September 11, 2025 • 53 mins
In this powerful episode of One Step Ahead Radio Show, host Dr. Marlene Mack welcomes Oliver Williams Jr., Founder & CEO of Oliver Cares Kidney Foundation Inc.
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Speaker 1 (00:41):
Good afternoon, Good afternoon, and welcome to One Step Ahead
Radio Show. I am your host, doctor Marlen Mack, and
I just want you to sit back and relaxed, because, boy,
do I have a show for you this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'm so grateful for you tuning in.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I want you to know that I have mister Oliver
Williams here, mister Oliver Williams Junior, who is going to
tell us his story of how he is surviving. It
is phenomenon, it's amazing, it's.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Going to encourage you.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So I want you to just sit back, buckle up,
relax once again. I am the host of One Step
Ahead Radio show and I'm so excited for this particular
power of our as we get started. So I want
to introduce you to my guest. Mister Oliver Williams Junior
is in the.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
House with us. He's right here finally and Lesland.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
This is going to be amazing, amazing, and I'm so happy.
I have been following this young man for quite some years,
so I know a little bit about his story. I
know a little bit about his story of surviving, surviving
and surviving from one blow after and this is what
is about surviving what life throws at us and not
(02:05):
giving up. So I would like for you to just
tell us a little bit about your journey and what
brought you here today on Sosradio Dot Live.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yes, everybody, my name is Oliver Williams Junior once again,
and my story actually comes from I wouldn't have known
that I had Kenny disease. It happened from me saving
me and one of my friends, Samuel Duncan. We're saving
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a young lady's life coming back from a dance one
Wow and as.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
We were coming back, I stopped to get something to eat.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I asked him if he could pull over because I
couldn't wait to get back to Jersey City. And it
was a young lady wrapped around a pole in December
of twenty twenty two. And you know, being thatt, I've
come from a law enforcement background and he works as
an officer, and we had our duty to stop. We
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went around on the other side of the highway and
to help her. So with me being outside in the
cold a couple of days later, I wanted to get sick,
and I kind of say that she saved my life
because if I win, that got sick from being out
in the cold, I could, I might not be here today.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
So so you saving her life practically save your life, yes,
which led you to find out things that you didn't
even know what was going on. Yes, So that that's
the story. That's the story within itself. Because things happen
for a reason. You know, it could be a reason,
it could be a season. But things happen for a reason.
So go on, and because I remember you shared that
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with me years ago, but I forgot about that, But
go ahead and finish.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
So, you know, with me being out in the cold,
I didn't have a cold on.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
He had a coat on and I had, and the
coldness got into my body, so I wanted up going.
I got sick and I couldn't breathe.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
A couple of.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Days later and I was like, you know what, let
me go to the hospital. I had to call the ambulance,
went to the hospital. And when I got to the hospital,
they told me. I thought I had COVID, you know,
but I always wearing masks and I always been conscious
about COVID and everything. But they was like, mister Williams,
you have double pneumonia and you have the flu, so
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we have to keep you at the hospital. So I said, okay,
no problem, I ain't got COVID. So you know, the
first thing went was my father died from COVID and
kidney disease. Right, So then through the course of that
they admitted me. A couple of hours later, a doctor
came in the room and they said, I'm a defrologist.
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So I'm looking at him like, well, who are you?
You know what I mean, a kidney doctor. I said, okay,
while you're here, I got the flu in, you know.
So then he told me that, he said, listen, you know,
right now we have to give you emergency surgery.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Put a poured in your chest. Your kidneys are failing.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Your your GFR is at of seven right now, so
my kidneys is ready to shut down. But not knowing
that I had the signs and the symptom prior to that,
even before before the young lady that my legs swolling,
you know, tired, the fatigue, but I think it from
me working so much. That's what it was, you know,
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the puffy face and all that type stuff. So I
called everybody that I needed to call and started making
the raisers like assurances and and a couple of solid
people came straight to the hospital, no questions asked, came
there and prayed with me. I told them what I
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needed them to do. They did with what I needed,
which was Reverend Clark. That's like like one of my
right hand mans took to Samuel Duncan Gully and my
friend Aaron.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
They came straight, you know, they came to the hospital.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I wound up going to surgery that night, like like
a fwo hours later.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Okay, so let me ask you.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
So when your results came back and it was so
bad that you had to have surgery that night.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
They had to put emergency port in my chest and
I had to start dialysis immediately.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So just listening to you, Oliver, there are signs that
we ignore and said, oh it's just a little headache
because you said something that's so profound. There were symptoms
and signs there, but we sometimes so busy with our
lifestyle that we don't stop to say, hey, let me
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just go and find out what this really is about.
So later on, that was one of my key questions
for you, was to were there any signs prior and
what can you tell people out there and and so
land that what they need to watch out for to
try to prevent these things from getting to the point
as soon as they find out you in need of
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a surgery.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Well, first of all, you know kidney disease. A lot
of people don't know what kidney disease is. Kidney disease
occurs when the kidneys are like damaged and they can't
filter the blood properly. That's your wasting. The toxins build
up in your body. So certain causes for kidney disease
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is diabetes, high blood pressure. The family history of kidney disease,
heart disease plays a major factor in it.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
And I'm sorry, can you repeat that one more time?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
The common causes for kidney disease or diabetes, high blood pressure,
family history of kidney disease, and heart disease, those play
a major factor. Some some babies are born with kidney disease.
So kidney diseases in all ages, which I.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Wound up from me learning about kidney disease and everything.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
I created brochures with my foundation for kids, teenagers and adults.
And I made the kids brochures and stuff where into
like cartoon characters. So this way they got to understand
of healthy eating with their vegetables and everything which.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I shared, which I had shared with you, because I
actually that.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Is amazing and that's something that needs to go out
even more on the level with children.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Because you know that's my thing, the kids.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So you just gave me some great ideas to make
sure that we inform my parents because I do know
of diabetes and young kids juvenile diabetes. Yes, I never
even thought about speaking to anyone for children with kidney disease,
and you just taught me something knowing that children are
sometimes born with kidney disease. I wasn't even aware of that.
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So we're not even good until this show in thirty minutes,
and you already don't enlighten me on a lot of things.
And I'm sure some of the listeners out there are
you doing the same thing. So this is why I
really wanted you to beat on the program because what
I've seen you go through and the knowledge and the
fact that you were still standing when you was counted
out so many times has encouraged me and I before
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this hour is over with, I just want you to
tell me and my listeners and my followers, where did
you get that strength from to keep on going.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
When I started my foundation?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Uh, I was just laying in the bed, laying in
the bed, laying in bed.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I think I had tell them the name of your foundation.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
It's called Oliver Kids Kidney Foundation, Inc.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
I have a website called Oliver Kids dot org where
you can get all information.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
But during the course of.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
With me starting everything I had, I think I had
shared with you a couple of times what I wanted
to do as far as with the with the foundation and.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
From me being diagnosed.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I had to turn my diagnosi into a mission to wow.
And I had to do it with all nationalities, not
just African American race. Everybody gets kidding U these And
with me starting the foundation, I just was like I
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just had fire. A few guards. Was like, listen, you
can't lay here in it's bed. And at times I'll
be crying and crying and crying and and I'm like
I'm gonna die.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
And I said, if I'm going to die, i gotta
go out with a fight, So.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Don't cry.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
So I feel with my foundation into passion.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yes it is a passion, and I feel it from
my father. It's okay, take your time.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Just making sure this is real, that everybody knows how
important it is to take care of your kidneys because
doctors don't mm hmm tell you.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
So that means, let me give you time to get together.
This is real, This is a passion of yours. And
you know me personally, we've been very good friends. But
you also know and a lot of people out there
don't know that I am also a kidney patient as well.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I've been having my kidneys. I had four surgeries three
years ago.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Every three months they were doing kidney blast to try
to get rid of kidney stones. So everything that you
just said, it's so important, and I'm taking it in
first because it's real and the fact that all those things.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
That you listed can lead to this is something.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
That we all need to take heed of, whether it's
high blood pressure, hypertension, if it's hereditary, or if it's
just something that occurs, because sometimes things occur within our
bodies and we really can't put our finger on it
where it comes from. So just the fact that you're
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here and like I said, laying on that bed and
knowing that you feel that you're going to die, I've
been there, so I can relate. But what did you do,
oliber what did you do? Look at you now, I'm
looking at you, you do not look like what you've
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been through and you haven't begin to get more into it.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
How you had to change your whole life around. So
do me a favor.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
How has the support with your family? How had the
support with your close circle?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
How?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
How how did they support you with all your different
health challenges?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Good friendship? Definitely, definitely a lot of definitely a lot
of love. Some people that I didn't even no kid,
did a lot of stuff from for me. Yes, and
they also made sure that my mother.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Just to put a little spin on it, can you.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Just elaborate just a little bit and tell everybody how
I made some homemade juice for you. Okay, you know,
I blended in and drove it off there to Jersey
City and dropped it off you know. So I too
wanted to be a part of your life and getting
back and I'm still here.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
So I just wanted you to just say a little
bit about that.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Yeah, mis Mac, she had did a juicing thing for
me because she had We was talking and she was
telling me that she was juicing and carrying on.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
So as I said it.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I was like, okay, you choice to me, and she
said sure, no problem because you see that what I
was going through at the time, right, that's right, And
I was glad that she was there for me. Also,
you know my other friends like Clark, Dunk and or
they all.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
She especially on getting me back and forth to the
doctor because there was a struggle because at the time
I wasn't able to drive because a lot of stuff started.
