November 13, 2024 • 17 mins
In this episode, I will discuss taking a break due to my thyroid. I was in the hospital last week, so I didn't do any podcasts the previous week. Even though I am going through what I'm going through medically, I have faith that I'm going to get through it due to my faith in God. How sometimes we have to sit through the storm to prepare, recover, and heal from the damage, trauma, pain, and suffering?
How when God tells you to move, you move.
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Speaker 1 (00:35):
Hello, Hello, Hello everybody. Welcome to my podcast and my
YouTube channel. Y'all know who I am by now. Thank
you guys for joining me for this episode. If you
guys let the commentary and want to hear more, please
hit the li suscribe and notification putting on YouTube. And
if you guys like the commentary on my podcast, please
(00:57):
go to speaker dot com. Forward slash my name and
you'll be able to see all of my podcasts or
all of the podcasts I have. From finding your inner
piece and tranquility, a happier you leads to a healthier you.
You minding your own business with self respect leads to
the level of self The old J Versuen the new You.
(01:21):
Imperfectly Imperfection radio podcasts, Opening Pandora's Box, African Melon and
Queens and You Are What You Consume radio podcasts. I
am doing this on all of my podcasts because I
feel like that I need to do this because I
need to make an announcement. I've been having throw issues
(01:45):
for a very long time and doctors haven't been able
to tell me what's been going on, and now it's
gotten works to the point I can't drive. It's hard
for me to eat. It's even hard for me to breathe.
I was just in the emergency room week, So I
wanted to make this announcement because I want you to think.
I don't want anybody thinking that I'm leaving permanently, because
(02:10):
I'm not. Until they figure out whether or not they
have to do surgery on my thyroid, I'm gonna have
to take a very long leave of absence because I
don't know how things are going to be if they
have to remove it or if they have to try
something to get the swelling to go down. So once
(02:31):
they figure out what the issue is on this side
of my throat, or if it's my ears, then we'll
figure out what the next move in the next phase
is going to be. Walking away from my podcast is
not going to be easy. Taking this hiatus is not
going to be easy, but it's something I really need
to do because my throat has been bothering me for
(02:54):
quite some time, and so I'm going to take a
break for a little while to I get things back
to where my throat isn't hurting as bad and it's
not hard for me to swallow, and it's not affecting
my driving and things of that nature. So it's going
(03:15):
to be a long road ahead of me. But while
I'm gone, I'm going to be writing a book, getting
my courses together, and getting preps so when I come back,
I will have a course to be able to sell,
be able to do jury things of that nature, writing
down my thoughts versus speaking, because speaking only makes it worse.
(03:36):
So I am taking this extended break because I need
to work on my throat. I've been trying to work
through it and I've been trying to basically get past it,
but it's getting very unbearable. Even now, it's hurting as
we speak. So I have to do its best, not
only for my health and wellness, but also my life.
(03:59):
I got a child at the think about, I got
people I love, and I got to do what's best
when it comes to that. So I want to be
able to focus on just getting better and focusing on
my health and wellness. I appreciate y'all for being so
supportive through this journey that I've been on. Y'all have
(04:20):
my other videos to listen to for the time being
until I come back, and if you guys continue to
support I greatly appreciate it. It would really mean a
lot to me. I won't know to the third of
December what exactly they're going to do, but hopefully they
(04:42):
will find answers and figure out why it's swelling and
what is fact is going on. Hopefully we'll be able
to figure it out. It may take a little bit
of time, but I'm sure we will eventually figure it out.
It may have to do some antibiotics. They may have
to give me some thing to stop the pain. Hopefully
it won't cause a reaction to other places of my body,
(05:05):
so hopefully that won't be the case. But if it's
not helping, then they may have to remove my thyroid
and I may still have to be on diary medication.
The rest of my life is just I'll have one
thyroid versus having two. I never thought in a million
years that I would be going through so much as
far as health issues, especially with my throw area. I
(05:27):
remember when my eggs hit me in the throw for
the first time. I should have went to the hospital
had it checked then, but I didn't, which is my fault.
