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Is this thing on? I don't even know how to open these. It's like a new segment, right? Okay. Yeah. So guys, we're doing a new segment that is going to be Ask, Tell, Confess. Ask, Tell, Confess. So if you are a part of my Patreon, go over there. As long as you're a paid member, you can ask, tell, or confess anything and we will talk about it. Is it weekly? Weekly. Weekly babies. So in between podcasts, you're going to be getting these little blippers of our life. And they'll also be little updates.
Yeah. Yep. Little life updates, little ask, tell, confess. But we just kind of wanted to tell you, you know, what is going on so that you don't log on and be like, what the hell? We got a new podcast. Nope. It's just me, bitches. Surprise. Surprise. Wait, what's that? Surprise, motherfucker. No. What's that TikTok? Surprise, surprise.
You do that so well. All I have to do is hear one sound and it's like, I, it's just weird. Yeah. Um, so I think what, I think what I need to do with you guys this week, instead of doing the ask, I'll confess and we'll start with the next week. So yeah, make sure that you get into Patreon, go to, uh,
patreon.com backslash dumb blonde podcast, go sign up so you can be a part of this because it's going to be a lot of fun. I used to do it every week on my Instagram and now I will only be doing it on Patreon. And, um, so it drops for you guys, but yeah,
Um, so I think what we need to talk about is the fricking elephant in the room of the fucking nightmare I just went through. This week has been stressful. Bro. Mimi's been sick. I fucking got a fucking death scare. Like it has been wild and you guys, I'm coming to you and letting you know what happens. So, um, you know, I've been getting headaches. I talked about it a little bit online and then the doctor, uh,
We'll talk about that later too. But so I've been getting headaches and
And you know, it's, I noticed that it was kind of like after I would eat certain foods, I don't know if it was like high in salts or something. Cause I don't eat bad. You guys know, I literally live a very fucking boring life and diet because I'm trying so hard to just rewind all the fucking drug induced trauma I did to my body and alcohol trauma I did to my body growing up. So when I got this news, it was really a punch in the stomach. But anyways, I was having headaches. So, um,
My girl MJ actually sent me a TikTok about aneurysms. And for some reason, my body reacted to that TikTok crazily. And I'm talking like, I actually think I might've accidentally manifested it
Because I had a panic attack. And in that moment, I reached out to my doctor and I was like, it's two o'clock in the morning. I can show you guys the DM and it's four o'clock in the morning at fucking Nashville time. But we were in LA and I was like, Danny, I need to get in to the doctor. I need to get an MRI and MRI and figure out why I'm getting these headaches. And, um,
Um, in that moment I was just like, Oh my God, why is my body reacting like this? Do I have an aneurysm? You know, it was so fucking weird. And, um, so anyways, I go in, I get the MRI, MRA done. And the first time I got it done, I refused it with contrast because I don't want those fucking heavy metals in my body thinking that nothing was going to come back. Well, I get the call from my doctor and she tells me, Hey bunny, everything looks great. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, okay, great. You know? And she goes, but
They think they might've found an aneurysm on your carotid artery. When I tell you, you guys, the blood from my head rushed to my feet, that was one of my biggest fears. My mom had an aneurysm and it ruptured and she almost died. But she ended up, my dad, you know, ended up getting her to the hospital in time and she didn't die.
Um, so my whole life I've been checked for aneurysms because that's one of my biggest fears. I've been getting MRIs done on my head since I was a fucking teenager. As soon as I could learn to get them done, I did both have them done in 2020 together. Yeah, literally. So when she told me that it was like one of my biggest fears coming to fruition, um,
And in that moment, I know people live with aneurysms. I know that it's not that big of a deal, like some people have said, but to me it was a huge deal because one, I'm in a higher percentile of rupturing because my mom had one. I think your chances go from like 0% of rupture to like 50% if you've already had somebody rupture in your family.