Like I've been through so much where I lost my
leg in twenty twenty. Wow that maybe a year or
two later I had prostate cancer. And then from prostate
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cancer in twenty twenty three, that's when I got.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
The kidney disease.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
And so I've been going through a whole bunch of
sicknesses and health.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
But but you don't look like what you've getting through.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
God gets me, gets me through it, and they won't
let me.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
They won't let me get down.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Like better get up like the gentleman that brought me
here today, Sam Duncan.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Well, shout out to Sam Duncan in the house.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
You better get out, you better better get up. You
need to walk. The loose weights come on walk joking around,
but he stays on top of me.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Reverend Clark when he was going through his sickness.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
I went to the hospital and mister Covid and I
wasn't supposed to be at the hospital, and I told
him that he needed to get out to bed. You're
not gonna die on me. And he came to the hospital.
They say, you're not gonna die. You're not gonna die
me were blood brothers. We might have to cut cut
our fingers and put the blood together and to make
make it real blood blood brothers. But I have a
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lot of people that support and they they they tell
me to keep fighting because because I have a cause,
I have a mission. Like the Nice production, the lady
Denise Spooner, she stays on top of me. She's she's
she's a woman of God. Like how you pray all
the time. She praised and she praised and she praised
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and she she told me, she told me today and yesterday.
No know, we adopted you, right, uh and Bennett, we
adopted you. Uh, the Nice We're part of us. Now
you're gonna make sure that your succeeds.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yes, yes, yes, So.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
You have had and and and talking to you periodically.
We don't talk often, but we do talk. I notice
you do, say rev and Clark there's a couple other
names you say, you do, say, said Sam Duncan. So
I know that these brothers have been consistent from day one,
and those are true, true, true friends. Because sometimes you
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can get sick, all right, and people disappear on you,
all right. You can go to jail, people disappear on you, you
go to hospital, people disappear on you. But when you
got those that are troopers that's in the cut and
fighting with you and helping you and pushing you to persevere,
those are keepers.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Those are keepers.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
And that's why I ask you that question because I
know you, I know what you have been through.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You had to have a strong network of friends. You
had to have that.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
You talked about a couple of things that kind of
like reminiscing me back down memory lane. I remember in
twenty twenty when.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
You lost your leg.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Okay, and see this is why I'm saying. You're able
to walk now, if I'm not mistaken, you can even
drive now. But these are things that when when you
lose a leg, you ain't thinking about driving or whatever
you think about, I can't walk no more. Like that
had to be psychologically an impact on you. It had
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to bring you down. I don't want to stay on
it really long. But losing your leg pastay, cancer, kidney failure,
kidney disease, and you also and.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Diabetes and your eyes. You just had eye surgery, right,
tell us about that. Tell us about that.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Also, when you have diabetes, you can get retina. You
can bleed in your retina. And I was bleeding in
both of my eyes where I lost the vision in
my eys.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I actually could see today.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
They did a phenomenal job at Clara MAT's Hospital where
they took me in and they had to put me
under and they we're able to laser the eyes and
uh take the blood and all that stuff out of there,
so I actually could see real good.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I just got to keep following up with them.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
But and you know what, I'm looking at your eyes.
I forgot about the eye surgery. You can't tell. You
can't tell, you can't tell.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
It all.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Your your your slogan that we came up with here.
So os was diagnosed to mission. You know, you had
a diagnose that led you to a mission and you
kept that mission, that mission going, which is your foundation
all of the cares to go through everything that you
went through, that that that means losing your leg, eye surgery,
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passe cancer, diabetes, kidney disease, who knows what else, and
then having to retrain your life all over again. I
can relate to that having my my surgeries that went wrong.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
The reason why I am so proud of you, Oliver,
is because you did not give up. You started a
foundation that is very very very very successful, and it's
going into his second year and it is doing a
phenomenal job. And I just want you to continue to
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tell us more about Oliver kads Foundation Incorporated.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Okay, with Oliver Kids. I can't forget my directors.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Richard Klark Junior, he's one of my directors, and that's
Sheelle Harris, she's my other director well with the foundation.
When I had got it up and running of a
March of twenty twenty four, that August, I was on
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a mission and I said that I wanted to have
a get I actually had talked to Miss mac and
I had told her what my ideas was to have
a galer because you know, she's she's very intelligent. She
knows how to uh for businesses and all different types
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of things. So I needed I needed experience and I
was I was on a mission to go fast, So
that August, a couple of months later, I had a galla,
probably about one hundred and forty people were there. She
actually donated a nice five hundred dollars basket where everybody
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was trying to get that basket at at the gallery.
And from that, the next mission was I wanted to
have a kidney walk and I wanted to have a
kidney walk with another company Donate Save a Life, which
is Joy Brimbury my part with hers, and I did
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that at Weekway. Part from that, my next mission was
to have a health fare, which I just had the
health fare a couple of weeks ago at Lincoln Park
here in Jersey City. So anything that I put my
mind to a mission I'm striving for.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
The Nice Production is actually having a.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Fundraiser fish fry, and do I find the person that
could write grants for me to raise everything? Right now,
I'm self funding and you know, I get donations here
and there that that help out. And the fish fry
is going to be actually September twenty seventh at the
People's Choice where they're going to raise money for me.
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Also October eighteenth, the Nice Production is actually going to
be honoring my foundation. Look at God with the reward
for the work that I've been doing in the community.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
And this is just going into your second year. This
foundation is creating all of this. Yes, just because God
gave you the idea. You said something real, real, profound that.
I believe your mindset, you see it in your mind,
You'll see it in time, see yourself doing these things. Okay,
let nothing deter you, because when God puts something in
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your heart is going to happen, when God is behind
you one hundred percent. And I'm still just amazed, and
I'm hearing all these other things. The fish fry going
on at people's choice. I believe they are in Newark.
They're located in Newark, Yes, and then then d Nice
is doing something else for you. So this is so inspiring.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
This is my point.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
After everything that you've been through, look at what you
are doing now. Look at how you are standing, look
at how many times, look at losing the leg, being
diagnosed with pastai cancer, losing your father, and I've remember
when you lost your father. Okay, having surgeries and you
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didn't even touch yet about the dialysis. You share a
little bit with us about that.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Okay, well, I got my kidneys are so bad that
I do dialysis four days a week. Sometimes I do
four and a half hours three days a week, and
then I do three hours one day a week, either
as you know, Tuesday, Thursday, or Saturday, whichever slot they
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can get being because they know that I like to
go to dialysis early in the morning, because if you're
going in the late afternoon at four hours and three hours,
you know you're not getting out there at like four
o'clock in the afternoon. And so I'm in my chair
at five o'clock in the morning. Faithfully ambulance picks me up,
takes me to takes me to dialysis on my days
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that I do have to go to dialysis. Dialysis is
when they put two needles in your arm to one
is for to take the blood in and another one
is to take the blood out.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Or when you.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
First start, when I first started, everybody starts with importing
the chests, some of them, or you know, if they
get official and they know they're gonna put you on dialysis,
then they'll put.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Officially in your arm and so forth.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
But eventually points in your chest aren't allowed to be
in your chest really no more than ninety e's. Some
are in warm period time, but you can be prone
to catching chest infection, you know, all that type of stuff,
which that occurred to me a couple of times.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
But it filters and cleans, It cleans your blood.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
It takes the fluid from your body, the extra fluid
that you're not supposed to have on your body, like
the weekends. So like when I go back on Monday,
because I was off two days, of course I'm gonna
have like a little bit of fluid overload. But I
try to make sure that I'm not doing too much fluid.
So when I get there, maybe I might be a
keybo over, which is not too much.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Some days I might go there, but.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
You don't want to overflood your kidneys and your kidneys
just conk out on you.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
So are you on a kidney donus list?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
And how long have you been on that list?
