May 1, 2020 • 50 mins
Showcasing DCC alumni, Dr. Nicol Corbin Bush and Lauren Parker Leonard, R.N, who are making differences in the lives of others thru medicine.
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The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Just for Kicks,
broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star
in Frisco. Now your hosts Judy Trammel, Hayley Anderson, and
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Kelly finn Blass. Well, Hello everybody, and welcome to Jess
for Kicks. This is all girl talk, but we think
guys just might want to listen. I'm Kelly finn Glass
and I am joined today by Hailey Anderson and Judy travel. Hi, Haileys,
Good to see y'all, Good to see you. Well, wait today,
I am very excited about today's show. We are prepared.
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We have two of the most impressive guests come. We have.
Today's show is called Difference Makers. It's going to We're
going to visit with former Jealous Cowboys cheerleaders who are
making the difference in lives of others through medicine. We're
gonna have Lauren Parker Leonard, who recently retired, and we're
gonna have doctor Nicole Corbyn Bush who cheered with us
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in the nineties. So I'm really excited about that that's
coming up. But first it's kind of in tradition now
for us just to catch up since we're not together.
So I wanted to find out what you guys have
been doing this week. Judy, I know you had a
huge day yesterday with your birthday, and had we tried
to pull off some surprises. Tell us a little bit
about your birthday. There were a lot of surprises, and
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I was excited because I'm not gonna lie into the day.
Woke up kind of tearful and it's like it's just hopeless,
but it just kept turning around and turning around to
be a great day. My grandkids came over and then
they y'all surprised me with a cute video. The cheerleaders
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sang Happy Birthday and our staff and that was really fun.
And if you get to see the video, it's kind
of hysterical because everyone's singing is they're really bad. There's
a lot of bad singers. Wait wait a second to you.
But then when Rachel, when Rachel got on, her little
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whispered voice was the same as in the studio, and
it was so funny because their personalities really did come
through on the I was I was excited to see that.
And then we had we Judy, we do before you
tell us more. We have that audio, I think where
everybody gets to hear the vocal talents of the Dallas
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Cowboys cheerleaders as they wish Judy happy birthday, Happy birthday
to ye, Happy birthday to Happy birthday to Judy, Happy
birth birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday
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to you. Happy birthday, Dear Judy, Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday,
do Judy, Happy birthday to you. I hope you have
a wonderful day. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you.
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Happy birthday dear Judy, Happy birthday to Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Dear DCC Judy, Happy
birthday to you. Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you.
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Happy happy birthday, Dear Judy, Happy birthday to do you.
We love you. Fireworks, fireworks, fir works. You don't look
at day at thirty. Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday
to you. Happy birthday, Judy, Carol, Happy birthday too, Happy
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birthday to you, Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to
my best friend. Happy birthday too. You love you, Jude.
I hope you have a great day. We miss you
so much and can't wait to celebrate when we're all
back together. So, Judy, you had that was that was
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the best, the best gift everybody could do. Everybody gets
so excited doing that. I even pulled out the old tambourine. Judy.
I recorded my three separate times one up time first
with no makeup, and then I thought, no, I better
put makeup on. So the second time tree and then
I'd like tambourine. So the third time in the tambourine.
But the girls, I was very proud of them. They
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all pulled together because shehera was able to edit that together.
And you're proud. So then the girl surprised you with
a parade. Um they did. It was really fun. I
you know, I was surprised because I wasn't dressed. I
was in a tight eye sweatshirt and I know, I know,
but that's you know, not like me. And so when
they all started driving by, it was really fun. They
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even had our neighborhood police in on it. He came
up with the Samarrais and scaredy right out of me. Really,
what the golf cart was I don't think there was
a golf cart. I think it was a I don't
know what you're what a what golf cart you're talking about?
But sure viewing, Oh, I know what it was. It
was one of our chilers tagged you on a photo
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and it was on a golf cart, probably from a
calendar shooting Bemony. What it was was, it was fun.
It was a day full of surprises. And when you
think you're gonna have a bad day and everybody keeps
one upping it and making your day special, it meant
a lot. Haley, what did you do this week? I
know where there were some exciting things going on in
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your neck of the woods. Yes, so we just completed
our first family draft, which was awesome and fun and
a great experience just to be able to spend it
with my grandparents and being in that same room and
helping them pick their players. So it was exciting. We
weren't sure who we were going to get, and the
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fact that we had one of our best drafts. It
was definitely one to remember. Was the room. Yeah, everybody's
great thrilled with the draft picks. You know, we always
have such critics and this was right. It was. It
was fun to watch, and I also loved the live
show with Jamie Foxx and DeMarcus Ware That was super
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cool too. Was the was the room? Obviously we don't
get to see anything beyond what was broadcast, but is
the room tense? Is it celebratory? What are some of
those moments that happened in between picks? So, I mean,
I think a lot of it was exciting. When we
got our first pick, A lot of people didn't think
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we would be picking up Ceedee Lamb for the fact
that we didn't think you would fall to seventeenth place,
so a lot of it was exciting. Shy being my
brother definitely took a huge had a huge pool in
that he just between the discussions on who they were
going to pick, and he stepped his foot forward and
told him, hey, we need this guy. Why we have
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them because I think we can pick up our next
player following round. So that was exciting to see him
come forward. We all had a roll in it between
behind the scenes, taking pictures, answering phones, making sure they're
calling the right people. So it definitely was all hands
on deck during like right before we were about to pick,
and then right when he finished and picked. It was excitements.
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Everyone's cheering because it's kind of like after that first
first day or kind of just relaxing and just waiting
to see what else does in between each pig. It
was very exciting to watch, and it really, I mean,
it's it's just what we it's just what the doctor ordered,
pardon the pun, to get us all ready for the season,
even though there's still some uncertainty on when and where.
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It was awesome to be re energized, and honestly too,
I think just for people to get to enjoy the
sport again. We've just had nothing but but such intense
news stories. You know, ever think light at the end
of the right it's the light at the end of
the tunnel. It's like you finally have your draft and
now we're just waiting to play and hopefully it's just
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ride around the corner. Well, I had a less impressive week, probably,
but I did learn some new things. I have taken
up faux gardening. I use gardening very lightly, but I
m planted flowers and I painted, y'all, I painted pieces
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of furniture and that's a first ever in my lifetime. Yes,
it is hammered metal. I had the choices of amber,
bronze or black, and I had like eight cans of
test paint, and I had to wait. First of power washed,
I sent you go to a video I have a
power washed. I power washed my entire back yard and
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then I painted, and then I reached a new level
of aging. Perhaps I bought. I bought battle yard art.
I bought a blue heron. Did you see the picture?
I called Samantha, my daughter, and I said, Samantha, I
am just one step away from I'm one piece away
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from a peak flamingo in the front yard. And you know,
you know your mother has gone quarantine crazy because I
bought yard art. But I was actually kind of proud.
She um, it's a girl I've decided, and she's called
wing Wings Up, and she's out back and she's kind
of if you want it to be, it's it's a
lifting up of spirit. I put her in my backyard, Judy,
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you know where I have my Jesus chairs and I
go out my devotional so she's out there. But then
the highlight was then I had my Amazon solar powered spotlights,
and I thought, you know, this isn't good enough. Let
me put spotlights on her for nighttime, and one wasn't enough,
so now she has two spotlights. So I have a
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metal blue heron bird. I called her blue Angel, and
she has two spotlights on her and it's called wings up,
and she's she's back there to lift up spirits. So
there you Well, you'll always remember this time and this
quarantine and you'll look at that bird with her spotlights
and memories. The lights are so overpowering that she offenses
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right behind her, so in the dark you see this
huge just shadow. She looks like a three historic bird.
So maybe she'll run off some of our nighttime rodents.
But anyway, well, when we come back, I'm so excited.
We're going to get to catch up with Lauren Parker,
who cheered with us for two years and she's now
gone back to Florida. She's married, she's got a lot
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of new things going on in our life. And then
we will visit with doctor Nicole Corbyn Bush, a former
Dallas Cowboys cheerleader who cheered in the nineties with us.
So very excited to see them, and we'll visit with
them and more when we come back for just for Kicks,
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Stetson dot com. Back back to Just for Kicks, we're
joined by Lauren Parker Leonard. You guys hopefully remember Laurence.
