May 22, 2025

Rhonda Nelson Joins Dori DeCarlo on The Mompreneur Model

Rhonda Nelson Joins Dori DeCarlo on The Mompreneur Model
Rhonda Nelson Joins Dori DeCarlo on The Mompreneur Model
Word of Mom Radio
Rhonda Nelson Joins Dori DeCarlo on The Mompreneur Model

Rhonda Nelson is dedicated to philanthropic and community work, particularly in areas involving family support, education, and patient advocacy.

Rhonda Nelson, renowned patient advocate, author, speaker and philanthropist is a beacon of resilience and strength. Her charitable work spans championing equitable access to affordable healthcare, supporting those diagnosed with AERD (Aspirin Exacerbated Respiratory Disease), serving as a voice in the foster care system and encouraging women to reinvent themselves in their different stages of life.

Rhonda serves on the Executive Board of Directors with the Asthma & Allergy Network, impacts legislation and speaks nationally, raising awareness for AERD. Having dealt with AERD (Aspirin Exacerbated Respiratory Disease) herself for more than twenty years, she has experienced many misdiagnoses, a near fatal struggle to find relief, a desperate search for answers and a constant journey to access proper support.

Rhonda and her husband Wayne, of the Little River Band tirelessly devote their time and resources to helping others to navigate this challenging medical journey frequently associated with severe respiratory disease. Rhonda is a firm believer in empowering women to pursue the dreams they have for their lives, regardless of age, while finding strength in overcoming challenges.

Join host Dori DeCarlo on The Mompreneur Model and connect with Rhonda at RhondaBNelson.com and on Instagram and Facebook .

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Hello, everyone, Welcome to today's Word of Mom Radio. Here

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on the Word of Mom Media Network. I'm your host,

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Dori Di Carlo, and you know we are here week

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after week, show after show, breaking those myths that morepreneurs

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and business women, especially those of us building our businesses

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from home, that we're just dabbling in between bake sales

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and getting our nails done. We're not. We are smart,

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we are savvy, and we are sharing the wisdom of

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women in business and in life. And I'm looking forward

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to bringing today's guest into our show. Rondan Nelson, renowned

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patient advocate, all authors, speaker, and philanthropist, is a beacon

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of resilience and strength. Her charitable work spans championing equitable

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access to affordable healthcare, supporting those diagnosed with AERD, which

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is aspiring exacerbated respiratory disease, serving as a voice in

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the foster care system, and encouraging women to reinvent themselves

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in their different stages of life. Ronda serves on the

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executive board of directors with the Asthma and Allergy Network,

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impacts legislation and speaks nationally raising awareness for AERD. Having

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dealt with it herself for more than twenty years, she

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has experienced many misdiagnoses, near fatal struggle to find relief,

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a desperate search for answers, and a constant journey to

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access proper support. Ronda and her husband Wayne of the

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Little River Band hirelessly devote their time and resources to

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helping others navigate this challenging medical journey frequently associated with

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severe respiratory disease. Ronda's a firm believer in empowering women

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to pursue their dreams they have for their lives, regardless

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of age, while finding strength and overcoming challenges. In her book,

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A Different Life, Ronda not only pulls back the curtain

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on celebrity look but also offers readers the chance to

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hear never before told stories, enjoy treasured family recipes and photos,

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while getting a taste of all the things pertaining to

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life on the road that I'm actually going to bring

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her back for her book because her philanthropic work and

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the work that she is doing impatient advocacy and everything

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is so important that we're going to devote this episode

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to that and we'll bring her back to the author's

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ally because A Different Life has got to be a

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really great book to share. So with all that being said, Rhonda,

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welcome to Word of moone Radio.

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Thank you so much for having me. I appreciate it.

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It's all that's right, absolute pleasure. And you know, for

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people who don't since we're talking about aard, for people

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who do not know what that is, I would love

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for you to share that journey with that.