Speaker 4 (27:40):
I've been on the kidney donort list almost three years.
I'm on Hack and Sack and I'm on Barnabas Kidney
Donate donor site. If it's anybody that would like to
be my hero and donate a kidney to me, I'll
be happy for you to save my life when they
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will be either brothers and sisters or sisters brothers.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Or brother and brother.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
So this way I can see my nieces and my
nephews grow up in life because I've still got a
lot of living.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
So when you say donate, I know, I know, I
know people who have gave up a kidney for their
husband or significant other or a family member. It's a
certain match though, it just can't be anybody. There's a process, right.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Yes, it's it's a certain match. And also they have
pairing where say a person wanted to donate the kidney
to me and they weren't my match. If they still
want to donate the kidney for me, they could donate
the kidney on my behalf to somebody else. Oh wow,
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and it's called parent and then they'll give me the
next available kidney because they donated to somebody else.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
So they ended up put me right up on the list.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
So you can get a phone call any moment now,
right any day now.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
And you said you've been on the.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
DONS list for about three years, so you've been on
dialysis for three years.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
I've been on dialysis almost yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
January of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
From diagnosed to mission turning faith into action and hope.
From your diagnosis, I'm put an s on it to
the mission, which is your foundation all over cares and
then turning that faith into action and hope is just
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a phenomenon platform to have. Now you grew up, give
me a little bit background about where you grew up.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
You know who your father was. Who's your mom?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
You know, you've a shout out to mom because I
know she's out there.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
He's out there in TV land. My father, well, I'm
a I'm a junior, so he's a senior. Yeah, Oliver Williams,
he died in twenty twenty. My mother, Shirley Williams. I
never had the one for anything. Both of them had
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good jobs. From father. I don't understand how his job
thing went, but he went from he went from working
at Dixon Mills to Alpha Meadows too, working as a
correction office.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
And I'm like, you know water later on in life, you.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Know you but you know he worked in corrections with
the kids.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
So Dad, that's how you got in corrections? Was it
because a dad or that was this?
Speaker 3 (30:55):
No? Not really because of my uncle, my uncle, my
mother's brother.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Was an FBI agent, so that's kind of I wanted
to kind of get into law enforcement that way too,
but I wound up going with the sheriff Department and
differm there running a community corrections facility in.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
North for like ten years.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Okay, right.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
And then my mother had a good job.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
She worked for the Life and Casualties, so she she
was wanted. She had the she had reported to one person,
and then she did what she did. Like I said,
we never had the one for anything in life. Every
week we had we was getting I kind of hundred
probably a hundred dollars for my phone, hundred dollars for
my mother, me and my little sister, you know, and
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my others.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
So we never wanted for anything.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
So let me let me let me switch giars a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
What are some of the biggest conceptions people have of
kidney diseases.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
That they can't get it?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Wow again, that they cannot get kidney disease, they think,
and not realizing all the alcohol and stuff that you're drinking,
all that sugar that's turning into sugar.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
You know what I mean, sugar I sugar sugar kills you.
You know what I mean. It makes diabetes, you know,
high blood pressure, all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
And then when they go to do your biopsy, which
they gotta lay you on the table in the skinning
room and they stick a needle in your back. They
numb you up. They stick a needle in your back
to take a biopsy. That biopsy's new joke. And then
they tell you how you got your kidney disease.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
They tell you how like Mons was from diabetes, diabetic kidneys.
That's what I have. Wow?
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Wowow? What are what?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
What warning signs should people look for or look out
for to catch the kidney disease early on if they
can before you.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Know, they need to find that.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
They need to ask the doctors what they be you
in is what they created, is what they gf R is.
That's all tells you your your levels on your kidneys.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
It's a chart.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
So on Google, you could pull up g f R
and'll tell you what stage your kidneys is if you
fall in those categories and numbers, the creations.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
And it be you in and it'll tell you all
that stuff.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Because the more fluid that build up on your body,
Like it was times that I never really paid attention
that I wasn't going to the bathroom. So you know
fluid p you know, hm, your legs being your legs
being swollen. You know, you gotta gotta look at all
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that type of stuff your body retaining that water.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yeah, that's that's some powerful information. I just need you
to say it again for the listeners. I don't know
what you were saying the b F.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
A, B C D.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Say it again, because I think that's all done in
blood work, right, That's how you find out the results
for your blood work. Okay, when you do your blood work.
Is this a normal thing or you got to be
quested from your doctor?
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Your doctor should be picking up on it.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
But you know, like I, as I got sick and
I noticed things, you see that as a doctor for everything,
so you know, you know it's a doctor for everything.
Like all right, I'm always just going to see all
but all these doctors. And yes, well, like like I said,
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act your doctor, your primary doctors and stuff for your
being bu in, your creating levels, your g f rs
and if.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Not, go see a kidney doctor. You know what I mean.
I don't hurt to go see a kidney doctor and
get blood work done.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
It's just so early detections because you know, we get
stuck on special women and press mammograms, but this is
something serious as well.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
We need to check on our kidneys.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Check your kidneys, you know, get your regular checkups for everything,
because before you know it is too late. Wow, and
then they're telling you, okay, we gotta put you on
dialysis or you know, put you on the transplant list.
At least if you catch it early in life, you
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could work on probably reversing.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
It mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
And it can be reversed, I guess for the change
of lins.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
The earlier, the earliest stages.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Can be right now, if someone.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Is being tested today, just received a diagnose, it just
got back to diagnose. What what encouragement would you give them?
I just got my results, I just got the diagnose.
This is what's going on going forward. If you knew
who that person was, what encouragement?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
What? What?
Speaker 2 (36:08):
What? What would you give them? What would you say
to encourage a person that.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Just kind of diagnose of whether it's diabetes or having
issues with their kidneys.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
What would you say?
Speaker 4 (36:18):
I would tell them they got to keep fighting, Like
I tell a lot of people that I've ran into
and when they see the table, like when I do
pop ups and stuff.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
I have the table, I have my foundation.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Out there at events and they'll ask questions and I'll
tell them, you know, listen to your doctors.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Go get a second opinion if you have to.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
You can't do this that you can't certain foods that
you need to eat, because it's certain foods that turn
into water, like certain vegetables like cabbage, what is it water,
collar greens water.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
So you don't want to overflood your kidneys.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
More and more and more, so you definitely you want
to eat right, Start eating right, start exercising, and staying
on top of everything that the doctor tells you to do.
And I'm actually trying to put together a support group
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through the foundation, and I'm probably gonna start that like
next year because I wanted to get the rest of
the everything done this year because what I normally do
is if something pops in my mind, I'll already do
the Like it could be two o'clock in the morning,
I'll wake up and I get on the laptop and
I start put the proposal and everything together for it.
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And like I said, you know, chat GBT is great
resources help put certain things together. It is, so.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
It really is it really is. I know.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
The name out of Cares Kidney Foundation, Inc.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
What inspired you? Because I love that name.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
It's very appropriate, especially for your gollas, your fundraisers, the foundation.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
But what inspired you?
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Because it's a powerful name and anything that you do.
As in terms of a business, it's always good to
have your name in it because it's your brand, you know.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
But what inspired you?
Speaker 1 (38:25):
And another thing another thing you said that I like,
and it happens to a lot of people, but they
ignore it. Dreams and visions and ways that become wealthy
and healthy. Sometime comes to you two o'clock in the morning.
So you said, you get up and go straight to
your laptop. A lot of us just turn back over
and continue to let those dreams stay on our pillows.
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This is one thing where I always push take the
dreams off the pillows, because God will give you visions
and angels will come to you while you're sleeping.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
There.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
You did what you should have done.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
You got up, you went straight to your laptop and
you kept it going. And that's something I want to
let the people out there know.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Get up.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Sometimes if you have a dream, write it down.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
You never had a dream and it was the perfect dream,
the name of a book of any and you could
remember because you turned over and went back to sleep.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
So you can just let that dream lay on that billow.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
So it's important to get up, write things down, even
if it is two or three o'clock in the morning,
because sometimes that's quiet time. That's when God say peace,
be still, and you're quiet and you can hear from
the Lord. But you activate that into a beautiful name
for your foundation. So what expire you to come up
with that name is what I want to know all of.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
The kids, I can, I can, I can.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
I care about people, people well being, even though sometimes
I don't get it in return, But.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
I want to say my mom's all She's.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Like, I mean, I don't treat nobody to do this
for this or that, but but.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
I care about people well being all the time.
