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A Contagious Smile Podcast
A Contagious Smile is a powerful platform dedicated to uplifting and empowering special needs families and survivors of domestic violence. Through heartfelt stories, we shine a light on the journeys of extraordinary individuals who have overcome unimaginable challenges. Their triumphs serve as a testament to resilience and strength, inspiring others to rediscover their own inner light. Each episode features candid interviews with survivors, advocates, and experts who provide valuable resources and insights to support those on their own paths to healing and empowerment. Join us as we celebrate the power of resilience, the beauty of shared stories, and the unstoppable spirit of those who turn adversity into hope. Let us guide you in rekindling your spirit, because every smile tells a story of courage and transformation.
A Contagious Smile Podcast
TRIGGER WARNING Unbreakable Bonds: Embracing Adoption, Obtaining Prosthetics, and Celebrating Familial Resilience
TRIGGER WARNING What would you do for love? Imagine adopting a child and transforming your life through the power of unconditional love. Join us as we share the moving story of Victoria's adoption journey, from overcoming past hardships to embracing newfound happiness. An old voicemail serves as a poignant reminder of this incredible transformation, inspiring listeners with the message that a happily ever after is indeed within reach.
Next, we tackle the challenges of obtaining a functional prosthetic arm for Victoria, specifically the Hero Arm by Open Bionics. We humorously explore family dynamics during Abby's summer visit, filled with laughter and playful pranks that light up our lives. Yet, behind the humor lies a significant purpose: raising awareness about the financial and practical hurdles in acquiring a suitable prosthetic. Through this discussion, we invite our listeners to support Victoria's journey, underscoring the strength of family support in overcoming life's obstacles.
As we embrace the spirit of Thanksgiving, we share heartwarming anecdotes filled with laughter, love, and gratitude. From amusing mishaps like receiving red roses after a clumsy error to the playful camaraderie reminiscent of "Grumpy Old Men," our stories celebrate the resilience and joy found within familial bonds. We highlight the incredible spirit of a young girl who remains a beacon of positivity despite numerous surgeries. As we express our gratitude for family and the hope of more time together, we encourage our listeners to share their own tales of love and resilience.
Welcome y'all. Another episode of Contagious Smiles Unstoppable. Take it away, victoria.
Speaker 2:Wow, you just jumped right in before I was even ready.
Speaker 1:That, okay, I'm going to leave that one alone.
Speaker 2:Since when? Since when Happy week before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1:Are you talking to me or them?
Speaker 2:I'm talking to you. I've been here all day, so what's up with the t-shirt? He's wearing a shirt of a zombie and it's armless, with a balloon floating away.
Speaker 1:No, but you need to restate that. What is it? The arm that became detached from the zombie is holding a balloon, and the balloon is floating away with the zombie's arm.
Speaker 2:Isn't that basically what I just said? Your daughter and I? Now she's mining it. You want to keep that on a recording have been killing zombies here lately?
Speaker 1:Why?
Speaker 2:Because it's violent, disgusting and should not be around you may be right.
Speaker 1:You may be right.
Speaker 2:I didn't say you were not today I feel watching you cut people's arms off don't watch it are you serious? I'm serious, I can still hear it. We, I can return back my paperwork. Yeah, okay, oh no, yes, I can't.
Speaker 1:I haven't signed the final paper no, so keep it in my phone so careful, here I have been honored.
Speaker 2:Honored it's an understatement. Baby, you need to come up here no, she stayed on there.
Speaker 1:I've been honored that's an understat honored with adopting Victoria's daughter.
Speaker 2:You have considered your own. Give me the microphone.
Speaker 1:For the past four years. Yes, she is my daughter, I have considered mine and I am her daughter, and she's going to take my last name, get rid of her old life under that old name. And she went so far as to change her first name all on her own and, as my wife stated, this was somewhat of a shock, a surprise to us.
Speaker 2:You better appreciate the magnitude of this gesture, because what an honor that this is, because from day one, even when she was in my belly, I always said there would be only one person she would ever have as a dad, that would be you. Period statement finished and you were there in the. Nicu. You were there in court. You've been there as a friend and then you took on that only role ever offered to anyone, which is you. Are you done still on my spotlight? Are you done with diarrhea in the mouth?
Speaker 1:give me back the microphone. So, as I stated, guys, if y'all have a little red-headed stepchild, as I do.
