Blessed Beyond Coincidence-The Miracles of a Mother's Faith: Tiffaney Castañeda's Story - Latter-Day Lights - LDS Podcast "Latter-Day Lights" - Inspirational LDS Stories

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Alisha Coakley (00:31):
And I'm Alisha Copley.
Every member of the church hasa story to share, one that can
instill faith, invite growth,and inspire others.

Scott Brandley (00:40):
On today's episode, we're going to hear how
one woman's journey of trialsand miracles has helped her to
remember that the Lord not onlyhears us, but speaks to us along
the way.
Welcome to Latter Day Lights.
So welcome to the show.

Tiffaney Castañeda (01:16):
Hi.
Thank you.
I'm excited to be here.

Yeah, we're so excited to have you.
You were telling us a littleearlier that you you've listened
to a good handful of our shows.
Is that right?

Yeah, you guys are my go-to during the day
when I'm outside working.
I'll just throw you guys on andlisten to you.

Aww.

Great stories.
They're flipping.

We have some really amazing guests for sure.
And we're really excited thatyou're here and that you're
going to be sharing your storyso you get to be among the
Latter Day Lights family now.
Um so, Tiffany, like we we doevery show, we'd love to know
just a little bit more aboutyou.
Do you want to kind of give usa little sneak peek into who you
are?

Sure.
Um so my name is TiffanyCastaneta and I have three kids.
I have 11 grandchildren.
I um live in California, um, inthe middle of nowhere, as um I
had kind of told you guysearlier.
Um I closest place would beYosemite National Park, would be
the closest to where I'm at.

(02:18):
Nice.
And yeah, I love it.
Um I did grow up in Salt LakeCity.
Um, I predominantly Sandy andWest Valley.
So I was in Utah most of mylife, and um then I got married,
had three kids, like I said,got divorced, and then I married
the man that I've been with nowfor 25 years.
So, and he's the California guythat dragged me out here.

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So I live in California.
He didn't like the snow inUtah, so he's like, We're out of
here.
So yeah, so I've been a membermy whole life.
Um, I was inactive for a shortperiod of time, but I about

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three years and then I cameback, and I've been active ever
since.

Nice.
And what do you do for fun, forwork, for hobbies?

Um, well, I am a notary for the state of
California, so I do do that onthe side, and that's just kind
of you know, my hours, myschedule, whatever I want, which
is really nice.
And then um I have a homestead,so I have animals.
I live on a couple acres ofland, and that keeps me very
busy.
Um my husband is a deputy forum a couple counties over, so he

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does that and we'll be retiringsoon.
So um, you know, that's aboutwhat keeps me busy.
I I just kind of do a lot ofservice.
Um, my branch is uh elderlyward or an elderly branch.
So um I was the release societypresident until all of this

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happened, and then I asked to bereleased because I was in
Florida and I couldn't do both,and so um they released me, and
so I did a lot of service forthe three years I was the
release society president, and Iloved it, and I I loved I still
love the branch.
Clearly, I'm still here.
So I love the branch, and thewomen are amazing.

So yeah.
Which part of Florida were youin?

Um my daughter lives in a place called
Light Oak.
Um, but predominantly some ofmy story will be in Gainesville,
Florida, where we were at for awhile.
So yeah.

Gotcha.
I went to college inGainesville for a little bit.

So what what was it at the university?

Uh at Santa Fe.
So okay.
Yeah.
Yep, nope, I was uh I couldn'tget behind the gators.
I am an old fan all the way.

Maybe after this story you will have at
least a sympathetic card how'sthat?

Oh I'm sure you know sympathy is there for sure,
but like all the way.

That's great.

Oh well, we're excited to to you know hear your
story and just to get to know alittle bit more about you and
your family.
And so um we're gonna turn thetime over to you.

Okay, well, um, to start with my story, I'm
gonna have to go back a fewyears so that you'll understand
when uh when we really get intoit.
Um, when my oldest daughter wasabout 10 years old, she was um
having well, it started when shewas five, she started breaking
out in spots like uhpigmentation was missing.

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And um we didn't know what itwas, the doctors didn't know
what it was.
They tried creams and stuff andthey couldn't figure it out.
And as long as she was healthy,we didn't really care, so we
kind of moved on with that.
When she was 10, she turnedjaundice.
I mean, almost yellow, goldyellow.
Um she had come back from herdad's house because we were had

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gotten divorced by then, and shewalked in the door and I said,
Oh my gosh, what has happened toyou?
And immediately I ran her tothe emergency room, and they
couldn't figure it out, and theyfinally said it's either her
kidneys or her liver.
And through more testing at theU of U, we found out through um
they did a what is it called?

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Like a scope and took a littlebit of her liver, and they said,
Well, if it's good, we knowit's her kidneys, if it's bad,
then we know it's her liver, andit was her liver.
Um, she had she had anautoimmune um disease, which was
autoimmune hepatitis.
So her body was basicallyfighting off her liver.
And um how we found out wasthey had contacted my ex-husband

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because he was the insurancecarrier, and um then he left it
on my message, my x-ray machine.
You know, back then when weused to have those things, yeah.
And basically told me that mydaughter had a 10% chance of
living and that she wasextremely severe, and that we

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needed to come in to meet withthe doctor to see if there was
anything we could do as far asextending her life, whether it
be a liver transplant orsomething like that.
So um we did go, we ran moretests, they gave her huge doses
of um medication, which was ofsteroids, it was horrible on her

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body.
Um, but um it's and through,yes, I would say, of course,
medication.
The Lord uses medication, butum of course I had for a
blessing to be given to her.
And when we went in for thetesting to be, you know, to see
how the medication had done,because the doctor actually told

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me, I don't think this is gonnado anything.
It hurt her liver is so badthat you know, we are probably
looking at some type of umtransplant at her age, and I was
like, Oh my gosh.
But when we went in, we endedup in the waiting room for like
three hours, and I finally waslike, What is going on?
And she's like, Okay, we'lltake you to the room.

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The nurse doctor came in andsaid, I don't understand this, I
don't believe this, but yournumbers have literally gone um
to half.
And and I said, Really?
And she's like, I've never seenmedication work like that
before.
And I just kind of smiledbecause I was like, I don't

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really think it was amedication, I believe truly it
was the blessing.
And so that kind of starts thesegue of of where we're going.
And um, she was told not tohave children.
Um, like I said, you know, shewasn't supposed to live.
I mean, she had a 10% chance ofliving.
Um, when she was 16, she wastold not to have children.

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She I was told she probablywouldn't leave live past 21.
Um, when she was 19, she gotpregnant um with my
granddaughter, who is now 17.
Wow.
And um yeah, and and thenshortly after um she had another
one.
Um both pregnancies wereincredibly, incredibly hard on

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her.
Um the first one, um, thedoctor was in there for 45
minutes because there was somuch blood.
So part of this autoimmune thatyou have when you're with the
liver, she her blood wouldn'tclot.
And so her platelets werereally low.
And so she was bleedingtremendously through the birth.

(09:43):
Um and so it looked like amurder scene in there because I
was in there as her coach, anduh my daughter was white as a
ghost, and luckily, you know,the only thing my daughter asked
me, she's like, Mom, is my babyokay?
And of course, I went overthere, 10 fingers, 10 toes,
everything looks good.
Um, and I just stood with heruntil they had to give her

(10:05):
platelet and blood transfusions,and then her color started
coming back, and and things wentwell.
So that kind of is where westarted when she was real young.
And then um uh sh the father ofthis child of these two
children ended up um I guess youcould call it basically

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parentally kidnapping them afterum I would say um she tried to
get out of the relationship andshe did, and did she got married
to another man, and in theprocess, the he took the
children away and we couldn'tget a hold of them.
So there's a reason I'm sayingall this because it's it's all
come back and it all makes sensein the in the rest of the

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episode.
But um, so yeah, that wasdevastating for 10 years
listening to my daughter justball every single birthday,
Christmas, Easter, Mother's Dayfor no reason, you know, just
missing them.
That was really hard.

And of course, as the grandmother had no idea
where they were at all.

No, we did, we did, and they were in Utah,
and um but because when shewould try to go down there,
because she was living inKentucky at the time, when she
would try to go down and getthem, he would have them gone.
And because they were notmarried, there's no legal,
there's no legal custody, and soit's like whoever has them has

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the custody.
So if they found out mydaughter was in in town, they
would disappear for days on end.
So they would take the kids sothat we couldn't get a hold of
them.
When we would send them cards,they'd rail them back.
We'd send them, mail themgifts, they'd send them back.
When we try to call it to rollthem helper, we'd send child
support or child protectiveservices over, and nothing would

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happen.
That's another story.
But yeah, it was awful.
So for 10 years we kind of wentthrough that and it was awful.
And then when she was 21, Ithink, um, she was diagnosed
with stage four cirrhosis, andthat's just based off you know,
the autoimmune and of course themedication and everything

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combined.
Um, it was it was eminent.
Like we knew she wouldeventually get this because of
the disease.
Um fast forward um last year.
Um we were I guess a little bitbefore like the October of

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2023.
Um, my daughter's daughter, mygranddaughter, her name's
legend, she um was trying tolook for her mom, and she
finally found out that mydaughter was actually her
mother.
It's a long story, but theywere told that their stepmom was
their biological mom, and thenshe found out the truth.