She chaired with us for two years, and her career
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with us started interesting because she was in Arlington and
she was in a nurse. I remember Verry specifically, Lauren,
you're talking about seeing at and T Stadium out of
your window when you were at the hospital, and that
helped kind of solidify the deal that you wanted to
try out. So tell us a little bit about your
journey with trying out for the Cowboys, and then we
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want to talk to you about about your first career totally.
So I was living in South Florida and I had
to her two seasons in the NFL, and I just
I was at the point where I said, I just
want to go for the best. If I've done this
for two seasons, I really want to see if I
can make it. And I kind of gave up my
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whole life here. I took a travel position there for
thirteen weeks right if he ended the thirteen weeks. That
following week was auditions. So I moved and I just
dove into every prep class that I could, try to
meet as many people as I could to get familiar,
you know, kind of with audition process and DCC as
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a whole, and the Dallas Cowboys and and everything. So
I moved and dove right into it. My travel position
was at the hospital right next door to the stadium,
So it was really cool and really served. It's kind
of like a very visual motivation. Every time I went
to work, I was overlooking and um overlooking the stadium
and our breakroom kind of we're in the in the hallway,
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UM has just this really really cool perfect view. So
days night to anything, the stadium was just lit up,
and it was just a really cool kind of visual
motivation for me during the During that time and since
since chairing. You're now married, congratulation and you guys have
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relocated now you're back in Fort Lauderdale. Yeah, and then
Court Lauderdale. Um, I moved uh this past fall and
we got married in January, and this is it's a
very um different first you know, newly wed time here
than we anticipated. But it's been amazing and we're loving it.
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So it's a whole new life, but it's awesome. Well,
now that you mentioned that, I guess this is not
your typical honeymoon phase of a marriage. I saw I
saw a picture have you guys sitting out in a
parking lot. It looked like you were tailgating and distancing
as well. What was that all about? So we actually
were quarantined separately for about three weeks. Wow. Yeah, so
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as nearly as that was pretty tough. You know, we
long to be together and lived together and be in
the same place. So, um, several weeks ago, my mom
had a cardiac event. Um. She she passed out when
she was riding, um like a stationary bike, a peloton bike,
and she fell off and my dad found her unconscious.
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He began CPR, totally saved her life. He's like the
hero and got her to the hospital and she had
several ninety nine percent blockages in her heart. So um,
they sedge her schedule her for open heart surgery. So
it's been really interesting as a nurse during this crazy
time and then um, you know, kind of taking it
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from from the family and the patient's side. So it's
been really interesting. But during that time, I went over
to where they live on the other side of this
state in Florida, UM to care for her, and so
my husband and I were quarantined separately, um while I
was caring for her. But while she was in the hospital,
you could not Yeah, that was that was the whole thing.
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So um when when my dad, um, you know, saved
her life, started CPR and the paramedics came and took her.
That was the last time we were able to see her.
So UM, you know, no visitors are allowed in the
hospital if everything that's going on with COVID and UM.
So he you know, gave her a hug and we
set our prayers and she was gone, and UM, so
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wed my dad and I he was you know, stayed
outside the hospital and set her from her room and
she would come to the window when she could and
those kinds of things. So my dad actually slept in
separate cars because he and I were quarantined separately outside
the hospital, and the night of her surgery so that
we could be close to her. So UM, you know,
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we stayed outside and could kind of look out to
where where she was and where she thought she would be, UM,
just to be close and support her. And then um
for the next week after that, she was impatient, so
we were, you know, doing our best to be there
for her from the outside. UM. And then you know,
she got to she got to come home. So but
it's been a very um, eye opening experience of what
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this is like from the other side. You know, when
you're when you're a nurse caring for patients, UM, with
everything that's going on. It's it's very eye opening. When
you see it from the other side. You're you're already
a compassionate person. I've witnessed that you really care about people.
But I bet even being a nurse, seeing it from
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that side, it's gonna make you realize those patient family
interactions how important they are. Just the stories we've heard
about nurses face timing families for the patients, I mean
that that really makes a big difference, absolutely, and that's
been I think one of the most heartbreaking, um and
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like you said, eye opening things during this whole experience
is you know, I in the working I work and
I see you stepped down unit. And so there are
many patients that we've had to you know, we've seen
these symptoms and that we go and retest them, and um,
you know, right at the beginning of this, when it
started to be that no visitors could come for the
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COVID patients, you know, having to look at those family
members and say I'm you know, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
This is you know, it breaks your heart. And then
to be on the other side of that when the
nurse is looking at you saying I know that I
know that you want to see your mom but you
just can't. There's nothing we could do it. Um, it
really comes full circle. And you know, I just I
am so grateful to the people in this profession and
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the class that they have in the grace that they
handle their jobs with. You know, Lauren, we talked with
teachers Dallas, Coweys, Tuladers teachers last year, Um, Kaylin and Taylor,
and we said, how much you know you appreciate them more.
You don't realize what teachers do in the lives of others.
And the same the same with you as a nurse
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that you guys are UM so important to the families
in terms of the support and the hope and faith.
Even faith plays a big part in that. And I
know that's something near and dear to you as well,
not only you're nursing, but um, how you how you
spread um spirituality and faith. So I know you start
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you're starting a church or a group in Florida right
with my heading and I helped to launch a church.
It's called Anchor Church down here in Delray Beach, Um,
and it is so awesome, so fun. It's a church
that's just on fire for the Lord and you know,
let's played a huge part not only in our marriage
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and kind of moving here, but really every day in
my nursing career as well. Well. I know if I
had a family member that needed care, someone like you
with your experience and your education and then that extra
part of compassion that Judy said, I think. I think
you are definitely a gift and we are very proud
of you being a part of our organization and lifting
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up the spirits of others too. So thank you, thank
you for what you're doing. It's just it's just amazing.
Thanks so much, I mean so much, and we miss you.
You'll have to come back to Texas when we do
whatever we do with our life eyes and as we
all get back together, Yes, whenever we can, I'll be there.
You say the word and I'll be there. Well, um,
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we're going to take a break, and then when we
come back, Lauren, you'll get to meet Nicole. Doctor. Nicole
Corbyn Bush. She cheered in the nineties. She was She
reminds me of my first year's director and the Super
Bowl and all those fun things. As get an incredible
career with the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders and now an incredible
medical career. So I'm excited for you guys to kind
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Just for Kicks, and we are now joined by doctor
Nicole Corbyn Bush. Nicole cheered for the Cowboys in ninety
three and ninety four, right, Nicole, So you you're correct.
You're one of our Super Bowl gals, and you cheered
in some of my earliest years as director. And you know,
you know what I remember the most about you is,
I'll never forget Nicole. Was I guess you were in
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your undergrad at the time, right, correct, at Abilene Christian.
So I remember we at Adeline Christian my first year
and then I transferred to a school in Dallas so
I could cheer. So when Nicole, Judy, do you remember
we would have late night training camp and then Nicole
would get in her car and she'd be driving back
to college to Adelene every year. Yes, I can't believe, Nicole,
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looking back on this, that you were able to do that,
but you did how you did it, and then take
us from there. You cheered for the Cowboys and we've
got pictures that you know. It just brought back memories
when I saw you a swimsuit cover girl chaired in
the nineties. So you went to the Super Bowl in
Atlanta when we played the Bills. You're one of the
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one of the rare ones right now, and then you
went on to medical school, so help us catch up
with your life now when you went where to go
to medical school? And so when I was cheering, I
transferred to the University of Dallas and finished up as
a biochemistry major there and graduated a few years later.
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After I finished cheering, I went to medical school at
the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
I med school is four years here in the United States.
After that, I did a urology residency at Northwestern in Chicago.
So for a surgical residency it's usually a very long process,
so four years of college, four years of medical school,
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six years of residency, and then from there two more
years to become a pediatric urologist. So currently all I
do is operate on the most common birth effect that
you have almost certainly never heard of. So every single day,
about every ninety seconds, a boy is born with something
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called hyperspadius, which is where their urinary channel their people
opens in the wrong spot under on the undersurface of
the penis. And so I started my practice five years
ago solely dedicated to repairing hyperspadias, and currently we have
patients that come from every state in the United States
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and more than forty countries throughout the world to have
their hyperspatius repaired by us. And I'm sure. I mean
your surgeries like all surgeries, and your surgeries are life
changing for your patients at a very young age and
probably as well for their families. And um, I don't
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I'm not going to pretend to understand what you do,
but I know you're making huge differences in the lives
of others. What are what are some of the rewards
for you? Like do you get to how long do
you see your patients after a surgery, will you follow
them throughout adolescence or beyond or how does that? How
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does that work? Depends on if they're local or from
out of town. So I operate in non virus days
usually all day Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, so mondays
are local patients. And for those patients, I'll see them
back in the office usually about three months after surgery,
another six months after that, and then we start spacing
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our visits, you know, ideally up until they go through puberty.
