June 20, 2024 • 44 mins
What would you do if you discovered a lump in your breast and faced hurdles with insurance and medical attention? Join me on this riveting episode of Let's Just Talk About It, where I have a conversation with Tamra Robinson, a brave breast cancer survivor. Tamra opens up about her diverse upbringing across the East and West Coasts, her life-changing diagnosis in October 2020, and the importance of self-awareness. Her story highlights the emotional toll of hearing the breast cancer diagnosis and the unwavering support she received from God, her family, and friends.
Imagine preparing for an online Zoom class during the COVID-19 pandemic and receiving a devastating phone call with biopsy results. Tamra, a seasoned cosmetologist, recounts this very experience and the overwhelming emotions that followed. From the immediate impact on her professional life to the broader implications for her family, Tamra’s narrative offers a raw and honest look at the complexities of navigating the healthcare system. She shares the proactive steps she took, including switching hospitals and researching specialists, illustrating the resilience required to face such a sudden, life-threatening diagnosis.
In another powerful segment, Tamra delves into the world of chemotherapy, explaining advancements in cancer treatment like the use of ports and markers such as the SAVI. She sheds light on the meticulous process of custom-making chemotherapy for each patient and the emotional and spiritual impact it has on families. Tamra’s journey through treatment is a testament to the fear, support, and unwavering faith involved in battling cancer. Wrapping up, we explore how her resilience and determination were crucial in overcoming the disease, offering hope and motivation to anyone facing similar challenges. Don’t forget to subscribe for more inspiring stories and join our community on Facebook under Chuck L-J-T-A-I.
Imagine preparing for an online Zoom class during the COVID-19 pandemic and receiving a devastating phone call with biopsy results. Tamra, a seasoned cosmetologist, recounts this very experience and the overwhelming emotions that followed. From the immediate impact on her professional life to the broader implications for her family, Tamra’s narrative offers a raw and honest look at the complexities of navigating the healthcare system. She shares the proactive steps she took, including switching hospitals and researching specialists, illustrating the resilience required to face such a sudden, life-threatening diagnosis.
In another powerful segment, Tamra delves into the world of chemotherapy, explaining advancements in cancer treatment like the use of ports and markers such as the SAVI. She sheds light on the meticulous process of custom-making chemotherapy for each patient and the emotional and spiritual impact it has on families. Tamra’s journey through treatment is a testament to the fear, support, and unwavering faith involved in battling cancer. Wrapping up, we explore how her resilience and determination were crucial in overcoming the disease, offering hope and motivation to anyone facing similar challenges. Don’t forget to subscribe for more inspiring stories and join our community on Facebook under Chuck L-J-T-A-I.
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Chuck (00:11):
Hey, welcome back to another episode of Lets Just
Talk About it podcast.
I'm your host, chuck, and ifyou're here for the first time,
this platform was created togive genuine people just like
you an opportunity to share aportion of your life's journey.
So, with that being said, todayI wanted to replay this episode
with my guest, miss TamraRobinson, where she shares her
experience with her battle withcancer and how she was able to
(00:33):
navigate through it all with God, family and friends.
So, hey, you don't want to missthis inspiring and amazing
conversation today.
As a matter of fact, do me afavor Go and grab your husband,
your wife, your children, oreven call a friend and gather
around to listen to myconversation with Tamara on
let's Just Talk About it podcast.
Hey, let's jump right in Today.
(01:02):
I have Miss Tamra Robinson onwith me today, um.
So first of all, thank you somuch for being a part of this
episode on let's just talk aboutit podcast.
Tamra Robinson (01:10):
I really appreciate you thank you so much
, chuck, for having me.
I am so excited to get ready tolet's talk about it my story.
Such an honor.
Chuck (01:25):
You're welcome.
As always, I love to jump rightinto my interviews To have
those genuine conversations Withgenuine people just like
yourself, tamara, to share aportion of your life's journey.
So, with that being said, whereyou from?
Tamra Robinson (01:38):
I'm actually from Jacksonville, north
Carolina, but I was raised inCalifornia Because my father Was
military.
Being a Marine Served in theUnited States, jacksonville,
north Carolina.
But I was raised in Californiabecause my father was military
being a Marine, served in theUnited States Marine Corps and
met my mother in North Carolinaand, at the age of five, moved
us out to the West Coast.
Chuck (02:00):
Wow, wow.
Tammy, I believe everybody, allof us, have our own unique, you
know, experience growing up.
Some are good and some are notso good, but every everybody has
their own story.
So what was yours like growingup?
Tamra Robinson (02:16):
it's been actually actually rewarding, and
when I say that because, beingraised on the west coast and
moving to the east coast lateron in my um, when I was about 18
, it gave me the best of bothworlds.
(02:39):
So my early childhood was donein californ, california, and it
exposed me to the diversity ofculture and people, and then
later, moving to the East Coast,I experienced the segregation
(03:02):
which I was not used to, thesegregation which I was not used
to, and it just gave me a veryopen mind how people are, how we
are in this world, and I justthink I've had the best of both
worlds East Coast, west Coast,east Coast West.
Chuck (03:22):
Coast Got you, so you shared with me that you are a
cancer survivor right.
So explain that experience,because you never know who's
listening, who may have a familymember or maybe even dealing
with cancer themselves.
Would you mind sharing thatexperience?
Tamra Robinson (03:46):
Yes, in October 2020, I was diagnosed with
breast cancer and invasiveductal carcinoma, breast cancer,
triple negative.
And what happened is prior toOctober, I would say about five
(04:13):
months.
I was in the shower and noticedthere was a knot, a lump, on my
right side of my breast andbeing attentive to my own body I
(04:36):
said, hmm, what's that?
I knew that in my own thoughts,cancer wasn't a known factor
within my family, so it nevercrossed my mind.
I just knew whatever that was.
(04:56):
It was never there before.
So I kept on in my mental.
I would shower again and againand finally I said you gotta get
this checked out.
(05:17):
And when I say again and again,I'm saying within the month
right and after calling a clinic, it was told to me yes, come in
for a mammogram.
After I went to go for thecheckup to get a mammogram, they
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basically did not return myphone call to schedule the
mammogram.
So now you're looking at chuck.
Probably about two months Ihaven't heard anything right and
so I see this pink paper thatthe receptionist had given me,
(06:05):
and so I called the number andthey tell me that, because I
felt something, I have to havewhat you call a 3D imaging.
(06:40):
So for the audience it's veryimportant that we understand you
have mammograms, but mammogramshave gotten so sophisticated
where they want to look atourselves a lot more closer and
so that 3D gives them more of abetter image of what's going on.