Speaker 2:She is not your stepchild. She's going to come up here and kick your ass.
Speaker 1:If she hears this, close the door, yep. And if that day ever comes that y'all have this opportunity to adopt that kid, absolutely, absolutely do it Because, guys, it makes a huge difference in their life. Huge, she's seen me at what your life too, babe, but this is about her and I right now Makes a huge difference, guys.
Speaker 2:Not just to her life, but to yours.
Speaker 1:Like I said, I am 100%, 1,000% honored and she's so happy, so we're going to wait patiently for the paperwork to come through and then it'll be, official and then we'll. Do you want to reveal her name? Then no, She'll stay faith. She'll stay faith.
Speaker 2:Because of her book and all that, and what an honor it is. I mean, have you like really just expressed your appreciation to all parties?
Speaker 1:involved. I just did. Oh, thank you for drawing up the big one. You're a son, you're a paralegal. You do all this in your sleep.
Speaker 2:I don't care. That's not the point, you should be humbled, it's not like I'm telling everybody how you cried.
Speaker 1:No, I didn't, I had just opened the windows. That pollen came in through the window. Yes, it did Winter. So this is a great, great Thanksgiving for me. Early Christmas, now that you had the spotlight.
Speaker 2:I want to talk a minute because, you heard the other day a recording of a voicemail that you left back before we got back together and you were dumbfounded at how you sounded compared to now.
Speaker 1:Folks don't want to hear about me?
Speaker 2:yes, they do, because I want you people see us and see the transformation and the hope that they can find that unconditional love, the fact that they can have their happily ever after. And you are beyond miserable. I hated hearing you say I got two minutes and I absolutely hated hearing that it was so sad and it made my heart hurt every time. But tell me how you felt when you listened to it and compared to now.
Speaker 1:Oh gee, thanks. You're welcome, guys. I was in a relationship and I was miserable. I spent about I don't know 10 plus years in that relationship, worked at a job and just wore me down 12, 16 hour shifts. It got to the point where, you know, I was drinking every day after work. I mean right out the gate, literally.
Speaker 1:So I didn't see the forest or the tree, when everyone told me that this woman's not right for me and you know there's things going on that are not right and you're just blind to everything that's going on and, of course, course, I denied it. And then, when I heard this recording that my wife had saved a voicemail that I left her, and you could hear the sadness, the, the loneliness, the almost depression, uh, in my, in my tone, and it was it was like, oh my God, that's miserable. You didn't even think it was you. It's a horrible feeling to know that I was so deep in the darkness there, so to speak, in the mud, that I didn't see my way out. I couldn't see that I was sinking. So when she played this recording, I heard it and I was just flabbergasted. And now, you know, we sit at a table, man, we had the best time. Her and I joke constantly, our daughter's always, you know, playing practical jokes on me.
Speaker 2:Oh, now she's ours again.
Speaker 1:You know, this is as what's his face. I can't even think of his name. Clark Gable, not Clark Gable. It's a wonderful life. Tell me his name, come on, somebody. Somebody's shouting it right now. I can't think of his name anyway. Yes, so when am I going with this?
Speaker 1:Not to give up you were saying that there is someone out there for you, there is a soulmate waiting for you. Um, if you are in that relationship when you you don't see a way out, uh, reach out to us and ask us a question. You know, we'll tell you exactly how we got out of it. There are thousands of others following us that are in the same situation or been there and done that.
Speaker 2:How are you now in comparison?
Speaker 1:Now I'm old.
Speaker 2:No, I'm talking about.
Speaker 1:I'm borderline diabetic, emotional and psychological.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm talking about, like I'm borderline diabetic Emotional and psychological, oh.
Speaker 1:I'm a trillion times better. I don't do the hard liquor. You know I still drink beer every now and then, but Very rarely. Yeah, I don't go to work with it in my coffee mug, Hint, hint. You used to dread going back home. Oh God, I used to dread going back home. It was never at home, Not the home, but the house. So you know, as soon as I walked in that door, there was apprehension.
Speaker 2:There was.
Speaker 1:You know that despondent attitude like you know, oh God, here we go again. You know when I saw that spouse's face when, I saw the countenance, you know, uh, everything my self-esteem dropped uh my demeanor, just you know, took a turn and I was like, oh god, I gotta listen to this now again here comes another argument you know what are we gonna fight about this?