Speaker 4 (40:12):
Like even if if I'm having an event or whatever
I'm doing, I'll make sure everybody else eats for fly
Like at the gal I would just sitting down.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
And everybody you need to eat sugar dropping.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
But but I just I just I just cared about people,
and I know I could save a lot of people
lives with.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Yes, yes, And that is why we're here today.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
I was in shot right picking up a two Nations
and young lady see me getting the door that she
worked for BJ's she took I told her, I said,
I invited her to the helfare. So she gave the
flying to her boss and the boss contacted me and
then I told her. She said, well, we weren't to
get the water to you for the healthare, what can
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we do for you? Even told that I was having
a hydration day. So they also actually told me a
couple of other things that I could probably get vegetables.
I got a call next week. I probably get vegetables.
They give our pastries and all that type of stuff,
so I can use that for the workshop. Because I
do workshops every ninety every quarter it's a workshop being
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done with I teach about kiddy disease, healthy eat and
have nutrition that's come in, teach you about healthy eating,
and also trying to partner with somebody to come to
do the free testing.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
And I would love for you to come to my
schools and do a workshop with the parents for the kids.
How important it is at an early age to do
a lot of things that's going on because the kids
and the parents. That would be a phenomenal workshop if
people just come in put something together and we can
talk about that a little later.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
But there's so many other things that you got going on.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Just want you to just bring it home a little
bit and just sell us a little bit more.
Speaker 4 (42:03):
Okay. September twenty seventh, we know it's the fish fry
that's being done for me by the Nights Productions.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
It's gonna be a people's choice.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
Is one oh five Hartford Street, Dork, New Jersey from
twelve to six? Well, we know today I was here
a one stop, one step ahead. DJ Choir on October
twenty fifth is having a thing for cancer and my
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foundation is gonna be a vendor there and some of
the proceeds from the tickets will go to my foundation.
So he's a man of God his heart. I'm also
doing a anybody that donates two hundred and fifty dollars
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or more to the foundation, I have a five hundred
dollar traveled voucher for them that they could use at
over a million hotels, car rentals and so forth.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Are you just really really really really busy?
Speaker 4 (43:25):
And then on October eighteenth is the Colors of Courage
with d Knight's Productions where they're gonna honor yours truly
Oliver Williams Junior for the Oliver Williams Kidney Foundation, and
looking forward to that, to that night, from the short
period of time that I did something that I'm being
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honored already.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, that is amazing. And that's my point.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
I keep saying to you, this is just about what
going into your second year, going into your second year,
and look at the rest as a man, look at that,
that's nothing but got all over you. That's nothing but
God all over your foundation.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
God God and learning from you.
Speaker 4 (44:08):
If it wasn't if it wasn't for you and sitting
and talking, you know, and I'm telling you, like listen,
you could do it. And he about to make me cry,
make me cry, I wouldn't have got through it. But
from a from a person that's a boss and me
watching how you dig gateway, I had it.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
I had to do it.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
You know, We, like I said, we talked as good friends.
And I'll be happy to come to the school and teach.
And even if you got consent from the kids, from
the parents to talk to the kids, and you can
teach stuff through the fruits and all that type of stuff.
I'll be more than happy to come and do it.
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But like I said, all of the kids kidney foundations,
because all of the kids, he kids about his abunity.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
He kids about.
Speaker 4 (45:01):
Bridging all nationalities together and giving back to the community.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
So let me say this, because you was you know,
there were times you were in the hospital and you
would see me post something and you would send me
a text and it would be such an encouraging text,
how proud you are of me. But I'm saying to myself,
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and I remember thinking, he in the hospital, he just
got rushed to the hospital house. He got time from
his hospital bed to text his sister and say, you
know what, You're gonna have so many schools.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
You need one in every state. You're gonna grow, grow, grow.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
So there were times where you encourage me and we
encourage each other, and we're.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
Still doing that today.
Speaker 1 (45:56):
And there were times when your text came through right
when I was It's like, come on, you know, because
gay way will it was a project. It was a project,
and it was not easy. And to share the thing
about your lag when you knew that my left leid
was paralyzed. People didn't know that, you know, they didn't
know about the total hippie placement, the total need be
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placed went. I was basically put back together again, and
I'm too was laying there saying, Nope, I'm not gonna
give the devil any leadway over my life. He's not
getting that platform because with our faith Oliverer, we turn
things around. You just have to have to really really
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start believing in what you're going through. And you are
the epic to me of that picture. If I had
to turn to the dictionary or google you, okay because
people don't use dictionaries that much anymore, but if I
had to google you, you would be there with the
strength and a solid foundation. I am definitely definitely wish
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you the best and I'm definitely gonna be there for you.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
I want you to come aboard because the children, that's
our future.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
Yes, and how we're sew in them the knowledge now,
you know, it can take them a long way. The
different things that I do with them, those are memories
that no one can take out their head. That's why
I'm big on the foundation, making sure that it's solid.
Speaker 2 (47:28):
You know, good foundation is unbreakable.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
You can't do anything with that and my favorite scripture
is Philippins four thirteen.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
I can do all things through Christ who strength to me.
Speaker 1 (47:38):
You can't take that from me. And we always had
so much in common. And I think the fact that
our legs brought us your injury my injury, right, but
that was us and we waved that battle. And guess
what we walked in here today. We walked in here today.
So I want to close out, but I want to
close out with you giving something out there for the
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people to take with them.
Speaker 3 (48:05):
What I want to say to everybody is just go
get checked.
Speaker 4 (48:10):
Go see your doctor, ask them to see what your
kidney levels are before it's too late. Make sure that
you stay on top of your blood pressure and just drink,
drink water, eat your vegetables and stuff, and just take
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care of your life and pass it on to your
to your loved ones, your friends, your family, and this
way we all can come out on top.
Speaker 3 (48:44):
Exercise it is a key factor in life.
Speaker 4 (48:49):
And like I said, go onto ol of your Kids
Kidney Oliver kids dot org website and the newsletter, the calendar.
Speaker 3 (49:02):
Everything will be up there. It's a couple of things up.
Speaker 4 (49:06):
On the calendar right now, but everything will be full
blast and about a week on the website.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
I want to share something with you and for those
that are listening. A diagnos doesn't define.
Speaker 2 (49:32):
Who you are. A diagnose doesn't define who you are.
It gives you a mission.
Speaker 1 (49:41):
A diagnose gives you a mission, and you have to
take that one step ahead and when life set you back,
don't give up, persevere, don't give the enemy that platform.
Keep on going because remember God got the final say
so all your life and the enemy is out here
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to kill, destroy, But you got it going on because
you got that faith, even if it's as tiny as
a mustle sea. So when life says you back, you
keep going one step ahead. I want to thank you,
brother Oliph for being on the show with me. I'm
almost certainly.
Speaker 3 (50:18):
I appreciate coming on this show. I hated that I
c that's okay, But I also got to make sure that.
Speaker 4 (50:30):
I let Brother Joseph earrow through my journey. He knows
everything about my sicknesses and he's been in a room
with me surgery after surgery is and anytime that I
need him, I can call him.
Speaker 3 (50:45):
I called him at six o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 4 (50:47):
Listen, I need to go to the hospital or something.
He comes and gets me with no problem, and.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
You know, I really, I really don't start closing out,
but quickly, please tell him how many times you felt
that driver's test, lady, because your car had to be
redone over, so.
Speaker 4 (51:04):
I had to be modified. But I have driving avice
on my car, and I felt did.
Speaker 2 (51:12):
One two hundred times?
Speaker 3 (51:16):
Two hundred.
Speaker 4 (51:21):
I felt at one time, but it felt like it
was because I had to pay. So yeah, when you
get your cars modified, assurance has to pay for the
pay for certain things with the modification. Driving school you
have to pay out your pocket.
Speaker 2 (51:39):
Okay, so you had to go to driving school to
learn how to drive over.
Speaker 4 (51:42):
Yeah, they have special schools for modifications. GfK Hospital is
one of the schools that you go to where I
had to go out there to learn how to drive
a modify car and I had to read go back.
Once you do that, you have to go back and
take your road tests all over again with the modifications
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on the car.
Speaker 3 (52:05):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (52:06):
So that's that's another avenue of your life that you
had to adjust to this with that. So once again,
I want to thank you from the very very bottom
of my heart of coming on.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
One step ahead of radio show. It has been great
speaking with you.
Speaker 1 (52:22):
You have inspired me, you have educated me, you have
taught me some things.
Speaker 2 (52:26):
And not only that, you have enlightened.
Speaker 1 (52:28):
Me to take this to the kids at the school
so that I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (52:33):
And I thank you guys for joining in.
Speaker 1 (52:36):
We're about to end this beautiful power hour until next week. Remember,
if life take you back, you take one step ahead.
Have a good evening.