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So then when she tell you,that's a whole new episode about
what went on with them.
I'm trying to like, okay, howdo I shorten this but make
sense?
Um that's crazy.
It really, it really is.
Um, and we're still gettingmore stories that we're just you
know, it's just incredible.
But so she started looking formy daughter, contacted her.

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We were in contact with her fora short period of time, and it
was an answer to prayers.
I mean, 10 years we have beenpraying for to find a way to get
a hold of my dog,granddaughter.
How can we do this?
Everything costs money, butwith my daughter so very sick
with stage four cirrhosis, shecan't really work for very long
or at all.

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The doctors never wanted her towork, so you need money for a
lawyer, you need, you know, andit just kind of like was a
never-ending problem.
And so we had kind of come toterms with we might have to wait
until they're 18 because nobodyhad the finances to fight this,
and it was really it was verycomplicated.

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Every lawyer she called, theywould say we wouldn't take the
case because there was so muchto it, and it was so
complicated.
Um and so that made it veryhard.
So when she contacted us andstarted talking to us behind her
dad and stepmom's back, weweren't sure how that was gonna
go because they get caught,she's gonna not only be in

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trouble, but they don't want herto have any contact with us at
all.

Right.

So after a few months, she called it off.
Um, she told them that she'dbeen talking to us, and they
told her a bunch of lies, andshe believed them, which we
understand that's been theirparents.
You're gonna want to believeyour mom and dad are telling you
the truth.
So she cut off all ties again,and that was in February of
2024.

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So um, after listening to mydaughter just cry and cry and
cry, because you know, it wasfinally like she finally thought
that God had answered herprayers, which I still believe
he did.
Um but it was really hard tocut off that communication
again.

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Um, come up to May of 2024.
Um I had broken my leg and Iwas getting ready for go for
surgery, and this happened theday before my surgery.
That's why I know it's in May.
So I had uh broken my leg atthe end of my driveway, and I
had it broke the bone in half,so they had to screw it

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together.
And so the day of my surgery, Iget a call from my um
children's stepmom and she'slike, Will you look at this
text?
And I did, and we didn't knowif it was real or not, because
it kept saying that they werefriends of my grandson in his
name, and I kept saying, No, Idon't know if that's true.
Let's just keep on.
We thought it might be thestepmom trying to trip us up and

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get the kids in trouble again.
So we were playing verycarefully, and then we found out
it was actually a real friendreaching out from my grandson's
buddy.
We got a hold of him, found outhe he got a hold of me.
I got up somehow, I thinkthat's what happened.
We got a hold of each other, westarted talking real briefly,

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and his dad found out right thenand there while we were
talking.
And his dad blew up, broke hisiPad, pulled him off the bed,
hit him in the head.
He stood all the way up thestairs and was yelling and
screaming at him.
Um, he was very, very abusive.
He was very abusive.
Got my granddaughter out, wassaying things like, if you don't

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want to be here, you can leave,that type of stuff.
My grandson told us some thingslater on.
He called and told us he tookoff running, he's at a friend's
house.
And I said, he says, What doyou want me to do, Mimi?
Because that's what they callme as Mimi.
And I said, I want you to goback to school tomorrow, and I

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want you to tell the counselor,and I want you to tell everybody
what's happening at home, and Idon't want you to stop, but I
want you to tell everybody untilthey start listening to you.
And it's a series of eventsthat would is very long, but
between the kids running away,then contacting us, my daughter

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already in motion.
We had a friend who worked forthe juvenile um court system in
Utah got a hold of her.
So between these three movingparts, within 48 hours, we had
protective custody of mygrandchildren.
And we had them taken out of thehouse.

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I know it was it to me that's amiracle because it that
everything came together sobeautifully.
Like we had been trying sincemy granddaughter contacted us,
and we were trying to um figureout how to get them out of the
house without getting, you know,because sometimes CPS won't do

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it, so they leave them there,and then they get in more
trouble, which is what hadhappened, and it just made life
at home much worse because youknow they wouldn't take them out
of the home.
So we were we had to make surethat that's what happened, and
it did, and it worked perfectly.
Like every single piece weneeded was in place, and I just

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told my daughter, I said, Thereis no other question that the
Lord has had his hand in thisbecause every time we're like,
Oh, you need this, boom, it'd bethere.
Oh, this needs to happen, boom,it would happen.
It was just like seamlesslyputting itself together.
My youngest daughter and theirstepmom went and picked up those

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kids and took them to theirstepmom's house, and they stayed
there till my daughter fromFlorida with her son could fly
out there.
Now, in the process of allthis, it costs money.
Nobody has the money to justget up, go, throw away all this
thousands of dollars.

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And we had huge people.
My we somebody put out aGoFundMe for them, and we had
many people donate, which was ahuge, huge, huge blessing.
It covered everything becausewhen they took my grandchildren
out of that house, it theyliterally walked away with
nothing, like a little handbag.

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The officers didn't even tellthem what they were taking, um,
where they were going, how longthey would be gone.
The grandkids had no idea.
So one at least had the thoughtto pack some underwear, but as
far as clothes and things likethat, we had to basically start
from scratch.

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Right.
And so those donations wereabsolutely blessings, huge
blessings.
And we had people like a friendof mine, she she called me up,
and she's a single mama five,and she had been out for
surgery, you know.
So, and and she is a member ofthe church.

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She called me up and she'slike, Tiffany, I I saw your
Facebook page, and I'm just I Ihave to do this.
I know you're gonna tell me no.
And she's I'm like, What areyou talking about?
And she's told me, she's like,tell me when she needs to be in
Utah.
I'm going to buy her airlineticket for her and her son.
And so I'm like, She couldn'tafford this.

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I know she couldn't affordthis, but she said, Don't take
these blessings away from me.
Wow.
And how do you how do you howdo you like reason with that?
Because you know where she'sstanding, but you understand
what she's saying, and she feelsso prompted to do so.

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And so she did it, and so itwas just remarkable.
Um she needed a lawyer.
We found out 48 hours beforeshe had to show up in court, the
uh Guardia Lightham told hershe needed a she needed a
lawyer, and my daughter calledme crying, and she's like, Mom,
how are you gonna do this?
I don't I don't have fivethousand dollars.

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How are we gonna come up withthis?
And after everything, I justsaid pray.
Just pray.
I said, You can't sit here andthink that this is all
coincidental.
This is Heavenly Father isfinally creating this miracle
for us.
We have been praying for over10 years for your kids, and it's

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here, and everything is inplace.
I said, if you're meant to getthis lawyer and you're meant to
have these kids, the Lord willfind a way.
And she just said, Okay, soliterally in my kitchen, I got
on my knees and I prayed with mydaughter on the phone, and and
it was a very simple prayer, andit was just you know, help us

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find the money so that this canbe possible.
And she did five thousanddollars in 24 hours.
She she had it.
Wow, it was incredible.
My daughter called me back upand she's like, I can't even
believe this is happening.
Like, if somebody told me this,you'd almost think that they're
lying.

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Because it was just so boom,boom, boom, boom, every and you
know, blessing, miracle.
I mean, I there's a fine linebetween the two, you know, but
they say blessings are, youknow, things that even we can
bless each other, right?
And the miracles are thingsthat only the Lord can do.

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So these are truly miss, theseare truly miracles because there
is nothing we ourselves couldhave made this happen, but um,
because the Lord guided peopleinto our lives, brought people
that we needed into our lives,everything just went amazing.
And um, the lawyer and sheended up getting the kids, and

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um, they're in Florida now, andhe actually gave up his rights
because he didn't want the stategetting involved with any of
his finances or looking into hispast or his his present too.
Um he uh he's a drug dealer forin Utah.

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So yeah, he did not wantanybody finding out anything.
So so he so anyway, so now wehave the kids, and that in
itself for us was a hugemiracle.
And uh so she finally gets totake him to Florida and has had

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been given permission andeverything's legal to do so, and
she gets to Florida, and umthree weeks later she ends up in
the hospital.
And by now, uh I am juststarting to walk.
I haven't been walking for fourmonths, and so I am just

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starting to walk, and uh, I'mout of a boot and uh off of
crutches, and um she calls meand she says, Mom, I need you.
And I'm like, uh what do youmean?
And she's like, it's mygallbladder, it's gone back.
I don't have and I don't, Ican't get out of the hospital.

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Lester, her fiance, has to goback, has to be go back to work,
and she can't, you know, theycan't leave the kids at home at
the hospital, but or while she'sin the hospital, they can't
leave the kids alone.
So I was like, I don't, I don'thave the money.
I just paid my huge doctor billfor my surgery.