Speaker 1:time, so it was good now my wife and I don't fight at all. We've never fought. We'll play and pretend like we're arguing or not even arguing, we just play back and forth. You know She'll be like I told you woman to go get this and I'll say yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2:Oh, thanks for that, pinocchio. I appreciate that you say yes, ma'am. Oh, thanks for that, pinocchio.
Speaker 1:Oh, what happened.
Speaker 2:I appreciate that you say yes, ma'am no.
Speaker 1:I don't say yes, ma'am, sometimes you tell everyone you wear the britches.
Speaker 2:I do.
Speaker 1:I wear the britches.
Speaker 2:I tell you when to put them on.
Speaker 1:I'm going to leave that one alone too.
Speaker 2:Oh, since when.
Speaker 1:It's just before Thanksgiving. We're going to be nice.
Speaker 2:So then tell me what you're, thankful for Us.
Speaker 1:Can you?
Speaker 2:be a little more specific.
Speaker 1:Yes, you, our little girl, downstairs, them three hairy dogs. Those are our bait them, some hairy SOBs. They shed hair everywhere. But they're so sweet. They're not sweet when they're sleeping on my feet and I got no cover. I can't kick them off because they're fat and lazy they won't get off the bed.
Speaker 2:I think you need to take a sis Because stucco is the best. You have admitted it. So our last episode I got a little heated, you remember, because we were talking about that creature who did this to her kids, and since another creature, because I don't want them in the category with me as a woman shot both of her kids.
Speaker 2:I mean, what the hell is going on with these people, like seriously, what the hell? I just I can't put myself in that mindset to even try to figure out why, in that mindset, to even try to figure out why? Because there is no man alive that would be your soulmate, that would say I don't want you to have kids, like susan smith in south carolina who drowned her kids, like there is no. If that's the right man for you, he is going to welcome you, your children, you know. And if not, bye pound sand, keep walking. You know, it's not like there's not another fish in the sea.
Speaker 2:Understand how.
Speaker 1:With a mindset of these people that are creating havoc and just craziness for our kids? No, they're kids, okay, but our kids?
Speaker 2:are fine, our kids are fantastic, but I'm talking about, like in general, just just the younger population. Now they have nowhere to be safe. They don't feel safe at home, they don't feel safe at school, and then you're wondering why they're turning to gang activity and you know, there's young kids going to school with weapons. Are you seriously yawning right now? I just I can't.
Speaker 1:I only had a four hour nap. I, I can't. I only had a four hour nap.
Speaker 2:I just can't, I can't, it just, it makes no sense.
Speaker 1:I don't know what to tell you there's no way, because we do everything we can in our power to prevent any harm from coming to any of our kids and we're constantly, you know, vigilant with our daughter. Our daughter and her medical needs medical attention Every day, just every day commonplace things that you and I do, we have to pay special attention to, and I just cannot see purposely harming her, you know.
Speaker 2:She's so much fun.
Speaker 1:Any of our kids. You know any kid, Any child.
Speaker 2:Right. But I mean, and I don't understand how a lot of the adults take the mentality well, you know, I was just having a bad day, okay, well kids don't they have a right to have a bad day too. But instead you jump their gullet and say, oh you know, how you can't have a bad day, but they can.
Speaker 2:Everybody has a bad day, but that doesn't give you the right to do what you're doing to them. I take a step back and think if you would like that to be done to you. Really, take a step back and think how would I feel if this was done to me?
Speaker 1:I think that I'm going to have a bad week in December.
Speaker 2:Because Abby's coming.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:I can't wait for her to get here. I love Abby. Abby's so much fun and she's actually planning on being here for most of the summer.
Speaker 1:Negative.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh Negatively. Yes, she is. I'm so excited. I just spent almost an hour talking to her tonight. She says you're the most amazing and my favorite aunt ever.
Speaker 1:Ever how many aunts does she have?
Speaker 2:A lot most amazing and my favorite aunt ever Ever, let me ask this yeah, a lot, thank you.
Speaker 1:What are?
Speaker 2:you saying I'm not competition worthy if it's just one or two?
Speaker 1:I was going to check.
Speaker 2:You want to compare me to some other moms. I can name a few.
