Strap in for an exceptional journey as we welcome Edgar, a military veteran turned stroke survivor, to Latina State of Mind. Edgar's tale is one of courage and tenacity, as he narrates his battles in the face of a life-altering stroke. From initial physical discomfort to the grueling process of rehabilitation, he candidly chronicles his story, underlining the essence of seizing every day and owning up to his faults promptly.
This conversation also probes into the adversities we encounter in life and strategies we employ in surmounting them. We prescribe kindness as a universal remedy, acknowledging the silent battles each of us grapples with. Moreover, we cover mental health in minority communities, avenues for mutual assistance, and the primacy of self-care.
In the conclusion, we touch upon the emotional residue of Edgar's ordeal and the invaluable role of our loved ones in our darkest hours. Edgar's incredible journey unfolds, interspersed with an unforeseen apology and an ode to aquatic creatures. We also emphasize the power of the mind and the necessity to seek help in turbulent times. Tune in for an exploration of resilience, companionship, and overcoming adversity.
Song is called Easy Going by SonicMystery.
Strap in for an exceptional journey as we welcome Edgar, a military veteran turned stroke survivor, to Latina State of Mind. Edgar's tale is one of courage and tenacity, as he narrates his battles in the face of a life-altering stroke. From initial physical discomfort to the grueling process of rehabilitation, he candidly chronicles his story, underlining the essence of seizing every day and owning up to his faults promptly.
This conversation also probes into the adversities we encounter in life and strategies we employ in surmounting them. We prescribe kindness as a universal remedy, acknowledging the silent battles each of us grapples with. Moreover, we cover mental health in minority communities, avenues for mutual assistance, and the primacy of self-care.
In the conclusion, we touch upon the emotional residue of Edgar's ordeal and the invaluable role of our loved ones in our darkest hours. Edgar's incredible journey unfolds, interspersed with an unforeseen apology and an ode to aquatic creatures. We also emphasize the power of the mind and the necessity to seek help in turbulent times. Tune in for an exploration of resilience, companionship, and overcoming adversity.
Song is called Easy Going by SonicMystery.
This is Latina's State of Mind, a podcast created by Latinas for all audiences, where we can share our experiences about love, life and everything in between. Hello, hello and welcome to another episode of Latina's State of Mind.
Speaker 2:Hello.
Speaker 1:We have a special guest and we have a really special episode to me and I'm excited about it. But I'm also a little nervous because you guys know I cry about everything.
Speaker 3:So what are you doing?
Speaker 1:So we're going to talk about adversity, and our special guest today is my big brother Edgar Fuentes Woo. Nice Welcome, welcome.
Speaker 3:Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1:And we're going to talk about adversity because he has a few pointers Just as a little background. He served in the military. For how many years?
Speaker 3:Well, I think it was six years.
Speaker 1:And how many times did you get to go to Iraq?
Speaker 3:It was three different times and three years.
Speaker 1:And three years and in 2019?.
Speaker 3:October 31st of 2019, I had a stroke.
Speaker 1:And a stroke, so he's been through a few things and Just a couple.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's the king of overcoming adversity, so maybe he can give us some advice on how he did it.
Speaker 1:And maybe someone can learn a little something from you today.
Speaker 3:I love it.
Speaker 1:Hopefully, yeah.
Speaker 4:We're excited. Yeah, do we want to cover a little bit more about what happened or anything in specific?
Speaker 1:Do you want to tell us a little bit about your stroke?
Speaker 3:Yeah, On October 31st of 2019, I woke up like every day, you know, just getting ready to go to work, and I woke up at he was like 5.30 because I was going to work early that morning and was playing and coming back home and going, you know, doing the typical stuff you do with the kids. So I got up early and immediately noticed that there was something wrong. I couldn't really concentrate, I couldn't walk, I couldn't stand, everything was spinning and it just went downhill from there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, how old were you?
Speaker 3:At that point I just turned. Well, I turned 40 in February, so I was 40.
Speaker 1:So young, yeah, and he's not a smoker, he's a super amazing. I think you're like an athlete, you love running and I think you've always like moved and eat well and exercise and Considerably healthy.
Speaker 3:You could say you know, I wouldn't consider myself an athlete. I definitely don't have the body of an athlete. At that time I did like running and exercising. I always had my whole life and I was a little overweight, but that wasn't really the issue, it was just a random thing.