For our patients who are from out of town, which
is the vast majority of our patients, we usually do
telemedicine visits, so we were very early into telemedicine and
we've been continuing that, although the rest of our practice
right now is closed because we can't do any surgeries
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in order to preserve gowns and gloves and masks and
all of that that everyone needs in the hospital setting
right now, so we've just continued with our telemedicines. We
saw a few new patients today already and that's what
we've done. It is amazing though, the difference of having
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a penis that's normal compared to having a penis that
falls outside of a realm of normal can make So
we have one of the only practices in the world
that operates anywhere from tiny babies up into adulthood. So
we have patients who are teens and who are adults
with hypersbabius as well. And we've learned so much from
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our older patients that really tell us the impact that
it has on them, from you know, essentially finding ways
to hide when they were changing in the locker room
for sports, from having to go by themselves into a
stall every single time they needed to yarinate, and you know,
being afraid to go to a football game, for instance,
because they knew that it was going to be difficult
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to get into the stall, and they were too embarrassed
to to urinate into the urinal that's there in the restroom.
So it makes a huge impact on body image, self esteem.
It's so great to be able to correct them when
they're young, and then it's really just a memory for
their parents more so than it is for the children.
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And so that's always nice when we can do that.
About half of our practice our new babies with hyperspadius.
The other half of our practice is redo repair, so
patients who are coming from surgeons all over the world,
and those patients can be older children or teens and
adults as we talked about, and so that can be
a little bit more difficult. We actually are big proponents
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and mental health. We have a license their pist that
works with us to talk with our older children and
teens and adults. Himself had hyperspadius. So it really gives
a unique perspective because you know, for us we really
just think about it as surgeons as a body part
that can be fixed. It really impacts the whole person
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and the whole family. I mean, there are some families
that they can't go on spring break with the rest
of the kids because they're bringing their kid to Dallas
for us to fix, you know, one son's penis, and
the whole family has to come around or or be
without mom and brother for a little bit of time.
So it's been a very eye opening experience for us
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just doing this day in and day out and really
having that time to chat with our families. So that's
a big reason why we also started our charity Operation
Happiness to try to raise awareness so that at least
when new babies are born with it, they don't feel alone.
They have a network and moms and families to connect
to and realize that it almost never is anything that
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a parent did or didn't do it during pregnancy. It's
just a birth effect that happens. And I think that
the more we know about birth effects in general, the
less guilty parents feel. So it's been fabulous to have
this practice to really look at kind of the all
encompassing aspect of it and worked very hard to be
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perfectionists and what we do surgically, but also taking care
of the entire family to help with that. Raising awareness
and mental aspect of things that are involved. Whenever you
have a child where something's not perfect, you're for people
that are or listeners that might really want to reach
out to you. Where is your practice? So we just
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open right before coronavirus started in the colony. We bought
our own building and surgical center. So our hyper Spata
Specialty Center now has big letters so that you can
see from the highway, which is really exciting for us
because it's a real destination for folks to be able
to come through from all over the world. So all
we do there is Hyperspatius. It's right off of one
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twenty one, and we were open for about six weeks
before the governor said that we had to shut down
any elective surgery. So now we're really concentrating on you know,
of course I tell the medicines, but all of the
things that kind of get pushed to the back burner
when you have a busy surgical practice. So we're rereviewing
all of our data. I think most people are kind
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of shocked that their surgeons often don't have any idea
about their surgical outcomes. That's been a huge part of
our practice is that we keep a database. Now more
with thousands of hYP spatas repairs so that we can
review it every so many months and make changes to
make sure that we're doing the best technical surgeries that
we can. So we've been busy with that. We've been
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working on a children's book. We have a little character
that we created called down Their Bear and it talks
about how his surgery took place. And so we have
one that's a little bit longer version for the older
boys that talks about having a catheter in and what
that means and having that removed actor surgery. But now
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we're really looking at ways that families who have already
had their sons repaired can talk to their children about
what it was that they went through in an noun
threatening way. And so I've been working on the board
book version of it that's a quick version about down
their Bear and his surgery, so that kids can you
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understand what the term hypospadius is without it being something scary. Nicole,
did you always know that you wanted to be in
urology and specifically pediatric urology or when did you? When
did you take that course that course of medicine. That's
a great question. I didn't know in fact, when I
went to medical school, I thought that I was going
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to be a geriatrician take care of older folks, because
I don't know if you recall, but when I was
a cheerleader, I lived with my grandmother and helped to
take care of her. She had a lung disease and
was there and she actually passed away my second year
of cheering right before we had a show in Arkansas,
so that was a little bit of a difficult weekend.
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But when I went to medical school, that's what I
thought I was going to do. And during the second
year of medical school, they have all sorts of different
specialties that come in and give you lectures about things.
And when I heard the urology lectures, for some reason,
it just made sense. It was like, so common sense,
this is plumbing and if something's not working right, then
you unblock it. And I just kind of fell in
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love with it. So I really had no intention of
becoming a surgeon when I went to medical school, and
so this was a very different course for me to
fall in love with something that was surgical. And then
in the process of doing eurology, at first I thought
I was going to be a cancer doctor and I
spent a year at the National Institutes of Health doing
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cancer research at the Eurologic Oncology branch, and when I
was there, I really fell in love with the genetics
of things, kind of clinical research to looking in the
why things happen for patients and how we can best
kind of tailor their care. And so right when I
finished at my research here at the NH, I came
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back and did a pediatric urology rotation, which is very
much plastic surgery oriented, with lots of reconstructive surgery, and
I thought this was just the perfect opportunity to marry
really fine details of plastic surge, dree with the genetic
aspect of thinks that I love taking care of kids,
and so that's how I ended up doing what I do.
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And it comes to hyperspaces repair, it probably is one
of the most technically challenging surgeries that you as pediatric
your rhologist, and you guys have fans that want to
know some more about you. So Hayley want to pop
in here and share some of the questions with Nicole
and Lauren Jerkan. So first question is from Purty Thurty
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and two was a alumni of DCC and the first
question is for Nicole, how has mom life been with kiddos?
Have they persuaded you to join the fabulous world of TikTok?
I actually asked my kids earlier about TikTok, and my
kids are now in the fun tween and teen years,
and they were just mortified that I would even think
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about joining. So I think that answers that mom life,
though in general, has been you know, you've had to adapt.
They've three out of the four have taken well to well.
One loves online schooling. Three out of the four will
do it, but don't really like it much, and so
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we kind of have to push to get them to
finish their assignments. But this is really the longest time
I've had to spend a day in and day out
with them, and so we've had a lot of fun.
I've never really cooked, and so we've been learning to
cook and baking bread and making meals together. So that
has really been a lot of fun and something that
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hopefully I'll take away as a positive from this later on.
So I get part of that question is your practice
extends internationally, providing pertinent care, with many of your patients
being from other countries. Has COVID nineteen impacted your practice
and how have you been able to adjust and rise
above those challenges? So there definitely are going to be
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challenges when it comes to rescheduling because every country has
different rates of coronavirus and different rules and regulations that
are set in place. When we were operating in March,
a few of our patients did get caught in it.
Some of our patients from Israel and from Egypt when
they went back after their surgeries had to be quarantined
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for a full two weeks before they could go back home.
So we definitely saw a lot of that. So I
think that we're going to be working very carefully since
so many of our patients fly in from everywhere, to
figure out the best and safe is mechanism for testing
for them, to make sure that we keep our patients
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and their family safe, that we keep all my employees
and nurses safe. And so that's our challenge that we're
working on day in and day out, trying to figure
out what's available in terms of safety gear and testing.
But one thing that has been fun is the connection
that we've been able to continue with our international surgeons.