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Absolutely asper an exasperated respiratory disease. In the early days

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when I was first diagnosed, it was called Sampter's triad

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because it is a triad of three components. One is

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nasal polyps, one is asthma, and one is the sensitivity

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to aspirin and insets, or basically you're allergic to aspirinin insets.

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That's the component that makes this disease quite difficult to

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diagnose because people present with chronic nasal polyps, chronic sinus infections,

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chronic asthma, and so a lot of times they're just

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treated for those things. But when they are treated for

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just those components, they find that they're not getting better.

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And it's typically because number one, they don't know their

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sensitive to aspirin or insets. But number two, those are

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two common medications that a majority of people will take

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at some point. You know, we've always been told to

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take an aspirin, a small baby aspirin when you get

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a certain age, for your heart cardiovascular issues or to

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prevent them, and we use insets for a myriad of things. Right,

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so diagnoses can be very tricky, and that's exactly what

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happened to me. It took me about two years to

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get diagnosed. It started out with what I thought was

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a cold, just continue to not get better, not get better.

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If anything, I was getting worse. I had never had

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problems with seasonal allergies. I'd never had allergy as a kid.

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I'd never had asthma as a kid or a young adult,

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so these things when this started to just snowball, you know,

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I really didn't know what was going on. And kind

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of the telltale piece of the puzzle was I was

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constantly congested, constantly wheezing, my nasal passages were completely impacted

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with nasal polyps, and I would take tylenol PM to sleep,

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and within forty five minutes to an hour, I would

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go into what now I know was an asthmatic or

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an anaphylactic reaction to that, and so that began putting

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the puzzle together. So that was in two thousand. It

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took until two thousand and two to get a diagnosis.

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It still wasn't a really well known or very often

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diagnosed disease, and so for me, it was multiple doctors

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before I actually got the diagnosed. Because I did, one

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physician did start me on allergy shots and that actually

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made me worse. So it was quite the journey in

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that period. There were times when, you know, random things

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would set the anaphylaxis off, like going into a hotel

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room and there would be mold in the room and

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I would start to breathe it and then that would just,

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I mean immediately trigger. So I had several near fatal

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experiences when I was out on the road with my husband.

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but I was I was pretty darn close to my

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throat completely seizing up. And so that was really the

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beginning of knowing that this disease needed awareness. I knew

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there had to be other people out there that were

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dealing with this, but no way was talking about it

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also back then, And I know back then sounds like

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I would be talking about a long time ago. But

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in the medical world, medicines can change and come and go,

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and new medicine come about, and back then, which was

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twenty three twenty four years ago, now, there weren't a

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lot of great you know, you had to your medical

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team had to put together basically a cocktail of medications

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to keep it maintained. And what works for one or

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two doesn't work for all. That's the other kind of

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weird component of this is, you know, I'm in a

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lot of forums, I talk to a lot of people

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with this disease, and I hear a lot of stories,

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and everybody's just trying to their teams are trying to

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find what medications will keep them very well maintained. Because

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when you're not breathing at capacity, you have low energy,

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you have brain fog, you don't have the stamina to

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do all of the things that you need to do

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as a mom, as a business owner, as a wife,

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keeping up with your kids and all of that. Life

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is hard enough. You add on a breathing component that's

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bogging you down and it's tough. It's really tough. I

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am happy to say that now there are a few

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new medications their by logics, but they are really working

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wonders for aer D patients and we're seeing a lot

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of success rate with those. They do come with side

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effects like other drugs, but then that's where you, as

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your own patient advocate, has to decide what is really

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right for your body and what medication works for you,

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and then you have to it's an absolute must. You

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have to advocate with your doctors and you have to

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get them to hear you. They don't just sit there

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and tell them the story and then they say this

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is what you know, this, this, and this. You have

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to advocate because they only see us for a very

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short amount of time each appointment, right, they don't know

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what goes on the other twenty four hours a day,

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seven days a week, three hundred sixty five days a year.