Speaker 4:That's crazy. That's scary to me, that's so scary.
Speaker 3:I feel like.
Speaker 4:Because the human body could just not work in its typical way in like one second, and that could affect you.
Speaker 1:And for you it was a dissection in one of your arteries.
Speaker 3:Right yeah, it was some type of dissection that, when it closed, it led to a stroke. So the same clot that helped me close the dissection went out of my brain and really that's what caused the stroke. The issue is that we don't know why the dissection happened.
Speaker 4:It just happened. Does that scare you, knowing that?
Speaker 3:It did the first two, three years. But I got to the point where I was, like you know, I just can't keep thinking about that. I got to move on and just hope that it doesn't happen. And it was one. I mean, it's really rare that it happens to people, but it does happen. And if I'm going to worry the rest of my life about it, then I'm not going to enjoy life.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you're not going to live.
Speaker 3:Exactly.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's a good point. It took you some time though.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it did. After a stroke, I think it was about a year until I started feeling like my. I don't think I'm going to ever feel like my old self, but I started feeling confident enough to where I was like, oh, I can maybe go work out a little bit, maybe I can run, maybe I can jog, maybe I can do this. So, yeah, it's taken a little while.
Speaker 2:Do you mind sharing with us kind of like how it affected you physically, mentally, and then kind of what that process of getting better was and how long that took for you?
Speaker 3:Oh, I don't mind at all. You know, physically it affected my whole life side to where I couldn't. I had to learn how to walk. My speech was still is bad. I had to learn how to talk, how to eat, how to. It was like a toddler. I had to learn everything. Physically and emotionally it was hard not knowing what or how this happened, but it made me see life a little different. It kind of sounds cheesy, but I was battling depression before the stroke. I think that I wasn't enjoying my kids and my wife Like I should have. Maybe it was a stress, a constant After a stroke. It was like a switch. Something just switched and I was like you know, life could be gone in the next second. Emotionally, yeah, it was stressful, but it was life changing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, kind of put everything into perspective of like you were saying you can have all of this and then it can be gone at any moment.
Speaker 3:I try. You know I make mistakes. I make lots of mistakes every day.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I'll do it.
Speaker 3:I try to knock-fix them. But if I say something wrong to the kids or to Jesse or someone, I try to apologize right away because I now I don't know if I'll be here tomorrow Just like anybody. I could, you know, one day be happy and I'll find. But who knows, I'm not guaranteed an exit. Just like everybody else, I see life a little bit different now.
Speaker 2:I think that's I don't know the positive side of all of this, and that's what overcoming adversity is. You know, hopefully going through something hard and terrible, but then being able to take something positive out of it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's it was. It was horrible, it was hard, but you know, throughout, throughout the whole thing, to me it was hard. It was hard to do what I had to do, but the hard I think the hardest part was for the family because they had to deal with it in a different way, that I didn't Like I wasn't in the hospital, but I don't remember seeing myself in the hospital like they did.
Speaker 4:Oh, I get that.
Speaker 3:I mean I don't get that, but that's understandable, but just seeing that your family member not knowing you don't know if they're going to make it or not, I didn't have to see that they did. They did the hard part. I was just laying there. So when, when people tell me, oh it's hard, you know it is, it is hard, but having the support that I had my mom, my sister, my wife, the kids they were all great. They all I had to do was show up, that's it.
Speaker 2:That's beautiful, that's a big cry.
Speaker 4:No, but I love that because you could have easily converted into like this grumpy old person and you decided you know what? This is my wake up call and I'm going to change my life and I'm going to do better and I don't know. I think that's impressive, so shout out to you for doing that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Like you said I could have, it could have been very easy for me to be like, oh, this sucks life, life sucks.
Speaker 2:It's not fair yeah.
Speaker 3:But it was either that or I show the kids. Since my kids are teenagers and starting to live, I'm like but I can do that, I can be like. You know what? This is how you move on and just keep going.
Speaker 4:Great example yeah.
Speaker 1:I think one of the things that was very positive was just watching you. Like, like you said, it's funny. You say that we did the hard work, but as as your sister and as somebody that saw you work as hard as you did, I feel like I cannot imagine just not being able to move my body like I normally can and having to get up in the morning and say I'm going to do this for my kids, I'm going to do this for my wife.
Speaker 2:And like.