Also where it was located is in your carotid artery. I work out all the fucking time. So I'm like, Oh my God, I can't work out. Like I can't, what am I? If somebody accidentally grabs me by my neck, if I'm having sex and I want to be choked, like I, there was just so many things that went through my mind and I instantly just hit my knees and started praying. I bawled my eyes out. I cried so hard. I pulled a muscle in my neck and,
And I fucking just after I gathered myself together, I cried for three days. Um, but this is when the doctor had called me and was like, okay, we need another scan. And this time, right. So that, that same day they, she said, listen, because you didn't get contrast, let's get a CT scan. So this happened all in a three day period. Okay. You want to talk about the emotions? So, um,
I go and I get the CT scan the next day, still bawling my eyes out, still crying, still praying. And the results come back the next morning, which is on, let me think, it was Tuesday, right? Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. And then I went to the doctor on Friday. Okay. So the CT scan comes back on Thursday.
The results are on Thursday. Thursday. And I can't sleep. I haven't slept. I'm literally, I'm sweating so bad. I have diarrhea. Like I have irritable bowel syndrome cause I'm just like so freaked out and stressed out. I dropped four pounds instantly, which man, I wish I could go back to that cause I felt so skinny. But anyways, um, they call me and they said, yeah, it looks to be about a two millimeter aneurysm on your carotid artery. So.
So I was like, that's it. There it is. You know, I didn't realize that radiologists weren't the end all tell all. No, there's like a suggestion. Right.
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I wake up, I'm just sick. I'm literally meditating in the meadow. I'm listening to Joyce Meyers. I'm like just literally beside myself. And I just finally got to a point and I think that this was the lesson in the entire situation was learning how to let go and have faith because I micromanage so much shit in my life that, um, you know, learning about something that you have no control over, um,
was just a pivotal point for me to where I didn't even ask God to not have it. I just said, whatever your will is, I just want to know what the lesson is. And I just want you to pull me through it because I'm finally to a point in my life where I love my life. I love my family. I could never imagine not being here for my husband. And I just, please, Lord, like, don't take this from me. That's just all I need.
And so I go in and I see the neurologist on Friday and he was a sweetheart. It was at St. Thomas Medical. And he you know, we asked him before he started showing us the clips. I said, you know, hey, can we video this? Because you guys know I video my entire fucking life.
So he video we're videoing it and he's going through it. And he's like, he's like, I really feel like this is normal. I genuinely, he said, I wish you had an aneurysm so I could fix your headaches. And I was just like, Hey, homie, slow your roll. I was like, I'm good. We don't need that. So I felt better, you know, but now I have this doubt in my head and I'm just like, he's not a vascular surgeon.
So Mimi being the fucking sweet little angel baby, she is found one of the best vascular surgeons in Nevada or not about Nashville. Sorry, wrong city in Nashville and had me get on calendar with him, but he wasn't until Tuesday. Um,
So we're on Friday. So I still have, you know, four days to fucking suffer through. And granted, I did feel better and I felt like I could breathe. But at the same time, you're just like, I don't know. I need a second opinion, you know. And he showed me these scans and they looked fucking normal to me. And, you know, like he even said, I don't know why the radiologist sent you in for this. Mm hmm.
So that made me feel better. And then there was a sweetheart surgeon that is a friend with my family in South Carolina. And he looked at the same records and he said the same thing as the first surgeon. So technically this would have been the third opinion, but I wanted a vascular surgeon to look at it. Yeah. Someone who sees these so often that they would be able to identify any little markers. Absolutely. Absolutely.
So we get through the weekend Monday, we're doing podcasts in the new studio. I'm getting ready to do a podcast in the new studio. I'm in hair and makeup and Mimi's phone rings and we get this phone call and it's the doctor from St. Thomas is literally kind of reprimanding me and being rude as hell and
and told me that I need to take the TikTok down that I had made telling everybody like, hey, I am so relieved that I don't have this aneurysm. Here's my scans. Nothing was a HIPAA violation at all. You also spoke very kindly of him. Yes. And I asked him for permission if I could video this. And I told him that. I said, I asked you for permission if I could video this. And he said, well, I didn't know you were going to go post it in a thousand places. I said, I posted it in one place and it happened to get four million views. That's not my fault. You know, like, what are you talking about?
