Really? 90%?

Over 90%, yeah.

So, um, inside it's made out of, um, organic cotton, so it's really comfortable to the skin when you wear it.

And then, but inside the cotton is, uh, about three layers of silver and copper material.

So what this does is it takes something that was bad for you on your skin, and it turns it into something good because you know that silver he- and copper help with the blood flow.

Most people wear it to the, on their left hand, so this helps with the...

It...

Wow.

Mm-hmm.

And this mission trip was very important to her.

It was gonna be her junior year.

She had to do things ahead of time to even be considered as a candidate for the mission trip.

So she accomplished all of the things that it took to be, um, a candidate for the mission trip, then gets accepted, and then they came back with, "Mm, um, with Lily's Type 1 diabetes, we're not sure if this is a good idea for her."

Mm-hmm

... and said, "Okay, I, I, here's the parameters." That doctor looked at me and she said, "Tina, I have people.

I...

Hmm.

There was lot, a lot of moments of, "I'm way too young, and I have to have sustainability, and what am I gonna do?" But my, I was kind of circling down and going down a little bit of a rabbit hole and-

So this is, this, this is you realizing those things that you want, that, that you're not waiting for.

No.

I did, um, also get a yoga certification.

[laughs] Because I was at my gym, and all the people that were able to go to morning yoga classes, there were people in the evening classes, like at spinning or a strength class, that were saying, "We wish we had yoga." So then I was like, ding, ding, ding, maybe I should get a yoga certification because number one, I can teach it at this gym that I love, Living Fitness.

Mm-hmm.

When there are literally so many things that could be wrong causing encephalopathy.

It is not necessarily-- In fact, the, you know, there are protocols in place and regulations in place that it s- you know, I know you said you're gonna immediately do a CT scan because if somebody comes in with confusion, there are protocols in place that ERs have to do a CT scan to rule out a stroke.

So they're automatically gonna be thinking, "Rule out stroke, rule out stroke, rule out stroke." You come in with chest pain, "Rule out MI, rule out MI, rule out MI," because they have protocols that say the door to the cath lab time and the door to CT time and these things.

But then beyond that, it's, uh, uh, the, beyond that, it's sort of everything kinda gets gray.

And then a person that comes in, female or not, male, female, whoever it is, a person that comes in with encephalopathy, and you've ruled out the stroke, uh, kinda like the big, you know, the, the big issues that it could be.

And unfortunately, a lot of times because ERs are overused, um, in this country, and it's, it's, it's just a, it's just a problem, and we do have an opioid epi-

Oh, got it

So if this patient had presented in my ER with all these skin issues, I'd be like, there was no way I would think like, "Oh my gosh, this patient has a tumor growing in their, inside their lung." Like, no way.

No, and I think that this is another ...

I, and I, I try to say this as often as I can or any opportunity that I have.

Um, I love ER nurses, so please don't take this the wrong way when I say this, um, because it's not just ER nurses that do this, but I know that ER nurses are very overwhelmed, and so many times they have way more patients than they could really safely, s- truly safely take care of.

And it, they're, they're dealing with less resources.

They, they are under so much stress, so it does happen.

I see this on social media a lot, people complaining, you know, about people coming into the ER with having these symm- symptoms and, and they're just going like, "Why are you coming to the ER with this?" Or it just sort of like frustrated because someone comes in complaining of pain, and they'll say, you know, "Pain is not an emergency," or ...

That's what my [laughs] football coach used to say.

What has kept you here for 38 years?

Uh, I don't know.

Um, colleagues mostly.

But I'm more practical than I am mentally.

I'm more like a practical, hands-on, if I can do what have you.

It's like, like now I've just come off a machine, so I can turn off of this onto other machines as well, and it just keeps your mind going different places.

... working on, for example, a computer.

Yeah.

But right now, my tank is empty." [laughs] Um, and so I've given myself that grace too.

10 years ago, I was trapped.

I call it a societal train.

I was trapped on this freight train that said that, you know, your kids, they go to school and that that is what's gonna make them successful.

That's what's gonna allow them to learn about themselves.

I was almost in decision paralysis.

I didn't know what to do.

You know, how do we help their nervous system stay more regulated? How do we help them be more curious about things that they're naturally innately curious about? How do we help them do those deep dives and get the resources to explore things? How do we help them be more confident about what they are strong in and what they already know and then be able to springboard and do more of that?

The divorce was especially bitter because Tim, who'd moved in with his sister, Tina, wanted more access to their four-year-old son, according to family.

The divorce that he was going through was the most wicked divorce thing I'd ever seen or heard.

I needed to remove my baby daughter from the house because of what was being said on both ends of the phone.

Tim's older sister, Tina.

There's no closure, you know? And I watched my family suffer from so much unforgiveness and hurt, and that hurt would turn into anger and, and distrust.

I mean, many of us didn't know who might be over our shoulder or why or... because there was no answers.

So feel free to skip ahead about three and a half minutes if you don't want to hear the details.

I'm looking at this grease boil, and I'm still thinking of not just him, per se.

It was about everything in life.

I'm back on drugs.

I, I've disappointed so many people that don't know I'm back on drugs again.

And as I'm leaving out of the kitchen with the boiling grease, I pick up a knife, and I head towards our bedroom.

I remember putting the pot down on that radiator, thinking to myself...

She doesn't know what she's doing until she feels herself stab Eli in the stomach.

Kelly and Tina get to talking about what Kelly's been up to in and out of the law library.

She started telling me, you know, how many people she's helped along the way and how many, you know, appeals she has put in for individuals and, and I'm just listening to her.

She already has a lawyer fighting her corner.

I'm not thinking of her helping me.

I'm thinking of me helping her.

And I'm like, "Okay, I'm gonna reach out to the lawyer that's helping me and s- you know, see what she can do or if she's willing to take on this case."

She'd party all weekend on this big binge and on her way home sometimes she'd start to see things.

What would happen is when I was driving home, out of my peripheral vision I would swear that I saw someone walking up out of the woods and, like, walking towards the road.

And then as soon as you shift your vision over and you look directly at them, they're gone because they were never there in the first place.

But yeah, I- I saw many shadow people.

And actually, when Tina told her mum, "I'm leaving," they had this big fight.

And she was like, "You're moving to Europe so you can do drugs." And I screamed back at her, I was like, "You don't understand.

The drugs are here.

I need to leave here." And we left, we moved.