Speaker 1:I remember just watching you like take those steps for the first time and eat for the first time when they took the tubes out, and I remember being like what is? How is this going to change him and how is this going to affect him. And he was just so like. I remember showing up to the hospital and being like what, what new improvement did he do today? Because every day you showed up he had gone upstairs, he had walked 10 steps more than the day before. He had like something new every day. He just worked so hard. And I remember being like how can you work this hard? And when I finally asked him he said I can't show my kids that you give up. And to me that was like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:like that's such a beautiful thing though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like that's how you overcome things, and I think this is one of the reasons why I love having you here and telling us that this is it. You just don't give up and you never have Like. You were in Iraq for three years and you saw some terrible things and you experienced some terrible things there. And then you came here and you've experienced some terrible things between that and the stroke and then you're still just such a positive person Like you're, just like. Let me just get going, thank you.
Speaker 3:I wouldn't call myself positive.
Speaker 1:Realistic. No, I think you could easily be like a grump and just hate life and hate everything.
Speaker 3:Especially with the dogs.
Speaker 4:The dogs is a different story. It's so easy to give up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel like we see a lot of people give up so easily.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what do we think could help people who are struggling but maybe they don't have, like, the support from a family, or, like Edwin was saying, he would think about his kids or his wife, like if someone is in a position that's difficult, they don't have kids, or maybe they don't have a partner, or maybe they don't have family. I mean, I don't know. I guess at that point you have to think about yourself, you have to fight for yourself.
Speaker 3:Yeah you kind of have to just love yourself, and I think that society is hard. We meet some, you run into so many people that are not happy with their body and just everything. So yeah, I think loving yourself mainly it's a very important thing and we got to teach our kids to love yourself.
Speaker 4:Did you have to relearn how to do that for yourself? Was it already there?
Speaker 3:You know, I think I might have to. I did have to relearn that I had to learn to love my new self. I did. I love being the person that went out for a run, went out and played basketball, left it.
Speaker 1:He's tall, dark and handsome, so that makes it different.
Speaker 3:No, I couldn't do that. I couldn't, I couldn't. No, I couldn't go to the gym, I couldn't go around. I still can play basketball. So I had to relearn to love my new self.
Speaker 1:OK, what is it about your old self and your new self that make you proud? Like is there something that came together that you realized that was like oh, I was like this then, but I'm still like this now and I still love. Like that makes me special or unique or that makes me you know.
Speaker 3:I don't know, that's a hard question I have. I have always loved my family, and that was before and I still. I think I love my family even more now because I don't cry anymore.
Speaker 2:I know it's hard. No, I see.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I appreciate it more now and I think that's one thing for my old self that I get to keep, or that's still similar, or maybe stronger.
Speaker 1:I love that.
Speaker 4:That's beautiful. Yeah, that's beautiful.
Speaker 2:Even I'm feeling a little twinge in my heart.
Speaker 1:She's like what is this?
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's right here, it's a bonito.
Speaker 4:No, but this is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing this, because I hope it's a motivation to someone else and even, like you mentioned, like, even if it's just yourself, try to find something that motivates you. I'm a firm believer that you take care of yourself first before you take care of others. So do that first Take care of yourself first and learn to motivate yourself, like what motivates you to be better do better and there's definitely different types of adversity.
Speaker 1:I mean it doesn't have to be as extreme as what Edgar's gone through.
Speaker 4:But it's nice to share this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but definitely we want people to know that there's like people are going through a lot, because I remember when this first happened no-transcript because of your speech was different. I know that you had trouble with the way people looked at you or the way they reacted to you, thinking that you might be drunk, when it was just like you trying to like adjust your speech and all that stuff. But at the same time, like Diana and I have struggled with getting into higher education and living in a country with a status that might not be what. It's not enough. Yeah, that is not enough, and you know you're a member and I see you remember the LGBTQIA plus community and that's an adversity and a struggle on its own. So, like, I feel like we've all had to deal with some sort of struggle and at least in this room, we've all chosen to like work harder.
Speaker 1:And yeah, this is adversity and yes, this is difficult, but I'm not giving up on this. This is not where I stop, so I think this is why we want to have that conversation.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and I mean this is going to help to educate people as well, because you had different symptoms and you were struggling with certain things and people, like you said, people judged him thinking that he was drunk, when in reality he went through this whole thick experience. That was very hurtful for yourself and your family. So I don't know, we people maybe need to learn to have more consideration, you know, more compassion for other people, because we never know what we're going through.