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So it's very important that we as patients go in

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prepared to our visits to share, you know, what what

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has been going on at home, what maybe you've you've

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started on a new medication regimen, and what is happening?

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What are you seeing? Are there things that have popped

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up that aren't the norm for you? Those are all

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things that it's vitally important to share with your medical team.

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It's very interesting because I'm flashing back to my children's

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childhoods and thirty years ago. I was really fortunate that

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our pediatrician my oldest type of allergies, and my pediatrician

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knows me. I try to fight like with like. You know,

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it's not that I don't use antibiotics and things like that,

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but I feel it constantly takes stuff. You're kind of

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negating the immune system that we have. So he sent

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me to the health food store and he said, let's

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start with B pollen, he said, and then get local

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honey m hm, and take a teaspoon a day. Because

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at that point he was five, so he didn't have

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to worry about wars and things like that, because he said,

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you know, I can give you children's clarenon, but I

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know you, and you know what I don't know still

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catches in my throat. You know, he's thirty seven, and

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he takes his teaspoon sometimes allergies do not bother him

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and then other times, but that's what he'll do. Unfortunately

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his wife is the same way with that. But for

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so many moms, they don't realize all of the things.

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You know, it could be their clothing, it could be

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pet it could be the silliest and simplest of things

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that are allergies, and they're trying to find the answers

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and it gets so frustrating because quite often doctors, you know,

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let's face it, they get their degree and then they're done.

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That's why I always go to physicians assistants rather than

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a doctor. I prefer a PA who every six months

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has to go back for quality assurance and this and that,

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and so I felt like they would always be more

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up to date in what you could do and everything else.

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So how can mom help themselves handling these allergies and

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stuff like that and not give up hope when it's

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so frustrating finding out what's triggering everything.

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Yeah, you know, I also think one theory behind AERD.

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I was given just an enormous amount of antibiotics in

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a period of my life, and there is some consideration,

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if you will, that that is what led to I

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don't want to say it was the cause, but it

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contributed to the cause of me developing this disease. And

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so I've become really hyper aware of things like that

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because I think we live in a society where physicians,

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especially because they are under the gun to see as

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many patients as possible in a day, and so let's

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throw a medication that is really a band aid. It's

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not curing the cause. So I'm probably one of the

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unique people who sit with one leg on each side

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of the fence posts. I take a biologic right now

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because I have this disease, and I have to take

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that biologic to keep my quality of life at the

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level that I want to live at. Do I love

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putting that drug into my body. No, But everything that

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happened in my early years created this situation. But I

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go a step farther, and I am a really firm

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believer in a lot of modalities that help you in

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a way that aren't a chemical compounded medication. Right, we

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don't classify AERD as an autoimmune disease, yet I believe

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as research goes along that we will probably see it

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under that umbrella of diseases. Let's face it, if you've

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got nagal holyps and you've got asthma. There's inflammation in

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your body, right, So I struggle with that too. But

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that's a whole nother story, whole nother soapbox. But having

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said that, I use a lot of non conventional modalities

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and therapies to keep me at the level that I

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want to be in as far as my quality of life. Yes,

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I know the drug is doing that, but I also

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feel like if I could wean off of that or

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at least space it out farther, I'm being proactive against

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my disease. Right, Infrared sauna, red light therapy, lymphatic drainage, cupping, drynealing,

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chiropractic care. Those are all things that I absolutely believe in.

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And I think you were asking about moms and what

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goes on now. We also live in a society where

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things are not pure or not even as close to

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pure as they used to be, and so I struggle.

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I feel bad for the moms because we have so

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much forgive me crap in our foods, in the clothing

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that we wear, in the detergents that we use, in

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the household products that we use, and so you know,

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it's almost a full time job for someone to try

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to navigate that and figure out what can I do

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to keep my children healthy and safe? Right on top

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of being able to navigate it, then you have to

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be able to afford it because all of those products

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not covered by insurance, and so it's just this awful

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snow globe situation where I just feel like people are

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in it and they're like, I have to get out

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of this and do something more proactive for my family

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you are preaching to the choir. It catches in my throw.