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So yesterday around this time, I did a WEBINARUM in
Egypt where five hundred surgeons from twenty five countries attended
talking about REDO hyperspatious repair, and so that was a
lot of fun. The week before I did a webinar
for Urology Residence in Brazil. And so we've kept in
touch with many of our surgeon colleagues around the entire
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world during this time because like most of us here
in the States that are surgeons, surgeons in many other
countries are also not working and using this time to
try to better themselves, and so that has has has
been a positive too. I think. Okay, long in the
since for you, UM, still from Party thirty and what
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has been the biggest change in your protocol for caring
for patients? UM? I think I think it probably even
goes outside the hospital too. With our PPE protocol, that's
the protective equipment that we have to wear in order
to make sure that, UM, you know, we're protected so
we can continue caring for our patients. And nurses have
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a natural instinct to just jump in wherever there is
and a need, and even just the other day we
had a code and that that first initial instinct is
to just go running where the code is, but um,
you don't have to stop and think and make sure
that you're protected, make sure that you have everything so
that you can continue doing your job. So I think
that's that's definitely been an adjustment. You know, we've always
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had to be mindful of ppe, but you know, each
room that you go in really to make sure that
you're covered and all the protocols are are taken care of. Okay,
Another one for you is, I know you've been working
with your mom, so you probably haven't been in the
hospital as long as you thought you would. But what
has been the greatest success story of your patients recovering
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from coviding if you have any Lauren, And honestly, this
goes along with being my mom too. Um, you know,
after her open heart surgery, the greatest you I mean,
she worked so hard with all her rehab and everything
which she was in the hospital and just being able
to be reunited with her when it was finally time
for a discharge. So I think really in general, whether
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it's COVID patients or you know, any other kind of
patients at this time, just with no family members being
allowed in the hospital, just that moment of seeing them
reunited with their families and being able to hug them
and love on them again when it's so uncertain at
the time where they said, you know, I'm not sure
if you'll ever see your family member again, so say
your goodbye. So that's been really heart working and it's
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so fun to see one for everybody from CJ. Stevens
twenty two. What is your favorite comfort food in quarantine
or have you tried any new recipes while you've been
in quarantine. I want chicken and waffles, and I hadn't.
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I said, that's the first thing I want when I
go to a restaurant. I'm just going to go all
out and get chicken and waffles, Blake, Nicole, I'm just
learning to cook at this phase in life. You know,
we got the Insta pot. We made a pot roast
and um. But I've have been doing takeout sushi and
so I guess that's kind of always been one of
my favorites and also a comfort food. But I'm like Judy,
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I can't wait to get to go to a restaurant
and just have have great service and just relax and
not have anything planned and just I mean, y'all can
you remember when you just say, hey, you want to
meet me at so and so and yes, yes, yeah,
miss that that's spontan spontaneity. It's like you've lost It's
like we've lost control, we've lost independence. Um, so I'm
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looking forward to regaining that. But I did make some
sushi at home. So one of my twins is, I mean,
you've never seen the skinniest little twelve year old be
able to put away like a gazillion rolls like this
kid can. It's unbelievable. So she her her nanny actually
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bought her a sushi making kit with a little mat
and the chopsticks for her birthday, which was recently, And
so I hunted down because we haven't been out of
the house. We were ordering everything in so I was
able to find the seaweed wraps on Amazon and some
sushi rice and you know, then I had some rice
vinegar that you mix in with sugar for the sushi rice,
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and then I got some of that fake crab at
my Last Time Things club. So we made the sushi
rice and then laid it all out with the seaweed
and put the crab and some avocado in it and
rolled it all up and now she with California Rolls
hates the cucumber in it because she doesn't like the crunch.
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So this was nice making our own. She didn't have
to poke out the cucumber pieces one at a time
with their chopsticks. So we rolled it up and the
first one was a little shaky while confess it you
didn't quite well and yeah, it was actually kind of tricky,
but by the second one she actually had it down
pretty good. So now we realize we need a sharper
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knife because it's really hard to cut the role without
super sharp knife. So that's gonna sushi cutting knife's gonna
have to go on on the worst of things to buy.
But it was kind of fun. Sounds fun. I know
I've tried last I guess it was last or two
years ago for my birthday, we had like a sushi
making knight and how a sushi chef come and like
teach us how to do it. And it was interesting
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to say the least. Let's for sure, there is no
there's no way I would attempt sushi. I would I
would be coming to you Nicole to steal. No way,
But that's awesome, Lauren, what about you? What are you
um cooking for the hobby during this Harry Sushi yet.
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I haven't tried that yet, but I love to cook.
That's when. Honestly, one of my favorite parts about Quarantine's
being able to have the time to do it so um.
And actually he it surprised me with his cooking skills
when I come home from work and some of the
days we've got steak and potatoes and all this stuff made.
So that's been really fun in learning that. But we
had today we had homemade Greek petas for lunch and
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I'm making a apple honeymustard pork ros for dinner. So
I don't know, I just love this. This is I
love to go. So this has been a fun time
to be able to try out new stuff. Awesome. That's
kind of all the questions we have. Should we yeahs yes,
I want to m Lauren and Nicole. I know Lauren
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you may be a little bit more familiar or Nicole
maybe because you're closer to us. But so two days
from now, starting Saturday, we are, for the first time
ever in our history, having an online audition submission, so
as crazy as it sounds, and Nicole, you mentioned being
online with Israel. In Egypt, we have we too, have
been online internationally developing a very robust platform where candidates
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can submit their full applications. They can apply, they can write,
they can come back in and out of the application
like a college application, and then they'll submit a video
introducing themselves and then they'll set us submit a video
sixty seconds of them dancing their best, their homes, their garage,
their backyard, their choice of music. They'll submit that and
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then we will be taking those applications from May second
through May fifteenth, and from that we will be judging.
On the back end, We'll still have our judges. Every
judge will be judging from the comfort of their own
place and space, and that's what we'll be doing to
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go into round two, the semifinal round that you guys
would remember, and at that point we will send out
dance videos that they would need to learn and again
send us a video back of them doing the choreography.
So I'm really excited. I've talked to so many people
about this, and I think there's some benefits to it
because the people that you know what, nobody will have
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to have spend the money on travel to get to
Dallas for round one or round two. For those that
have kind of that audition anxiety that kind of just
you know, blank out, that won't happen, because if it does,
they can refilm themselves and submit the video that they
really think presents their best. And then from a judge's perspective,
we as judges won't be looking at five people at
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a time. We'll be looking at one candidate at a time.
We'll have her entire application with everything right at our fingertips.
We can watch it again and again, make very thorough
notes and hopefully, you know, give him a green light
to the next round. So that starts this Saturday. I'm
so excited to see if you get a different quality
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of candidates that you have just from a whole new
system of auditioning and that I think it's very exciting
and certainly does save a lot of the expenses for
many of the girls who are traveling from all over
and so I think that's going to be a real
win win for everybody that's involved. Sure, hope. So I
know that I've had some people just send me videos
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on Instagram unsolicited, and they're good, they're good dancers, and
I think we'll be able to definitely see the dance
technique and everything that we need to on the application.
But I'm excited and from the discussions we've had with
the company that's helping us develop this software, I do
think that this will exponentially increase the candidates. And just fy,
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we have thirty of our current squad re auditioning. It's
our largest crazy group I know. So we have thirty
re auditioning veteran hopefuls in addition to all the new candidates.
So we're real excited. That starts on Saturday, and it's
not just one day where there's there's two weeks where
people can submit an application. So fingers cross, y'all, because
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when it goes live, there's no turning back. We've jumped
in now, and you guys have an incredible group of
returning I mean thirty incredible candidates coming back. So you
guys have such a strong team and a team full
of so many amazing women inside and out, and you
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guys have some tough decisions. We do, but but they
they're they're coming because of people like y'all. Y'all are
such amazing examples of successful women both in skill and
in spirit. So We're so proud to have y'all be
a part of the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader's family.
Thank y'all so much for joining us. I'm really enjoying this.
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I wish I wish we'd been doing this all these years,
but we're all getting new new ideas and reconnected in
a sense being although we're all separated. It's it's strange. UM.
So I think that's it for this weeks, just for kicks.
Next week we are going to do a Mom's Day special.
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Judy is going to have her daughter um Cassie, and
Haley will have her mother Charlotte, and I will have
my daughter Samantha, and we'll all talk moms and daughters step.
It might be a little spicy, I really know. I
expect excited and thank you guys so much for joining us.
The entire Dallas Cowboys HERELD will be thrilled to see
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you guys on this episode. Thanks for having Thanks for
having guys. Thank you Judy and Haley, and I'll see y'all.