Speaker 3:We don't know what people are going through. I mean, we go to the gym, I went, I will go to the gym and I always try to smile now to anybody, because a simple smile you don't know what the other person control it could change their life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:I hate that.
Speaker 2:Am.
Speaker 4:I going to have to start smiling more.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, you don't have to start smiling, so you should.
Speaker 2:If you want to make the world better, start smiling.
Speaker 4:Well, just kidding, I'm just going to do it.
Speaker 1:She's like never mind. Take this whole theme out, throw it all away.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm oh it's important because, yeah, like you were saying, sonia, we can all relate. There's something that we've all gone through. I appreciated that you mentioned depression before, because that's something you know, something that a lot of us have to deal with Mental health we've talked about it in one of our episodes before.
Speaker 2:So yeah, one way or another, I feel like we're all going to encounter something that's going to make us think OK, I have to choose myself and my family, or whatever it is, to move forward and try to do better, absolutely.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the person is such, a, such a hard thing that we, as a minority, we don't talk about. We don't really want to talk about. I know I joke around with Sonia and I tell her well, I'm a man I shouldn't be, it's just myself just messing with her and but in reality we there is a huge issue with minorities, whether you are Hispanic, black or RGB T.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3:You know a lot, of, a lot of. We're losing a lot of teenagers to depression. Yeah, a lot of things, and we just got to learn to love it. Love ourself first and then love each other. Help each other out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that. Help each other out. I think that that's. I think sometimes we get so caught up in our own adversities and our own like, like, difficulty, like and our own little world, our own little struggles that it becomes hard to like when you're like no, I'm just like, I'm going through so much I can't help anybody else, I just don't have time to be around other people right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you could make the difference, like you said you know, yeah, it can be as simple as you were saying smiling to someone. You don't know how much that would change. You wait to do something.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you don't know what the other person is going through. There was you know when I and I don't know if Tia and Sonia knows this, but there was a time in my life when I contemplated suicide and I will go to the gym, work out and come home and I was struggling. It was hard. The gym wasn't helping. There was one day I went to the gym and a girl that I've never talked to, never like I'd seen her working out with her boyfriend, husband, and you know it had been a couple of days since I've been to the gym. She approached me and she's like hey, we miss you, we haven't seen you, and that was all that it took for me to snap out of my thoughts of what I was going through.
Speaker 4:Someone was noticing you. Like people are noticing you, you know they care about you when you go into the depression.
Speaker 3:You think that people don't notice you, and you know that you don't matter.
Speaker 1:You don't matter, yeah, yeah and it's just it's.
Speaker 3:It's a dark place to be at Right and it's hard to come out of it.
Speaker 4:That breaks my heart. I want people to know that I might joke about a lot of things, but I truly care about the people around me.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, that's a great reminder to remind other people.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay, and that's why I joke around. I'm like you know. I always try to smile or and I get it as a female Sometimes that's not. You can't be doing that to everybody. Yeah, because there's a lot of people out there that could take that the wrong way. As a man, for me it's easier. It's easier for me to just be nice, be smile to somebody, and if they don't smile back, I'll just move on, right? You?
Speaker 2:know I don't take things personally. This is like smile or smile, small acts of kindness, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I feel like one of the one of the things that I've learned is like I think a lot of the times we compare our struggles like as, as people, we're always like, yeah, I'm going through this, but there are people that had a stroke, or like, you know, it's just, this is just anxiety, like this is not a big deal, or like or oh, but you've never been through this, or you've never. You know right.
Speaker 1:And I think that's when you minimize your struggle and then that's when you kind of get stuck in this like cycle of I'm not worthy, like maybe like people are going through more than me, but like, like Edgar was saying, I'm, like we've been talking like it matters, like your struggle, as little as you think it is, it's a struggle and it's important to you.
Speaker 3:It's a struggle for you, right.
Speaker 1:And that's all that matters, like it doesn't matter if you didn't have a stroke, it doesn't matter if you were not in whatever relationship or whatever happened. I feel like, as long as it matters to you, it matters, and that's how we move forward, and that's why how we should heal it, right, yeah, and I think sometimes.
Speaker 3:Just how it takes is, like I said smile or having a friend reaching out, even even if you go into something hard. It's like you don't have family members around, but somebody cares about you.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:You have friends that care. You have people that you will work out with that care. Who knows? It's just people that are around you care to see you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, do you guys think that sometimes we just have to be more open to receiving the kindness or the love or the appreciation? Yeah, I think it can be hard it is definitely hard.