And so we proceeded and foundout that I did not have
insurance, which was one of thereasons that I had not moved so
(07:04):
quickly, reasons that I had notmoved so quickly because in my
mind I'm thinking I don't haveinsurance or do I still have
insurance?
Because you know we can haveinsurance and someone like me, I
was on Medicaid, so I didn'tknow if Medicaid had ran out
because I had moved to a newarea in North Carolina and the
(07:25):
dynamics of my finances hadchanged, so I wasn't on Medicaid
any longer.
Well, I go to my appointmentfor a mammogram and here comes
the red flag she does not haveinsurance everything is, and
here comes the red flag.
(07:47):
She does not have insurance.
Everything is, you know, beingspoken within the office.
Well, let's just go ahead andhave her do the mammogram and
we'll worry about this later.
(08:07):
I was going to Duke MedicalCenter and after getting the
appointment, I am, you know,having the procedure done and I
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wait for them to call me and,like we've heard time and time
over radios, shows and talkshows on television and now
social media, it is very true,you will never forget this day,
wow, okay, so here I am going tothe appointment, where the
(08:55):
image is getting ready to berevealed to you, and it's just
like a woman that is having anultrasound.
Chuck, what they do.
They take and they put thejelly on you and they're
basically taking that same.
They're taking a probe andthey're running it up and down
(09:19):
around the breast area, thebreast area, and the doctor then
shows you this area lookssuspicious wow a sentence that
(09:40):
you never will forget, forget it.
And he's explaining to me what acircle looks like in a certain
area.
And then he goes onto the x-rayafter the um mammogram and he
shows me on the x-ray what thategg looks like, with sharp edges
(10:04):
coming out of it and the circlelike an oval look is the bad,
with the edges, with sharp edges.
A nice circle is a good thing,but if you have anything shaped
like an egg with some linesoutside of it, that's the
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suspicious part, excuse me.
And so I Say to the doctordoctor, you're saying suspicious
, I'm not 15 years old.
Are you saying cancer?
(10:46):
And he says yes, it lookssuspicious to be cancer.
Deep breath, she rubs myshoulder, do you have time to do
a biopsy?
(11:07):
And all I could think of.
My reply yes, I have all thetime in the world for Tamara.
He says Come back Within thehour.
Time in the World for Tamara.
He says come back within thehour.
And then he goes intoexplaining what is going to take
(11:28):
place and where it will takeplace at Within three to four
days.
We will call you with theresults.
Wow.
And yes, chuck, it was a wow.
It was just me and God, and allI could think of was God.
(11:53):
You heard him.
You knew this was going tohappen before I did, and so I
stepped out the room, I went toa convenience store.
I came back this was duringCOVID, and so I'm properly
getting things together.
(12:13):
I go into the patient room thatthey have for me and all I'm
thinking is these three whitepeople and I'm a black person.
I'm like, oh my goodness, and Iknow let's talk about, let's
just talk about it, but I'mbeing very sincere.
(12:34):
Some people don't like to keepit real.
Chuck (12:37):
I'm keeping it real, let's talk about it okay, it's
me and I just start praying.
Tamra Robinson (12:45):
Lord, god, don't let anyone be prejudiced in
here.
Don't let anyone get ready tosnip something that don't need
to be snipped, and that's justthe truth.
And they took care of me.
They wiped my tears because asthey snipped, you could just
hear the clicking that was thecutting of the device that was
(13:08):
being used for the biopsy, andthe tears just rolled down my
face.
I wasn't really emotional, Iwas just calm as I could be and
gathered my items later.
It probably took maybe about 30minutes for everything and the
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doctor assured me that theywould be calling me as soon as
the results were in.
And I'm a cosmetologist, so I'vebeen a cosmetologist for about
25 years and I teach cosmetology.
So at the time of COVIDcosmetology we had to teach
(14:00):
online through Zoom and it was aMonday morning, class was
getting ready to start at nineand I get a phone call and it's
the doctor with the results andI recognize the number Deep
(14:28):
breath results and I recognizedthe number deep breath.
And he says hello, ms Robinson,this is Dr um such and such.
And I'm like okay, and he saysI would like to give you your
biopsy results.
And I say to him Chuck, rightnow.
And he says unfortunately,people travel throughout the
(14:48):
world to come here and we can'talways tell people in person,
and so I said, okay, and it'sjust me in the house.
And he says, unfortunately youhave invasive ductal carcinoma
(15:12):
wow.
Chuck (15:13):
So at that point, so at that point, what was going on in
your mind?
You, you have children, right,so did they cross your mind.
You know was it was your mindall over the place, because I
know you say you was calm, butyou know, hearing that, that, um
, that result, it'll kind ofshake you.
(15:34):
You know what I mean, becauseyou think not only about
yourself but you, you thinkabout your family, you know.
Tamra Robinson (15:41):
Yes, and even during our podcast right now, I
know that the audience probablycan even hear my voice, because
it's a emotion.
It's a emotion, it's a feelingthat's all combobulated in and
(16:05):
it's as if I'm talking about itand it makes your mind go to
when, when you first heard you,you're thinking of you.
It's you, it's, then it's I gotyou.
(16:29):
I mean, it's just me.
That's who I thought of.
I didn't think of anyone, Ijust immediately I thought of me
like cancer, and I knew I hadstudents that I had to be on
that zoom class call at nineo'clock.
(16:50):
What do I do?
So it was that, and it was thedirector.
It was the boss.
It was the director, it was theboss, it was the students.
Then came my parents, mychildren.
(17:11):
It was like that type ofprocessing.
Chuck (17:13):
Got you.
Tamra Robinson (17:14):
But you didn't have time to stop.
You had to get to that call.
So I'm thinking okay.
I called my director and I toldher what was going on.
She was the first one to knowand she said oh, tamara, I'm so
sorry.
And so she said can you do yourclass?
(17:35):
I said yes, I can do it.
So I thought Chuck, and she saidwe're going to talk after class
.
I said we sure will, and got onand I broke down.
I couldn't hold it together andI broke down within it's like
(17:59):
just tears, like like flooded.
And they said, miss robinson,what's wrong?
Are you okay?
And I said I've just been toldthat I have breast cancer.
Wow, and I'm sorry, as much asI would love to be strong right
now, I can't, I can't do it.
And so they were like, oh, msRobinson.
(18:19):
So then I called her and I justtold her I couldn't do it.
I had to have my moment.
And the next day, of course, Iwent into teaching Zoom call,
but I had to listen to thedoctor, wait for my next
(18:40):
appointment.