Speaker 3 (53:02):
Everybody to take anything, everything, anything con
Good afternoon, Good afternoon, and welcome to One Step Ahead
Radio Show. I am your host, doctor Marlen Mack, and
I just want you to sit back and relaxed, because, boy,
do I have a show for you this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'm so grateful for you tuning in.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I want you to know that I have mister Oliver
Williams here, mister Oliver Williams Junior, who is going to
tell us his story of how he is surviving. It
is phenomenon, it's amazing, it's.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Going to encourage you.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So I want you to just sit back, buckle up,
relax once again. I am the host of One Step
Ahead Radio show and I'm so excited for this particular
power of our as we get started. So I want
to introduce you to my guest. Mister Oliver Williams Junior
is in the.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
House with us. He's right here finally and Lesland.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
This is going to be amazing, amazing, and I'm so happy.
I have been following this young man for quite some years,
so I know a little bit about his story. I
know a little bit about his story of surviving, surviving
and surviving from one blow after and this is what
is about surviving what life throws at us and not
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giving up. So I would like for you to just
tell us a little bit about your journey and what
brought you here today on Sosradio Dot Live.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yes, everybody, my name is Oliver Williams Junior once again,
and my story actually comes from I wouldn't have known
that I had Kenny disease. It happened from me saving
me and one of my friends, Samuel Duncan. We're saving
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a young lady's life coming back from a dance one
Wow and as.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
We were coming back, I stopped to get something to eat.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I asked him if he could pull over because I
couldn't wait to get back to Jersey City. And it
was a young lady wrapped around a pole in December
of twenty twenty two. And you know, being thatt, I've
come from a law enforcement background and he works as
an officer, and we had our duty to stop. We
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went around on the other side of the highway and
to help her. So with me being outside in the
cold a couple of days later, I wanted to get sick,
and I kind of say that she saved my life
because if I win, that got sick from being out
in the cold, I could, I might not be here today.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
So so you saving her life practically save your life, yes,
which led you to find out things that you didn't
even know what was going on. Yes, So that that's
the story. That's the story within itself. Because things happen
for a reason. You know, it could be a reason,
it could be a season. But things happen for a reason.
So go on, and because I remember you shared that
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with me years ago, but I forgot about that, But
go ahead and finish.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
So, you know, with me being out in the cold,
I didn't have a cold on.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
He had a coat on and I had, and the
coldness got into my body, so I wanted up going.
I got sick and I couldn't breathe.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
A couple of.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Days later and I was like, you know what, let
me go to the hospital. I had to call the ambulance,
went to the hospital. And when I got to the hospital,
they told me. I thought I had COVID, you know,
but I always wearing masks and I always been conscious
about COVID and everything. But they was like, mister Williams,
you have double pneumonia and you have the flu, so
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we have to keep you at the hospital. So I said, okay,
no problem, I ain't got COVID. So you know, the
first thing went was my father died from COVID and
kidney disease. Right, So then through the course of that
they admitted me. A couple of hours later, a doctor
came in the room and they said, I'm a defrologist.
(04:55):
So I'm looking at him like, well, who are you?
You know what I mean, a kidney doctor. I said, okay,
while you're here, I got the flu in, you know.
So then he told me that, he said, listen, you know,
right now we have to give you emergency surgery.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Put a poured in your chest. Your kidneys are failing.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Your your GFR is at of seven right now, so
my kidneys is ready to shut down. But not knowing
that I had the signs and the symptom prior to that,
even before before the young lady that my legs swolling,
you know, tired, the fatigue, but I think it from
me working so much. That's what it was, you know,
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the puffy face and all that type stuff. So I
called everybody that I needed to call and started making
the raisers like assurances and and a couple of solid
people came straight to the hospital, no questions asked, came
there and prayed with me. I told them what I
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needed them to do. They did with what I needed,
which was Reverend Clark. That's like like one of my
right hand mans took to Samuel Duncan Gully and my
friend Aaron.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
They came straight, you know, they came to the hospital.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I wound up going to surgery that night, like like
a fwo hours later.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Okay, so let me ask you.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
So when your results came back and it was so
bad that you had to have surgery that night.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
They had to put emergency port in my chest and
I had to start dialysis immediately.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So just listening to you, Oliver, there are signs that
we ignore and said, oh it's just a little headache
because you said something that's so profound. There were symptoms
and signs there, but we sometimes so busy with our
lifestyle that we don't stop to say, hey, let me
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just go and find out what this really is about.
So later on, that was one of my key questions
for you, was to were there any signs prior and
what can you tell people out there and and so
land that what they need to watch out for to
try to prevent these things from getting to the point
as soon as they find out you in need of
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a surgery.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Well, first of all, you know kidney disease. A lot
of people don't know what kidney disease is. Kidney disease
occurs when the kidneys are like damaged and they can't
filter the blood properly. That's your wasting. The toxins build
up in your body. So certain causes for kidney disease
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is diabetes, high blood pressure. The family history of kidney disease,
heart disease plays a major factor in it.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
And I'm sorry, can you repeat that one more time?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
The common causes for kidney disease or diabetes, high blood pressure,
family history of kidney disease, and heart disease, those play
a major factor. Some some babies are born with kidney disease.
So kidney diseases in all ages, which I.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Wound up from me learning about kidney disease and everything.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
I created brochures with my foundation for kids, teenagers and adults.
And I made the kids brochures and stuff where into
like cartoon characters. So this way they got to understand
of healthy eating with their vegetables and everything which.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I shared, which I had shared with you, because I
actually that.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Is amazing and that's something that needs to go out
even more on the level with children.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Because you know that's my thing, the kids.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So you just gave me some great ideas to make
sure that we inform my parents because I do know
of diabetes and young kids juvenile diabetes. Yes, I never
even thought about speaking to anyone for children with kidney disease,
and you just taught me something knowing that children are
sometimes born with kidney disease. I wasn't even aware of that.
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So we're not even good until this show in thirty minutes,
and you already don't enlighten me on a lot of things.
And I'm sure some of the listeners out there are
you doing the same thing. So this is why I
really wanted you to beat on the program because what
I've seen you go through and the knowledge and the
fact that you were still standing when you was counted
out so many times has encouraged me and I before
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this hour is over with, I just want you to
tell me and my listeners and my followers, where did
you get that strength from to keep on going.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
When I started my foundation?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Uh, I was just laying in the bed, laying in
the bed, laying in bed.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I think I had tell them the name of your foundation.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
It's called Oliver Kids Kidney Foundation, Inc.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
I have a website called Oliver Kids dot org where
you can get all information.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
But during the course of.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
With me starting everything I had, I think I had
shared with you a couple of times what I wanted
to do as far as with the with the foundation and.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
From me being diagnosed.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I had to turn my diagnosi into a mission to wow.
And I had to do it with all nationalities, not
just African American race. Everybody gets kidding U these And
with me starting the foundation, I just was like I
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just had fire. A few guards. Was like, listen, you
can't lay here in it's bed. And at times I'll
be crying and crying and crying and and I'm like
I'm gonna die.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
And I said, if I'm going to die, i gotta
go out with a fight, So.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Don't cry.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
So I feel with my foundation into passion.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yes it is a passion, and I feel it from
my father. It's okay, take your time.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Just making sure this is real, that everybody knows how
important it is to take care of your kidneys because
doctors don't mm hmm tell you.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
So that means, let me give you time to get together.
This is real, This is a passion of yours. And
you know me personally, we've been very good friends. But
you also know and a lot of people out there
don't know that I am also a kidney patient as well.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I've been having my kidneys. I had four surgeries three
years ago.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Every three months they were doing kidney blast to try
to get rid of kidney stones. So everything that you
just said, it's so important, and I'm taking it in
first because it's real and the fact that all those things.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
That you listed can lead to this is something.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
That we all need to take heed of, whether it's
high blood pressure, hypertension, if it's hereditary, or if it's
just something that occurs, because sometimes things occur within our
bodies and we really can't put our finger on it
where it comes from. So just the fact that you're
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here and like I said, laying on that bed and
knowing that you feel that you're going to die, I've
been there, so I can relate. But what did you do,
oliber what did you do? Look at you now, I'm
looking at you, you do not look like what you've
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been through and you haven't begin to get more into it.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
How you had to change your whole life around. So
do me a favor.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
How has the support with your family? How had the
support with your close circle?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
How?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
How how did they support you with all your different
health challenges?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Good friendship? Definitely, definitely a lot of definitely a lot
of love. Some people that I didn't even no kid,
did a lot of stuff from for me. Yes, and
they also made sure that my mother.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Just to put a little spin on it, can you.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Just elaborate just a little bit and tell everybody how
I made some homemade juice for you. Okay, you know,
I blended in and drove it off there to Jersey
City and dropped it off you know. So I too
wanted to be a part of your life and getting
back and I'm still here.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
So I just wanted you to just say a little
bit about that.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Yeah, mis Mac, she had did a juicing thing for
me because she had We was talking and she was
telling me that she was juicing and carrying on.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
So as I said it.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I was like, okay, you choice to me, and she
said sure, no problem because you see that what I
was going through at the time, right, that's right, And
I was glad that she was there for me. Also,
you know my other friends like Clark, Dunk and or
they all.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
She especially on getting me back and forth to the
doctor because there was a struggle because at the time
I wasn't able to drive because a lot of stuff started.