Speaker 4:Tell us more about that?
Speaker 1:Tell us more.
Speaker 3:Tanya will come and try to hug me and I'm like I love you too. Okay, get out, you've met your quarter for the last time.
Speaker 1:One day he was like you get three questions, that's not enough. Question one Wait, that wasn't a question. Can I have more questions too?
Speaker 3:For me, it was hard asking for help to be honest it was hard. It was hard not being able to come down the stairs down to the first floor. I would have turned around and somebody would have to guide me and be like, hey, mom, can you come and help me? And that was really hard. That was, I think, for me, that was the hardest thing with the stroke Asking for help.
Speaker 4:You know what's crazy? No one would have said no to you, but you put it in your head Like nobody was thinking oh, that makes him less, or whatever, like you're the only one who's thinking about it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. It's a lot of belly sound in your head. Nobody like something that my mom was so good at. Okay, you need water. What do you need? You know they were on top of things. I'm like dude, I'm good, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 4:So next time he just learned personal space Yeah- and my mom and I were like what is personal space.
Speaker 3:Yeah, my mom will come in the morning and knock on the door and be like are you?
Speaker 1:awake. Well, I am not One of the things that was hard, I think, and I think pretty much I've told you this, but one of the times when one of his friends showed up to see him and he was intubated, she just lost it and like he could see us. I don't think you can remember much, but I mean for me, I felt like I couldn't bear to see him watch us cry and him not being able to like, do anything about it, because he's always like the one that's there for you, he's always the one that's like. So my mom would do it every time. She would come in and see him and of course, that's her baby, you know like she's going to cry and she was scared. So I was like mom, every time you go in there, you cannot cry.
Speaker 1:And she just was like you can't do that to me Now it's like once we leave the room, we'll cry all the way home.
Speaker 1:And I remember that day we walked in and he was intubated and we're like all right, we're good, and man, I just like was holding back, holding back, and every day that we went in that room we held back and as soon as we walked out of that room we just cried on the way home. And the first day I remember just the first day he was here and he was sitting on his couch and I remember walking up and seeing him and just losing it because I had held it back for so long and I was just so happy to see him home. And I remember just being so scared that that was not going to be a thing, you know. And it was just like seeing him on his couch and his in his room, just like being him. It was like like I could take a deep breath and just like let it all out and I was like I don't care, from now on, I'm just going to cry in front of you all the time you weren't before.
Speaker 1:No, not during the stroke, not during his hospital visit, but I mean before that, yes. And then I cry every time I see him when we go to Orange Theory, and every time I see him like meet up a goal or something and I'm like the other day he did a two mile and like I don't know how many minutes and I just like wiped a tear. And then the first, the first class. We went to Orange Theory and he was doing squats after the stroke. I was like it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 2:I mean, from when it happened, I remember I would ask you and you would keep us updated of how he was doing and how he was progressing, progressing so fast. So we're so proud of you for doing all that hard work, so proud.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was a struggle there for a minute because then COVID happened right soon after, like six months after, and it, you know it was getting up. I had to do everything by myself getting up. I didn't have any physical therapy and I would have to get up and go and walk by myself or with Jesse or the kids, whoever was here who would just go with me. But yeah, that was very interesting. I was really scared during COVID just because I was scared of getting intubated.
Speaker 3:That was I think that was my biggest trauma of the whole thing. Yeah, ventilation.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's. Yeah, it was a lot, but yeah, we're so proud of you.
Speaker 1:Thank you Extremely impressed, we're very impressed, and we would like us to join you. We would like you. Yeah, hold on. How do I say this? We would like you to join us in our favorite and I think this is your favorite segment. This is my favorite segment, yeah, so we're going to do a little bit of some of that Diana's daily shit.
Speaker 4:This one's going to be a little bit different. I know, I know it's not going to be rage filled, not this one.
Speaker 1:OK, I like the rage filled Just wait till the other ones.
Speaker 4:Anyways, this is going to be a public apology to Sonia. Why Are you going to make me cry? No, it's not that deep. Ok, I made fun of you for liking dolphins and I feel bad about that when I can't remember.
Speaker 3:But I remember yeah.
Speaker 4:We were talking about dolphins and I was like oh, you're right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're rude.