And who do you tell?
Like you have to think becauseyou don't want, you don't have
all your information.
What is invasive ductalcarcinoma?
yeah you, I don't even knowwhat's going on, like, oh my
goodness, you just told mesomething over the phone, so
(19:03):
what I'm told is what I justsaid.
So, after I just take a deepbreath, I don't tell anyone yet
I have to get everything inorder.
So when my next call comes in,it is going to be with a
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gynecologist and you have to getso many tests, because what
they want to do, chuck, theywant to find out where did this
cancer come from.
They want to find out where isit, how large is it?
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How long has it been thereapproximately?
What is going to be the cure?
Is it curable?
What's going on?
So it doesn't run in her family, on mommy's side, daddy's side?
All this is going on and youfeel like you're on a beginner
(20:12):
rollercoaster and you're in thecart and it just starts to go,
go, go.
And for my job, I just simplysaid I won't be able to do this.
I want to take all this timefor me, and so that's the way it
(20:34):
was.
It was a roller coaster goingup, up, up, up, up, up, up, up
up, and it just seemed like itwas going up, up, up, up, up, up
, up, up, up, up up and it justseemed like it was going up, up,
up, up, up, up, up up, and thenit eventually comes down, down,
down, down, down down so you,you, you, you're at this.
Chuck (20:59):
How was that part for you at that time?
Tamra Robinson (21:06):
I'm going to say fast forward where fast forward
means you would.
It's so many in between testingthat you have to do before you
even get to the chemo.
Okay, so we fast forward.
(21:27):
It's surgeries you have to getbefore you even start chemo.
I mean the way chemo isadministrated.
This word that we hear about,chuck, we have no idea.
Unless you've had theexperience with a loved one or
have had cancer, you have noidea.
(21:49):
So here it is.
I ended up switching hospitals.
I ended up researching a triplenegative specialist oncologist.
(22:16):
We don't even know what anoncologist is.
So it's all these new words likegone to colleges we know that's
for, you know the women and wealready know you're gonna have a
baby.
Just what.
This is the person he goes with.
So if you have cancer, you needan oncologist and and I had to
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learn and a really good friendof mine said me being a
cosmetologist said you've alwaysdone your best.
Now it's time for you to havethe best.
You've done your best to women.
You gave them the besthairstyles.
You need the best oncologist.
(23:00):
You need the best hospital.
What I did?
I started researching and Ifound this doctor that is in
North Carolina, at UNC that'swhere I end up getting my
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treatment and she specialized intriple negative.
Triple negative is a breastcancer that is in black women.
It's aggressive.
Black women is aggressive andwhen you listen to me, get to
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the chemo that you're talkingabout.
It was her plan.
I want the audience to imaginea basketball team.
Every basketball team has acoach, has an assistant coach
right, and the game plan is towhat Win?
(24:11):
Well, imagine yourself you'reone player and the other players
around you are your supportteam.
So let's visualize it like that.
Okay, so your oncologist is thecaptain.
So for triple negative, I neededa oncologist which is my
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captain, right of the team.
I needed a radiologist doctorand I needed a surgeon.
That's the plan.
Because you have to go withthis cancer, you have to be very
aggressive with it, with thetreatment.
And so she let me know what theplan was chemo she wanted to do
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it every other week.
My friend who's a surgeon toldme we're not going to play with
cancer, let's be aggressive.
So when she asked me, was Ifine with every two weeks?
I said I want to take theaggressive approach and she said
, well, let's do it every weekthen.
(25:17):
Wow.
And that's what we did, and Ithank God for him, because I did
not know what this all meant,but I did not question him.
All meant, but I did notquestion him.
He's a great surgeon and I saidokay, and so I received chemo
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for five weeks and it was.
I'm going to share this withyou about chemo.
You um I'm sure people haveheard you receive chemo in your
veins.
Well, it's become cancer.
(26:02):
It's so much research forcancer that is so advanced than
what it was 20 years ago.
You want to receive the chemoeither in your veins or a port.
Veins are actually very small,so you don't want to take it in
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your veins.
Some people do, but they'vecome up with a port a port.
You must have surgery and it'splaced on the opposite side of
the tumor.
Chuck (26:33):
So that's how you receive chemo wow so it's a lot, and
that is when you, when you sayI'm sorry when you say on the
other side of the port that's toshrink it yes okay see, your
chemo is.
Tamra Robinson (26:47):
What is your chemo?
Is the medicine that issupposed to shrink the tumor.
It's supposed to.
You want to kill it.
You want to kill it wow um,that's why a lot of people say
it's poison, it's deadly, itkills your good cells as well,
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attacks your good cells, yourwhite blood cells.
And it's to me finding out.
You have something that you'venever researched Right and when
it happens, you have to find thetime, make that time and
research it.
And it's got to be done soquickly because they're asking
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you questions do you want toport?
Do you not want to port?
They're looking at you likema'am, come on, what's?
What's the factor?
Chuck (27:38):
like you should know, have a savvy.
Tamra Robinson (27:49):
What is a savvy?
Oh, my goodness.
A savvy is another surgery thathas to be done where they put a
marker.
The savvy is a marker that'sput placed in surgery so that
when the chemo targets the tumor, a lot of times the chemo makes
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the tumor go away and thedoctor cannot find the tumor.
So the savvy, which is spelleds-A-V-I, it is placed inside you
and you're.
You know it's really small,probably about the size of a
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grain of rice, and so that's asurgery and you go in.
You cannot, oh, my goodness,everyone, listen to me very well
you cannot receive chemo if youhave high blood pressure.
If you have, if your bloodcount is off, you are checked.
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Every time you go in to getchemo.
You have to go to triage andtriage has to check you.
Wow, if your blood pressure ishigh, if you're savvy I mean I'm
sorry, chuck If your port isclogged, not working properly,
you cannot even receive chemo.
Wow, moving forward, everyperson that gets chemoo.
(29:29):
It is not like penicillin, itis not like any medicine
tramadol, it's not medicinealready made.
They make your chemo just foryou.
It's custom designed.
After you are checked out byyour triage, they send your work
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upstairs to the lab pharmacistand it says Tamara Robinson,
everything is clear.
You can make her chemo it'smade on the spot.
Can make her chemo, it's madeon the spot.
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And then you go to where we calla treatment room.
You're in a chair, you haveyour nurse and you sit there and
there oh, my goodness, I knowit was at least 40 rooms in that
hospital and it's all an openday and people are just sitting
there.