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They just got home from all ofthis.
The money's gone, they didn'thave any money, and I said,
Okay, I said, let's pray.
I said, if I'm supposed to comehelp you, we'll figure out how
to get this, how I'm gonna getout there.
And um, she said, Okay.
And so we hung up and I said alittle prayer, and I said, So

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far you've been you're battingit 100 right now, Father in
heaven.
I mean, I'm clearly I'm being alittle facetious, but I mean, I
I was more sincere than this.
But I did pray to him and Ijust said, Look, if I'm supposed
to be in Florida, help mydaughter, please help me find
the money to get there becauseyou know what my bank account

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looks like, and you know whather bank account looks like.
So I'm not sure how this isgonna happen, but we need close
to $600 to get me out there in24 hours.
And I kind of went about that.
Was in the morning, I kind ofwent about my day.
Um, I went out to get the mail.
And as I was walking back tothe house, I opened up an

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envelope from the hospital.
I assumed it was either aanother bill or thank you for
paying us, you know, the twothat you usually get after
something like that.
And uh I got a letter statingthat I had overpaid the hospital
$600 and that they would beputting that back into my health
insurance account and that itshould be there by such and such

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a day, which was the day Ireceived the letter.
Um I stared at it was like, noway.
No way.
So I um I came running backhome and I mean back into the
house, I grabbed my phone, Ilooked up, sure enough, there
was six hundred dollars.
My ticket was $580, and it costme $20 to get my luggage onto

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the plane.
So exactly $600 is what Ineeded.

Speaker 5 (27:02):
Wow.

$600 is what the Lord gave us.
So I flew to Florida and I wassupposed to be there for about
three weeks.
That turned into six monthsbecause um uh in that in that

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time frame with the gallbladdergoing bad for most of us, for
you and for me, if ourgallbladder went bad, they would
just basically take it out andwe would just go on living.
But you need a liver tosupplement what the gallbladder
does.
And since my daughter's liverwas not working properly, or if
at all, at this point, that Ithink um she couldn't, they

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wouldn't um take it out.
And it was causing her a lot ofpain, and so they decided that
they she needed a livertransplant immediately.
So here I am in Florida with mytwo grandkids I've just re-
been reunited with.
And I hadn't seen them sincethey were three and four years

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old, and so at that time um theywere 14 and 15 years old, and
um and they they just you know,trying to figure it out, getting
into school, trying to find newfriends, you know, in a new
state, new everything was brandnew for them, and bless their
hearts, they they've doneamazing, remarkable, they've

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just done amazing.
So I just we went through theprocess of tests and stuff, and
I prayed the whole time becauseif you fail in any of those
tests, you are not eligible fora liver.
And if my daughter didn't get aliver, her life expectancy was

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less than three years.
And so I was just, you know,praying that she would get
through all those tests, whichshe did, and she did well.
Um, they were a little worriedabout her heart, but they
assumed that it was just becauseof the liver.
And after running the test, itcame out that that was the

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purpose, that the liver wasaffecting her heart, and that
they assumed that once the liverum they got a new liver that
she would be okay.
So in that, we uh had to youhave to wait for approval for
the insurance, and that wasn't abig deal, it was just a matter

(29:39):
of time, you know, because youknow, insurance never speeds
anything up, and so it was justa matter of waiting for them to
you know get going.
But I'm gonna say Florida ispretty quick, at least compared
to California.
Everything takes forever here,but Florida they did it in about
through two or three weeks, andum, in that means.

(29:59):
Time we had Hurricane Helenecome through, which I'm sure you
guys all saw.
That was an experience.
If you told me I was gonna gothrough a hurricane, I would
have told you you're crazy.
I live in California.
That's never gonna happen.
But um my daughter kept tellingme, Don't worry, mom.
It we go through them all thetime, you know.

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Two, three, four just keptgrowing.
I kept looking at her.
And by then there was nowhereto go, you couldn't leave.
The storm was over 400 mileslong, you know, covering
everything.
And it was supposed to hitright above right on us.

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We were supposed to get it.
And my court husband here inCalifornia and my little branch
that I live in were prayingtheir little hearts out for me.
And um my husband was honestly,he was more scared than I was.
He kept saying, Aren't youafraid?
And I said, No.
I said, I didn't come toFlorida to have something bad

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happen to me.
I came to Florida to take careof our daughter and our
grandkids, and I know Father inHeaven will protect us.
And I just kept telling himthat.
I kept telling my daughter, mygrandkids.
And sure enough, as soon asthat storm hit the coast, it
shifted just enough to miss ourlittle tiny little place.

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Not that it didn't havedestruction, trust me.
I was floored at how muchdestruction that did.
And it sounded like a freighttrain was running right next to
our building.
Our little uh, we were in awell, they call it the man cave,
but it's made out of all brick,and it's where they had like a
game room and a cot and a pooltable and stuff.

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But you go, you stand there andyou just listen, it sounds like
there's a freight train justrunning right next to the
building that was justincredible.
Um, but we were safe.
Nothing, nothing happened tous, and we were perfectly safe.
Um I can't say much for theneighborhood, but like you know,

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the gas station right down thestreet looked like somebody had
used a can opener to open up.
The top of it just was allcurled up, and um vinyl was
wrapped around poles, poles werehanging, they were all over the
ground, there was noelectricity, clearly, no phone,
no nothing for quite a while.
So for me, that's just pureblessings and protection by the

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Lord.
And then um, two days after wegot service, we found out that
she'd been approved, that now wejust needed to get her tested.
Um, because it had been severalweeks, so they wanted a blood
test, and then we could get heron the list and we were good to
go.
I was so excited.

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We had decided, oh, I forgotthat one part.
Um uh we had decided that umbecause she lived about an hour
and 45 minutes away from thehospital, that it would be
better to rent a home closer toGainesville.
So that because once you have aliver transplant, you have to

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go to the hospital like everyweek.
The first time it's like everycouple days, and then it's every
week, and then after a whileit's every two weeks, and they
kind of until everything startsbalancing out with the drugs and
everything for that.
So we had we went out and wedid that, and um, we went to the
hospital, we took the grandkidsto school, and um, oh wait, no,

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they weren't in school yet.
Sorry, no school yet.
They were just home.
We went to go get the bloodtesting done, and um I kept
telling my daughter, I said,Man, your car is driving so
loud.
And uh, she's like, What do youmean?
I said, It's just the tires areso loud, and she's like, Mom,
it's just probably because thekids aren't here talking your

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ear off.
So I was like, I don't thinkso, but okay.
So we drove to the hospital,got all that done, was coming
back, and I'm going about 80miles an hour down the freeway,
and all of a sudden I hear boom.
And I was like, my heart sunkbecause if anybody knows, when

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you hit a flat tire on thefreeway going that fast, you can
flip your car, you can have itwrap around.
There's a lot of things thatcan happen.
So I hurried and pulled over tothe side.
Um, I grew up as a mechanic'sdaughter, so I know a lot about
cars.
So I was prepared to change atire.
Yes, I know how to do that.

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I was prepared to do what Ineeded to.
So when I walked around and Ilooked at the tire, there was
air in it.
The tire looked fine.
And I I kicked it just to makesure, yeah, there's still air in
it.
And I'm like, what the heck?
So I thought, okay, maybe it'sa belt.
So I had my daughter pop thehood and I'm looking under the

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hood, and everything looks fine.
And I'm I'm just staring atthis car, going, what the heck?
So I get, I get, we kind of hopoff the freeway because you
couldn't go more than 30 milesan hour without hearing that
noise.
And my daughter kept going,What is it?
What is it?
I'm like, I have no clue.

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There's air in the tire, so Idon't know what's going on.
Hobbled off, found anotherspot, looked at it again, still
looked fine, don't know what'sgoing on, found a tire place.
They told us the tread, thetread had come off part of the
tire, but the tire was stillintact.

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Okay.
I was like, okay, how's thateven possible?
I mean, you know, usually whenthe tread comes off, the rest of
it rips off too.
But I'm like, okay, so but theydidn't have any tires, so we
went to another tire place justdown the street.
We didn't, and they happened tohave two tires that we needed
and could get us in at that verymoment.

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So we drove two minutes downthe street and found him and got
in.
The guy comes out and he asks,he goes, Who's the one who owns
the Ford?
And we raised our hands.
He goes, Could you come withme, please?
And I'm like, Okay.
So we go back there and helook, we look down at it, and he
looks at me and he goes, Wheredid you say you drove this car?

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I said, On the freeway, going80 miles an hour.
And he said, You sh there's noway.
And he showed us the tire, andall you could see was cord, like
the wiring on the tire.
That's it.
He said, There's no way youshould have been able to drive
off the freeway like this.
I don't even know how you gothere.

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And I just smiled at mydaughter, and I said, Okay,
thank you.
And I just and my daughter'sinactive, so I kept every time
something like this happened, Ijust kept going, hmm, you know,
the Lord is watching over you.
Can you get it together,please?
So we got home, we went and haddinner, celebrated.

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We were so excited.
She's got on the transplantlist, it's official.
We get home, and my daughter,we're going to bed after dinner,
and she can't find her keys.
And she's asking me, she says,Dump out your purse.
I think you grabbed the SUVkey.
Can't find her keys.
I said, It's late, go to bed.

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We'll talk about it later.
Just go to bed.
She's like, Okay, mom.
I didn't know where the keywas.
Um, she went to bed.
I went to bed next morningbecause it was so late.
I usually get her up, I'm hercaretaker, so I would get her
medication, get the kidsbreakfast, started, do all that.
But it was so late, I thought,an hour's not going to make a
difference.
Let's let them sleep in.