Thanks time on just guys. Okay. This has been a
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The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Just for Kicks,
broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star
in Frisco. Now your hosts Judy Trammel, Hayley Anderson, and
(00:33):
Kelly finn Blass. Well, Hello everybody, and welcome to Jess
for Kicks. This is all girl talk, but we think
guys just might want to listen. I'm Kelly finn Glass
and I am joined today by Hailey Anderson and Judy travel. Hi, Haileys,
Good to see y'all, Good to see you. Well, wait today,
I am very excited about today's show. We are prepared.
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We have two of the most impressive guests come. We have.
Today's show is called Difference Makers. It's going to We're
going to visit with former Jealous Cowboys cheerleaders who are
making the difference in lives of others through medicine. We're
gonna have Lauren Parker Leonard, who recently retired, and we're
gonna have doctor Nicole Corbyn Bush who cheered with us
(01:18):
in the nineties. So I'm really excited about that that's
coming up. But first it's kind of in tradition now
for us just to catch up since we're not together.
So I wanted to find out what you guys have
been doing this week. Judy, I know you had a
huge day yesterday with your birthday, and had we tried
to pull off some surprises. Tell us a little bit
about your birthday. There were a lot of surprises, and
(01:40):
I was excited because I'm not gonna lie into the day.
Woke up kind of tearful and it's like it's just hopeless,
but it just kept turning around and turning around to
be a great day. My grandkids came over and then
they y'all surprised me with a cute video. The cheerleaders
(02:02):
sang Happy Birthday and our staff and that was really fun.
And if you get to see the video, it's kind
of hysterical because everyone's singing is they're really bad. There's
a lot of bad singers. Wait wait a second to you.
But then when Rachel, when Rachel got on, her little
(02:24):
whispered voice was the same as in the studio, and
it was so funny because their personalities really did come
through on the I was I was excited to see that.
And then we had we Judy, we do before you
tell us more. We have that audio, I think where
everybody gets to hear the vocal talents of the Dallas
(02:46):
Cowboys cheerleaders as they wish Judy happy birthday, Happy birthday
to ye, Happy birthday to Happy birthday to Judy, Happy
birth birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday
(03:06):
to you. Happy birthday, Dear Judy, Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday,
do Judy, Happy birthday to you. I hope you have
a wonderful day. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you.
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Happy birthday dear Judy, Happy birthday to Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Dear DCC Judy, Happy
birthday to you. Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you.
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Happy happy birthday, Dear Judy, Happy birthday to do you.
We love you. Fireworks, fireworks, fir works. You don't look
at day at thirty. Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday
to you. Happy birthday, Judy, Carol, Happy birthday too, Happy
(04:22):
birthday to you, Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to
my best friend. Happy birthday too. You love you, Jude.
I hope you have a great day. We miss you
so much and can't wait to celebrate when we're all
back together. So, Judy, you had that was that was
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the best, the best gift everybody could do. Everybody gets
so excited doing that. I even pulled out the old tambourine. Judy.
I recorded my three separate times one up time first
with no makeup, and then I thought, no, I better
put makeup on. So the second time tree and then
I'd like tambourine. So the third time in the tambourine.
But the girls, I was very proud of them. They
(05:06):
all pulled together because shehera was able to edit that together.
And you're proud. So then the girl surprised you with
a parade. Um they did. It was really fun. I
you know, I was surprised because I wasn't dressed. I
was in a tight eye sweatshirt and I know, I know,
but that's you know, not like me. And so when
they all started driving by, it was really fun. They
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even had our neighborhood police in on it. He came
up with the Samarrais and scaredy right out of me. Really,
what the golf cart was I don't think there was
a golf cart. I think it was a I don't
know what you're what a what golf cart you're talking about?
But sure viewing, Oh, I know what it was. It
was one of our chilers tagged you on a photo
(05:50):
and it was on a golf cart, probably from a
calendar shooting Bemony. What it was was, it was fun.
It was a day full of surprises. And when you
think you're gonna have a bad day and everybody keeps
one upping it and making your day special, it meant
a lot. Haley, what did you do this week? I
know where there were some exciting things going on in
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your neck of the woods. Yes, so we just completed
our first family draft, which was awesome and fun and
a great experience just to be able to spend it
with my grandparents and being in that same room and
helping them pick their players. So it was exciting. We
weren't sure who we were going to get, and the
(06:33):
fact that we had one of our best drafts. It
was definitely one to remember. Was the room. Yeah, everybody's
great thrilled with the draft picks. You know, we always
have such critics and this was right. It was. It
was fun to watch, and I also loved the live
show with Jamie Foxx and DeMarcus Ware That was super
(06:55):
cool too. Was the was the room? Obviously we don't
get to see anything beyond what was broadcast, but is
the room tense? Is it celebratory? What are some of
those moments that happened in between picks? So, I mean,
I think a lot of it was exciting. When we
got our first pick, A lot of people didn't think
(07:16):
we would be picking up Ceedee Lamb for the fact
that we didn't think you would fall to seventeenth place,
so a lot of it was exciting. Shy being my
brother definitely took a huge had a huge pool in
that he just between the discussions on who they were
going to pick, and he stepped his foot forward and
told him, hey, we need this guy. Why we have
(07:36):
them because I think we can pick up our next
player following round. So that was exciting to see him
come forward. We all had a roll in it between
behind the scenes, taking pictures, answering phones, making sure they're
calling the right people. So it definitely was all hands
on deck during like right before we were about to pick,
and then right when he finished and picked. It was excitements.
(07:58):
Everyone's cheering because it's kind of like after that first
first day or kind of just relaxing and just waiting
to see what else does in between each pig. It
was very exciting to watch, and it really, I mean,
it's it's just what we it's just what the doctor ordered,
pardon the pun, to get us all ready for the season,
even though there's still some uncertainty on when and where.
(08:21):
It was awesome to be re energized, and honestly too,
I think just for people to get to enjoy the
sport again. We've just had nothing but but such intense
news stories. You know, ever think light at the end
of the right it's the light at the end of
the tunnel. It's like you finally have your draft and
now we're just waiting to play and hopefully it's just
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ride around the corner. Well, I had a less impressive week, probably,
but I did learn some new things. I have taken
up faux gardening. I use gardening very lightly, but I
m planted flowers and I painted, y'all, I painted pieces
(09:02):
of furniture and that's a first ever in my lifetime. Yes,
it is hammered metal. I had the choices of amber,
bronze or black, and I had like eight cans of
test paint, and I had to wait. First of power washed,
I sent you go to a video I have a
power washed. I power washed my entire back yard and
(09:24):
then I painted, and then I reached a new level
of aging. Perhaps I bought. I bought battle yard art.
I bought a blue heron. Did you see the picture?
I called Samantha, my daughter, and I said, Samantha, I
am just one step away from I'm one piece away
(09:47):
from a peak flamingo in the front yard. And you know,
you know your mother has gone quarantine crazy because I
bought yard art. But I was actually kind of proud.
She um, it's a girl I've decided, and she's called
wing Wings Up, and she's out back and she's kind
of if you want it to be, it's it's a
lifting up of spirit. I put her in my backyard, Judy,
(10:09):
you know where I have my Jesus chairs and I
go out my devotional so she's out there. But then
the highlight was then I had my Amazon solar powered spotlights,
and I thought, you know, this isn't good enough. Let
me put spotlights on her for nighttime, and one wasn't enough,
so now she has two spotlights. So I have a
(10:31):
metal blue heron bird. I called her blue Angel, and
she has two spotlights on her and it's called wings up,
and she's she's back there to lift up spirits. So
there you Well, you'll always remember this time and this
quarantine and you'll look at that bird with her spotlights
and memories. The lights are so overpowering that she offenses
(10:55):
right behind her, so in the dark you see this
huge just shadow. She looks like a three historic bird.
So maybe she'll run off some of our nighttime rodents.
But anyway, well, when we come back, I'm so excited.
We're going to get to catch up with Lauren Parker,
who cheered with us for two years and she's now
gone back to Florida. She's married, she's got a lot
(11:17):
of new things going on in our life. And then
we will visit with doctor Nicole Corbyn Bush, a former
Dallas Cowboys cheerleader who cheered in the nineties with us.
So very excited to see them, and we'll visit with
them and more when we come back for just for Kicks,
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joined by Lauren Parker Leonard. You guys hopefully remember Laurence.
She chaired with us for two years, and her career
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with us started interesting because she was in Arlington and
she was in a nurse. I remember Verry specifically, Lauren,
you're talking about seeing at and T Stadium out of
your window when you were at the hospital, and that
helped kind of solidify the deal that you wanted to
try out. So tell us a little bit about your
journey with trying out for the Cowboys, and then we
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want to talk to you about about your first career totally.