People are laying there, layingback, sitting up, some people
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have their cell phones, somepeople are just knocked out,
some people are doing whateverthey have to do sleeping to
receive their treatment.
And it is, it's eerie.
No one's talking, some arecrying, some are.
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It's just.
Everyone is doing differentthings and for me, I found
myself praying for other people.
That's what I found myselfdoing because everything's open.
You have a curtain that mightseparate you.
If you want to close it, youdon't have to, and so you might
hear someone say oh, you can'tget your chemo, um, your device
(31:33):
is um not working.
Oh you're.
You're waiting for your highblood pressure to come down.
You saw men in there, women inthere.
You saw elderly in there.
You saw people on their canesand their moving carts.
I mean, oh my goodness, it wasall walks of life.
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Yeah.
So all walks of life.
And it was just I found myselfpraying for other people,
because Every time I was there,I just Because every time I was
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there, I just prayed for myself.
Let everything go as planned.
And being a believer, chemo isred and I called it the blood of
Jesus.
Chuck (32:28):
That's what I named it.
Wow, that's what I named it.
Wow.
So how, so how has Canceraffected your, you know, the
family and so forth?
How did it impact your family?
Tamra Robinson (32:44):
It?
Has it impacted my family?
I'm the oldest child and excusemy emotions.
It's all right Because it'syour story.
We never had cancer in ourfamily and it was new.
And I have a sister who isfamiliar with working in an
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oncology department, being aphlebotomist, and so she was
very scared.
She lost the best friend tocancer and, being a naturalist,
you have her and her husbandtrying to get you into alkaline
(33:29):
water and everyone is yourbrother, your sisters,
everyone's trying to.
What do you need?
Trying to just figure out whatdo we do?
Oh my goodness, what thedoctors say everyone's like what
stage is it?
Oh my goodness, that, if I hadto say the number one question
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was what stage is it?
And it was just support mysoccer moms because my son,
being the youngest at the time,plays soccer for Chapel Hill
High and immediately where Ilive, didn't have no family up
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here, so they immediately cameover camera.
My mother's an oncologist.
What did they say?
I need your report, I mean, Imean it was just.
It was so much support and lovethat it was.
They were scared.
They were scared.
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Their faith definitely wasshaken and I can say some of
them probably didn't, maybe theythought the worst, but I didn't
let no one's faith bother myfaith and what I had to do when
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someone was trying to give meadvice.
I had to.
I had not disrespected the theadvice, but I would take my
phone off speaker so I would notlet that go in my spirit.
Okay, so they never knew it.
So all of their ideas, all oftheir suggestions, I didn't let
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it get in my spirit.
I took them off the speakerphone and then I would come back
.
They might still be talking andI would get back off the phone,
things like that, and then Iwould say, ok, well, we'll talk
soon.
And my family would come up.
My father was very concernedabout the Camp Lejeune water
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toxins.
My father is 81 years old so hewas very upset.
He was concerned, where didthis come from?
And so he was doing otherthings to try to give me advice
and get help as well.
And today I can honestly saythat I went through this for
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eight months.
I'm very, very blessed, veryfortunate I, everything went as
planned.
My captain of the team, theoncologist, what she said.
I never missed an appointment,I never missed an infusion.
(36:31):
All my infusions were given tome.
And that's another thing.
Chuck, when you're receivingchemo, it's a process.
The first one is like they,they go in very aggressive and
eventually it levels out like,say, you might be getting chemo
for four hours, you're in achair for four hours and then it
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goes down maybe three weekslater to two hours, then
eventually maybe to one hour,like that.
Wow, so it's, and I want youraudience to know that cancer is
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a word, but what people don'ttell you?
It's many cancers with an S,there's many names, wow.
And it is not prejudice.
It attacks from children to theelderly and anyone in between,
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male or female.
Chuck (37:47):
So what would you say to individuals who who has a family
member or or a friend goingthrough it?
How, how could we support theperson who's going through the
bout or battle with cancer?
What's the best way to supporta person?
Tamra Robinson (38:10):
love is a strong word, but it's needed faith.
Whatever your faith is, havethat faith.
Research is a must.
(38:31):
Knowledge Research is a must.
Knowledge is power.
You cannot go in not knowing.
You have to research, know whatit is.
(38:55):
If you are a person that mightbe emotional, let's say you're
the patient, you're the one thathas been diagnosed.
I would highly recommend pleasehave someone that's not
emotional, that can write downinformation that this oncologist
(39:18):
will tell you.
Okay, another thing haveanother person that can video
the entire conversation, just incase if the lady or male that
is writing misses something.
Because it was a time we allwere grabbing tissues, but I had
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me a soccer mom and my daughter.
Those were the three at thevery first.
This is what it is.
This is what we're facing wow,so.
Chuck (39:59):
So what would you say to an individual right now?
Who's who's dealing with that?
Hadn't been through the processyet, just found out what it,
what, what, what are someencouraging words you would give
them right now, male or female?
Tamra Robinson (40:20):
You can beat it.
You got this and you can beatit.
You can win.
You can win this fight againstcancer.
You're bigger than cancer.
You're bigger than cancer.
Believe it.
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Believe it and go through theprocess, but believe it and do
everything you have to do tolearn about it and you're going
to come out on top.
You will.
You will, Because it's you overcancer.
(41:04):
I want you to put the U, Y-O-Ucapital letters, draw a line
under it and I want cancer underit.
Little letters, C-A-N-C-E-R, nomatter what cancer it is
because you're on top.
Chuck (41:24):
Wow.
So if somebody wants to reachout to you just to talk to you,
you know to find somebody thatthey can, you know lean on how
can they reach you?
Do you have any social mediathat people can contact you just
to talk to you?
You know to find somebody thatthey can you know lean on, how
can they reach you?
Do you have any social mediathat people can contact you just
to talk to, or you know socialmedia?
Tamra Robinson (41:42):
social media.
I do have facebook and it is myname tamra robinson, and I also
have my number, which is252-369-2979.
(42:02):
You can call me, text meanytime.
I have an email which isTamaraRobinson65 at gmailcom and
the way you spell my name is TA M R A Robinson R O B I N S O?
(42:24):
N.
I like to be clear on that,because a lot of people spell my
name with three A's versus two.
Right.
I'm definitely available.
Chuck (42:39):
Yeah, thank you so much for having this conversation
with me.
I really appreciate you comingon and sharing your story, your
journey, because, as I alwayssay, you never know who's
listening.
Journey because, as I alwaysstate, you never know who's
listening.
Um, this podcast is created togive genuine people just like
yourself an opportunity to sharea portion of your life's
journey, to talk about it.