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So he was just very fucking rude. And he's like, well, I have to discharge you as my patient. So I was stressed. I was like, oh God, this is not a good sign. What, you know, like what we're going into meet the surgeon tomorrow. Like, oh, for the love of God.
So I took the videos down. If that's why you guys are wondering if the videos are down, that's why, because you know, the doctor fucking got in trouble and tried to take it out on me cause he gave me permission to fucking, you know, but I'm not trying to beef with the hospital. St. Thomas shout out. You guys have always been so good to me. I will never, ever, ever, ever beef with you guys. We took it down exactly like they asked. We took it down exactly like they asked. So Tuesday rolls around. I wake up in the morning. I'm S I'm just like,
Fuck my life. Just a nervous wreck. Whatever the, the call comes with the neurosurgeon and he made a 3d, um, model model of my car carotid arteries, that whole little area, which was really cool to look at. And we got that on video. Um, and he said, um,
There is nothing wrong with you. I am clearing you. He said, it's a blood vessel that matches on the other side of your carotid artery on the other end. And he said, this is, you know, this was just one of these things where I get to deliver good news. He said, if you want to go play tackle football, you can. He said, you could bungee jump. He said, I could bungee jump. He said, he said, I want to see, he said, I'm so not worried about it that I want to see you back in three years. And I was like, ah,
I was like, no, no, no. My health anxiety will not allow that. I wanted to say six months, but I said, can he's like, well, I was like, can we do sooner? He's like, how about two years? I said, no, no. How about one? He's like, okay, I'll see you back in a year. And he's like, I'm only going to do that because of your history with your mother. He's like, but once we do that scan and you're cleared, he's like, you're cleared for life. Yeah.
So that was how the last, you know, eight days of my life have been guys. And I just want to tell you that I, it made me appreciate life so much. And like, I know it sounds dramatic, but I don't know. It just really made me realize that like none of this shit fucking matters, man, family and the people that you love and the people that you surround yourself with every day is all that fucking matters, dude. None of this shit fucking matters. You can't take any of it with you.
And, you know, you just need to appreciate the people that are in your life. No matter if they drive you up a fucking wall, man, look at them today and just be like, I love you. I snuggled up so much to my husband these past few days. Like, I think he even was just like, what the hell is going on? You know, because we're normally in our respectable corners. We have the biggest bed ever. But I just kept, I call his side the trap house and mine is the penthouse. And I just crawled out of the penthouse and went and laid in the trap house because I was like, well, if I'm going out, at least he knows I loved him, you know? Oh.
But yeah, I was happy. Everything turned out. Okay. I don't know. My God brings me through this shit, man. Just test in the waters. What's going on with you though? Mimi? Uh, we don't know yet. We'll wait on me. I'm just over here with strep throat. Mimi's had strep throat six times this year and she doesn't have fucking tonsils. Yeah, not at all. And he said the part that they leave in, um, of the tonsils that's like connected to the body was like really swollen, which is,
When I had been dealing with this prior, they had said like there could be something left in there. But I'm like, that does not mean I should get strep six times. Yeah. I don't know. So we're just, we got to get my heart checked. That's the tachycardia scares me. Yeah. Tachycardia is scary, man. It's really wild. But she did have sepsis last year. Mm-hmm.
it really took her for a ride. So that was, I mean, it's similar to what you went through. It was very scary moments. Very yours was more physical. Mine was more in my head. I couldn't imagine going through sepsis. Actually, didn't you have to get like almost a blood transfusion or something? Uh, no. So what happened was I went, they left me in the fucking waiting room for three hours. Thanks. St. Thomas. Um, Oh shit.