Speaker 1:You want me to go there? Sure, okay, go.
Speaker 2:No, you said you want me to go there.
Speaker 1:Go ahead, go there go there, no, go ahead compare me to number one number one.
Speaker 2:It's not her hands no, we're talking about moms no, she's not. Well, she's more like a rain washer why do you say that you need to clarify, clarify, yeah?
Speaker 1:where's our other two kids exactly? Where's our other two kids Exactly? Hmm, crickets.
Speaker 2:What about other moms? I?
Speaker 1:don't know any other moms. Sure you do you have one? In my head that would be. No, that's not anywhere in her league. So, needless to say, we're happy having someone, and they'll get to hear her, she does teen talk. Is she going to do team talk and a song? Probably.
Speaker 2:She wants to roast you.
Speaker 1:Of course she does.
Speaker 2:And she said tonight that she wants to get into a group chat and make it where all they talk about is how to prank you.
Speaker 1:Okay, so Go ahead.
Speaker 2:That's. All she wants is to get into a group chat On how to prank you. That'll be fun.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Okay, you're okay.
Speaker 1:With them pranking you, I'll survive. So Does anyone out there Know about this Hero arm? Are you there know about this Hero Arm?
Speaker 2:Are you really talking about this?
Speaker 1:Yes, it's an awesome-looking, lightweight, multi-grip bionic prosthetic arm for adults and children which I feel horrible about wanting. I'm asking because you know it looks awesome. It seems incredible. Extremely expensive Around $95?.
Speaker 2:No, most prosthetics in that magnitude can go up to that much, but if you get funded through it it can go as little as $3,000, but higher from there.
Speaker 1:So we would like to get Victoria here, a new arm y'all, and obviously I don't make enough to go up to $95,000.
Speaker 2:No, that one's probably about $4,500 to $5,000.
Speaker 1:The first one I got was like I don't know.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's tens of thousands of dollars, but I can't use it.
Speaker 1:The first one that she got y'all is about eight pounds, a little more than that.
Speaker 2:Over eight pounds and I have a titanium shoulder, so that makes it harder, harder.
Speaker 1:and she, she put it on for I don't know about four, three or four times. And it's so uncomfortable, it's so heavy, it's hard to put on and off when when she puts on her prosthetic arm, you know, lays it on the table, she can move the fingers, she can operate it wait, wait.
Speaker 2:There's no fingers, it's a clamp claw thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't have fingers in my prosthetic um, but but then trying to pick it up. You know I'm not saying my wife is weak, but those muscles were in an atrophy. Uh, when you know, she was in the healing process directly after the surgery and no one told us to sit there and exercise them and, to you know, start strengthening them up. And she was in pain, she was having these uncontrolled obliques in her arm and there was no way she could exercise. So if anyone knows about Open Bionics, this hero, arm reach out to us.
Speaker 1:reach out to them, We'd like to know more about it If we can get our love to Victoria, my wife, a new arm. Okay, I feel, pauline.
Speaker 2:We feel, pauline, this is how I know you love me, because, see the thing is, I never ask for anything. He says what do you want? I know you love me, oh, because, see the thing is, I never. I never asked for anything.
Speaker 1:He's what do you want?
Speaker 2:for your birthday. Nothing, that's what I get. What do you want? What do you want for this or that? You know I never asked for anything, because that's not how I am or who I am, but I would love to be able to function with a prosthetic that I actually can use and that doesn't add more frustration to an already frustrating situation. So that's enough of that thing. By the way, I want to thank my husband for the most gorgeous red roses ever he brought home for me the other day.
Speaker 2:They were very sweet we're not going to talk about why he had a faux pas, if you will. And it was hilarious because the very first thing he thought about was what is my wife going to do? And then, oh my gosh, what is Faith going to do? So that's always kind of fun. And what is he doing? What are you doing? I'm scratching my back With a tripod With a tripod. So what is our Thanksgiving plan? What are we doing for Thanksgiving? I'm ecstatic.
Speaker 1:Wake up, eat, take a nap. Wake up, eat some more, then go to bed. Yes, that's the golden rule on Thanksgiving, you don't do nothing.
Speaker 2:So we are so unbelievably excited because it's going to be just us the three of us and guess what, drama-free.