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Well, the SUV started going offthe alarm, like somebody had
bumped into it, and I wasstaying in their camper trailer,
which was right next to it.
So I kind of jumped up and ranover to see what was going on.
Maybe the dog hit it or someanimal because she lives in the
country in Florida.
Nothing.
My granddaughter comes runningaround the corner, and I'm like,

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Did you do this?
And she's like, No, I thoughtthere was an intruder.
Don't come out for an intruderagain.
Just go back in the house.
So I got my shoes, went in, Iwent to go find my daughter.
My daughter was dressed, butshe was dressed very oddly.
She had very odd clothes,summer winter clothes on, and it
was still very hot and humid,like 90 degrees.

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I walked over and I startedtalking to her, and she kept
repeating the same thing overand over again.
I'm okay, I'm just sittinghere.
I'm okay, I'm just sittinghere, no matter what I said.
I walked over, pushed herhoodie off, pushed her hair
back, nobody was home.
She was not there in her eyes.

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So I didn't know what was wrongat the moment, but I heard a
voice say, She has toxicpoisoning, you need to get her
to the hospital immediately.
So me and my granddaughtergrabbed her, put her in the car,
we got her to the hospital.
I looked up toxic poisoningbecause I didn't know what that
was, and I found out that it issomething you get with cirrhosis

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because your liver can't clear,when your body can't clean out
the toxins, they eventuallybuild up in your system.
Well, the medication that shewas supposed to have been taking
that she had gotten just beforethe hurricane hit four days
prior, five days prior to this,she hadn't been taking for three
weeks.
So I wasn't aware of that.

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I didn't know that that's whatit did.
And part of the problem wasthey kept sending it to the
wrong pharmacy, so then they'dsay, No, we have to wait and get
it again.
So she eventually forgot shewas supposed to go get it.
In that if you reach 200 inyour toxic count, you look at
brain damage, death, um, you'relooking at a coma, being put in

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a coma, medical coma, I think itis.
Um, and you're also looking atum seizures.
Um, there's a lot of factors,and people actually do die from
toxic quasine if not treatedquickly.
Well, that just set my heartrate up like esponentially.
And I am racing down thestreet.

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I'm watching my daughter gocoherent.
She's having seizures, they'retremor seizures in the car.
She doesn't know who I am, shedoesn't know who her daughter
is.
She can't repeat, she justkeeps repeating those same two
lines over and over again.
And we get to the hospital andshe has a full-blown seizure in
front of the nurse.

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We get her in there, and I findout through um the nurse, I
asked her after the test cameback.
The doctor wouldn't tell mewhat um the numbers were, but
her I knew she was concernedbecause when you go in and they
think, yada, yeah, yeah, yeah,you know, and then all of a

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sudden they're serious, you canhear the doctor's voice change.
So I asked the nurse what thenumbers were.
She was 198.
That was her toxic numbers.
So I am sitting there crying,holding my daughter's hand,
waiting for them to get themedicine, and I'm praying, and

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I'm like, please, Lord, pleasedon't let her die.
She just got her kids back.
She has so much to live for,please don't let her go.
And as clear as I am talking toyou, I heard a voice saying,

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Tiffany, where is your faith?
And I sat up and I lookedaround the room and I just said
it back in my head.
I said, It's here, Lord.
It's here, but this is soscary.
And I don't want anything tohappen to my daughter.

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And he said, I did not createthese miracles to bring her
home.
It is not her time.
And I sat up and I was like,Okay, okay, I believe you.

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And so when the nurse came in,she's like standing there, and
I'm like, What are we waitingfor?
And she's like, Well, I needanother nurse to help me.
I can't move her myself and putthe medicine in because they
had to do it rectally.
And my daughter is about mysize, like height, and she's a

(43:05):
lot skinnier than I am, butshe's about we're about the same
height.
I turned around, jumped up, putthe bar down, grabbed my
daughter, flipped her over, puther in the position she was
supposed to, and I'm like, let'sgo, let's make this happen.
The nurse was shocked, and shestared at me.
I'm like, what are you waitingfor?
Get out of her body, get it inher body.

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So make another long storyshort at the ER, I was not their
favorite person by the time Ileft, I promise, but I am my
daughter's advocate, and so Iwas there to make sure my
daughter got taken care of, andshe did.
And um uh she woke up the nextmorning in the hospital.

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I had and her fiance drove 14hours to be there, and he was
there when she woke up, and shehad no idea.
The last thing she remembered,she says, was coming into my
trailer and asking me for tolook for the keys.
Now, um, how the how the SUV,if I if you remember, I said the
SUV went off and mygranddaughter and I were

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talking.
Well, it shut itself off byitself, you know, like somebody
hit the button and it turneditself off.
I didn't think anything aboutthat at the time because that's
what made me go in and talk tomy daughter, is I figured she
found the keys, and I was gonnago in and tell her, you know,
where were they?
Um, but when the next that day,the following day, when we were

(44:34):
at the house and she was in thehospital, I had the kids
cleaning up the debris fromHelene, all the trees had blown
down and stuff, and so we werecleaning that up.
And me packing for only threeweeks and have already been
there three months.
I I have very limited clothes,so I have to keep washing often.

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And I thought, well, this is agood opportunity.
So I went to grab all myclothes out of the cabinet in
the in the trailer, and when Ipulled down my pants, out fell
the key to the SUV.
It was full in my pants in thecabinet.

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And I my granddaughter and mygrandson did not grow up with
religion, they don't knowanything about the Bible, they
don't know anything really morethan Jesus Christ, who is
tattooed on their dad's body.
That's about all they knowabout him.
Um, with the exception of a fewLDS friends that they made in
Utah.
Um, I called my granddaughterbecause she'd been asking a lot

(45:39):
of questions, and I handed herthe keys, and she goes, Where
did you find those?
And so I told her.
And she just looked down at thekeys and she looked up at me
and she goes, Mimi, does thismean what I think it means?
I go, what do you think itmeans?
And she goes, God save mymother.
Now, if I had not been there,like if I wasn't able to have

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come out and my daughter had hada toxic um poisoning incident
like this, it's very much like adrunk.
Or in this case, the kids wouldhave just thought my daughter
was really sick and they wouldhave put her to bed, and that
would have killed her becausethey just would have put her to
sleep and she would have died inher bed, and so um, so there

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was another reason why I know Iwas supposed to be there to make
sure that my daughter lived.
So if you can hear the story,you can start seeing all these
little miracles, these littleunbelievable events that the
Lord has provided in one shortperiod of time at this moment.

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And uh about um, I would say 30days later, I was praying.
I asked the Lord, I said, I'venow been gone um four months
almost, three and a half, fourmonths, somewhere around there.
That's a long time.

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My poor husband.
Um with a with a with a housefull of animals, because we have
pigs and we have chickens andwe have turkeys and we have
dogs.
And he's an he's a deputy andhe's trying to keep all of this
together.
He was really, really, reallymissing me at this point.

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And um, so I always startedpraying.
I said, Look, Father in heaven,I I I'm not ungrateful for your
blessings, I'm not ungratefulfor your miracles, and I am so
grateful.
I said, But after Whitney hasthis transplant, I'm gonna be
here another two to three monthsto take care of her, and I need

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this to happen now.
I said, please, please let themfind a donor for her within the
next week.
Yeah, I gave the Lord anultimate in a sense, and I'm
like, please, please, if you doit by this time, I can be home
by you know January.

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And so I kind of thought, wow,that sounds kind of selfish,
Tiffany.
Like, look at everything that'shappened, and now you're asking
for this too.
So I didn't tell my daughter, Ididn't actually tell anybody
that I prayed about that becauseI thought it count, did sound
kind of selfish, and probablywas because I did miss my home

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and my husband.
But five days after thatprayer, we got a call for a
donor.
And my daughter is a she'sshe's a B negative, so it's not
like any organ will fit like anO, you know, like O kind of goes
with everybody.
But and and they could use theO personn with the O type blood

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for that, but the organ isn'tguaranteed not to be rejected
because it's not an exact match.
And you also have that thingwhere they're when you're donate
with donating organs, ifsomebody donates an organ but
they've you know, um, and it'sfrom like a car accident or
something like that, you havethe option to use it, but

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without a history, so you don'tknow if they've done drugs or if
they've had this or that, andthey kind of go off a whim.
So I was being very specific inmy prayers for a specific donor
with B minus, B negative, um,blood type.
I mean, it had to be a veryspecific organ.
And to get it in five days, itjust we were my daughter was

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terrified and excited all at thesame time because you're
basically filleted like a fishto go in and have that removed
and then have one put back in.
And that's a serious, serioussurgery.
And I was ecstatic, I was soexcited for multiple reasons.

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And my daughter, I said, 'Areyou excited?' and she goes, I'm
scared.
And she goes, 'What if I die,mom?' and I hugged her and I
said, Sweetheart, if you don'tget it, you will definitely die.
So you need, we need this.
And I said, You're gonna makeit, and she said, Okay.