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Thirty seven years ago, when my son was born, I

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washed cloth diapers because how am I supposed to teach

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my kids about not leaving a huge carbon footprint? And

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I wasn't going to watch their diapers in all temperature.

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So I actually started using Shackley products, which were completely organic.

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My kids, at eighteen months old, had their own spray

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bottles because you know, you were so good. Mommy's help

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me clean the bathroom, and they could drink anything under

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the sink and they might wind up with diarrhea. And

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it's funny because my niece, whose daughters are going to

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be eight this month, we do a family party every year,

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and there she is with all of her organics and whatnot.

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Because I was a trader Joe's shopper and in all

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these shopper I don't know how people can afford to

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eat and not shop at these stores because I've always

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tried to eat as organic as I can and single foods.

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And here she was, and I told her how proud

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I was, and she goes, you know what, Auntditi, you

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set the bar. She said, you were doing this decades

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before people were thinking about it. And my daughter one

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time had a cough and said to her, your dad's like,

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you need to take you to CBS to get you

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some triminic. And she just put her little hands on

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her hip. She was four, have taught you nothing? Well, look, missus,

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Green's alcohol for the apothecary. He'll tell me what we need.

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Oh okay, honey, you know there was six foot three.

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There was you know, four inches tall getting in the

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cart and have mommy taught nothing? And again, now my

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kids are adults and all three of them have followed

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that same path. Yeah, sadly, you know, moms go to

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a doctor, when anybody goes to the doctor, if the

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doctor's not writing them a prescription, the doctor not doing

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their job. And that's really what we come down to.

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We don't want to talk to the doctor about what

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al turn it is rather than putting me on this

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what can I do? Naturally? I got lucky my patrician

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respected that I wanted to do this. So if my

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kids had stripped, give me that antibiotic. That's why antibiotics work.

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But if you're constantly bombarding your system with things, and

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I don't think people, and again it's because you're looking

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for ways to remedy something, especially as a mom for

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your kids, and so you'll try things. But how do

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you help moms navigate that and look at those natural

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or alternatives that are actually going to build your immune system?

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Well?

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And you know, sadly, we live in a society right

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now that is pretty volatile when we start to talk

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about this, right, so, I think I'm going to just guestimate.

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I have a lot of friends that have daughters that

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are young moms now and we have conversations. I think

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moms are starting to realize that what the doctor tells

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them in the prescription they give them is not the

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wherewith all and be with all in the end all.

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They're starting to question number one, which I think is great.

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They're starting to look at things and be more open

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to a more or organic, if you will, way of life,

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a more clean way of life, despite all the crap

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that is floating around us. But again, here, here's here's

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the problem, and here's I don't know the answer to this,

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but I won't stop talking about it. A big problem.

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Like you mentioned, Shaly, we should not have to join

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some kind of multi level marketing, be a part of

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something like that in order to get products of that quality. Right,

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But for the most part, that's kind of what you

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got to do. You don't go to you don't go

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to Walmart and see those kinds of products on the shelves.

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You actually can There's a company called eCos eCos Okay,

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you can get it at Walmart, you can get it

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at most Yes, I mean we're getting better. Yeah, and

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you know, what believe it or not, they're actually less expensive.

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And the laundry detergent is phenomenal. And because it is

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plant based, it will get out any stain. Yes, it's

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enzyme based. It'll actually make your clothes healthier. Your cotton

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clothes don't lose their oxygen, and they are they're actually

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less expensive than buying the chemical and juice wore And

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again we just need to know it. It's a it's

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a woman owned company. It's a fabulous company. I've been

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using them for years.