Speaker 2:Isn't that lovely? It's amazing. And we will also be having an amazing thanksgiving dinner where we'll all be preparing certain things, together or individually, to come together for our little meal, and then we will be decorating for Christmas and we will hopefully make this Christmas makeup for last Christmas, where we spent all of it and including other holidays in ICU. So that is our goal is just to kind of chillax, stay busy. You know we've talked about it so many times. We love our quiet, quaint, drama life. You know we've had the additional family members on both sides and it's always drama. And then we shut the door and we're like, oh, that's so much better, so much better because y'all know y'all do the same when they leave yeah, but we don't see them at all anymore.
Speaker 2:So we don't have to wait for them to leave, but my husband and I are best friends. What are you doing? We are best friends and we tell each other everything and we have the best relationship.
Speaker 1:And so I told her. The other day I grabbed another woman's food.
Speaker 2:That's why I got roses. You didn't grab it. She fell and you caught her and you happened to have graced and grabbed. Were you full of guilt?
Speaker 1:No, I thought it was hilarious Because I immediately knew I was going to come on and tell y'all, and I knew immediately my daughter was going to jump out of my skin and she did. She did.
Speaker 2:I think it was hilarious. She goes how did you feel when mom cupped a guy? I don't know? You're not even making that face anymore. Okay, guys, how did you feel when mom cupped a guy? You're not even making that face anymore.
Speaker 1:Okay, guys, so I'm standing inside the garage.
Speaker 2:Garage.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh and I asked the lady to back her car up. You're at work so that I could fix the garage door. She come out of the threshold tripped on her sock. I'm standing at the bottom of the two stairs she has. She trips and falls forward into my arms as I catch her and I cupped her boob. She's laughing about it. I apologize immensely. She had their ball with her. Okay, all right. So I couldn't wait to tell my wife and daughter, and that's just how we are.
Speaker 2:So Faith says Michael, how would you feel if mom cupped a guy? Now my husband's smile just deserted his face. How would you feel if mom cupped a guy? Now my husband's smile just deserted his face. How would you do that?
Speaker 1:on accident? It wouldn't be an accident apparently. Wait, you can't just purposely go up to some strange guy and ball check Are they in sex?
Speaker 2:This ain't crocodile down deep you you know that she said, mom, you should just walk up and go because he might. Like you know, it's kind of fun to watch the two of you guys together because you're downright hysterical. If you've ever seen grumpy old men or grumpy old men, this is literally the dynamic between these two, like they'll walk by each other and idiot and you'll you'll call, like she'll go reform slut or slut whore, or you call her a peanut, like what else it's.
Speaker 2:It's hilarious that what you do and it's both of them constantly like my face hurts because they'll just be sitting there and then all of a sudden, he'll try to do something at dinner and you have to watch how you eat around this table because you'll choke on your food. And if one of them is doing something to the other one, it's not uncommon for like faith to get up, and the other day she put peas down his back, or she'll put ice, or you know the like.
Speaker 2:One time he had a beer and we were just finished eating.
Speaker 2:It's the first time I've seen you have a beer with dinner and I don't know how long it's before your leftover beer you hadn't finished into the nachos, which you know I thought was downright hilarious, and it's constant between the two of you. And she'll be in her room and we'll be in our room or something, and he'll make a comment and this kid's hearing is phenomenal and she'll say something and he'll they just go back and forth Like he messes with her, Alexa he messes with her alexa messes with her internet and then she'd be like slut tramp and the banter between the two of them is hilarious.
Speaker 2:I mean, I wish I had that with my donor, but I love the camaraderie between the two of you. I love how y'all have traditions. They're just the cutest, sweetest thing ever. And, you know, faith is still very much a child at heart in many ways, and she'll just give him this look and michael tries to be this big badass teddy bear? No, you're not grizz're not, you can be a dick when you're asleep and you open up and she'll just look and be like dad.
Speaker 2:And she gives you this little vlog and you're like yes, I'm not, and she'll go snuggle Because they're watching a movie. And if they're watching a movie, she curls up on the couch with a blanket with him, so the dogs don't jump on her and they just settle up and watch a movie and it's like the cutest thing. He just puts his arm around her and they watch a movie. It's the sweetest thing. I used to be that way with my grandparents and it is just the.