(43:00):
You know what I mean, so Ireally appreciate you coming on
today.
Tamra Robinson (43:05):
I really appreciate you, chuck, and it
has been very real.
Let let's just talk about ithas given me the opportunity to
tell people my story.
Right.
And I really appreciate you somuch for the platform.
Chuck (43:25):
Absolutely, absolutely.
You're a survivor.
Shout out to you Wow, what anamazing conversation.
So once again, shout out to you, tamara, for having this
dialogue with me.
You may have a family member orfriend who's dealing with the
dis-ease of cancer, so I hopethat this conversation will be
an inspiration for someone toknow that cancer can be beaten
(43:47):
and you can make it.
So thanks again, tamara, forsharing your journey.
Again, thank you so much foralways tuning in to let's Just
Talk About it podcast, andplease check out my website.
Just Google let's Just TalkAbout it podcastcom and then hit
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(44:10):
About it.
So, as always, until next time,don't hold it in, but let's
just talk about it.
Talk to you soon, thank you.
Hey, welcome back to another episode of Lets Just
Talk About it podcast.
I'm your host, chuck, and ifyou're here for the first time,
this platform was created togive genuine people just like
you an opportunity to share aportion of your life's journey.
So, with that being said, todayI wanted to replay this episode
with my guest, miss TamraRobinson, where she shares her
experience with her battle withcancer and how she was able to
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navigate through it all with God, family and friends.
So, hey, you don't want to missthis inspiring and amazing
conversation today.
As a matter of fact, do me afavor Go and grab your husband,
your wife, your children, oreven call a friend and gather
around to listen to myconversation with Tamara on
let's Just Talk About it podcast.
Hey, let's jump right in Today.
(01:02):
I have Miss Tamra Robinson onwith me today, um.
So first of all, thank you somuch for being a part of this
episode on let's just talk aboutit podcast.
Tamra Robinson (01:10):
I really appreciate you thank you so much
, chuck, for having me.
I am so excited to get ready tolet's talk about it my story.
Such an honor.
Chuck (01:25):
You're welcome.
As always, I love to jump rightinto my interviews To have
those genuine conversations Withgenuine people just like
yourself, tamara, to share aportion of your life's journey.
So, with that being said, whereyou from?
Tamra Robinson (01:38):
I'm actually from Jacksonville, north
Carolina, but I was raised inCalifornia Because my father Was
military.
Being a Marine Served in theUnited States, jacksonville,
north Carolina.
But I was raised in Californiabecause my father was military
being a Marine, served in theUnited States Marine Corps and
met my mother in North Carolinaand, at the age of five, moved
us out to the West Coast.
Chuck (02:00):
Wow, wow.
Tammy, I believe everybody, allof us, have our own unique, you
know, experience growing up.
Some are good and some are notso good, but every everybody has
their own story.
So what was yours like growingup?
Tamra Robinson (02:16):
it's been actually actually rewarding, and
when I say that because, beingraised on the west coast and
moving to the east coast lateron in my um, when I was about 18
, it gave me the best of bothworlds.
(02:39):
So my early childhood was donein californ, california, and it
exposed me to the diversity ofculture and people, and then
later, moving to the East Coast,I experienced the segregation
(03:02):
which I was not used to, thesegregation which I was not used
to, and it just gave me a veryopen mind how people are, how we
are in this world, and I justthink I've had the best of both
worlds East Coast, west Coast,east Coast West.
Chuck (03:22):
Coast Got you, so you shared with me that you are a
cancer survivor right.
So explain that experience,because you never know who's
listening, who may have a familymember or maybe even dealing
with cancer themselves.
Would you mind sharing thatexperience?
Tamra Robinson (03:46):
Yes, in October 2020, I was diagnosed with
breast cancer and invasiveductal carcinoma, breast cancer,
triple negative.
And what happened is prior toOctober, I would say about five
(04:13):
months.
I was in the shower and noticedthere was a knot, a lump, on my
right side of my breast andbeing attentive to my own body I
(04:36):
said, hmm, what's that?
I knew that in my own thoughts,cancer wasn't a known factor
within my family, so it nevercrossed my mind.
I just knew whatever that was.
(04:56):
It was never there before.
So I kept on in my mental.
I would shower again and againand finally I said you gotta get
this checked out.
(05:17):
And when I say again and again,I'm saying within the month
right and after calling a clinic, it was told to me yes, come in
for a mammogram.
After I went to go for thecheckup to get a mammogram, they
(05:41):
basically did not return myphone call to schedule the
mammogram.
So now you're looking at chuck.
Probably about two months Ihaven't heard anything right and
so I see this pink paper thatthe receptionist had given me,
(06:05):
and so I called the number andthey tell me that, because I
felt something, I have to havewhat you call a 3D imaging.
(06:40):
So for the audience it's veryimportant that we understand you
have mammograms, but mammogramshave gotten so sophisticated
where they want to look atourselves a lot more closer and
so that 3D gives them more of abetter image of what's going on.
And so we proceeded and foundout that I did not have
insurance, which was one of thereasons that I had not moved so
(07:04):
quickly, reasons that I had notmoved so quickly because in my
mind I'm thinking I don't haveinsurance or do I still have
insurance?
Because you know we can haveinsurance and someone like me, I
was on Medicaid, so I didn'tknow if Medicaid had ran out
because I had moved to a newarea in North Carolina and the
(07:25):
dynamics of my finances hadchanged, so I wasn't on Medicaid
any longer.
Well, I go to my appointmentfor a mammogram and here comes
the red flag she does not haveinsurance everything is, and
here comes the red flag.
(07:47):
She does not have insurance.
Everything is, you know, beingspoken within the office.
Well, let's just go ahead andhave her do the mammogram and
we'll worry about this later.
(08:07):
I was going to Duke MedicalCenter and after getting the
appointment, I am, you know,having the procedure done and I
(08:27):
wait for them to call me and,like we've heard time and time
over radios, shows and talkshows on television and now
social media, it is very true,you will never forget this day,
wow, okay, so here I am going tothe appointment, where the
(08:55):
image is getting ready to berevealed to you, and it's just
like a woman that is having anultrasound.
Chuck, what they do.
They take and they put thejelly on you and they're
basically taking that same.
They're taking a probe andthey're running it up and down
(09:19):
around the breast area, thebreast area, and the doctor then
shows you this area lookssuspicious wow a sentence that
(09:40):
you never will forget, forget it.
And he's explaining to me what acircle looks like in a certain
area.