Speaker 4:Exactly. And so until I learned about killer whales orcas, orcas, yes yeah, and how they're talking, they're attacking yachts. And so I was like, oh my gosh, these aquatic animals matter.
Speaker 1:And then I felt so Wait, you're saying All right. I mean, yeah, let me.
Speaker 2:What you're saying, that when you heard Sidney say that she likes dolphins, is when you realized that aquatic animals matter. No, not yet I mean. I think fun of her for liking dolphins I guess but wait, wait before you go on.
Speaker 1:Why did you think it was cringe that I like dolphins?
Speaker 4:I just find it extremely cramped.
Speaker 2:I love dolphins.
Speaker 4:Can you apologize?
Speaker 2:to me.
Speaker 3:No, she's like how about you?
Speaker 1:OK, so then continue on with your orcas story.
Speaker 4:So, yes, so there's orcas in some sort of Iberian sea. I believe it is near Spain. They're attacking, they're attacking yachts and other boating things. I was going to say instruments but they're not instruments and I just felt bad because I'm like, ok, now I have a favorite aquatic animal, orcas.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Because they're evil. I wish I would have known.
Speaker 4:So I would like to apologize for making fun of like dolphins, because now I have a favorite aquatic animal and it's orcas apology, except for and we can start some Monday. By the way, Wait till you find out all about sharks. I don't care about sharks. You don't care about sharks. They're like super old, yeah yeah. They're like prehistoric and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:That's the cool thing about them, and they're smart too.
Speaker 4:It's a little bit, yeah, but that was my apology.
Speaker 1:And do you? Do we know why the orcas are attacking boats?
Speaker 4:Yes, because OK, so they like to pass along information. Yes, so they communicate with each other. One of the orcas was attacked by a boat by some sort of, so it's revenge. Exactly so smart. I love that.
Speaker 3:I wish, I wish you could everybody to see your face. Evil Like evil.
Speaker 2:Your face is like.
Speaker 4:I love it Like I won't take revenge myself because I believe in karma, but like any other, like example of it or any other activity of it, love, support it, celebrate it. So yeah, so yeah, that's why it happened. And so they keep communicating with other killer. Wells are like oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1:Wait how? I'm sorry, I totally missed that. Can you tell us how they communicate, because I didn't hear it? She speaks well no Hold on.
Speaker 4:I had to learn so I could communicate with orcas and be like I'm your friend, I support what you're doing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, anyway, so the orcas.
Speaker 4:So, yeah, this is my apology, thank you Diana.
Speaker 1:That's a long Edgar's like. Bring up the rage.
Speaker 4:We are. We're celebrating orcas.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you look kind of like you for a second.
Speaker 4:And they're attacking these impressive boats by millionaires and billionaires.
Speaker 1:So so yes to the orcas.
Speaker 4:Did I change your mind? Yes, ok, perfect.
Speaker 1:But I've always they couldn't like related orcas and dolphins.
Speaker 4:Well, one of them is a whale and the other one's a dolphin.
Speaker 2:Right, you are correct.
Speaker 4:I did not study, I studied business. Anyway thank you for listening to my apology.
Speaker 1:Thank you for apologizing. Any closing thoughts about our adversity episode?
Speaker 4:you can do it, just motivate yourself to do it.
Speaker 1:Any advice you have, Edgar, for anybody that you can do it, you know.
Speaker 3:Just, you can't concentrate on the negative Looking to try to find the positive. If you just concentrate on the negative, the outcome is going to be negative. The power of mind is amazing and family having the family help, having support from everyone around you helps. But, like we say, you've got to take care of yourself. Do it for you.
Speaker 1:Thank you, yeah, love that.
Speaker 2:We support yeah, and we appreciate you sharing all of that with us.
Speaker 3:Thank you guys.
Speaker 1:This has been so great, yeah, I think we'll have him back right, Maybe If we could meet his request.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, he had a liver request.
Speaker 1:He asked for a foot massage.
Speaker 4:And I'm like we don't even get that ourselves.
Speaker 3:Girl, how do you mind? Well, I just thought I put it out there, maybe I get it Just in case, let's call his wife.
Speaker 1:Next one. We need to have just here.
Speaker 3:No, no, no, it's OK.
Speaker 4:She wanted to, I mean thank you for listening.
Speaker 1:Thank you, bye, bye. Support me, I love you.
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