So I was living in South Florida and I had
to her two seasons in the NFL, and I just
I was at the point where I said, I just
want to go for the best. If I've done this
for two seasons, I really want to see if I
can make it. And I kind of gave up my
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whole life here. I took a travel position there for
thirteen weeks right if he ended the thirteen weeks. That
following week was auditions. So I moved and I just
dove into every prep class that I could, try to
meet as many people as I could to get familiar,
you know, kind of with audition process and DCC as
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a whole, and the Dallas Cowboys and and everything. So
I moved and dove right into it. My travel position
was at the hospital right next door to the stadium,
So it was really cool and really served. It's kind
of like a very visual motivation. Every time I went
to work, I was overlooking and um overlooking the stadium
and our breakroom kind of we're in the in the hallway,
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UM has just this really really cool perfect view. So
days night to anything, the stadium was just lit up,
and it was just a really cool kind of visual
motivation for me during the During that time and since
since chairing. You're now married, congratulation and you guys have
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relocated now you're back in Fort Lauderdale. Yeah, and then
Court Lauderdale. Um, I moved uh this past fall and
we got married in January, and this is it's a
very um different first you know, newly wed time here
than we anticipated. But it's been amazing and we're loving it.
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So it's a whole new life, but it's awesome. Well,
now that you mentioned that, I guess this is not
your typical honeymoon phase of a marriage. I saw I
saw a picture have you guys sitting out in a
parking lot. It looked like you were tailgating and distancing
as well. What was that all about? So we actually
were quarantined separately for about three weeks. Wow. Yeah, so
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as nearly as that was pretty tough. You know, we
long to be together and lived together and be in
the same place. So, um, several weeks ago, my mom
had a cardiac event. Um. She she passed out when
she was riding, um like a stationary bike, a peloton bike,
and she fell off and my dad found her unconscious.
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He began CPR, totally saved her life. He's like the
hero and got her to the hospital and she had
several ninety nine percent blockages in her heart. So um,
they sedge her schedule her for open heart surgery. So
it's been really interesting as a nurse during this crazy
time and then um, you know, kind of taking it
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from from the family and the patient's side. So it's
been really interesting. But during that time, I went over
to where they live on the other side of this
state in Florida, UM to care for her, and so
my husband and I were quarantined separately, um while I
was caring for her. But while she was in the hospital,
you could not Yeah, that was that was the whole thing.
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So um when when my dad, um, you know, saved
her life, started CPR and the paramedics came and took her.
That was the last time we were able to see her.
So UM, you know, no visitors are allowed in the
hospital if everything that's going on with COVID and UM.
So he you know, gave her a hug and we
set our prayers and she was gone, and UM, so
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wed my dad and I he was you know, stayed
outside the hospital and set her from her room and
she would come to the window when she could and
those kinds of things. So my dad actually slept in
separate cars because he and I were quarantined separately outside
the hospital, and the night of her surgery so that
we could be close to her. So UM, you know,
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we stayed outside and could kind of look out to
where where she was and where she thought she would be, UM,
just to be close and support her. And then um
for the next week after that, she was impatient, so
we were, you know, doing our best to be there
for her from the outside. UM. And then you know,
she got to she got to come home. So but
it's been a very um, eye opening experience of what
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this is like from the other side. You know, when
you're when you're a nurse caring for patients, UM, with
everything that's going on. It's it's very eye opening. When
you see it from the other side. You're you're already
a compassionate person. I've witnessed that you really care about people.
But I bet even being a nurse, seeing it from
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that side, it's gonna make you realize those patient family
interactions how important they are. Just the stories we've heard
about nurses face timing families for the patients, I mean
that that really makes a big difference, absolutely, and that's
been I think one of the most heartbreaking, um and
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like you said, eye opening things during this whole experience
is you know, I in the working I work and
I see you stepped down unit. And so there are
many patients that we've had to you know, we've seen
these symptoms and that we go and retest them, and um,
you know, right at the beginning of this, when it
started to be that no visitors could come for the
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COVID patients, you know, having to look at those family
members and say I'm you know, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
This is you know, it breaks your heart. And then
to be on the other side of that when the
nurse is looking at you saying I know that I
know that you want to see your mom but you
just can't. There's nothing we could do it. Um, it
really comes full circle. And you know, I just I
am so grateful to the people in this profession and
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the class that they have in the grace that they
handle their jobs with. You know, Lauren, we talked with
teachers Dallas, Coweys, Tuladers teachers last year, Um, Kaylin and Taylor,
and we said, how much you know you appreciate them more.
You don't realize what teachers do in the lives of others.
And the same the same with you as a nurse
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that you guys are UM so important to the families
in terms of the support and the hope and faith.
Even faith plays a big part in that. And I
know that's something near and dear to you as well,
not only you're nursing, but um, how you how you
spread um spirituality and faith. So I know you start
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you're starting a church or a group in Florida right
with my heading and I helped to launch a church.
It's called Anchor Church down here in Delray Beach, Um,
and it is so awesome, so fun. It's a church
that's just on fire for the Lord and you know,
let's played a huge part not only in our marriage
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and kind of moving here, but really every day in
my nursing career as well. Well. I know if I
had a family member that needed care, someone like you
with your experience and your education and then that extra
part of compassion that Judy said, I think. I think
you are definitely a gift and we are very proud
of you being a part of our organization and lifting
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up the spirits of others too. So thank you, thank
you for what you're doing. It's just it's just amazing.
Thanks so much, I mean so much, and we miss you.
You'll have to come back to Texas when we do
whatever we do with our life eyes and as we
all get back together, Yes, whenever we can, I'll be there.
You say the word and I'll be there. Well, um,
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we're going to take a break, and then when we
come back, Lauren, you'll get to meet Nicole. Doctor. Nicole
Corbyn Bush. She cheered in the nineties. She was She
reminds me of my first year's director and the Super
Bowl and all those fun things. As get an incredible
career with the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders and now an incredible
medical career. So I'm excited for you guys to kind
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Nicole Corbyn Bush. Nicole cheered for the Cowboys in ninety
three and ninety four, right, Nicole, So you you're correct.
You're one of our Super Bowl gals, and you cheered
in some of my earliest years as director. And you know,
you know what I remember the most about you is,
I'll never forget Nicole. Was I guess you were in
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your undergrad at the time, right, correct, at Abilene Christian.
So I remember we at Adeline Christian my first year
and then I transferred to a school in Dallas so
I could cheer. So when Nicole, Judy, do you remember
we would have late night training camp and then Nicole
would get in her car and she'd be driving back
to college to Adelene every year. Yes, I can't believe, Nicole,
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looking back on this, that you were able to do that,
but you did how you did it, and then take
us from there. You cheered for the Cowboys and we've
got pictures that you know. It just brought back memories
when I saw you a swimsuit cover girl chaired in
the nineties. So you went to the Super Bowl in
Atlanta when we played the Bills. You're one of the
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one of the rare ones right now, and then you
went on to medical school, so help us catch up
with your life now when you went where to go
to medical school? And so when I was cheering, I
transferred to the University of Dallas and finished up as
a biochemistry major there and graduated a few years later.
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After I finished cheering, I went to medical school at
the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
I med school is four years here in the United States.
After that, I did a urology residency at Northwestern in Chicago.
So for a surgical residency it's usually a very long process,
so four years of college, four years of medical school,
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six years of residency, and then from there two more
years to become a pediatric urologist. So currently all I
do is operate on the most common birth effect that
you have almost certainly never heard of. So every single day,
about every ninety seconds, a boy is born with something
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called hyperspadius, which is where their urinary channel their people
opens in the wrong spot under on the undersurface of
the penis. And so I started my practice five years
ago solely dedicated to repairing hyperspadias, and currently we have
patients that come from every state in the United States
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and more than forty countries throughout the world to have
their hyperspatius repaired by us. And I'm sure. I mean
your surgeries like all surgeries, and your surgeries are life
changing for your patients at a very young age and
probably as well for their families. And um, I don't
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I'm not going to pretend to understand what you do,
but I know you're making huge differences in the lives
of others. What are what are some of the rewards
for you? Like do you get to how long do
you see your patients after a surgery, will you follow
them throughout adolescence or beyond or how does that? How
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does that work? Depends on if they're local or from
out of town. So I operate in non virus days
usually all day Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, so mondays
are local patients. And for those patients, I'll see them
back in the office usually about three months after surgery,
another six months after that, and then we start spacing
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our visits, you know, ideally up until they go through puberty.