And then he goes onto the x-rayafter the um mammogram and he
shows me on the x-ray what thategg looks like, with sharp edges
(10:04):
coming out of it and the circlelike an oval look is the bad,
with the edges, with sharp edges.
A nice circle is a good thing,but if you have anything shaped
like an egg with some linesoutside of it, that's the
(10:25):
suspicious part, excuse me.
And so I Say to the doctordoctor, you're saying suspicious
, I'm not 15 years old.
Are you saying cancer?
(10:46):
And he says yes, it lookssuspicious to be cancer.
Deep breath, she rubs myshoulder, do you have time to do
a biopsy?
(11:07):
And all I could think of.
My reply yes, I have all thetime in the world for Tamara.
He says Come back Within thehour.
Time in the World for Tamara.
He says come back within thehour.
And then he goes intoexplaining what is going to take
(11:28):
place and where it will takeplace at Within three to four
days.
We will call you with theresults.
Wow.
And yes, chuck, it was a wow.
It was just me and God, and allI could think of was God.
(11:53):
You heard him.
You knew this was going tohappen before I did, and so I
stepped out the room, I went toa convenience store.
I came back this was duringCOVID, and so I'm properly
getting things together.
(12:13):
I go into the patient room thatthey have for me and all I'm
thinking is these three whitepeople and I'm a black person.
I'm like, oh my goodness, and Iknow let's talk about, let's
just talk about it, but I'mbeing very sincere.
(12:34):
Some people don't like to keepit real.
Chuck (12:37):
I'm keeping it real, let's talk about it okay, it's
me and I just start praying.
Tamra Robinson (12:45):
Lord, god, don't let anyone be prejudiced in
here.
Don't let anyone get ready tosnip something that don't need
to be snipped, and that's justthe truth.
And they took care of me.
They wiped my tears because asthey snipped, you could just
hear the clicking that was thecutting of the device that was
(13:08):
being used for the biopsy, andthe tears just rolled down my
face.
I wasn't really emotional, Iwas just calm as I could be and
gathered my items later.
It probably took maybe about 30minutes for everything and the
(13:34):
doctor assured me that theywould be calling me as soon as
the results were in.
And I'm a cosmetologist, so I'vebeen a cosmetologist for about
25 years and I teach cosmetology.
So at the time of COVIDcosmetology we had to teach
(14:00):
online through Zoom and it was aMonday morning, class was
getting ready to start at nineand I get a phone call and it's
the doctor with the results andI recognize the number Deep
(14:28):
breath results and I recognizedthe number deep breath.
And he says hello, ms Robinson,this is Dr um such and such.
And I'm like okay, and he saysI would like to give you your
biopsy results.
And I say to him Chuck, rightnow.
And he says unfortunately,people travel throughout the
(14:48):
world to come here and we can'talways tell people in person,
and so I said, okay, and it'sjust me in the house.
And he says, unfortunately youhave invasive ductal carcinoma
(15:12):
wow.
Chuck (15:13):
So at that point, so at that point, what was going on in
your mind?
You, you have children, right,so did they cross your mind.
You know was it was your mindall over the place, because I
know you say you was calm, butyou know, hearing that, that, um
, that result, it'll kind ofshake you.
(15:34):
You know what I mean, becauseyou think not only about
yourself but you, you thinkabout your family, you know.
Tamra Robinson (15:41):
Yes, and even during our podcast right now, I
know that the audience probablycan even hear my voice, because
it's a emotion.
It's a emotion, it's a feelingthat's all combobulated in and
(16:05):
it's as if I'm talking about itand it makes your mind go to
when, when you first heard you,you're thinking of you.
It's you, it's, then it's I gotyou.
(16:29):
I mean, it's just me.
That's who I thought of.
I didn't think of anyone, Ijust immediately I thought of me
like cancer, and I knew I hadstudents that I had to be on
that zoom class call at nineo'clock.
(16:50):
What do I do?
So it was that, and it was thedirector.
It was the boss.
It was the director, it was theboss, it was the students.
Then came my parents, mychildren.
(17:11):
It was like that type ofprocessing.
Chuck (17:13):
Got you.
Tamra Robinson (17:14):
But you didn't have time to stop.
You had to get to that call.
So I'm thinking okay.
I called my director and I toldher what was going on.
She was the first one to knowand she said oh, tamara, I'm so
sorry.
And so she said can you do yourclass?
(17:35):
I said yes, I can do it.
So I thought Chuck, and she saidwe're going to talk after class
.
I said we sure will, and got onand I broke down.
I couldn't hold it together andI broke down within it's like
(17:59):
just tears, like like flooded.
And they said, miss robinson,what's wrong?
Are you okay?
And I said I've just been toldthat I have breast cancer.
Wow, and I'm sorry, as much asI would love to be strong right
now, I can't, I can't do it.
And so they were like, oh, msRobinson.
(18:19):
So then I called her and I justtold her I couldn't do it.
I had to have my moment.
And the next day, of course, Iwent into teaching Zoom call,
but I had to listen to thedoctor, wait for my next
(18:40):
appointment.
And who do you tell?
Like you have to think becauseyou don't want, you don't have
all your information.
What is invasive ductalcarcinoma?
yeah you, I don't even knowwhat's going on, like, oh my
goodness, you just told mesomething over the phone, so
(19:03):
what I'm told is what I justsaid.
So, after I just take a deepbreath, I don't tell anyone yet
I have to get everything inorder.
So when my next call comes in,it is going to be with a
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gynecologist and you have to getso many tests, because what
they want to do, chuck, theywant to find out where did this
cancer come from.
They want to find out where isit, how large is it?
(19:48):
How long has it been thereapproximately?
What is going to be the cure?
Is it curable?
What's going on?
So it doesn't run in her family, on mommy's side, daddy's side?
All this is going on and youfeel like you're on a beginner
(20:12):
rollercoaster and you're in thecart and it just starts to go,
go, go.
And for my job, I just simplysaid I won't be able to do this.
I want to take all this timefor me, and so that's the way it
(20:34):
was.
It was a roller coaster goingup, up, up, up, up, up, up, up
up, and it just seemed like itwas going up, up, up, up, up, up
, up, up, up, up up and it justseemed like it was going up, up,
up, up, up, up, up up, and thenit eventually comes down, down,
down, down, down down so you,you, you, you're at this.
Chuck (20:59):
How was that part for you at that time?
Tamra Robinson (21:06):
I'm going to say fast forward where fast forward
means you would.
It's so many in between testingthat you have to do before you
even get to the chemo.
Okay, so we fast forward.