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So we went in within 48 hours.
She was in the hospital and shewas getting her surgery, and
she was shaking the entire way,and honestly, I was nervous too,
because they say the sicker youare, the harder it is.
So she had the surgery, and thedoctor kept telling me what a

(51:07):
beautiful liver it was.
It's such a beautiful liver.
I was like, I will take yourword on it because I don't know
what a beautiful liver lookslike.
But he also told me that mydaughter was much sicker than
they had thought, and so um,that kind of worried me a little
bit.
But the surgery was a success,and when they cut you open, it's

(51:31):
kind of like an L shape, andthey have to cut, you know,
write down your muscles.
So when they sew you up, theydon't sew your muscles up, they
just sew the skin up for thefirst 48 hours.
So in case there was anemergency, they can go back in
without having to damage more ofyour muscle, abdominal muscles.

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So she seemed to be, she lookedlike she was nine months
pregnant, but I assume that'sjust normal swelling.
Never had that surgery.
So she even got up and walked.
She was doing really good, shewas in a lot of pain, but she
was she's like her mom.
She's very stubborn andbull-headed, and she insisted on

(52:16):
getting up and walking, nomatter how bad it hurts, to
prove that she was gonna beokay.
And so um they 24 hours wentby, the doctors were pleased.
Um, they saw a little bit ofproblem with her heart, but they
just assumed that that wouldfix itself.
They sewed her muscles back up,they sewed her back up, and

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within less than 12 hours, shestarted falling, spiraling down.
Um, her heart went intocongestive heart failure, her
liver went into congestive, wascongested as well, and it was
because the heart was not usedto that much blood being pumped
into her, um, you know, beingpumped in from the liver.

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So it filled and stoppedworking.
And then the other side wasworking overtime to make up for
the other side, and they wereworried she was gonna have a
heart attack.
So they had to go back in andpull out the blood and try to
make this work.
And she we tried waking her up,like you know, pulling her out

(53:24):
after that surgery, theemergency surgery, but she
started panicking.
She was almost like ahallucinogen type of thing.
Like she was telling me to callmy sister because they're
trying to kill her, and and shelooked like skin, a skeleton

(53:46):
with skin on it.
She was just, they had suckedthe all the fluid out of her
body.
And for like 12 hours, she wasjust she wouldn't rush, she
wouldn't do anything, so theyput her back under.
And when if you've ever been ona ventilator, it's a tube, and
if you wake up and you're onthis ventilator, it feels like

(54:07):
you're suffocating because allyou have is this small tube
breathing for you, and so everytime we try to wake her up, she
would start, she would try tofight it because she felt like
she was suffocating.
Um, but she never got betterafter that.
Um, the heart wasn't workingright, um, liver wasn't working

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right because of the heart notworking right.
Um, everything went down,numbers went crazy.
Um, and they decided that theywere gonna put her what was
called an ECMO system, and whatthat does is it's it works for
your body.
So there are people with liverand heart, there are people with

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uh that use this before theyget a transplant.
Um, like if you're waiting fora lung transplant, they'll
usually put this on, and theECMO system will work for it,
the lungs, so that they can livelonger, but they have to live
in the hospital with this.
And they also put like organsthat are coming from a donor

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before it goes into a body,they'll put it on the machine to
make sure it's workingproperly.
So the ECMO system pushesoxygen and blood through this
organ for you, and so theydecided they needed to do that
for my daughter's heart.
So they set her up with an ECMOsystem and it goes up through
her groin area into thearteries, and it starts doing

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the work for her.
Well, it didn't exactly workproperly, um, it helped with the
right side.
Let's see.
It helped with the left side,but not the right side.
And so watching her numbers godown, watching her not doing
well, watching everything justfluctuate, they would try

(56:00):
something, it wouldn't work,numbers would drop.
Um, they had her highlysedated.
Um the doctor pulled me overand and said, Tiffany, I need to
talk to you.
And he sat me down and he said,I'm not gonna lie to you.
Your daughter is the, and thisis in Gainesville University.

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Um, he says, I'm not gonna lieto you.
He says, Your daughter is thesickest person in this hospital.
And I'm just sitting in thewaiting room by myself.
I've been doing most of this bymyself until our fiance came.
And uh I said, okay, what doesthat mean?

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And he said, if we don't, hegoes, I want to try a procedure
that has only been done fivetimes in the world, and it has
never been done here, and to behonest, I've never done it
either.
And tears are now streamingdown my face, and he said, But

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if we don't do this, yourdaughter is going to die.
And um, and uh he said, I'm notgonna lie to you, this is
extremely dangerous, and there'sa good chance she could die

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during the procedure.
And even if we get through theprocedure, there is a chance she
could die afterwards because wedon't know how her body will
react.

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And I said, Well, what am Isupposed to say?
He says, Can we do it?
And I said, I don't think wehave a choice.
And he told me I had 50-50chance, but I didn't believe
him.
You don't tell somebody thatwith a 50-50 chance, and I was

(58:18):
just bawling, hystericallybawling.
And he said, he said, so can Iget your consent?
And I said, Yes.
So he left, and what it is isthey're going to put a second
ECMO system in her body.
So the other one was gonna gothrough her neck, and there's a

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cord that goes down through theartery and through the heart and
up and around and out.
What it the way I've describedit to people is if you've ever
gone to a gym and you need aspotter to help you if you want
to increase your weights on yourmuscles, you can't do it all by
yourself because you won't beable to get it up, but you need

(59:00):
a spotter just enough to helpyou get it up and then help you
down.
And eventually you'll be ableto do that yourself, which
you've had a spotter a fewtimes, because you just need
that little extra help, and yourmuscles need to have that kind
of memorization.
Well, this is what her heartneeded, it needed that little
extra help, and this is supposedto help pump that blood that

(59:22):
kept storing up in her heart andpushing it through into her
into the other um artery on theother side, and um I laid in the
waiting room.
I found the furthest chair inthe waiting room in a corner,

(59:48):
and I curled up in a bottle onthe chair, and I just cried.
And I told Father in heaven, Isaid, I know what you told me.
And I believe you.
That's all I have to hold onto.
Is your promise.
This is so scary.

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And I am all alone.
And I don't have anyone herewith me.
And then I got this really warmfeeling.
And I heard, you're not alone,I'm here with you.
And I said, I know you are.

(01:00:37):
And I'm grateful, but I wish myhusband was here right now.
You know, I mean, I'm nottrying to downplay that.
It was such a help to hear theLord truly being there every

(01:00:57):
time I needed him.
But uh the procedure went well.
She looked, she had therewasn't a place on her body that
wasn't covered in something.
She had wires, she had allkinds of everything.

(01:01:19):
The only spot she had was righthere that I could kiss her
forehead.
She was covered in everything,and um I walked in.
And it's hard, even, and thisis where I talk about faith and

(01:01:42):
fear in learning to trust Fatherin heaven when he tells you
something.
How many blessings have we everhad where the Lord tells us
something and we get done withthe blessing?
And we're still questioning it.
Will it really happen?
Will it still happen?

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Yeah, you know, and I'm I'mjust as guilty.
But I had to just, and let metell you, Lucifer, Satan, he'll
take you down that rabbit hole.
You know, especially when youhear something like that, and
you're sitting alone and you'refighting off those thoughts in

(01:02:25):
your head, hearing that she'sgonna die, you're gonna lose
your daughter, everything's invain.
I mean, just these thoughtswere going through my head, and
I kept saying, No, Father inheaven promised.
He promised, he promised.
That's all I kept saying.
He promised.
He promised God does not breakhis promises.

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And so we decided uh she neededto have one of the ECMOs taken
out of her body, and I keptasking them and like we need to
wake her up because her hernumbers were so unstable.
And uh I heard a voice tell me,because I have no nurse and I'm

(01:03:09):
no doctor, I'm just an advocateand a crazy woman for my
daughter, according to thenurses.
So um, but I kept getting the Ikept getting a voice that would
just repeat itself, you need toget her off the medication.
She'll do better off themedication.
You need to take her off themedication.
And so I I I asked one of thenurses, I said, There's got to

(01:03:32):
be a way to get her off thesemedications without her
panicking and reaching andripping.
Like one time they woke her upand she ripped the IV.
They put a what is it called?
Uh uh, not a block, but it's anIV that goes in where they can
hook it in and take bloodanytime without having to prick

(01:03:52):
you a hundred times.
So she had it in her neck, andone of the times she woke up,
she just ripped it right out,and blood was everywhere.
So that was she's she's not aviolent person, but when you're
under something, but um she justkept she kept being she's
feisty, she's definitely afeisty child.

(01:04:12):
Um, but uh I said there's gottabe something to rip this up.
I mean, you know, fix this.
So she's not doing this.
We've gotta wake her up.
And she's like, Well, I'msurprised they haven't said
anything about having atracheotomy.
And I'm like, What?
You can do that?
She's like, Well, yeah, it's alot easier if you just do the
tracheotomy, then they don'thave to hook it through your

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mouth, it goes right on here.
And she can breathe like she'snormally breathing, but this
does it for her, but she can'ttell because there's nothing
blocking her airway.
And I looked at him, I said,Why haven't we done this?
Like, what the heck?
We could have done this daysago, and she's like, Nobody's

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offered this.
I said, No.
So the next day when the doctorcame in, that was the first
thing out of my mouth.
It's like, can we give her atracheotomy?
And he's like, Oh, yeah, we cando that, but we have to get her
stable.
And he goes, But we have to gether stable to take the uh ecmo
out, her first ECMO out of hergroin area.