Speaker 2:I mean I love the camaraderie, I can't say it enough. And then you know she'll get up and he'll be like, woman, give me something to drink. And she's like get away with that bitch. I mean it is just camaraderie, full of love, it's just sweet. And you know people are like, oh my gosh, she calls him a bitch, but they have never said anything hurtful to one another. They are very much just, I don't even know how to describe it. It's such an amazing relationship. It's like y'all have been together our whole life.
Speaker 1:Can I clarify something Sure For those of y'all out there listening? Thank you for listening. 1,000 million percent. Thank you for listening. But to piggyback on what Maude said, yes, we do playful banter, okay. Yes, we allow our daughter to use certain curse words. And to you know.
Speaker 2:She's an adult Say whatever. Not anything. Certain things are not allowed.
Speaker 1:Right, she is legally An adult, an adult 18 years of age. Okay, legally An adult, an adult, 18 years of age. Okay, that young lady out there has been through hell.
Speaker 2:She's met the reaper, danced with the reaper.
Speaker 1:Danced with him, picked his ass and came back out the other side. Y'all, man, that damn Paula.
Speaker 2:Again she deserves to say whatever the hell she wants to say Within reason.
Speaker 1:Within reason, she's not going to curse God.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:But you know, there was just over two weeks that we did not hear a peep out of her, when she had like three tubes down her throat and nose. And you know, we, just we were begging and pleading for the day that she would talk again, A two-week period, and I seen her watching her just lay there and not say a word. So y'all can judge us for that.
Speaker 2:I went her first two and a half years without hearing her at all. Not a word.
Speaker 1:I don't care what some of y'all think as far as that goes. She's our daughter. She's going to say whatever she wants. She's trying to try to get her to shut up. First of all, she's a redhead. Watch it, she can hold her own and secondly, she deserves it y'all. She's a little smart mouth if y'all have followed us anywhere on facebook or read, uh, the wife's first book, or um, she needs to write her own book, her own story. Um, y'all, y'all, y'all would love it. This girl's amazing.
Speaker 2:She's american, not just that, but when you have coded and lived in a hospital for as long as she has, you know, and we are so proud of her, she's an accomplished author, she was a number one bestseller on amazon and you remember that it was your book that she was bestseller on uh, she has dedicated
Speaker 2:her life every year since she was four, raising toys and money for other kids of special needs and survivors of domestic violence. When covid was going on, she arranged it herself to make sure that the shelter we were we were working with had pizza for everybody and then had cookies delivered so that they could decorate the cookies because we couldn't go in there and do anything and deliver stuff ourselves.
Speaker 2:And she never wants any of it for herself. She never says, oh, that's really nice, can I have that one? And she never does that. All she wants is to pay it forward and help other people. This kid has literally every reason to hate the world seriously, but she has a smile on her face. She tells you that she loves you every day. She says thank you and please, and yes, sir, and no, sir, but she also is very playful.
Speaker 1:She is a smart ass who can handle herself, and handle her own.
Speaker 2:She's a prankster, but you know what? Everybody has a story. Everybody has their differences and everybody has stuff going on. And I get it. But for our daughter, who has gone through over 50 surgeries and she has never done drugs, never gotten into even smoking, drinking, going out, partyingying, being promiscuous, doing anything, that's questionable in regards to you know, really going out there and rebelling like she does do some rebelling things, like the way she dresses and you know whatever that's just her own fashion style.
Speaker 2:But what an amazing kid, because if he's having a bad day, we've come out of the post-op from surgery and people would be like thanks what are you having your surgery? Oh, I just had it and literally walked down the hall and see a kid scared and she'd stop and try to make that child feel better, and that's who she is, and that's who she's always been.
Speaker 2:And if you know, she wants to say a curse word here and there, then my husband and I allow it, because there's a whole lot worse that could be done, and she is not doing any of it. There are words we prohibit her from saying and she is respectful of that and she's never said that which you know we're very strong about, but she really is such a gift.
Speaker 2:I mean, she's such a gift for for both of us, and michael's heart grew a million times so I was a grit well, but even more so last year when you were pacing the floor and I mean, you had horrific pollen allergies because I saw you crying daily you were begging and pleading and rubbing her feet and massaging her feet and you know I'll let her watch whatever movie she can take it for a year.