(21:27):
It's surgeries you have to getbefore you even start chemo.
I mean the way chemo isadministrated.
This word that we hear about,chuck, we have no idea.
Unless you've had theexperience with a loved one or
have had cancer, you have noidea.
(21:49):
So here it is.
I ended up switching hospitals.
I ended up researching a triplenegative specialist oncologist.
(22:16):
We don't even know what anoncologist is.
So it's all these new words likegone to colleges we know that's
for, you know the women and wealready know you're gonna have a
baby.
Just what.
This is the person he goes with.
So if you have cancer, you needan oncologist and and I had to
(22:39):
learn and a really good friendof mine said me being a
cosmetologist said you've alwaysdone your best.
Now it's time for you to havethe best.
You've done your best to women.
You gave them the besthairstyles.
You need the best oncologist.
(23:00):
You need the best hospital.
What I did?
I started researching and Ifound this doctor that is in
North Carolina, at UNC that'swhere I end up getting my
(23:21):
treatment and she specialized intriple negative.
Triple negative is a breastcancer that is in black women.
It's aggressive.
Black women is aggressive andwhen you listen to me, get to
(23:50):
the chemo that you're talkingabout.
It was her plan.
I want the audience to imaginea basketball team.
Every basketball team has acoach, has an assistant coach
right, and the game plan is towhat Win?
(24:11):
Well, imagine yourself you'reone player and the other players
around you are your supportteam.
So let's visualize it like that.
Okay, so your oncologist is thecaptain.
So for triple negative, I neededa oncologist which is my
(24:32):
captain, right of the team.
I needed a radiologist doctorand I needed a surgeon.
That's the plan.
Because you have to go withthis cancer, you have to be very
aggressive with it, with thetreatment.
And so she let me know what theplan was chemo she wanted to do
(24:56):
it every other week.
My friend who's a surgeon toldme we're not going to play with
cancer, let's be aggressive.
So when she asked me, was Ifine with every two weeks?
I said I want to take theaggressive approach and she said
, well, let's do it every weekthen.
(25:17):
Wow.
And that's what we did, and Ithank God for him, because I did
not know what this all meant,but I did not question him.
All meant, but I did notquestion him.
He's a great surgeon and I saidokay, and so I received chemo
(25:40):
for five weeks and it was.
I'm going to share this withyou about chemo.
You um I'm sure people haveheard you receive chemo in your
veins.
Well, it's become cancer.
(26:02):
It's so much research forcancer that is so advanced than
what it was 20 years ago.
You want to receive the chemoeither in your veins or a port.
Veins are actually very small,so you don't want to take it in
(26:23):
your veins.
Some people do, but they'vecome up with a port a port.
You must have surgery and it'splaced on the opposite side of
the tumor.
Chuck (26:33):
So that's how you receive chemo wow so it's a lot, and
that is when you, when you sayI'm sorry when you say on the
other side of the port that's toshrink it yes okay see, your
chemo is.
Tamra Robinson (26:47):
What is your chemo?
Is the medicine that issupposed to shrink the tumor.
It's supposed to.
You want to kill it.
You want to kill it wow um,that's why a lot of people say
it's poison, it's deadly, itkills your good cells as well,
(27:12):
attacks your good cells, yourwhite blood cells.
And it's to me finding out.
You have something that you'venever researched Right and when
it happens, you have to find thetime, make that time and
research it.
And it's got to be done soquickly because they're asking
(27:33):
you questions do you want toport?
Do you not want to port?
They're looking at you likema'am, come on, what's?
What's the factor?
Chuck (27:38):
like you should know, have a savvy.
Tamra Robinson (27:49):
What is a savvy?
Oh, my goodness.
A savvy is another surgery thathas to be done where they put a
marker.
The savvy is a marker that'sput placed in surgery so that
when the chemo targets the tumor, a lot of times the chemo makes
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the tumor go away and thedoctor cannot find the tumor.
So the savvy, which is spelleds-A-V-I, it is placed inside you
and you're.
You know it's really small,probably about the size of a
(28:37):
grain of rice, and so that's asurgery and you go in.
You cannot, oh, my goodness,everyone, listen to me very well
you cannot receive chemo if youhave high blood pressure.
If you have, if your bloodcount is off, you are checked.
(29:05):
Every time you go in to getchemo.
You have to go to triage andtriage has to check you.
Wow, if your blood pressure ishigh, if you're savvy I mean I'm
sorry, chuck If your port isclogged, not working properly,
you cannot even receive chemo.
Wow, moving forward, everyperson that gets chemoo.
(29:29):
It is not like penicillin, itis not like any medicine
tramadol, it's not medicinealready made.
They make your chemo just foryou.
It's custom designed.
After you are checked out byyour triage, they send your work
(29:55):
upstairs to the lab pharmacistand it says Tamara Robinson,
everything is clear.
You can make her chemo it'smade on the spot.
Can make her chemo, it's madeon the spot.
(30:19):
And then you go to where we calla treatment room.
You're in a chair, you haveyour nurse and you sit there and
there oh, my goodness, I knowit was at least 40 rooms in that
hospital and it's all an openday and people are just sitting
there.
People are laying there, layingback, sitting up, some people
(30:44):
have their cell phones, somepeople are just knocked out,
some people are doing whateverthey have to do sleeping to
receive their treatment.
And it is, it's eerie.
No one's talking, some arecrying, some are.
(31:05):
It's just.
Everyone is doing differentthings and for me, I found
myself praying for other people.
That's what I found myselfdoing because everything's open.
You have a curtain that mightseparate you.
If you want to close it, youdon't have to, and so you might
hear someone say oh, you can'tget your chemo, um, your device
(31:33):
is um not working.
Oh you're.
You're waiting for your highblood pressure to come down.
You saw men in there, women inthere.
You saw elderly in there.
You saw people on their canesand their moving carts.
I mean, oh my goodness, it wasall walks of life.
(31:54):
Yeah.
So all walks of life.
And it was just I found myselfpraying for other people,
because Every time I was there,I just Because every time I was
(32:15):
there, I just prayed for myself.
Let everything go as planned.
And being a believer, chemo isred and I called it the blood of
Jesus.
Chuck (32:28):
That's what I named it.
Wow, that's what I named it.
Wow.
So how, so how has Canceraffected your, you know, the
family and so forth?
How did it impact your family?
Tamra Robinson (32:44):
It?
Has it impacted my family?
I'm the oldest child and excusemy emotions.
It's all right Because it'syour story.
We never had cancer in ourfamily and it was new.