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They needed to take that outbecause if your body relies too
much on a machine, then iteventually stops working
altogether.
So, and yeah, by the way, withall this sucking and putting
back and forth in her body andcreating all this strain, she's
also on dialysis.
I forgot to add that.
So she's got dialysis going ontoo.
So she's got these threemachines sucking and pushing and

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pulling.
So I wrote on Facebook and Isent a message out to everybody
I could think of, and I askedthem to fast for my daughter
because they wanted to run threea couple of tests before they
went in for surgery to try andtake the ECMO, first ECMO system

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out.
And if it were successful, theycould do the tracheotomy.
So they ran two tests and theyfailed because when they start
doing it, her numbers wouldplummet, and um, they didn't
want her heart to stop beating.
So when I did that, I sent out,I call it the SOS of fasting

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and prayer.
And I said, if you are LDS andyou're my LDS friends, please
fast with me or my daughter.
We need these tests to beapproved so that we can so that
we can move forward for mydaughter's health.
I said, um, put her name in theprint temple roles in her

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whatever you can do.
If you're not LDS, please prayfor my daughter.
Put her in your circle prayersat your churches, because I need
all the help I can get to makethis happen.
Because they're supposed to doit tomorrow, and this was a

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Saturday.
So I sent that out, and mywhole family was fasting, and we
went to church that morningbecause my the my husband, my
son-in-law, my son-in-law, eventhough they're not legally
married, they've been marriedtogether for nine years.

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Um, he was up at the hospitalbecause we would trade places,
and um I always went to churchout there, and I took my
grandkids, and uh I know umsacrament got over, and I got
the strongest feeling I neededto call the doctor, the
hospital, which I've never donebecause Lester would have called

(01:07:45):
me if something major hadhappened.
But I called anyway.
I went out right before ReleaseSociety and I went outside and
her doctor or her I asked forher room, and Brandon answered
her nurse at the time.
And I said, Hi Brandon, this isTiffany.
I'm calling to check onWhitney.
And he said, What why are youcalling?

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Has nobody called you yet?
And I was like, My heartstopped, like literally, my
heart's just and I'm like,called me?
Nobody's called me.
What's wrong?
Is my daughter okay?
And he said, Oh, your daughteris more than okay.
He goes, her numbers haveleveled out and they've been

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leveled out for the last fourhours.
They skipped the test, they'regoing in for surgery right now.
And I just started crying.
I was like, Are you kidding me?
He's like, No, we're taking herout right now.
I said, Okay.
And I guess what had happenedis the nurses being prior to him

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had called Lester, and so thatwas good.
So they but Brandon knew me andthought they had called me.
So that's but we Lester and Iboth found out that we were
being told at the exact sametime by two different nurses.
So he was being told and I wasbeing told at the same time
because we tried calling eachother, and you know, when you do
that, you get busy signals.

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So that's what was happeningbetween the two of us.
So uh I hate to say this, but Iscreamed outside and the right
outside the release of sidedoors.
And uh they heard me and then Ihad to explain myself.
But gratefully, it was a hugesuccess.

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They put the vent they took outthe ECMO system, they put in
the tracheotomy for the firsttime in 25 days.
My daughter video becauseLester video tape uh what is it?

(01:09:52):
Not video, but uhphone-to-phone where you can do
audio and visual.
I don't know, Apple has it.
I saw my daughter on thetelephone waving at me and my
grandkids and mouthing, hi mom.
I love you.

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And I just felt like this wholething was a miracle, everything,
and I almost feel I had to gothrough this to trust my father
in heaven.
I couldn't, I don't know if Imean the only thing that I could

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think of that would have youtest your faith like this would
be a loved one where you have nochoice but to give it to the
Lord.
We say that all the time, butas mothers and I'm sure fathers
too, but as a mom, we're a doer,we make things happen, and they

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do it because we want themdone, and it's gonna happen.
But these were thingscompletely out of my control,
and there was nothing I could dobut truly trust Father in
heaven.
So it was a long road.
She um the kids got to see herfor the first time since all of

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this happened on Thanksgiving.
We were able to go up thereafter Thanksgiving dinner, and
we went and spent the eveningwith her, and there was a lot of
hand signals and pointingbecause when you have a trake,
you can't talk.
Um a lot of frustration becauseshe's trying to talk to us like
she's just a normalconversation, and we have no

(01:11:43):
idea what she's saying, but it'sjust nice to have her get
frustrated and be happy, youknow.
She's in a lot of pain still.
Um, she stayed in the hospitalanother month and um just kept
getting better and better.
The doctor kept telling me umwhen I would see her and I would

(01:12:05):
get happy, he would be like,nope, don't get excited, don't
get excited.
Things could still happen.
I said, I know, but I cancelebrate the good moments.
And um there was a couple timesthe uh second echo that was
going through and down throughher heart, like I told you, had
shifted, and when it would touchher heart, um, her heart rate

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would go into AFib.
And it was starting to happenfour or five times in the night,
and then it started happeningin the morning too, and so they
had to take that out, and whichwas a good thing because um it
was getting dangerous, they werehaving to shock her, shock her
heart every time to stop it andthen restart it, and it became I

(01:12:54):
mean, think about it, gettingshot that many times it gets
painful.
Um, but uh it did the job, itfixed it.
So once they took that machineout, her heart was starting to
run properly again withmedication.
Um, she came home Christmas Evewith the understanding she was

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in a wheelchair, she had nervedamage in her left wrist and in
her left leg.
Um, she had what was calleddrop foot.
Um, so she couldn't walk.
She was in the beds for solong, she had absolutely no
muscle in her arms, her legs,her body, nothing.
She was, I mean, kind of likean elderly person where they

(01:13:41):
stag.
I mean, her muscles were justhanging on her, and she was just
nothing but bones and skin.
And so they had told her thatit would probably be a year
before she could walk.
Um goodness, yeah.
And I mean, we're talking anincredibly independent person,

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child.
She's she was so independent.
I'm gonna do it my way, and uhit was very frustrating to be in
a wheelchair, she couldn't do alot of stuff by herself.
Um, and her left hand wasbasically like this all the time
because of the damage in herwrists, and she couldn't feel

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the floor when she would stepdown.
Um, there was like she said itfelt like she was on hot rocks
or hot pokers on the ground ifher left foot would touch it.
So there was a lot of workstill ahead.
Um I left uh January 20th.
I came home.
My husband actually flew out toFlorida because, in the

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meantime, with all of this, forthe almost six months I was
there, my granddaughter wentthrough the discussions um with
the missionaries and made adecision to join the church.
And so she asked her papa if hewould fly out and um baptize

(01:15:11):
her.
And my husband, after he was sohonored because when she was
little, when she was a baby, hehe was the one who blessed her.
And we told her that, and soshe thought, you know, I think
it should be Papa who gets mebaptized.
And when we first told her wedidn't know if that was gonna
happen because of you knowfinances, um, she's like, then

(01:15:33):
I'll just wait.
And I'm like, Oh, no, you'renot gonna wait.
We know how that works.
And um uh my husband keptsaying, you know, I don't know
how this is gonna work out.
And I said, Well, you knowwhat?
In the last almost six months,I'll tell you how everything
else has worked out.
So if you're meant to be here,you will be here, and he said,

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Okay, so I set up a date, we setup a date, and um a member of
our branch walked up to myhusband and said, My wife and I
have been talking about this,and we would really like to buy
your ticket to out to Florida.

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We don't want you to miss this.
So, in fact, we got fiveoffers.
Wow, wow, five offers from mybranch alone, and one from my
daughter's branch, who barelyhappens.
So the Lord will make thingshappen.

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I don't want to say if they'remeant to be, but if the if it's
in the way of the Lord'sblessing, he will make it
happen.
And so my husband flew, um,flew out for that.
And the the other kind of nosurprise of because of who they
are, but still a big shock iswhen I called them and I I

(01:17:01):
thanked them, and then I askedthem, Would you mind sending me
um the itinerary so that I canbuy my ticket to go home and fly
with my husband?
That's what the plan was.
And he said, Yeah, no problem.
I gave him my email address andeverything, and he wrote me and
he says, Hey, check and makesure this all looks okay.

(01:17:22):
I want to make sure.
Um, and I said, Okay.
So I looked on it and I said,Yeah, everything looks great.
And I said, Is this is this it?
He goes, Yeah, I'll send you,you know, I'll send you the
flight once I pay for it.
I said, Okay.
So then I got another emaillike uh 20 minutes later, and I

(01:17:44):
was looking down.
Well, he didn't buy just myhusband's ticket, he bought mine
too.
So that was a really bigblessing.
But um when I what I want tosay um is when we talk about it,
I've I've come to terms with ifthere are really big blessings,

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there comes really big trials,and we grow from those trials
not just because we giveblessings, but because it helps
us become closer to our HeavenlyFather, and it helps us learn
to rely on Jesus Christ.
And um, so I thought that wasthe big trial almost losing my

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daughter three times while I wasin Florida.
But sorry.
On March seventeenth, myyoungest daughter died.

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She had no medical issues.
She wasn't s nothing was wrongwith her.
My uh she had caught the flulike every good mother does from
her kids coming from school.
Uh she talked to her dad uhbefore for his birthday.