But you can't change what has happened in the past.
All you can do is you know, do better now.
But what I would say to a lot of you,
(05:48):
is I need you to stop worrying about things when
it comes to relationships, when it comes to marriage and
all this other stuff. I need you to focus on
your health and wellness. That is what's important, is your
health and wellness. People gonna come and go in your life.
You want the constant You have one life and time
(06:09):
is gonna pass you by. And while you're sitting stagnant
trying to be a people pleaser, seat filler, captain Sablejo
and a builder bear, it ain't worth all of that.
So I just wanted to do this particular video and
podcasts as far as my radio podcast. Let you know,
without y'all, there's no mean I will be nothing without y'all.
(06:30):
And this has not been a fun journey, but it
ain't nothing I can to do about it. All I
can do is just pray that it gets better and
that they can give me medication for the swollen whether
it's a gland or whether it's a diroid. But when
I went to the emergency room, my thyroid was swollen
it and all the times I've been to doctors, nobody
has given me medication for it. And now it has
(06:52):
gotten worse. So if they have to remove it, it's
gonna be the same thing that happened with my gallbladder.
Nobody told me I had an infection in my golf
and they had to end up removing it. So what
I would say to people if something's wrong, don't give up.
Don't just let somebody tell you there's nothing wrong. When
you know how your body feels, don't don't just give up. Now,
(07:15):
the benefits of this situation is that I'm changing a
lot of my habits because of my medical condition. I'm
changing a lot of things, which I'm pretty much happy about.
But is it hard? It was it easy to do? No,
it wasn't. I don't know what my next move is
gonna be. But if it is where it's worse than yeah,
(07:40):
they will have to go ahead on and remove it.
But it will be up to a thyroid doctor of
whether or not they're gonna have to or not, or
whether a thyroid doctor would have to come up there.
So it really would be up to the thyroid doctor
to see what's gonna happen as far as what they're
going to do. But my appointment is like two weeks.
(08:01):
Trying to hang in there, but if I go back
to the emergency room, that means they're gonna have to
bring the thyroid doctor to the hospital for them to
find out what in fact is going on, and I
may have to be admitted because this is like the
third or fourth time I've been to the emergency room
for the same issue, and it's not getting any better.
(08:21):
I remember when you used to go to the hospital
if you had to be admitted, the doctors would come
up to the hospital and they would check on you
to make sure you're good. But now they just sending
you to the doctor for them to find out what's
going on. It's crazy. But at the end of the day,
like I said, if I could get in sooner, I would,
(08:42):
But I don't know how long it's gonna be as
far as hanging in there. But going in silence is
gonna be kind of a good thing. And sometimes you
have to sit still through the through the storms and
pray and hope and hope that everything gets better and
that everything's gonna be good. So sometimes going in silence
can be a good thing because you're able to rest.
(09:04):
I'm able to rest my throat, so I won't be
talking so much. I'll be able to rest my throat,
so I'll be able to just, you know, focus on
just getting it better. It's no different than a person
who strains their voice and they have to go in
silence for a little bit, not talk, and I do nothing.
It's pretty much like that. But it's gonna take some time,
(09:27):
but it will get better within time. I'm sure we're
gonna have faith that it will. But I just wanted
to come on here and let y'all know that I
am taking this break. I'm excited about it, but sad
about it at the same time, because I mean, my
podcast means so much to me. It does. It got
me through a very difficult time, but unfortunately I have
(09:51):
to take this break. So I just wanted to say
thank y'all for supporting me. I greatly appreciate it, and
I'm going to go through this journey of resting my throat.
No social media, no being on social media, no videos,
no nothing. I'm just gonna be like y'all for now,
just a spectator, just a subscriber, just let the rest
(10:14):
of you for a little while until they figure out
what's going on. Once they figure out what's going on,
then we can go about seeing how to go about
fixing the situation. But they said, I don't have cancer,
so that's not what it is. It's just swooke and
we have to just figure out why it's swollen. And
once you figure out why it's swollen, whether there's an
(10:35):
infection or not, then I know what medication they're going
to give me. In just hope and pray that it doesn't.