Like I've been through so much where I lost my
leg in twenty twenty. Wow that maybe a year or
two later I had prostate cancer. And then from prostate
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cancer in twenty twenty three, that's when I got.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
The kidney disease.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
And so I've been going through a whole bunch of
sicknesses and health.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
But but you don't look like what you've getting through.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
God gets me, gets me through it, and they won't
let me.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
They won't let me get down.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Like better get up like the gentleman that brought me
here today, Sam Duncan.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Well, shout out to Sam Duncan in the house.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
You better get out, you better better get up. You
need to walk. The loose weights come on walk joking around,
but he stays on top of me.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Reverend Clark when he was going through his sickness.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
I went to the hospital and mister Covid and I
wasn't supposed to be at the hospital, and I told
him that he needed to get out to bed. You're
not gonna die on me. And he came to the hospital.
They say, you're not gonna die. You're not gonna die
me were blood brothers. We might have to cut cut
our fingers and put the blood together and to make
make it real blood blood brothers. But I have a
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lot of people that support and they they they tell
me to keep fighting because because I have a cause,
I have a mission. Like the Nice production, the lady
Denise Spooner, she stays on top of me. She's she's
she's a woman of God. Like how you pray all
the time. She praised and she praised and she praised
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and she she told me, she told me today and yesterday.
No know, we adopted you, right, uh and Bennett, we
adopted you. Uh, the Nice We're part of us. Now
you're gonna make sure that your succeeds.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yes, yes, yes, So.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
You have had and and and talking to you periodically.
We don't talk often, but we do talk. I notice
you do, say rev and Clark there's a couple other
names you say, you do, say, said Sam Duncan. So
I know that these brothers have been consistent from day one,
and those are true, true, true friends. Because sometimes you
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can get sick, all right, and people disappear on you,
all right. You can go to jail, people disappear on you, you
go to hospital, people disappear on you. But when you
got those that are troopers that's in the cut and
fighting with you and helping you and pushing you to persevere,
those are keepers.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Those are keepers.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
And that's why I ask you that question because I
know you, I know what you have been through.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You had to have a strong network of friends. You
had to have that.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
You talked about a couple of things that kind of
like reminiscing me back down memory lane. I remember in
twenty twenty when.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
You lost your leg.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Okay, and see this is why I'm saying. You're able
to walk now, if I'm not mistaken, you can even
drive now. But these are things that when when you
lose a leg, you ain't thinking about driving or whatever
you think about, I can't walk no more. Like that
had to be psychologically an impact on you. It had
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to bring you down. I don't want to stay on
it really long. But losing your leg pastay, cancer, kidney failure,
kidney disease, and you also and.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Diabetes and your eyes. You just had eye surgery, right,
tell us about that. Tell us about that.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Also, when you have diabetes, you can get retina. You
can bleed in your retina. And I was bleeding in
both of my eyes where I lost the vision in
my eys.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I actually could see today.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
They did a phenomenal job at Clara MAT's Hospital where
they took me in and they had to put me
under and they we're able to laser the eyes and
uh take the blood and all that stuff out of there,
so I actually could see real good.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I just got to keep following up with them.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
But and you know what, I'm looking at your eyes.
I forgot about the eye surgery. You can't tell. You
can't tell, you can't tell.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
It all.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Your your your slogan that we came up with here.
So os was diagnosed to mission. You know, you had
a diagnose that led you to a mission and you
kept that mission, that mission going, which is your foundation
all of the cares to go through everything that you
went through, that that that means losing your leg, eye surgery,
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passe cancer, diabetes, kidney disease, who knows what else, and
then having to retrain your life all over again. I
can relate to that having my my surgeries that went wrong.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
The reason why I am so proud of you, Oliver,
is because you did not give up. You started a
foundation that is very very very very successful, and it's
going into his second year and it is doing a
phenomenal job. And I just want you to continue to
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tell us more about Oliver kads Foundation Incorporated.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Okay, with Oliver Kids. I can't forget my directors.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Richard Klark Junior, he's one of my directors, and that's
Sheelle Harris, she's my other director well with the foundation.
When I had got it up and running of a
March of twenty twenty four, that August, I was on
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a mission and I said that I wanted to have
a get I actually had talked to Miss mac and
I had told her what my ideas was to have
a galer because you know, she's she's very intelligent. She
knows how to uh for businesses and all different types
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of things. So I needed I needed experience and I
was I was on a mission to go fast, So
that August, a couple of months later, I had a galla,
probably about one hundred and forty people were there. She
actually donated a nice five hundred dollars basket where everybody
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was trying to get that basket at at the gallery.
And from that, the next mission was I wanted to
have a kidney walk and I wanted to have a
kidney walk with another company Donate Save a Life, which
is Joy Brimbury my part with hers, and I did
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that at Weekway. Part from that, my next mission was
to have a health fare, which I just had the
health fare a couple of weeks ago at Lincoln Park
here in Jersey City. So anything that I put my
mind to a mission I'm striving for.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
The Nice Production is actually having a.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Fundraiser fish fry, and do I find the person that
could write grants for me to raise everything? Right now,
I'm self funding and you know, I get donations here
and there that that help out. And the fish fry
is going to be actually September twenty seventh at the
People's Choice where they're going to raise money for me.
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Also October eighteenth, the Nice Production is actually going to
be honoring my foundation. Look at God with the reward
for the work that I've been doing in the community.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
And this is just going into your second year. This
foundation is creating all of this. Yes, just because God
gave you the idea. You said something real, real, profound that.
I believe your mindset, you see it in your mind,
You'll see it in time, see yourself doing these things. Okay,
let nothing deter you, because when God puts something in
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your heart is going to happen, when God is behind
you one hundred percent. And I'm still just amazed, and
I'm hearing all these other things. The fish fry going
on at people's choice. I believe they are in Newark.
They're located in Newark, Yes, and then then d Nice
is doing something else for you. So this is so inspiring.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
This is my point.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
After everything that you've been through, look at what you
are doing now. Look at how you are standing, look
at how many times, look at losing the leg, being
diagnosed with pastai cancer, losing your father, and I've remember
when you lost your father. Okay, having surgeries and you
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didn't even touch yet about the dialysis. You share a
little bit with us about that.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Okay, well, I got my kidneys are so bad that
I do dialysis four days a week. Sometimes I do
four and a half hours three days a week, and
then I do three hours one day a week, either
as you know, Tuesday, Thursday, or Saturday, whichever slot they
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can get being because they know that I like to
go to dialysis early in the morning, because if you're
going in the late afternoon at four hours and three hours,
you know you're not getting out there at like four
o'clock in the afternoon. And so I'm in my chair
at five o'clock in the morning. Faithfully ambulance picks me up,
takes me to takes me to dialysis on my days
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that I do have to go to dialysis. Dialysis is
when they put two needles in your arm to one
is for to take the blood in and another one
is to take the blood out.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Or when you.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
First start, when I first started, everybody starts with importing
the chests, some of them, or you know, if they
get official and they know they're gonna put you on dialysis,
then they'll put.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Officially in your arm and so forth.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
But eventually points in your chest aren't allowed to be
in your chest really no more than ninety e's. Some
are in warm period time, but you can be prone
to catching chest infection, you know, all that type of stuff,
which that occurred to me a couple of times.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
But it filters and cleans, It cleans your blood.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
It takes the fluid from your body, the extra fluid
that you're not supposed to have on your body, like
the weekends. So like when I go back on Monday,
because I was off two days, of course I'm gonna
have like a little bit of fluid overload. But I
try to make sure that I'm not doing too much fluid.
So when I get there, maybe I might be a
keybo over, which is not too much.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Some days I might go there, but.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
You don't want to overflood your kidneys and your kidneys
just conk out on you.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
So are you on a kidney donus list?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
And how long have you been on that list?
Speaker 4 (27:40):
I've been on the kidney donort list almost three years.