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And uh she sounded terrible,but we all sound terrible when
we get the flu.
And we said, you know what,just get better, we'll talk to
you in a week, you know, justget better.
And the first day back was wasSt.
Patrick's Day, which is the dayshe died.
Um and uh she had told herhusband she felt like he was she

(01:19:45):
wasn't like lightheaded, butshe'll be fine, she'll go to
work.
And uh she never got he nevergot the call that she arrived.
And um the nurse, actually fromthe hospital, I think is what
he told me, called her and toldher that my daughter had come to
the ER and she was bleedinginternally, and that um they

(01:20:09):
were life lighting her toTepanoga's general, and that um
they had given her two fights ortwo units of blood, and they
were getting ready to leave.
So if he wanted to get therebefore they left, he he needed
to hurry.
Luckily, it was only 20 minutesfrom their house because they
lived in Saratoga Springs, Utah,and um and his mother and

(01:20:33):
stepfather were able to make itthere before the uh helicopter
took off.
And then when they got toTefanogas, that's when he called
me to tell me they don't knowwhat's going on, we don't know
why, something's happening.
I'm sorry it waited so long.
I just wanted to have somethingto tell you, mom.
But we don't know what's wrongwith Britannia.

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I said, Is she okay?
Said no, she's not coherentanymore.
He's like, I don't know what todo.
And I said, Okay, um, keep meposted.
And I hung up and I'm trying tofigure out how I'm gonna get to

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Utah because we had a reallybad storm coming through that
had just passed us, and it wouldbe through Lake Tahoe area,
which is what I have to pass toget to Salt Lake.
And then he called back andsaid, the doctor wants to talk
to you.
So then I started talking tothe doctor, and he was asking me

(01:21:37):
a hundred questions.
I felt like all at once it wasit's all a blur.
I said, are you gonna be able tosave your daughter?
He said, I don't know if hernumbers don't go down.

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We don't know.
He said, Where do you live?
And I said, California.
He says, I don't think you'regonna make it.
But I think you better leavenow.
And I just looked at my husbandand I said, What do I do?

(01:22:19):
I can't drive, I can't fly fastenough.
What do I do?
And um I called back an hourlater to tell my son-in-law that
I would leave first thing inthe morning as soon as the storm
was clear.
And it was his and thatanswered the phone.

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And I heard in the backgroundthe doctor say we're calling it.
And then my son-in-law startedwailing, and his mom screamed.

(01:23:07):
And his stepdad said to me, I'mso sorry that your daughter
didn't make it.
And then I just startedscreaming, I guess.
My husband said he could hearme from outside, he was feeding
our animals, and I came runningin.
I didn't know what to do, likeI just couldn't believe it was

(01:23:31):
real.
I had just I had almost lostone.
Only to lose the other one.
And I didn't understand.
My first daughter's been sickher whole life.

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There's so many times that sheshould have passed away and she
didn't.
And three times right in frontof my eyes within less than six
months.
But my one daughter, who'ssupposed to be completely
healthy, we lose her in a matterof hours with no sign.

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And you know, everybody kepttelling me it's okay to be mad.
You know what God willunderstand if you're mad at him.
And I looked at him and I said,Why would I be mad at God?
He saved one.

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Then he had to take the other,and I don't understand it.
But I trust him that he had areason to take her because he
was hers.
Before he was mine, she wasmine, and I trust that this was

(01:24:57):
for the best for her, for herfamily, for us.
I have to know and believe thatwhat I think is the reason is
the reason.
And uh while I was uh in Utahsorry tried so hard not to do

(01:25:22):
this.
Uh when I was in Utah and uh wewere putting together her
celebration of life, andunfortunately she was not an
active member either.
Um she had stated that shewanted specific things for her
if she was to ever pass away.
And I was a bit upset when Iwhen we were doing it because

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there were some things that Iwanted that I was told.
And not directly, no, but in aroundabout way that that wasn't
gonna happen.
And so when we got home fromthat, I was very upset.
And I walked away and I told myhusband, I said, I need to cool
down.
And so my emotions are out ofcontrol in more ways than one

(01:26:13):
because of everything I've beengoing through.
I said, I just need to go for awalk.
I need to go for a walk, and asI'm walking, uh I'm crying.
And I hear my daughter's voice.

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She says, Mom, I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry.
And I said, Brianna is that youand she said, Mom, I said, why?
And she's like, you know why?

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This was for the best.
I didn't want to go, but I hadto.
And I'm like, the best?
What?
You have two kids and ahusband.
How is this for the best?
You know?
But she said, I knew, I knewwhy that she had to go.
And I'll keep that per thatkind of it's kind of private, so

(01:27:20):
I'm not gonna say why.
But the fact that my husbandand I had discussed why we think
that she had to go so youngbecause she was just before her
31st birthday.
Um, it just made me feel she,you know, nobody else would have
known what my husband and I haddiscussed on the way down,

(01:27:43):
driving on the way down to Utah.
And um for her to kind ofconfirm that by saying, Yes, you
do, mom.
Yes, you do.
But you know, I've I've come torealize, and you guys have done
some NDs and stuff like that,where if the Lord wants you

(01:28:05):
here, you will be here.
But if it's time to come home,it's time to come home.
And you have to believe andtrust that the Lord knows better
than we do.
And I do.
I do because the Lord savedone, but he had to take the

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other and I listen everything.

Alisha Coakley (01:28:39):
You're right.
Right.

Scott Brandley (01:28:43):
I um I mean this this happened this year too,
right?
Like this is recent.

Tiffaney Castañeda (01:28:59):
Yeah, it happened.
So my daughter died this year,but the other daughter almost
died the end of last year.
So within a year and a half,this all happened.
You want to hear kind ofsomething a little crazy?
So I I I say crazy after thisstory, after everything I just
told you that's happened, but tome, it's still just

(01:29:22):
mind-blowing mind-blowing howthe Lord works, how how involved
He is with us.
And I'm not my life has neverbeen where God is answered like
this.
Like I have to wait months.
Like I told you, we've prayedfor 10 years for my
grandchildren, right?
So things don't always comewhen you want them.

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But um, right the day before mydaughter passed away, I had
asked my husband if he wouldgive me a blessing because I was
I was going through a lot, Ihad gone through a lot.
I just needed a comfortblessing.
And when he gave me theblessing, I remember distinctly

(01:30:06):
thinking, what in the world didyou just say?
Like nothing you said applied,nothing made any sense.
I was completely floored.
Like I was like, I asked him,this is terrible because my
husband's a very good, righteousman.
He's a very good man.
I said, Were you listening toGod?
Okay, blessing to God.

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Because it was just so odd.
And he kind of was like, Whatis kind of question's that?
But um I record all myblessings and I have done that
for 10 years for a good reason.
And it's because when youlisten to a blessing, you don't
remember everything.
Because a lot of times we'resick or we're overwhelmed, and

(01:30:49):
sometimes the blessings have alot in it, and you don't always
get to remember.
So I will listen to them later,and then I get to remember the
blessings that the Lord'spromised.
So I recorded this one too, butI actually almost re erased it
because I was like, this isridiculous.
Like, this makes no sense.
It has nothing to do with mywhat's going on.

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And then, of course, whathappened with Brianna happened,
and then we moved on.
Well, two weeks later, so um,this this is how I know
everything I think is final, isbecause my year started out with
me breaking my leg.
Well right after we got back, Ibroke my wrist.
I fell out of the pigkinbecause I was crying, and I

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landed on a bunch of rocks and Ibroke my wrist.
My husband says we're going toinvest in bubble wrap after
this, but but um I was in thegarage trying to figure out what
I could do with one hand to getbecause I I needed to get some
things done.
I was trying to figure it out,and like I told you guys, I

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always turn you guys on, orsome, you know, a couple of the
podcasts to listen when I'mworking.
And as I was going down, the itdawned on me.
I I was looking throughrecordings, somehow that popped
up.
I didn't push it, but my phonehas a mind of its own.
And the recordings came up, andI saw the date right before
Brianna's died.

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And I thought, oh, that's thatblessing.
You know what?
I'm gonna listen to it one moretime, and if it's nothing, then
I'm gonna just erase it becauseit didn't mean anything then.
So I played it and I startedit, and I didn't get I remember
turning it on, turning around,and walking away, and it stopped
me in my tracks within probablya minute into the blessing.

(01:32:41):
I realized that blessing Ididn't understand was for me
because Brianna was gonna passaway.
Everything that was in thatblessing was about my daughter
dying.
I I couldn't believe it.

(01:33:02):
I had to listen to it againjust to make sure that I was not
hearing things.
And then I played it for myhusband that night when he got
home from work, and he juststared at me and I said, Do you
understand what I think this is?
And he goes, This was the Lordspeaking to tell you about
Brianna dying the next day.
And I said, Yep.

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So the Lord was preparing me, Ijust didn't understand right
away because I was looking forsomething else, and the Lord
knew I would need this blessingmore later.

Um my gosh.
I first of all, I am so sorry.
Thank you.
I know that you are so gratefulfor all of the miracles that
you had, um it also doesn'terase the pain you know that

(01:34:01):
you're having to go through now.
And gosh, dang, it's great, itjust isn't fun.
It is the worst thing ever.

At least I warned you.