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getting better. Even I use the example Walmart, and I

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was sitting here thinking, you know, you used to go

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to Walmart and you couldn't find you might find a

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handful of let's say, gluten free products right now. If

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the Walmart iss Aer center and they have food, I

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mean in the one that is by me, they have

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a whole section. So I think because people are speaking up,

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voice is are being heard. But we have a long

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way to go. But I'll also tell you too that

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it depends on the demographic market of where those stores

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are located, of what's going to be in those stores,

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it insinuates that only certain demographics want or will buy

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these particular kind of products, and I do not agree

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with that philosophy at all. So again that then goes

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to another point, people that are in a situation where

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they have to have assistance when they're purchasing foods and

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things like that. This is getting better, I know, but

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it has a long way to go as well. The

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healthier choices aren't covered with these cards and things like that,

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and so crap in gives your body crap, right, And

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so that creates this just vicious cycle where we're we're

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forcing certain demographics to eat things and use things that

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aren't healthy. So back to what we originally started talking about,

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how do these moms navigate this? And I really just

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think it's keeping this story alive, not letting up on

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being persistent about having these choices available for everybody. And

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then I also think it's a little bit of each

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person being proactive for themselves or their family, because you

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have to just say no, I'm not going to be

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given an antibiotic every time I sniffle, right, And that's

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the thing. In the old days, it is true that

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people went to the doctor. The doctor said, you have this,

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you take this medicine. And they believed that what the

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doctaid was the Holy Word, and so they did what

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the doctor said. But we know differently now, and we

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know that we can heal with foods and with natural

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supplements and herbs and things like that, and so we

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have to those of us that do that, we have

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to keep that story out there.

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A thousand percent. It's so important because the reality is

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every medication out there started organically. It really did. It's

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so funny. I do a lot of traveling. I'm on

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the road a lot. We were talking about that before

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we started. I eat fresh blue cheese all the time.

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To me, that is nature's and a silling yeah bad.

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And I really do get Trader Joe's. I get this

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wonderful Danish blue cheese. Take a little slice, put on

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a cracker every day. That's what I do to ward

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off whatever kind of germs and things like that. I

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have my zinc drops. If I'm in a really crowded

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place for a while. When I'm done, I pop a

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zinc drop. Our bodies are designed to fight things, but

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countermand them often and I do think It is really important.

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And I think that we are starting to realize that

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we ourselves can take control, that we can hear what

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the doctor says and okay, great, and then you know what,

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do yourself a favor. Go to the helping store, talk

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to the aboutHe carry. Here's what my doctor wants me

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to take. What is the alternative? What can I do?

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And you know what? There are certain things. Take that antibiotic.

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You have strep throat, you have some kind of a

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strep infection, Take that antibiotic from beginning to do not

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miss a dose. Yes, everythings you can do stuff that

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is going to fight it and strengthen your body. So

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I think it is just so important. And I want

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to talk to you about the philanthropic work you're doing

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and how moms can help round it because you're doing

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so much to raise awareness and using the celebrity life

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that you have with your husband to make people listen.

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And I think that it is really important. What is

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the sense of being somebody that people look up to

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and not doing what we're doing? So I love it.

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Talk to us again, and that's that's really what Wayne

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and I that's where our heart lies. We've been blessed

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with this path that is well known, and people love

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the music, and music resonates with people. Right the two

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universal languages of the world are music and food. And

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so because the music resonates and that we do have

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this path, we want to use that to raise awareness,

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not just for aer D. I mean we do all

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kinds of things. We did just back in February and Louisiana,

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a friend of mine started something called Philip's Cottage and

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it's a home where girls with their children can live

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once they graduate from a program in Louisiana that's not

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unlike the Teen Challenge program. And so we went and

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did a it's called Songs and Stories from the Road.

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We had a few guys from the band, we had myself.

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I would tell stories, they would do the songs, and

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we did a fundraiser. We do things like that for

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all kinds of organizations because truly we are blessed with

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this life. But then for us we want more from it,

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and that more that we get is to be able

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to give back, and so it's just truly a blessing.