For our patients who are from out of town, which
is the vast majority of our patients, we usually do
telemedicine visits, so we were very early into telemedicine and
we've been continuing that, although the rest of our practice
right now is closed because we can't do any surgeries
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in order to preserve gowns and gloves and masks and
all of that that everyone needs in the hospital setting
right now, so we've just continued with our telemedicines. We
saw a few new patients today already and that's what
we've done. It is amazing though, the difference of having
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a penis that's normal compared to having a penis that
falls outside of a realm of normal can make So
we have one of the only practices in the world
that operates anywhere from tiny babies up into adulthood. So
we have patients who are teens and who are adults
with hypersbabius as well. And we've learned so much from
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our older patients that really tell us the impact that
it has on them, from you know, essentially finding ways
to hide when they were changing in the locker room
for sports, from having to go by themselves into a
stall every single time they needed to yarinate, and you know,
being afraid to go to a football game, for instance,
because they knew that it was going to be difficult
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to get into the stall, and they were too embarrassed
to to urinate into the urinal that's there in the restroom.
So it makes a huge impact on body image, self esteem.
It's so great to be able to correct them when
they're young, and then it's really just a memory for
their parents more so than it is for the children.
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And so that's always nice when we can do that.
About half of our practice our new babies with hyperspadius.
The other half of our practice is redo repair, so
patients who are coming from surgeons all over the world,
and those patients can be older children or teens and
adults as we talked about, and so that can be
a little bit more difficult. We actually are big proponents
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and mental health. We have a license their pist that
works with us to talk with our older children and
teens and adults. Himself had hyperspadius. So it really gives
a unique perspective because you know, for us we really
just think about it as surgeons as a body part
that can be fixed. It really impacts the whole person
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and the whole family. I mean, there are some families
that they can't go on spring break with the rest
of the kids because they're bringing their kid to Dallas
for us to fix, you know, one son's penis, and
the whole family has to come around or or be
without mom and brother for a little bit of time.
So it's been a very eye opening experience for us
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just doing this day in and day out and really
having that time to chat with our families. So that's
a big reason why we also started our charity Operation
Happiness to try to raise awareness so that at least
when new babies are born with it, they don't feel alone.
They have a network and moms and families to connect
to and realize that it almost never is anything that
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a parent did or didn't do it during pregnancy. It's
just a birth effect that happens. And I think that
the more we know about birth effects in general, the
less guilty parents feel. So it's been fabulous to have
this practice to really look at kind of the all
encompassing aspect of it and worked very hard to be
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perfectionists and what we do surgically, but also taking care
of the entire family to help with that. Raising awareness
and mental aspect of things that are involved. Whenever you
have a child where something's not perfect, you're for people
that are or listeners that might really want to reach
out to you. Where is your practice? So we just
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open right before coronavirus started in the colony. We bought
our own building and surgical center. So our hyper Spata
Specialty Center now has big letters so that you can
see from the highway, which is really exciting for us
because it's a real destination for folks to be able
to come through from all over the world. So all
we do there is Hyperspatius. It's right off of one
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twenty one, and we were open for about six weeks
before the governor said that we had to shut down
any elective surgery. So now we're really concentrating on you know,
of course I tell the medicines, but all of the
things that kind of get pushed to the back burner
when you have a busy surgical practice. So we're rereviewing
all of our data. I think most people are kind
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of shocked that their surgeons often don't have any idea
about their surgical outcomes. That's been a huge part of
our practice is that we keep a database. Now more
with thousands of hYP spatas repairs so that we can
review it every so many months and make changes to
make sure that we're doing the best technical surgeries that
we can. So we've been busy with that. We've been
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working on a children's book. We have a little character
that we created called down Their Bear and it talks
about how his surgery took place. And so we have
one that's a little bit longer version for the older
boys that talks about having a catheter in and what
that means and having that removed actor surgery. But now
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we're really looking at ways that families who have already
had their sons repaired can talk to their children about
what it was that they went through in an noun
threatening way. And so I've been working on the board
book version of it that's a quick version about down
their Bear and his surgery, so that kids can you
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understand what the term hypospadius is without it being something scary. Nicole,
did you always know that you wanted to be in
urology and specifically pediatric urology or when did you? When
did you take that course that course of medicine. That's
a great question. I didn't know in fact, when I
went to medical school, I thought that I was going
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to be a geriatrician take care of older folks, because
I don't know if you recall, but when I was
a cheerleader, I lived with my grandmother and helped to
take care of her. She had a lung disease and
was there and she actually passed away my second year
of cheering right before we had a show in Arkansas,
so that was a little bit of a difficult weekend.
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But when I went to medical school, that's what I
thought I was going to do. And during the second
year of medical school, they have all sorts of different
specialties that come in and give you lectures about things.
And when I heard the urology lectures, for some reason,
it just made sense. It was like, so common sense,
this is plumbing and if something's not working right, then
you unblock it. And I just kind of fell in
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love with it. So I really had no intention of
becoming a surgeon when I went to medical school, and
so this was a very different course for me to
fall in love with something that was surgical. And then
in the process of doing eurology, at first I thought
I was going to be a cancer doctor and I
spent a year at the National Institutes of Health doing
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cancer research at the Eurologic Oncology branch, and when I
was there, I really fell in love with the genetics
of things, kind of clinical research to looking in the
why things happen for patients and how we can best
kind of tailor their care. And so right when I
finished at my research here at the NH, I came
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back and did a pediatric urology rotation, which is very
much plastic surgery oriented, with lots of reconstructive surgery, and
I thought this was just the perfect opportunity to marry
really fine details of plastic surge, dree with the genetic
aspect of thinks that I love taking care of kids,
and so that's how I ended up doing what I do.
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And it comes to hyperspaces repair, it probably is one
of the most technically challenging surgeries that you as pediatric
your rhologist, and you guys have fans that want to
know some more about you. So Hayley want to pop
in here and share some of the questions with Nicole
and Lauren Jerkan. So first question is from Purty Thurty
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and two was a alumni of DCC and the first
question is for Nicole, how has mom life been with kiddos?
Have they persuaded you to join the fabulous world of TikTok?
I actually asked my kids earlier about TikTok, and my
kids are now in the fun tween and teen years,
and they were just mortified that I would even think
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about joining. So I think that answers that mom life,
though in general, has been you know, you've had to adapt.
They've three out of the four have taken well to well.
One loves online schooling. Three out of the four will
do it, but don't really like it much, and so
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we kind of have to push to get them to
finish their assignments. But this is really the longest time
I've had to spend a day in and day out
with them, and so we've had a lot of fun.
I've never really cooked, and so we've been learning to
cook and baking bread and making meals together. So that
has really been a lot of fun and something that
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hopefully I'll take away as a positive from this later on.
So I get part of that question is your practice
extends internationally, providing pertinent care, with many of your patients
being from other countries. Has COVID nineteen impacted your practice
and how have you been able to adjust and rise
above those challenges? So there definitely are going to be
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challenges when it comes to rescheduling because every country has
different rates of coronavirus and different rules and regulations that
are set in place. When we were operating in March,
a few of our patients did get caught in it.
Some of our patients from Israel and from Egypt when
they went back after their surgeries had to be quarantined
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for a full two weeks before they could go back home.
So we definitely saw a lot of that. So I
think that we're going to be working very carefully since
so many of our patients fly in from everywhere, to
figure out the best and safe is mechanism for testing
for them, to make sure that we keep our patients
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and their family safe, that we keep all my employees
and nurses safe. And so that's our challenge that we're
working on day in and day out, trying to figure
out what's available in terms of safety gear and testing.
But one thing that has been fun is the connection
that we've been able to continue with our international surgeons.