So I went into the ER and I literally was like, I do not feel good. I feel like I'm dying. And they were like, so does everyone else in here go have a seat? And they left me there for three hours until Jason came back and found me after he could get the kids squared away and someone to watch the kids. And when he found me, I was slumped over in a chair in the waiting room and he yelled for help and they came over and my fucking BP was dropped out and I was going into septic shock. So I was actually in the process of dying at that moment. And, um,
He got me back, but then had to go pick up the kids. So once I was in the room, then that's when they couldn't figure out what was wrong with me. And then I began to tank. So I began to die. All my organs started to shut down and they had to, I mean, took everything. Thank you to all the nurses and everyone who did end up saving my life. I really appreciate you. But I ended up being on this like, not a dialysis thing, but it was like where I was literally getting pumped full of antibiotics for days. And that could be why...
the strep just lives in my body because it never actually goes away. It was because I was pumped so bad for so long. I mean, like, I think it was four straight days of antibiotics, if I remember correctly. And so now my body's kind of like, Oh, well, we know what to do with those. And we're stronger than that. So I think that's my that's why she also wants me to see infectious control. So son of a bitch, man. This podcast is brought to you by eHarmony. The
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We're going to figure it out and it's going to be a good thing. Yes. I feel like this is a running theme for us every year. We like the top of the year, we always go through health shit. And then the end of the, that's why we're like, we can't wait to get to tour. Once we get to tour, everything's okay. Yeah. So we will be out on tour. We'll keep you guys up to date with Mimi's health stuff too. And we're going to be hopping on tour. We're going to be at the Morgan Wallen concert eight, eight. And then after that, I don't think we're making any appearances until, until
And that's another thing that we should actually talk about is if you guys are a member on Patreon, we have bunnies.com.
Bunny's Backstage Pass is what we're calling it, where you can actually come and meet the crew, take a picture with us, and then you'll have to go back to your seats, of course. And the restrictions or the rules are, go ahead Mimi. So you have to be subbed for the four months prior to the show that you are attending. You have to have a ticket to that show. And if you want to bypass that, you can just become an annual member of the top tiers. And
And that will also allow you access. Another frequently asked question that I can answer on here is that you guys are going to be like skipping all the lines. So you're skipping the line to get in. You're skipping the line to merge. You're skipping the line to everything because you are going to get in before gates actually open to see us and take the picture. But you do have to have a ticket to the Jelly Roll concert. There's no way around that.
When they say sold out, they actually mean that they can't come up with new chairs. We are so sorry. And if you, like she said, if you want to bypass the four month thing, like if you're just now going into sub, you can sub to be annual. And if you sub to be annual on the highest tier or the ringleader tier that bypasses that and you guys come out, meet us, meet Chachi. And, you know, Jay loves a good little meet and greet. So he, you know, always pops in.
just loves to meet you guys and we want to meet all of you and we want to see you. And I just...
this was my way. I didn't want to do meet and greets like how they did last year because I felt like it was just so rushed and I didn't have any control of it. Whereas this, I can at least, you know, hug you guys, take a picture with you. And you know, we're just like, we've built such a big community over there on Patreon. There's 180,000 members. It's like a Patreon. Yeah. Shout out Patreon, man. We fucking love you guys, dude. And I, you know, I've been going through so much shit, but I'm on there the majority of the time that actually my Patreon, uh,
main attraction to your new about the aneurysm scare before anybody, um, they've been praying for me and I actually need to go and fucking update them. Um, but yeah, it's been, it's been great with Patreon and we just love you guys over there. Shout out Patreon. Yeah. So go sign up for Patreon. Do ask, tell, confess where you can leave whatever you want. You can DM it to me. Um,
I usually I'll leave a post once a week and we'll just go off of that too. If you don't want it public, you can also just DM me on Patreon. But yeah, let's go, baby. And you guys will start getting these updates weekly. Yeah. Love you guys. Talk to you later. Bye.