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I would probably have us doing Songs and Stories from

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the Road every week if we could fit into the schedule.

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But the touring schedule, especially because this year's the fiftieth

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anniversary of the band in Wayne's been in the band

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forty five years, it's the touring schedule is grueling, and

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so we don't have as much a free space to

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do these things. But that doesn't mean that my work

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behind the scene stops. I do probably five to seven

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podcasts like this a month where I'm just constantly talking

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about this because just using the voice, telling the story,

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sharing my journey about being misdiagnosed and this disease. That

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was probably the reason I have it. One of the

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components is over use of antibiotics, sharing this and getting

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this out there. If I help one person that here's

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your podcast to me, that's huge because you know what

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that person's gonna do. They're going to tell another person

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and they're going to tell another person. We're not going

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to change our healthcare system in a day, a week,

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a month, a year. It's going to be a long journey,

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but we have to start somewhere. And so, like I said,

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it's the rolling ball momentum. One person hears something, they

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share it with another, they share it with another and

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so that's really where my passion lies is just to

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share and to give back and to let people know

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there are other alternatives than just here take this pill,

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you know, and it's interesting. And the example I'm gonna

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give is interesting too, because actually I'm allergic to aspirin.

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But if look at alternatives, like white birch is an alternative,

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that's nature's aspirin. So pretty much the basics that we

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have in chemical form, you can find our natural forms

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of it as well, And so why wouldn't we utilize those?

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I mean, the simple answer to that is big pharma.

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I don't even want to go there.

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Oh, let's go there. The other thing. Pharmacies fund medical schools.

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Absolutely.

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Doctors get rewarded for giving you antibiotics. They don't get

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rewarded for telling you to go to the apothecary. Believe

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that my pediatrician could cause a lot of crut because

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I was one of the few families that wanted the alternatives. Yeah,

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and he was that you talked about it earlier. They

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don't know what's going on in your life. He would

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ask me, I'd be in for one kid, he knew

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what the other. He would sit there and find out

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everything going on. Yeh, family and stuff, and they of

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course gave him grief for it because they want him

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to turn over like this. Do you know what? This

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is what made him such a great doctor. He actually

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knew what was happening. So okay, let's look at why

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they're sick right now and what's going on and things

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like that. It is so important. So I think the

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work that you are doing is marvelous. Please keep it

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up and let me know how I can help. And

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as we're looking, Ronda, let everybody know how they can

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reach out to you.

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Sure you can find me on my website at Rondabnelson

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dot com and also on Facebook or Instagram Ronda B. Nelson.

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And I love people sending me story. I love to

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hear good things. I love to if people are struggling

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finding resources, I love to help people with that. So

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please reach out to me. I just want to say

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to everybody out there, go with what you believe in

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your heart and your head, and don't give up. If

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you have a child and or you're a woman and

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you're struggling to find a diagnosis, don't stop digging. One

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doctor may not give it to you. You may have

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to go from this doctor to this doctor to this doctor.

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I was in a group of people last night and

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one of them says, my husband used to tell me

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this one thing because I had a knee problem and

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I wasn't getting any answers. And he looked at me

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one day and he said, just keep going until you

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find the guy. And that's true. Just keep going until

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you find the medical team that aligns with the way

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you want to deal with your body and your children's body.

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And that's the biggest and best advice I can give.

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And that is great advice. We're gonna have Ronda back

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for the author's alley. I want to reader book a

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Different Life. I want to hear these never before told

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stories and stuff and get some family recipes. You all

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know me. I love to read. So we will definitely

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have you background it. And I thank you for sharing

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this journey with us. No thank you, you know AERD

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and letting people know what that is. But just we

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are our best advocates, and as moms, fight for your kids.

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Don't just go along with something because the doctor said so,

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it's okay to tell the doctor I'd like a different alternative.