I'm on Hack and Sack and I'm on Barnabas Kidney
Donate donor site. If it's anybody that would like to
be my hero and donate a kidney to me, I'll
be happy for you to save my life when they
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will be either brothers and sisters or sisters brothers.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Or brother and brother.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
So this way I can see my nieces and my
nephews grow up in life because I've still got a
lot of living.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
So when you say donate, I know, I know, I
know people who have gave up a kidney for their
husband or significant other or a family member. It's a
certain match though, it just can't be anybody. There's a process, right.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Yes, it's it's a certain match. And also they have
pairing where say a person wanted to donate the kidney
to me and they weren't my match. If they still
want to donate the kidney for me, they could donate
the kidney on my behalf to somebody else. Oh wow,
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and it's called parent and then they'll give me the
next available kidney because they donated to somebody else.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
So they ended up put me right up on the list.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
So you can get a phone call any moment now,
right any day now.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
And you said you've been on the.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
DONS list for about three years, so you've been on
dialysis for three years.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
I've been on dialysis almost yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
January of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
From diagnosed to mission turning faith into action and hope.
From your diagnosis, I'm put an s on it to
the mission, which is your foundation all over cares and
then turning that faith into action and hope is just
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a phenomenon platform to have. Now you grew up, give
me a little bit background about where you grew up.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
You know who your father was. Who's your mom?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
You know, you've a shout out to mom because I
know she's out there.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
He's out there in TV land. My father, well, I'm
a I'm a junior, so he's a senior. Yeah, Oliver Williams,
he died in twenty twenty. My mother, Shirley Williams. I
never had the one for anything. Both of them had
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good jobs. From father. I don't understand how his job
thing went, but he went from he went from working
at Dixon Mills to Alpha Meadows too, working as a
correction office.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
And I'm like, you know water later on in life, you.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Know you but you know he worked in corrections with
the kids.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
So Dad, that's how you got in corrections? Was it
because a dad or that was this?
Speaker 3 (30:55):
No? Not really because of my uncle, my uncle, my
mother's brother.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Was an FBI agent, so that's kind of I wanted
to kind of get into law enforcement that way too,
but I wound up going with the sheriff Department and
differm there running a community corrections facility in.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
North for like ten years.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Okay, right.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
And then my mother had a good job.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
She worked for the Life and Casualties, so she she
was wanted. She had the she had reported to one person,
and then she did what she did. Like I said,
we never had the one for anything in life. Every
week we had we was getting I kind of hundred
probably a hundred dollars for my phone, hundred dollars for
my mother, me and my little sister, you know, and
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my others.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
So we never wanted for anything.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
So let me let me let me switch giars a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
What are some of the biggest conceptions people have of
kidney diseases.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
That they can't get it?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Wow again, that they cannot get kidney disease, they think,
and not realizing all the alcohol and stuff that you're drinking,
all that sugar that's turning into sugar.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
You know what I mean, sugar I sugar sugar kills you.
You know what I mean. It makes diabetes, you know,
high blood pressure, all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
And then when they go to do your biopsy, which
they gotta lay you on the table in the skinning
room and they stick a needle in your back. They
numb you up. They stick a needle in your back
to take a biopsy. That biopsy's new joke. And then
they tell you how you got your kidney disease.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
They tell you how like Mons was from diabetes, diabetic kidneys.
That's what I have. Wow?
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Wowow? What are what?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
What warning signs should people look for or look out
for to catch the kidney disease early on if they
can before you.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Know, they need to find that.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
They need to ask the doctors what they be you
in is what they created, is what they gf R is.
That's all tells you your your levels on your kidneys.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
It's a chart.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
So on Google, you could pull up g f R
and'll tell you what stage your kidneys is if you
fall in those categories and numbers, the creations.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
And it be you in and it'll tell you all
that stuff.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Because the more fluid that build up on your body,
Like it was times that I never really paid attention
that I wasn't going to the bathroom. So you know
fluid p you know, hm, your legs being your legs
being swollen. You know, you gotta gotta look at all
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that type of stuff your body retaining that water.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yeah, that's that's some powerful information. I just need you
to say it again for the listeners. I don't know
what you were saying the b F.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
A, B C D.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Say it again, because I think that's all done in
blood work, right, That's how you find out the results
for your blood work. Okay, when you do your blood work.
Is this a normal thing or you got to be
quested from your doctor?
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Your doctor should be picking up on it.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
But you know, like I, as I got sick and
I noticed things, you see that as a doctor for everything,
so you know, you know it's a doctor for everything.
Like all right, I'm always just going to see all
but all these doctors. And yes, well, like like I said,
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act your doctor, your primary doctors and stuff for your
being bu in, your creating levels, your g f rs
and if.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Not, go see a kidney doctor. You know what I mean.
I don't hurt to go see a kidney doctor and
get blood work done.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
It's just so early detections because you know, we get
stuck on special women and press mammograms, but this is
something serious as well.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
We need to check on our kidneys.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Check your kidneys, you know, get your regular checkups for everything,
because before you know it is too late. Wow, and
then they're telling you, okay, we gotta put you on
dialysis or you know, put you on the transplant list.
At least if you catch it early in life, you
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could work on probably reversing.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
It mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
And it can be reversed, I guess for the change
of lins.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
The earlier, the earliest stages.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Can be right now, if someone.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Is being tested today, just received a diagnose, it just
got back to diagnose. What what encouragement would you give them?
I just got my results, I just got the diagnose.
This is what's going on going forward. If you knew
who that person was, what encouragement?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
What? What?
Speaker 2 (36:08):
What? What would you give them? What would you say
to encourage a person that.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Just kind of diagnose of whether it's diabetes or having
issues with their kidneys.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
What would you say?
Speaker 4 (36:18):
I would tell them they got to keep fighting, Like
I tell a lot of people that I've ran into
and when they see the table, like when I do
pop ups and stuff.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
I have the table, I have my foundation.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Out there at events and they'll ask questions and I'll
tell them, you know, listen to your doctors.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Go get a second opinion if you have to.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
You can't do this that you can't certain foods that
you need to eat, because it's certain foods that turn
into water, like certain vegetables like cabbage, what is it water,
collar greens water.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
So you don't want to overflood your kidneys.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
More and more and more, so you definitely you want
to eat right, Start eating right, start exercising, and staying
on top of everything that the doctor tells you to do.
And I'm actually trying to put together a support group
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through the foundation, and I'm probably gonna start that like
next year because I wanted to get the rest of
the everything done this year because what I normally do
is if something pops in my mind, I'll already do
the Like it could be two o'clock in the morning,
I'll wake up and I get on the laptop and
I start put the proposal and everything together for it.
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And like I said, you know, chat GBT is great
resources help put certain things together. It is, so.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
It really is it really is. I know.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
The name out of Cares Kidney Foundation, Inc.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
What inspired you? Because I love that name.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
It's very appropriate, especially for your gollas, your fundraisers, the foundation.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
But what inspired you?
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Because it's a powerful name and anything that you do.
As in terms of a business, it's always good to
have your name in it because it's your brand, you know.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
But what inspired you?
Speaker 1 (38:25):
And another thing another thing you said that I like,
and it happens to a lot of people, but they
ignore it. Dreams and visions and ways that become wealthy
and healthy. Sometime comes to you two o'clock in the morning.
So you said, you get up and go straight to
your laptop. A lot of us just turn back over
and continue to let those dreams stay on our pillows.
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This is one thing where I always push take the
dreams off the pillows, because God will give you visions
and angels will come to you while you're sleeping.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
There.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
You did what you should have done.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
You got up, you went straight to your laptop and
you kept it going. And that's something I want to
let the people out there know.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Get up.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Sometimes if you have a dream, write it down.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
You never had a dream and it was the perfect dream,
the name of a book of any and you could
remember because you turned over and went back to sleep.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
So you can just let that dream lay on that billow.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
So it's important to get up, write things down, even
if it is two or three o'clock in the morning,
because sometimes that's quiet time. That's when God say peace,
be still, and you're quiet and you can hear from
the Lord. But you activate that into a beautiful name
for your foundation. So what expire you to come up
with that name is what I want to know all of.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
The kids, I can, I can, I can.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
I care about people, people well being, even though sometimes
I don't get it in return, But.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
I want to say my mom's all She's.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Like, I mean, I don't treat nobody to do this
for this or that, but but.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
I care about people well being all the time.
Speaker 4 (40:12):
Like even if if I'm having an event or whatever
I'm doing, I'll make sure everybody else eats for fly
Like at the gal I would just sitting down.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
And everybody you need to eat sugar dropping.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
But but I just I just I just cared about people,
and I know I could save a lot of people
lives with.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Yes, yes, And that is why we're here today.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
I was in shot right picking up a two Nations
and young lady see me getting the door that she
worked for BJ's she took I told her, I said,
I invited her to the helfare. So she gave the
flying to her boss and the boss contacted me and
then I told her. She said, well, we weren't to
get the water to you for the healthare, what can
(41:03):
we do for you? Even told that I was having
a hydration day. So they also actually told me a
couple of other things that I could probably get vegetables.