That's true, and I didn't break tissue.
But um I'm just I'm really inawe right now of your strength
and like your ability to come onhere and to talk about this and
and to have that faith, youknow, even uh even despite just

(01:34:44):
having to deal with like such asudden loss, and after
everything else, you know, likethat's oh my goodness, like just
you caregiving, caregiving,caregiving, you know, giving so
much to your older daughter, andthen to have to come home and
deal with all of that, you know.
It's I think I'm maybe in likethis, I'm I'm in like this

(01:35:09):
teenager spiritual phase forsome reason.
I I don't know.
It's like you turn 40 and allof a sudden you're just hormones
are everywhere.
And so my first thought islike, really heavenly father?
Are you kidding me right now?
You just did that?
Excuse me?
Like, you don't want to justlike pump the brakes for a
second and give her a it's justa minute to breathe.

(01:35:32):
I think that that would havebeen really kind of you to do.
All of that stuff is uhsomething really, really special

(01:35:53):
that I think is a really,really hard thing for a lot of
people to do.
So it's just a testament toyour faith and your, you know, I
guess your love really for thesavior and for Heavenly Father
and his his plan, you know.
Um gosh, I just my heart hurtsfor you right now.

So well, you know, the reason I contacted
you was um at the time I keptgetting the feeling that we need
uh the world needs to know thatGod lives and that he's alive
and that miracles still happenand that he really does love us

(01:36:35):
because I feel like the worldhas gotten so ugly so fast.
And Heavenly Father does createmiracles, we just need to see
them.
They might be tiny and minute,we might not the tire, for
example, you know.
Um people might chalk that upto coincidence.
I didn't.
There's no way.

(01:36:56):
Um, and so I think we need tojust start looking for those
miracles instead of coincidencesin the in this world today.
So, you know, I uh uh there anuh I guess another example, and
and I forgot to add this to thestory, but in the right after

(01:37:17):
her, we found out that she hadtaken a dive, we had moved her
to emerge at uh, you know, um uhICU for thoracic, and she was
going down fast.
I was standing by her bed justcrying, and um, I was exhausted
because her fiance hadn't gottenhome yet.

(01:37:37):
So I would drop the kids off atschool and be up at 6 a.m.,
drop the kids off at school, goto the hospital, stay with my
daughter, even though she didn'tknow I was there.
And then I would turn around,go back, pick up the kids, take
them home, fix them dinner, putthem to bed, turn around, go
back to the hospital and staywith her from like eight o'clock
at night until probably oneo'clock in the morning, then

(01:38:00):
come back home and do it allagain.
Because one of the things mydaughter asked me to promise her
was not to leave her in thehospital alone.
And it was like that was thebest I could do to tell her
fiance came.
But I was standing there and Iwas exhausted and crying, and I
was just and I just I said veryquietly, Father in heaven, I
need a hug.

(01:38:20):
I need a real hug.
I just need somebody to tell methat she's gonna be okay, that
everything's gonna be okay.
I just need a hug.
Not thinking that it was gonnahappen, because I don't have
anybody there, but her firstnurse she had in the very
beginning came walking by, andhis name was Norman, which

(01:38:44):
happens to be my dad's name.
And uh he is this big blackguy, just you know, the sweetest
man, sweetest man.
And he stopped and he saw mecrying and he was talking to her
nurse.
And I thought, well, I don'twant to be rude.
So I walked, I started walkingtowards him to say hi.

(01:39:05):
And he came into the room andhe just grabbed me and he
wrapped his arms around me andhe gave me the biggest hug.
And I just broke down andstarted bawling in his shoulder,
and he said, She's gonna beokay, everything's gonna be
okay.
And I pulled away from him andI just looked at him because I

(01:39:27):
was like, I literally said thislike five minutes ago.
He's like, What?
And I just hugged him, I saidnothing, Norman, and I just
hugged, you know, went back andgave him the biggest hug.
But again, it's just you know,a person could call that a
coincidence, and I don't, youknow, I don't call that a

(01:39:47):
coincidence.
I believe that the Lordprompted him to do that for me
because I needed it.

Yeah.
I wow.
You know, I uh your story, likethe the thing that I'm thinking
about is just the importance ofgratitude.
Because God's given us all thisgift to be here on earth and
and to be with who we are, butwe don't know when that time is
gonna end.

(01:40:18):
You know, like it could endlike happen with your daughter,
like just suddenly.
Um but we've gotta we have todo a better job of being
grateful for the people in ourlives and the blessings in our
lives in the moment, because wetake it for granted.
I I know I do.
I take it for granted, and Ihave to.

(01:40:40):
Your story reminds me to to bemore grateful for the time I
have right now.
And the people that I have withme right now, and just to just
to be glad that I have thattime.
My dad passed away unexpectedlya couple years ago, just a
heart attack.

(01:41:01):
And you know, I I haven'treally I'm I'm mad at him
because he could have gone andgot a stint and it would have
been fine, but he was stubborn.

unknown (01:41:10):
Right?

So occasionally I'll be like, in my car, I'll be
like, Dad, why didn't you justdo that, right?
But then on the other side, Iam incredibly grateful for the
time that I had to spend with mydad.
And I try to look at that, youknow, my time with him as a
blessing in my life.

(01:41:32):
And even though his life wascut shorter than I expected it
to be, you know, like I'm justso grateful that he was in my
life when he was for the time Ihad him.
And the blessing of the gospelis we know that that
relationship is gonna keepgoing.
And I'm just I'm so gratefulfor that.
And I'm sure you are too.

I couldn't have gone through this without
it.
I I there's no way.
I think I would have lost mymind somewhere back in Florida.
That was extremely, extremelydifficult to go through alone.
Um, when I say alone, I meanwithout another individual there
to cling to.
Yeah.
But uh, you know, with the lossof Brianna, um, I can honestly

(01:42:13):
say that the only one that hurtsmore than I do is her husband.
Um they were together nineyears, and uh she has two
children, a 10-year-old and aneight-year-old.
Oh wait, I think Rory turned 11this year.
Sorry.
But um, you know, the kids, youknow, are dealing with it in

(01:42:37):
their own way, and they'repretty resilient.
But Brayden has had the hardesttime, and um he she was his
everything, he was an amazingman, he is an amazing man, but
he was amazing to her, and heloved her so much, and he still

(01:42:58):
does, and he cries, he said hestill cries at night for her,
and the saddest part is is he'snot an active member either, and
at this point, as far as Iknow, he has no desire and it
makes me sad, but I just look atall these miracles, and I know

(01:43:24):
that maybe one day if Brayden iswilling to listen, that the
Lord will touch him.
He lives in Saratoga Springs,Utah.
It's not like he doesn't haveexamples all around.
The the outpouring wasincredible.
I can't even begin to tell youwhat an incredible neighborhood,

(01:43:45):
bishop, ward, stake they had.
It was incredible, and I was sograteful.
Um, the outpouring was amazingfor him, and it still is.
So that's who if I if I couldtell you both anything, and I do
this to my husband now,probably a little more clingy

(01:44:07):
than he'd like, but hug yourhusband and your wife a little
bit more tonight because youjust like you said, Scott, you
just don't know when your lastday uh is, you know.
So just love your loved ones.
They're not here forever.

(01:44:28):
This is not our forever life.

unknown (01:44:31):
Yeah.

But there is one after this, that's what I'm
looking forward to.
That's why I say I didn't losemy daughter if she just went
home.
I didn't lose my daughterbecause she's mine for eternity.
Yeah, and that I will beeternally grateful for my
heavenly father.

Well, Tiffany, you have our heart and our love.

unknown (01:44:59):
Thank you.

Um, and our gratitude for coming on here
today and for being sovulnerable and for sharing such
a beautiful and heartbreakingstory at the same time.
And more than that, for sharingyour light and sharing your
testimony with our listeners andwith us.
Um I can say is thank you.

Thank you for having me.
Yeah.

Do you have any final thoughts you'd like to
share before we wrap things up,Tiffany?

No, I think I think we shared them all.
Just trust the Lord.
He really does know what'sbest.
All right.

Well, I think that that's a short, you know,
words of advice, but it'spowerful.
And that's something that wehave that we have to work on
individually too throughout ourlives as well, is learning how
to trust the Lord.
You know, and your story is areally good example of that.

Well, if you don't, he's gonna try and show
you the way.
So I prefer you guys try to doit on your own instead of being
stubborn like me and learningthe hard way.

Um well, thank you again, Tiffany.
We really do appreciate you.
And a big thank you to ourlisteners, guys.
Um, if you were touched the waythat Scott and I were today,
make sure that you guys do thatfive-second missionary work.
Share Tiffany's story.
Um, comment, you know, whereveryou're listening to this, and
just leave a message for Tiffanyand let her know what her story

(01:46:33):
meant to you.
Um, and remember, if you guyshave a story that you'd like to
share and you want to come beingat uh be a guest on Latterday
Lights, you can reach out to us.
You can head over toLatterdayLights.com or you can
email us at um LatterdayLightsat gmail.com.

Thanks, guys.

Yeah, thanks, Tiffany, and thanks everyone for
tuning in.
We'll see you next week withanother episode of Latterday
Lights.
Till then, take care.
Bye bye.

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