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So yesterday around this time, I did a WEBINARUM in
Egypt where five hundred surgeons from twenty five countries attended
talking about REDO hyperspatious repair, and so that was a
lot of fun. The week before I did a webinar
for Urology Residence in Brazil. And so we've kept in
touch with many of our surgeon colleagues around the entire
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world during this time because like most of us here
in the States that are surgeons, surgeons in many other
countries are also not working and using this time to
try to better themselves, and so that has has has
been a positive too. I think. Okay, long in the
since for you, UM, still from Party thirty and what
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has been the biggest change in your protocol for caring
for patients? UM? I think I think it probably even
goes outside the hospital too. With our PPE protocol, that's
the protective equipment that we have to wear in order
to make sure that, UM, you know, we're protected so
we can continue caring for our patients. And nurses have
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a natural instinct to just jump in wherever there is
and a need, and even just the other day we
had a code and that that first initial instinct is
to just go running where the code is, but um,
you don't have to stop and think and make sure
that you're protected, make sure that you have everything so
that you can continue doing your job. So I think
that's that's definitely been an adjustment. You know, we've always
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had to be mindful of ppe, but you know, each
room that you go in really to make sure that
you're covered and all the protocols are are taken care of. Okay,
Another one for you is, I know you've been working
with your mom, so you probably haven't been in the
hospital as long as you thought you would. But what
has been the greatest success story of your patients recovering
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from coviding if you have any Lauren, And honestly, this
goes along with being my mom too. Um, you know,
after her open heart surgery, the greatest you I mean,
she worked so hard with all her rehab and everything
which she was in the hospital and just being able
to be reunited with her when it was finally time
for a discharge. So I think really in general, whether
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it's COVID patients or you know, any other kind of
patients at this time, just with no family members being
allowed in the hospital, just that moment of seeing them
reunited with their families and being able to hug them
and love on them again when it's so uncertain at
the time where they said, you know, I'm not sure
if you'll ever see your family member again, so say
your goodbye. So that's been really heart working and it's
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so fun to see one for everybody from CJ. Stevens
twenty two. What is your favorite comfort food in quarantine
or have you tried any new recipes while you've been
in quarantine. I want chicken and waffles, and I hadn't.
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I said, that's the first thing I want when I
go to a restaurant. I'm just going to go all
out and get chicken and waffles, Blake, Nicole, I'm just
learning to cook at this phase in life. You know,
we got the Insta pot. We made a pot roast
and um. But I've have been doing takeout sushi and
so I guess that's kind of always been one of
my favorites and also a comfort food. But I'm like Judy,
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I can't wait to get to go to a restaurant
and just have have great service and just relax and
not have anything planned and just I mean, y'all can
you remember when you just say, hey, you want to
meet me at so and so and yes, yes, yeah,
miss that that's spontan spontaneity. It's like you've lost It's
like we've lost control, we've lost independence. Um, so I'm
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looking forward to regaining that. But I did make some
sushi at home. So one of my twins is, I mean,
you've never seen the skinniest little twelve year old be
able to put away like a gazillion rolls like this
kid can. It's unbelievable. So she her her nanny actually
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bought her a sushi making kit with a little mat
and the chopsticks for her birthday, which was recently, And
so I hunted down because we haven't been out of
the house. We were ordering everything in so I was
able to find the seaweed wraps on Amazon and some
sushi rice and you know, then I had some rice
vinegar that you mix in with sugar for the sushi rice,
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and then I got some of that fake crab at
my Last Time Things club. So we made the sushi
rice and then laid it all out with the seaweed
and put the crab and some avocado in it and
rolled it all up and now she with California Rolls
hates the cucumber in it because she doesn't like the crunch.
(43:43):
So this was nice making our own. She didn't have
to poke out the cucumber pieces one at a time
with their chopsticks. So we rolled it up and the
first one was a little shaky while confess it you
didn't quite well and yeah, it was actually kind of tricky,
but by the second one she actually had it down
pretty good. So now we realize we need a sharper
(44:06):
knife because it's really hard to cut the role without
super sharp knife. So that's gonna sushi cutting knife's gonna
have to go on on the worst of things to buy.
But it was kind of fun. Sounds fun. I know
I've tried last I guess it was last or two
years ago for my birthday, we had like a sushi
making knight and how a sushi chef come and like
teach us how to do it. And it was interesting
(44:27):
to say the least. Let's for sure, there is no
there's no way I would attempt sushi. I would I
would be coming to you Nicole to steal. No way,
But that's awesome, Lauren, what about you? What are you
um cooking for the hobby during this Harry Sushi yet.
(44:50):
I haven't tried that yet, but I love to cook.
That's when. Honestly, one of my favorite parts about Quarantine's
being able to have the time to do it so um.
And actually he it surprised me with his cooking skills
when I come home from work and some of the
days we've got steak and potatoes and all this stuff made.
So that's been really fun in learning that. But we
had today we had homemade Greek petas for lunch and
(45:15):
I'm making a apple honeymustard pork ros for dinner. So
I don't know, I just love this. This is I
love to go. So this has been a fun time
to be able to try out new stuff. Awesome. That's
kind of all the questions we have. Should we yeahs yes,
I want to m Lauren and Nicole. I know Lauren
(45:36):
you may be a little bit more familiar or Nicole
maybe because you're closer to us. But so two days
from now, starting Saturday, we are, for the first time
ever in our history, having an online audition submission, so
as crazy as it sounds, and Nicole, you mentioned being
online with Israel. In Egypt, we have we too, have
been online internationally developing a very robust platform where candidates
(46:03):
can submit their full applications. They can apply, they can write,
they can come back in and out of the application
like a college application, and then they'll submit a video
introducing themselves and then they'll set us submit a video
sixty seconds of them dancing their best, their homes, their garage,
their backyard, their choice of music. They'll submit that and
(46:27):
then we will be taking those applications from May second
through May fifteenth, and from that we will be judging.
On the back end, We'll still have our judges. Every
judge will be judging from the comfort of their own
place and space, and that's what we'll be doing to
(46:47):
go into round two, the semifinal round that you guys
would remember, and at that point we will send out
dance videos that they would need to learn and again
send us a video back of them doing the choreography.
So I'm really excited. I've talked to so many people
about this, and I think there's some benefits to it
because the people that you know what, nobody will have
(47:11):
to have spend the money on travel to get to
Dallas for round one or round two. For those that
have kind of that audition anxiety that kind of just
you know, blank out, that won't happen, because if it does,
they can refilm themselves and submit the video that they
really think presents their best. And then from a judge's perspective,
we as judges won't be looking at five people at
(47:32):
a time. We'll be looking at one candidate at a time.
We'll have her entire application with everything right at our fingertips.
We can watch it again and again, make very thorough
notes and hopefully, you know, give him a green light
to the next round. So that starts this Saturday. I'm
so excited to see if you get a different quality
(47:54):
of candidates that you have just from a whole new
system of auditioning and that I think it's very exciting
and certainly does save a lot of the expenses for
many of the girls who are traveling from all over
and so I think that's going to be a real
win win for everybody that's involved. Sure, hope. So I
know that I've had some people just send me videos
(48:14):
on Instagram unsolicited, and they're good, they're good dancers, and
I think we'll be able to definitely see the dance
technique and everything that we need to on the application.
But I'm excited and from the discussions we've had with
the company that's helping us develop this software, I do
think that this will exponentially increase the candidates. And just fy,
(48:37):
we have thirty of our current squad re auditioning. It's
our largest crazy group I know. So we have thirty
re auditioning veteran hopefuls in addition to all the new candidates.
So we're real excited. That starts on Saturday, and it's
not just one day where there's there's two weeks where
people can submit an application. So fingers cross, y'all, because
(49:00):
when it goes live, there's no turning back. We've jumped
in now, and you guys have an incredible group of
returning I mean thirty incredible candidates coming back. So you
guys have such a strong team and a team full
of so many amazing women inside and out, and you
(49:20):
guys have some tough decisions. We do, but but they
they're they're coming because of people like y'all. Y'all are
such amazing examples of successful women both in skill and
in spirit. So We're so proud to have y'all be
a part of the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader's family.
Thank y'all so much for joining us. I'm really enjoying this.
(49:44):
I wish I wish we'd been doing this all these years,
but we're all getting new new ideas and reconnected in
a sense being although we're all separated. It's it's strange. UM.
So I think that's it for this weeks, just for kicks.
Next week we are going to do a Mom's Day special.
(50:05):
Judy is going to have her daughter um Cassie, and
Haley will have her mother Charlotte, and I will have
my daughter Samantha, and we'll all talk moms and daughters step.
It might be a little spicy, I really know. I
expect excited and thank you guys so much for joining us.
The entire Dallas Cowboys HERELD will be thrilled to see
(50:26):
you guys on this episode. Thanks for having Thanks for
having guys. Thank you Judy and Haley, and I'll see y'all.
Thanks time on just guys. Okay. This has been a
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