It's going to irritate it, and I am going to
have panic attack because it's gonna irritate it, which is
why I have a panic attack. So for those of
you that think that you're having it, Sometimes you can
have anxiety, but you can also have anxiousness. I have
(10:56):
more so anxiousness than anxiety because anxiousness is more physical,
anxiety is more mental. So it just depends. I learned
that today from a pastor. So yeah, that has been fun.
But I know it's going to take some time. But
sometimes there's signs that you have to walk away from
(11:17):
things and take a temporary leave of absence or a
temporary you know, hiatus for a while, even with content creators.
Some content creators have to do that. Sometimes people use
their lose their jobs or get burnout for the same reason,
(11:37):
because sometimes we have to sit still through the storm
and not do nothing, just sit through and just wait. Now,
don't get me wrong, it doesn't mean you're not doing things.
It just means you can't go nowhere. You just got
to sit still, make the best of the situation in
the circumstance that you have, and just continue to do
the things to improve what you're going through and then
(12:01):
let God do the rest of the work. Praying that
God far as the hands that touched my throat, It's
gonna make sure that it's better. But it's not gonna
be an easy journey. No, it's not. Because it's been
going on for years. There's been a lot of things
going on for years that I wish that they would
have been told me what was wrong. But I'm gonna
(12:22):
take it one day at a time, one step at
a time. And like I said, this has given me
a great time to finish the courses and writing the book.
So I'm not saying I'm not really necessarily taking things down,
but I'm just going on a hiatus. So right now,
what I'm going to do is go on spreaker and
(12:43):
change my actual plan from the plan I had it
on to something else temporarily, just until I am one
hundred percent of where I need to be. So I
hate the fact that I have to do this, but
you gotta do what you gotta do, especially when it
comes to taking a break. Sometimes you just got to.
(13:06):
So even though you want to not want to do that,
sometimes you just have to. So even though I hate
the fact of doing this, but sometimes you just have
to take that break that you really don't want to take,
but you need to take it. So I'm gonna go
ahead and go on sprinkle dot com and go ahead
(13:30):
and change my stuff over so that way I can
take a break until I'm able to come back and
you know, do that. So I'm not thrilled about any
of this, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
So even though I'm not thrilled about it, even though
I need, you know, sometimes you just gotta take a hiatus.
(13:54):
So it's not something I'm thrilled about, but you gotta
handle your business accordingly. So if I can't do something that,
I'm about to figure out how to go back and
fix it. But it's gonna take some time, but I'm
gonna get through it like I get through anything else
(14:15):
that I go through, it might take a little bit
of time, but at the end of the day, sometimes
we just have to take a hiatus or break. And
that's what I'm gonna do, is take a hiatus and
the break. So even though I'm not thrilled the fact
(14:35):
that I have to, but unfortunately I'm going to have
to for a little while. But sometimes you gotta do
what you gotta do in order to be the best
version of yourself. And you're not thrilled about the fact
that you gotta do this, but you don't have a choice.
(14:58):
So all I can do is just take things one
day at a time, one step at a time. So
I just wanted to come on here and let you
guys know that I am going to take a very
huge break and just know I appreciate y'all. I love y'all,
and I will let you guys know every step of
(15:20):
the way. I'll come on periodically to let you guys
know how I'm doing and how things are going. But
for now, I gotta go in silence for a while
and just sit in silence and just enjoy life without
social media, life without doing anything concerning my voice. Unless
I have to talk. So I just wanted to do
(15:42):
this video right quick and just tell you how much
I appreciate y'all and how much I love y'all. But
just keep me in your prayers, just keep supporting my podcast,
even though I'm not doing it every day, but I
just want to take the time to just say thank y'all.