And I have a sister who isfamiliar with working in an
(33:06):
oncology department, being aphlebotomist, and so she was
very scared.
She lost the best friend tocancer and, being a naturalist,
you have her and her husbandtrying to get you into alkaline
(33:29):
water and everyone is yourbrother, your sisters,
everyone's trying to.
What do you need?
Trying to just figure out whatdo we do?
Oh my goodness, what thedoctors say everyone's like what
stage is it?
Oh my goodness, that, if I hadto say the number one question
(33:49):
was what stage is it?
And it was just support mysoccer moms because my son,
being the youngest at the time,plays soccer for Chapel Hill
High and immediately where Ilive, didn't have no family up
(34:11):
here, so they immediately cameover camera.
My mother's an oncologist.
What did they say?
I need your report, I mean, Imean it was just.
It was so much support and lovethat it was.
They were scared.
They were scared.
(34:34):
Their faith definitely wasshaken and I can say some of
them probably didn't, maybe theythought the worst, but I didn't
let no one's faith bother myfaith and what I had to do when
(34:57):
someone was trying to give meadvice.
I had to.
I had not disrespected the theadvice, but I would take my
phone off speaker so I would notlet that go in my spirit.
Okay, so they never knew it.
So all of their ideas, all oftheir suggestions, I didn't let
(35:18):
it get in my spirit.
I took them off the speakerphone and then I would come back
.
They might still be talking andI would get back off the phone,
things like that, and then Iwould say, ok, well, we'll talk
soon.
And my family would come up.
My father was very concernedabout the Camp Lejeune water
(35:42):
toxins.
My father is 81 years old so hewas very upset.
He was concerned, where didthis come from?
And so he was doing otherthings to try to give me advice
and get help as well.
And today I can honestly saythat I went through this for
(36:09):
eight months.
I'm very, very blessed, veryfortunate I, everything went as
planned.
My captain of the team, theoncologist, what she said.
I never missed an appointment,I never missed an infusion.
(36:31):
All my infusions were given tome.
And that's another thing.
Chuck, when you're receivingchemo, it's a process.
The first one is like they,they go in very aggressive and
eventually it levels out like,say, you might be getting chemo
for four hours, you're in achair for four hours and then it
(36:53):
goes down maybe three weekslater to two hours, then
eventually maybe to one hour,like that.
Wow, so it's, and I want youraudience to know that cancer is
(37:15):
a word, but what people don'ttell you?
It's many cancers with an S,there's many names, wow.
And it is not prejudice.
It attacks from children to theelderly and anyone in between,
(37:40):
male or female.
Chuck (37:47):
So what would you say to individuals who who has a family
member or or a friend goingthrough it?
How, how could we support theperson who's going through the
bout or battle with cancer?
What's the best way to supporta person?
Tamra Robinson (38:10):
love is a strong word, but it's needed faith.
Whatever your faith is, havethat faith.
Research is a must.
(38:31):
Knowledge Research is a must.
Knowledge is power.
You cannot go in not knowing.
You have to research, know whatit is.
(38:55):
If you are a person that mightbe emotional, let's say you're
the patient, you're the one thathas been diagnosed.
I would highly recommend pleasehave someone that's not
emotional, that can write downinformation that this oncologist
(39:18):
will tell you.
Okay, another thing haveanother person that can video
the entire conversation, just incase if the lady or male that
is writing misses something.
Because it was a time we allwere grabbing tissues, but I had
(39:43):
me a soccer mom and my daughter.
Those were the three at thevery first.
This is what it is.
This is what we're facing wow,so.
Chuck (39:59):
So what would you say to an individual right now?
Who's who's dealing with that?
Hadn't been through the processyet, just found out what it,
what, what, what are someencouraging words you would give
them right now, male or female?
Tamra Robinson (40:20):
You can beat it.
You got this and you can beatit.
You can win.
You can win this fight againstcancer.
You're bigger than cancer.
You're bigger than cancer.
Believe it.
(40:41):
Believe it and go through theprocess, but believe it and do
everything you have to do tolearn about it and you're going
to come out on top.
You will.
You will, Because it's you overcancer.
(41:04):
I want you to put the U, Y-O-Ucapital letters, draw a line
under it and I want cancer underit.
Little letters, C-A-N-C-E-R, nomatter what cancer it is
because you're on top.
Chuck (41:24):
Wow.
So if somebody wants to reachout to you just to talk to you,
you know to find somebody thatthey can, you know lean on how
can they reach you?
Do you have any social mediathat people can contact you just
to talk to you?
You know to find somebody thatthey can you know lean on, how
can they reach you?
Do you have any social mediathat people can contact you just
to talk to, or you know socialmedia?
Tamra Robinson (41:42):
social media.
I do have facebook and it is myname tamra robinson, and I also
have my number, which is252-369-2979.
(42:02):
You can call me, text meanytime.
I have an email which isTamaraRobinson65 at gmailcom and
the way you spell my name is TA M R A Robinson R O B I N S O?
(42:24):
N.
I like to be clear on that,because a lot of people spell my
name with three A's versus two.
Right.
I'm definitely available.
Chuck (42:39):
Yeah, thank you so much for having this conversation
with me.
I really appreciate you comingon and sharing your story, your
journey, because, as I alwayssay, you never know who's
listening.
Journey because, as I alwaysstate, you never know who's
listening.
Um, this podcast is created togive genuine people just like
yourself an opportunity to sharea portion of your life's
journey, to talk about it.
(43:00):
You know what I mean, so Ireally appreciate you coming on
today.
Tamra Robinson (43:05):
I really appreciate you, chuck, and it
has been very real.
Let let's just talk about ithas given me the opportunity to
tell people my story.
Right.
And I really appreciate you somuch for the platform.
Chuck (43:25):
Absolutely, absolutely.
You're a survivor.
Shout out to you Wow, what anamazing conversation.
So once again, shout out to you, tamara, for having this
dialogue with me.
You may have a family member orfriend who's dealing with the
dis-ease of cancer, so I hopethat this conversation will be
an inspiration for someone toknow that cancer can be beaten
(43:47):
and you can make it.
So thanks again, tamara, forsharing your journey.
Again, thank you so much foralways tuning in to let's Just
Talk About it podcast, andplease check out my website.
Just Google let's Just TalkAbout it podcastcom and then hit
that subscribe button toreceive all the new episodes
every Friday.
You can also find me onFacebook.
Just type in Chuck L-J-T-A-I,which means let's Just Talk
(44:10):
About it.
So, as always, until next time,don't hold it in, but let's
just talk about it.
Talk to you soon, thank you.
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