I got a call next week. I probably get vegetables.
They give our pastries and all that type of stuff,
so I can use that for the workshop. Because I
do workshops every ninety every quarter it's a workshop being
(41:24):
done with I teach about kiddy disease, healthy eat and
have nutrition that's come in, teach you about healthy eating,
and also trying to partner with somebody to come to
do the free testing.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
And I would love for you to come to my
schools and do a workshop with the parents for the kids.
How important it is at an early age to do
a lot of things that's going on because the kids
and the parents. That would be a phenomenal workshop if
people just come in put something together and we can
talk about that a little later.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
But there's so many other things that you got going on.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Just want you to just bring it home a little
bit and just sell us a little bit more.
Speaker 4 (42:03):
Okay. September twenty seventh, we know it's the fish fry
that's being done for me by the Nights Productions.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
It's gonna be a people's choice.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
Is one oh five Hartford Street, Dork, New Jersey from
twelve to six? Well, we know today I was here
a one stop, one step ahead. DJ Choir on October
twenty fifth is having a thing for cancer and my
(42:48):
foundation is gonna be a vendor there and some of
the proceeds from the tickets will go to my foundation.
So he's a man of God his heart. I'm also
doing a anybody that donates two hundred and fifty dollars
(43:10):
or more to the foundation, I have a five hundred
dollar traveled voucher for them that they could use at
over a million hotels, car rentals and so forth.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Are you just really really really really busy?
Speaker 4 (43:25):
And then on October eighteenth is the Colors of Courage
with d Knight's Productions where they're gonna honor yours truly
Oliver Williams Junior for the Oliver Williams Kidney Foundation, and
looking forward to that, to that night, from the short
period of time that I did something that I'm being
(43:46):
honored already.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, that is amazing. And that's my point.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
I keep saying to you, this is just about what
going into your second year, going into your second year,
and look at the rest as a man, look at that,
that's nothing but got all over you. That's nothing but
God all over your foundation.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
God God and learning from you.
Speaker 4 (44:08):
If it wasn't if it wasn't for you and sitting
and talking, you know, and I'm telling you, like listen,
you could do it. And he about to make me cry,
make me cry, I wouldn't have got through it. But
from a from a person that's a boss and me
watching how you dig gateway, I had it.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
I had to do it.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
You know, We, like I said, we talked as good friends.
And I'll be happy to come to the school and teach.
And even if you got consent from the kids, from
the parents to talk to the kids, and you can
teach stuff through the fruits and all that type of stuff.
I'll be more than happy to come and do it.
(44:52):
But like I said, all of the kids kidney foundations,
because all of the kids, he kids about his abunity.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
He kids about.
Speaker 4 (45:01):
Bridging all nationalities together and giving back to the community.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
So let me say this, because you was you know,
there were times you were in the hospital and you
would see me post something and you would send me
a text and it would be such an encouraging text,
how proud you are of me. But I'm saying to myself,
(45:29):
and I remember thinking, he in the hospital, he just
got rushed to the hospital house. He got time from
his hospital bed to text his sister and say, you
know what, You're gonna have so many schools.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
You need one in every state. You're gonna grow, grow, grow.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
So there were times where you encourage me and we
encourage each other, and we're.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
Still doing that today.
Speaker 1 (45:56):
And there were times when your text came through right
when I was It's like, come on, you know, because
gay way will it was a project. It was a project,
and it was not easy. And to share the thing
about your lag when you knew that my left leid
was paralyzed. People didn't know that, you know, they didn't
know about the total hippie placement, the total need be
(46:17):
placed went. I was basically put back together again, and
I'm too was laying there saying, Nope, I'm not gonna
give the devil any leadway over my life. He's not
getting that platform because with our faith Oliverer, we turn
things around. You just have to have to really really
(46:39):
start believing in what you're going through. And you are
the epic to me of that picture. If I had
to turn to the dictionary or google you, okay because
people don't use dictionaries that much anymore, but if I
had to google you, you would be there with the
strength and a solid foundation. I am definitely definitely wish
(47:00):
you the best and I'm definitely gonna be there for you.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
I want you to come aboard because the children, that's
our future.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
Yes, and how we're sew in them the knowledge now,
you know, it can take them a long way. The
different things that I do with them, those are memories
that no one can take out their head. That's why
I'm big on the foundation, making sure that it's solid.
Speaker 2 (47:28):
You know, good foundation is unbreakable.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
You can't do anything with that and my favorite scripture
is Philippins four thirteen.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
I can do all things through Christ who strength to me.
Speaker 1 (47:38):
You can't take that from me. And we always had
so much in common. And I think the fact that
our legs brought us your injury my injury, right, but
that was us and we waved that battle. And guess
what we walked in here today. We walked in here today.
So I want to close out, but I want to
close out with you giving something out there for the
(48:00):
people to take with them.
Speaker 3 (48:05):
What I want to say to everybody is just go
get checked.
Speaker 4 (48:10):
Go see your doctor, ask them to see what your
kidney levels are before it's too late. Make sure that
you stay on top of your blood pressure and just drink,
drink water, eat your vegetables and stuff, and just take
(48:32):
care of your life and pass it on to your
to your loved ones, your friends, your family, and this
way we all can come out on top.
Speaker 3 (48:44):
Exercise it is a key factor in life.
Speaker 4 (48:49):
And like I said, go onto ol of your Kids
Kidney Oliver kids dot org website and the newsletter, the calendar.
Speaker 3 (49:02):
Everything will be up there. It's a couple of things up.
Speaker 4 (49:06):
On the calendar right now, but everything will be full
blast and about a week on the website.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
I want to share something with you and for those
that are listening. A diagnos doesn't define.
Speaker 2 (49:32):
Who you are. A diagnose doesn't define who you are.
It gives you a mission.
Speaker 1 (49:41):
A diagnose gives you a mission, and you have to
take that one step ahead and when life set you back,
don't give up, persevere, don't give the enemy that platform.
Keep on going because remember God got the final say
so all your life and the enemy is out here
(50:01):
to kill, destroy, But you got it going on because
you got that faith, even if it's as tiny as
a mustle sea. So when life says you back, you
keep going one step ahead. I want to thank you,
brother Oliph for being on the show with me. I'm
almost certainly.
Speaker 3 (50:18):
I appreciate coming on this show. I hated that I
c that's okay, But I also got to make sure that.
Speaker 4 (50:30):
I let Brother Joseph earrow through my journey. He knows
everything about my sicknesses and he's been in a room
with me surgery after surgery is and anytime that I
need him, I can call him.
Speaker 3 (50:45):
I called him at six o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 4 (50:47):
Listen, I need to go to the hospital or something.
He comes and gets me with no problem, and.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
You know, I really, I really don't start closing out,
but quickly, please tell him how many times you felt
that driver's test, lady, because your car had to be
redone over, so.
Speaker 4 (51:04):
I had to be modified. But I have driving avice
on my car, and I felt did.
Speaker 2 (51:12):
One two hundred times?
Speaker 3 (51:16):
Two hundred.
Speaker 4 (51:21):
I felt at one time, but it felt like it
was because I had to pay. So yeah, when you
get your cars modified, assurance has to pay for the
pay for certain things with the modification. Driving school you
have to pay out your pocket.
Speaker 2 (51:39):
Okay, so you had to go to driving school to
learn how to drive over.
Speaker 4 (51:42):
Yeah, they have special schools for modifications. GfK Hospital is
one of the schools that you go to where I
had to go out there to learn how to drive
a modify car and I had to read go back.
Once you do that, you have to go back and
take your road tests all over again with the modifications
(52:04):
on the car.
Speaker 3 (52:05):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (52:06):
So that's that's another avenue of your life that you
had to adjust to this with that. So once again,
I want to thank you from the very very bottom
of my heart of coming on.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
One step ahead of radio show. It has been great
speaking with you.
Speaker 1 (52:22):
You have inspired me, you have educated me, you have
taught me some things.
Speaker 2 (52:26):
And not only that, you have enlightened.
Speaker 1 (52:28):
Me to take this to the kids at the school
so that I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (52:33):
And I thank you guys for joining in.
Speaker 1 (52:36):
We're about to end this beautiful power hour until next week. Remember,
if life take you back, you take one step ahead.
Have a good evening.
Speaker 3 (53:02):
Everybody to take anything, everything, anything con
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