So with that being said, don't forget to hit the
license grapication button on YouTube. If those are you on
my podcast, just go ahead and continue to support me,
(16:06):
and I greatly appreciate it. I love y'all and I
will see y'all soon. Well, whenever that's over, bye, y'all.
Hello, Hello, Hello everybody. Welcome to my podcast and my
YouTube channel. Y'all know who I am by now. Thank
you guys for joining me for this episode. If you
guys let the commentary and want to hear more, please
hit the li suscribe and notification putting on YouTube. And
if you guys like the commentary on my podcast, please
(00:57):
go to speaker dot com. Forward slash my name and
you'll be able to see all of my podcasts or
all of the podcasts I have. From finding your inner
piece and tranquility, a happier you leads to a healthier you.
You minding your own business with self respect leads to
the level of self The old J Versuen the new You.
(01:21):
Imperfectly Imperfection radio podcasts, Opening Pandora's Box, African Melon and
Queens and You Are What You Consume radio podcasts. I
am doing this on all of my podcasts because I
feel like that I need to do this because I
need to make an announcement. I've been having throw issues
(01:45):
for a very long time and doctors haven't been able
to tell me what's been going on, and now it's
gotten works to the point I can't drive. It's hard
for me to eat. It's even hard for me to breathe.
I was just in the emergency room week, So I
wanted to make this announcement because I want you to think.
I don't want anybody thinking that I'm leaving permanently, because
(02:10):
I'm not. Until they figure out whether or not they
have to do surgery on my thyroid, I'm gonna have
to take a very long leave of absence because I
don't know how things are going to be if they
have to remove it or if they have to try
something to get the swelling to go down. So once
(02:31):
they figure out what the issue is on this side
of my throat, or if it's my ears, then we'll
figure out what the next move in the next phase
is going to be. Walking away from my podcast is
not going to be easy. Taking this hiatus is not
going to be easy, but it's something I really need
to do because my throat has been bothering me for
(02:54):
quite some time, and so I'm going to take a
break for a little while to I get things back
to where my throat isn't hurting as bad and it's
not hard for me to swallow, and it's not affecting
my driving and things of that nature. So it's going
(03:15):
to be a long road ahead of me. But while
I'm gone, I'm going to be writing a book, getting
my courses together, and getting preps so when I come back,
I will have a course to be able to sell,
be able to do jury things of that nature, writing
down my thoughts versus speaking, because speaking only makes it worse.
(03:36):
So I am taking this extended break because I need
to work on my throat. I've been trying to work
through it and I've been trying to basically get past it,
but it's getting very unbearable. Even now, it's hurting as
we speak. So I have to do its best, not
only for my health and wellness, but also my life.
(03:59):
I got a child at the think about, I got
people I love, and I got to do what's best
when it comes to that. So I want to be
able to focus on just getting better and focusing on
my health and wellness. I appreciate y'all for being so
supportive through this journey that I've been on. Y'all have
(04:20):
my other videos to listen to for the time being
until I come back, and if you guys continue to
support I greatly appreciate it. It would really mean a
lot to me. I won't know to the third of
December what exactly they're going to do, but hopefully they
(04:42):
will find answers and figure out why it's swelling and
what is fact is going on. Hopefully we'll be able
to figure it out. It may take a little bit
of time, but I'm sure we will eventually figure it out.
It may have to do some antibiotics. They may have
to give me some thing to stop the pain. Hopefully
it won't cause a reaction to other places of my body,
(05:05):
so hopefully that won't be the case. But if it's
not helping, then they may have to remove my thyroid
and I may still have to be on diary medication.
The rest of my life is just I'll have one
thyroid versus having two. I never thought in a million
years that I would be going through so much as
far as health issues, especially with my throw area. I
(05:27):
remember when my eggs hit me in the throw for
the first time. I should have went to the hospital
had it checked then, but I didn't, which is my fault.
But you can't change what has happened in the past.
All you can do is you know, do better now.