Speaker 2:And when she first now she was intubated and she mouthed that she wanted me to make a recording and she mouthed tell daddy, I love him. And she was crying and that was probably the most upset in 25 plus years I've ever seen you when you saw that video because she couldn't talk but you could see clearly what she was trying to say and it's hard.
Speaker 2:You don't want anyone to ever go through that you don't want anyone to see their kids in that situation, because when does your body say it's had enough? I'm done I just don't want to do this anymore. This isn't the life. I signed up for this. This isn't you know what I want to be going through. And it is a proven fact that, like, for instance, kids in the NICU- when they have someone who's there for them, the possibility of them healing and overcoming the issues, and you know, obstacles they have in front of them multiplies by hundreds, because when they feel they have something to fight for and someone that loves them, they fight even harder to overcome what's going on in front of them.
Speaker 2:I can't tell you how many times that unit had to close down because babies who had never been seen by their parents or siblings or you know, were just left there, passed away, and it broke my heart.
Speaker 2:It was just the hardest thing ever to know that they could have survived with some love from their family, you know how would these parents feel if that was them when they were born and they had these issues? It's just people today are so selfish and everybody's all about the electronics and they're losing time with their loved ones. They don't know what's going on with their kids' life anymore. Most of these kids have fake profiles on the internet and they don't even know what's going on in their lives anymore, and it's because everybody is so self-consumed, not?
Speaker 2:everybody but a good majority of people are so self-consumed that they're not taking that time.
Speaker 1:My husband looks like he can barely stay awake all of a sudden. But I worked a little bit today, just a little bit. Maybe that's one aspect why these so-called creatures are, you know, assassinating, murdering, killing their kids, because they're so selfish and only think about themselves. So, speaking of someone who is not selfish, we recently posted a podcast on Scott Hamilton. Yeah, and he's gotten posted a podcast on Scott Hamilton. Yep, and he's gotten quite a number of views.
Speaker 2:It was like I want to say almost 800,000 within a couple of hours.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Crazy. Good for you, Scott. Crazy, crazy, crazy. And tonight is his figure skating yearly event that he does in Tennessee with all the skating professional stars and that's going on right now, as we speak actually.
Speaker 1:No deal.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you all of a sudden look like you're crying it pollen you're tired whatever all at once. What do you think before this year?
Speaker 1:let's close it out with that I've already told you what do you think before this this family, okay, this big old family we have right here. Okay, and that's not a fat joke because, you're losing weight and I have to go on a diet because I'm pre-diabetic, so I'll be losing weight. Hopefully our kid will be the only one gaining weight. He can gain what we lose, except I'm stuck up. He's getting fat.
Speaker 2:Watch your mouth, he is. He just had a perfect checkup. They did not say he's fat, he's fat. He's not, he's perfect. He's perfect, don't.
Speaker 1:No, he's perfect, so I'm thankful for this family.
Speaker 2:And what would you like to accomplish in the next year?
Speaker 1:To permanently be with this family every day. You are with this family every day, instead of doing a nine-to-fiver. And that our goal.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, it is so y'all reach out to us, get on our show.
Speaker 1:You got a story to tell. You want to just draw a jack.
Speaker 2:He's really good at drawing a jack.
Speaker 1:Why don't you sit here and listen? You want to take us out? You go ahead. No, you wait. Babe, babe and um, who is also a redhead like his mom a bunch of redheads in this family.
Speaker 2:Stucco is our golden retriever. Stucco is my service dog who's? Always with me, who's also a redhead, like his mom a bunch of redheads in this family, except for me.
Speaker 1:I shave my my baby.
Speaker 2:I'm not ready to go. My boy.
Speaker 1:Thank y'all for listening. Continue to go on the website and check us out, everything that we do, all the services, and please, please, get on Amazon. Type in Victoria Curie, type in Faith Curie, solomon, get their books and read them and review them. Put us a review somewhere, a good review y'all. My wife does a lot. She spends a lot of hours up here on the website on every platform that she has, and, um, she's a one-armed terminator bandit. We'd like to get her an arm. So if y'all know that uh was open biotics, y'all know anybody who works there, um, or you know, maybe, maybe we can have a. You know a couple million. Y'all write a letter to open biiotics on behalf of Victoria Curie here at the Contagious Smile. Now, let's get this woman an arm y'all. She needs a left arm, all right, thank y'all for listening. Y'all have a good night.
