back burner. Stress,
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you guys, is the number one killer of all of us.
I believe stress is what took my dad at the
age of sixty four. I believe that stress not. I
believe it's fact. It causes ulcers, It puts a tremendous
amount of stress on your heart, and I am a stressor.
So when people look at me and they're like, wow,
I's a square, she goes about it at like seven.
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I have to my health is very very important to me.
I want to be present. I want to be on
my fucking game. I want to try to look my best.
Doesn't always happen, but who cares? And you have to
sit and prioritize yourself in moments that you feel like
it's just it's just too much. I used to watch
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regular TV where you would have ads, and I remember
this woman, I think, like a Milano's cookie ad, and
she was sitting in the bathroom and she had the
door locked and there's kids banging on the door, and
I was like, this is like such a freaking weird ad,
Like who would ever eat Milanal cookies next to a toilet? Me? Now, me,
that's what I do. I eat Milano's next to the
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fucking toilet just to get one little bit of just
WU saw time. And I hope with this scan, this
prenuva scan, when it comes back that we're in the clear. Right.
I think my biggest thing that I'm concerned about, which
is wild because I was talking to you guys for
(30:38):
those of you who watched The Valley Zach Wickham his
boyfriend is an optometrist, and I was talking to him
about the ice situation and I was like, I'm just worried,
Like where did it come from? Is something going on
in my head? He was like, I really don't think
one has anything to do with the other. So after
this prenuvo scan, I would say, my two biggest things
(30:59):
that I'm concerned about. One is my head. I don't
know why I would be having tingling sensations cooling sensations.
I want to know what's going on there. The next
would be I'm extremely concerned about the level of stress
and pressure that I put on myself and how it
has manifested itself inside of my body. That's the second
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thing that I'm I'm really very much concerned about. And
the third I would say is the sea word because
cancer runs in my family, and the women in my
family have been older when they've gotten that diagnosis. But
my grandmother on my dad's side passed away from cancer,
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and my grandmother on my mom's side passed away from cancer.
So those things scare me and keep in mind you guys,
I go and get my ultrasounds on my boobs. And
anybody who tells you we do mammograms after the age
of forty, I want you to fight for yourselves and
advocate for your health. Get in there. If you don't
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do a mammogram, then what do you do For a
woman of my age, I want to say, they're gonna
give you an ultrasound. And I remember, at the age
of fourteen, my grandmother was diagnosed with caner or no.
My aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer, and I was
terrified that I had breast cancer. You guys, I was
fourteen and I went in to get an ultrasound on
my boops. There was It wasn't a lump that I
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was feeling. It was breast tissue because I was getting
my tig old bitties. Lucky for me, right, but I
was concerned. Advocate for your health. You don't have anyone
else to do it. I am going to have a
discount code that Prenuvo was nice enough to give to
my listeners and to my followers. I will post that
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you can go onto their website and you can see
all of the locations that they have. I also didn't
realize that these machines, you guys, cost one point three
million dollars. They are insanely high tech, their state of
the art, their brand new. A lot of hospitals that
you go to, y'all that I just realized, they bring
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in the machinery, the MRI machines, and they actually build
the hospital around those machines because you can't get them
through the fucking door. So these machines that other hospitals
are using, they could be twenty years old because you
just can't bring in new machines, you know, whenever you
want PRENEUVEO, I highly recommend. I'm very nervous. I should
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have my results back in just a couple of days.
I'll keep you guys updated on what is said. But
I think my main thing with this podcast beyond just
prioritizing yourselves and making yourself someone who has a voice.
It's so easy to lose our voice in this world.
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We find it so much easier to just shut up,
you know. We find it so much easier with all
of the information that's so accessible at all times, to
kind of shut down. I feel like we're all running
on autopilot, and I get it. It's a lot, but
I'm hoping with this podcast that we can take a
moment to say, you know what, I'm going to advocate
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for myself when someone tells me no, and I think
something is wrong. You know you better than anybody else,
better than any doctor. You know when something is not right.
And if you go to a doctor and they're giving
you an answer that just does not sit right in
the tummy, Please make that known because I want everyone
(34:43):
to catch things before it's it's too late. We've seen,
you know, Teddy Mellencamp who has been advocating and she
single handedly changed the dermatologist game. I said that on
an episode. I want to say a few months back,
I went to the dermatologist because I've also been obsessing
over that where I'm like, there's a shreckle popped up,
(35:04):
what the fuck is this? And he's like, you're fine.
I just saw you last week, just saw you last week.
And I told him, I was like, you know, Teddy
is a friend of mine, and I'm just like, you know,
she's out here and she's being a voice. And he said,
let me tell you something about Teddy Mellencamp. She has
single handedly changed the dermatology game and beyond, and I
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just found that. I sent her a text and I
was like, you don't have to respond to this, but
I find it important for you to know that while
you're in the fight for your own life, how many
lives that you're saving. I'm so sorry. So I found
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it very important to talk about my experience with prenuvo.
I know that we hear the twenty five hundred dollars
and we lose our That is a lot fucking money.
And I know we all work so hard for our money.
I highly highly encourage you guys to make it a
priority prioritize yourselves. I know that we all get caught
(36:13):
up in life and it becomes very intense and sometimes
not not knowing we think is better than knowing. And
I really want to break that. You know, my mom
lives in this world of like everything's fine, mind over matter,
and I'm trying to break that cycle with my mom
(36:34):
as well. I don't know if that's a generational thing,
but I'm like, no, like we she hadn't had a mammogram,
I want to say, in ten years. And when I
heard that, my jaw dropped to the floor. I was like,
what what are you doing? So if you're not doing
it for yourselves, do it for the people who love you. Wow,
(36:56):
I did not expect that. I'm really sorry because we
like you around. So I'm gonna post the discount code,
use it, take advantage of it. Prenuvo is so excited
to be getting the word out. I am very hopeful
that they're going to have locations in every major city
(37:17):
so it's accessible to everybody. And I find that to
be a very, very beautiful thing. I'm very excited about
what they're doing. And isn't that crazy. Other things used
to excite me write like a new handbag, maybe like
some Cubic Zirconia's from Bloomingdale's. Now I'm like, oh my gosh,
pre Nuvo mri machines are going to be in every
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major city. Oh I am a square and I'm only
thirty five, and I feel like I act like I'm ninety,
but mentally I feel twenty one. Anyway, you guys, I
hope that you enjoyed this episode. I love you. Prioritize yourselves,
go love on yourselves. If you ain't doing it for you,
do it for the people you love. I'm going to
catch you for a bonus on Monday and then again
(38:02):
next Wednesday. Love you guys. Bye,
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