But what I would say to a lot of you,
(05:48):
is I need you to stop worrying about things when
it comes to relationships, when it comes to marriage and
all this other stuff. I need you to focus on
your health and wellness. That is what's important, is your
health and wellness. People gonna come and go in your life.
You want the constant You have one life and time
(06:09):
is gonna pass you by. And while you're sitting stagnant
trying to be a people pleaser, seat filler, captain Sablejo
and a builder bear, it ain't worth all of that.
So I just wanted to do this particular video and
podcasts as far as my radio podcast. Let you know,
without y'all, there's no mean I will be nothing without y'all.
(06:30):
And this has not been a fun journey, but it
ain't nothing I can to do about it. All I
can do is just pray that it gets better and
that they can give me medication for the swollen whether
it's a gland or whether it's a diroid. But when
I went to the emergency room, my thyroid was swollen
it and all the times I've been to doctors, nobody
has given me medication for it. And now it has
(06:52):
gotten worse. So if they have to remove it, it's
gonna be the same thing that happened with my gallbladder.
Nobody told me I had an infection in my golf
and they had to end up removing it. So what
I would say to people if something's wrong, don't give up.
Don't just let somebody tell you there's nothing wrong. When
you know how your body feels, don't don't just give up. Now,
(07:15):
the benefits of this situation is that I'm changing a
lot of my habits because of my medical condition. I'm
changing a lot of things, which I'm pretty much happy about.
But is it hard? It was it easy to do? No,
it wasn't. I don't know what my next move is
gonna be. But if it is where it's worse than yeah,
(07:40):
they will have to go ahead on and remove it.
But it will be up to a thyroid doctor of
whether or not they're gonna have to or not, or
whether a thyroid doctor would have to come up there.
So it really would be up to the thyroid doctor
to see what's gonna happen as far as what they're
going to do. But my appointment is like two weeks.
(08:01):
Trying to hang in there, but if I go back
to the emergency room, that means they're gonna have to
bring the thyroid doctor to the hospital for them to
find out what in fact is going on, and I
may have to be admitted because this is like the
third or fourth time I've been to the emergency room
for the same issue, and it's not getting any better.
(08:21):
I remember when you used to go to the hospital
if you had to be admitted, the doctors would come
up to the hospital and they would check on you
to make sure you're good. But now they just sending
you to the doctor for them to find out what's
going on. It's crazy. But at the end of the day,
like I said, if I could get in sooner, I would,
(08:42):
But I don't know how long it's gonna be as
far as hanging in there. But going in silence is
gonna be kind of a good thing. And sometimes you
have to sit still through the through the storms and
pray and hope and hope that everything gets better and
that everything's gonna be good. So sometimes going in silence
can be a good thing because you're able to rest.
(09:04):
I'm able to rest my throat, so I won't be
talking so much. I'll be able to rest my throat,
so I'll be able to just, you know, focus on
just getting it better. It's no different than a person
who strains their voice and they have to go in
silence for a little bit, not talk, and I do nothing.
It's pretty much like that. But it's gonna take some time,
(09:27):
but it will get better within time. I'm sure we're
gonna have faith that it will. But I just wanted
to come on here and let y'all know that I
am taking this break. I'm excited about it, but sad
about it at the same time, because I mean, my
podcast means so much to me. It does. It got
me through a very difficult time, but unfortunately I have
(09:51):
to take this break. So I just wanted to say
thank y'all for supporting me. I greatly appreciate it, and
I'm going to go through this journey of resting my throat.
No social media, no being on social media, no videos,
no nothing. I'm just gonna be like y'all for now,
just a spectator, just a subscriber, just let the rest
(10:14):
of you for a little while until they figure out
what's going on. Once they figure out what's going on,
then we can go about seeing how to go about
fixing the situation. But they said, I don't have cancer,
so that's not what it is. It's just swooke and
we have to just figure out why it's swollen. And
once you figure out why it's swollen, whether there's an
(10:35):
infection or not, then I know what medication they're going
to give me. In just hope and pray that it doesn't.