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And if they're not willing to give it to you,

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your health food store. Can they have an apothecary on

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staff that can literally tell you, like you were saying,

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with white birch and things like that, there are the

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natural alternatives that are going to give your bodies the

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ability and the strength to fight off other things. All

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it does is build up our bodies. We are taking

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natural things like allergies. You have seasonal allergies. A teaspoon

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of local honey within one hundred mile radius of where

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you are. That local honey is what you're allergic to.

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Those bees are going through all the pollens and that's it.

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A teaspoon a day and you won't have allergies. You

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will feel great. And you know what it tasted.

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That's right, it does.

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Is right?

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That spoonful of sugar, you know.

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Yeah, but that's it's natural. That's your sweet snack for

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the day, right exactly.

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Yeah, honey has so many medicinal properties. People, you have

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no idea. There's so much good stuff out there. Your

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stomach's bothering you eat some partsleep, It will absolutely stomach.

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You know, use ginger ginger.

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I travel with ginger, Yes, the little candied gingers. I

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keep them in my bag and that way if my stomach.

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I'm eating something that doesn't have a little ginger. So

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many things out there, all right, that's why we gotta

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have you back. We're gonna have you back, Ronda and

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I Okay, all of Ronda's links will be live. I

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encourage you to find out there are so many great

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alternatives out there. So I thank you so much, Thank

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you time to come today.

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Thanks so much. I appreciate it.

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It's been my absolute pleasure. And for all of you

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tuning in, thanks so much for being here. We're gonna

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close out with our fabulous theme song from Smith's Sisters

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and the Sunday Drivers. So till next time. This is

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Dori di Carlo saying, go out and create a marvelous you.

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Bye for now.

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She is sure, she is sure, she is strong, she

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is straw, she is true, she is true, she is brave, brave,

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she is she is you, is you, she is you.

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She is sure, she is sure, she is strong, she

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is she is true, she is true, she is brave,

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she is bold, she is she is you. She is

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she is she is sure of herself. Yes, she takes

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care of his powerful and strong. Yes, she knows who

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she is has integrity. Woman strong and true. You know

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her by name. See this woman is you. She is sure,

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she is strong, is strong, she is true, is true,

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she is braise, she is bold, she is she is you,

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she is, she is, she is sure, she is strong,

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is strong, she is true, is true, she is brave,

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she is bold, she is, she is you, she is

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she is adds value and hope has proved to be brave.

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See it's never too late, never time to behave Reaching

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for dreams doesn't matter. The age believes in herself ut

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least from her cage. She is sure, she is sure,

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she is strong, is strong, she is true, is true,

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she is brave, is bray, she is bo is you,

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she is, she is, she is sure, she is she

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is strong, she is strong, she is true, is true,

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she is brave, is brave, she is she is, she

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is you.
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renowned patient advocate, author, speaker and philanthropist

Rhonda Nelson, renowned patient advocate, author, speaker and philanthropist is a beacon of resilience and strength. Her charitable work spans championing equitable access to affordable healthcare, supporting those diagnosed with AERD (Aspirin Exacerbated Respiratory Disease), serving as a voice in the foster care system and encouraging women to reinvent themselves in their different stages of life.

Rhonda serves on the Executive Board of Directors with the Asthma & Allergy Network, impacts legislation and speaks nationally, raising awareness for AERD. Having dealt with AERD (Aspirin Exacerbated Respiratory Disease) herself for more than twenty years, she has experienced many misdiagnoses, a near fatal struggle to find relief, a desperate search for answers and a constant journey to access proper support. Rhonda and her husband Wayne, of the Little River Band tirelessly devote their time and resources to helping others to navigate this challenging medical journey frequently associated with severe respiratory disease.

Rhonda is a firm believer in empowering women to pursue the dreams they have for their lives, regardless of age, while finding strength in overcoming challenges. In her book, "A Different Life,” Rhonda not only pulls back the curtain on celebrity life, but also offers readers the chance to hear never-before-told stories, enjoy treasured family recipes and photos all while getting a taste of all things pertaining to life on the road.