It's going to irritate it, and I am going to
have panic attack because it's gonna irritate it, which is
why I have a panic attack. So for those of
you that think that you're having it, Sometimes you can
have anxiety, but you can also have anxiousness. I have
(10:56):
more so anxiousness than anxiety because anxiousness is more physical,
anxiety is more mental. So it just depends. I learned
that today from a pastor. So yeah, that has been fun.
But I know it's going to take some time. But
sometimes there's signs that you have to walk away from
(11:17):
things and take a temporary leave of absence or a
temporary you know, hiatus for a while, even with content creators.
Some content creators have to do that. Sometimes people use
their lose their jobs or get burnout for the same reason,
(11:37):
because sometimes we have to sit still through the storm
and not do nothing, just sit through and just wait. Now,
don't get me wrong, it doesn't mean you're not doing things.
It just means you can't go nowhere. You just got
to sit still, make the best of the situation in
the circumstance that you have, and just continue to do
the things to improve what you're going through and then
(12:01):
let God do the rest of the work. Praying that
God far as the hands that touched my throat, It's
gonna make sure that it's better. But it's not gonna
be an easy journey. No, it's not. Because it's been
going on for years. There's been a lot of things
going on for years that I wish that they would
have been told me what was wrong. But I'm gonna
(12:22):
take it one day at a time, one step at
a time. And like I said, this has given me
a great time to finish the courses and writing the book.
So I'm not saying I'm not really necessarily taking things down,
but I'm just going on a hiatus. So right now,
what I'm going to do is go on spreaker and
(12:43):
change my actual plan from the plan I had it
on to something else temporarily, just until I am one
hundred percent of where I need to be. So I
hate the fact that I have to do this, but
you gotta do what you gotta do, especially when it
comes to taking a break. Sometimes you just got to.
(13:06):
So even though you want to not want to do that,
sometimes you just have to. So even though I hate
the fact of doing this, but sometimes you just have
to take that break that you really don't want to take,
but you need to take it. So I'm gonna go
ahead and go on sprinkle dot com and go ahead
(13:30):
and change my stuff over so that way I can
take a break until I'm able to come back and
you know, do that. So I'm not thrilled about any
of this, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
So even though I'm not thrilled about it, even though
I need, you know, sometimes you just gotta take a hiatus.
(13:54):
So it's not something I'm thrilled about, but you gotta
handle your business accordingly. So if I can't do something that,
I'm about to figure out how to go back and
fix it. But it's gonna take some time, but I'm
gonna get through it like I get through anything else
(14:15):
that I go through, it might take a little bit
of time, but at the end of the day, sometimes
we just have to take a hiatus or break. And
that's what I'm gonna do, is take a hiatus and
the break. So even though I'm not thrilled the fact
(14:35):
that I have to, but unfortunately I'm going to have
to for a little while. But sometimes you gotta do
what you gotta do in order to be the best
version of yourself. And you're not thrilled about the fact
that you gotta do this, but you don't have a choice.
(14:58):
So all I can do is just take things one
day at a time, one step at a time. So
I just wanted to come on here and let you
guys know that I am going to take a very
huge break and just know I appreciate y'all. I love y'all,
and I will let you guys know every step of
(15:20):
the way. I'll come on periodically to let you guys
know how I'm doing and how things are going. But
for now, I gotta go in silence for a while
and just sit in silence and just enjoy life without
social media, life without doing anything concerning my voice. Unless
I have to talk. So I just wanted to do
(15:42):
this video right quick and just tell you how much
I appreciate y'all and how much I love y'all. But
just keep me in your prayers, just keep supporting my podcast,
even though I'm not doing it every day, but I
just want to take the time to just say thank y'all.
So with that being said, don't forget to hit the
license grapication button on YouTube. If those are you on
my podcast, just go ahead and continue to support me,
(16:06):
and I greatly appreciate it. I love y'all and I
will see y'all soon. Well, whenever that's over, bye, y'all.
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