WEBVTT NOTE language:en-US NOTE Confidence: 0.8674407601356506 00:00:02.520 --> 00:00:07.192 I thank God I've had the opportunity to help people NOTE Confidence: 0.8674407601356506 00:00:07.283 --> 00:00:11.772 at their worst, and as a chaplain I've dealt with NOTE Confidence: 0.8674407601356506 00:00:11.864 --> 00:00:16.720 a lot of things that far exceeds being a firefighter. NOTE Confidence: 0.9401593804359436 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:21.319 We met as firefighters, I was actually a firefighter for NOTE Confidence: 0.9401593804359436 00:00:21.391 --> 00:00:24.708 five years before I became a nurse and we have NOTE Confidence: 0.9401593804359436 00:00:24.781 --> 00:00:26.440 always been go getters. NOTE Confidence: 0.8865330815315247 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:31.040 You you you find out that your kidneys have something NOTE Confidence: 0.8865330815315247 00:00:31.101 --> 00:00:32.080 wrong with them. NOTE Confidence: 0.9700816869735718 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:37.440 What is the emotion that goes through your body? NOTE Confidence: 0.9010907411575317 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:41.379 I just know on my job I suffered pain getting NOTE Confidence: 0.9010907411575317 00:00:41.454 --> 00:00:44.383 in and out of the trucks that I used to NOTE Confidence: 0.9010907411575317 00:00:44.458 --> 00:00:45.359 didn't have. NOTE Confidence: 0.7686068415641785 00:00:46.120 --> 00:00:49.442 Franz had a couple of crashes with his kidneys prior NOTE Confidence: 0.7686068415641785 00:00:49.506 --> 00:00:51.040 to us starting dialysis. NOTE Confidence: 0.8675053715705872 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:56.021 I made a really bold statement at the time that NOTE Confidence: 0.8675053715705872 00:00:56.114 --> 00:01:00.962 before I would do any type of treatment for kidneys, NOTE Confidence: 0.8675053715705872 00:01:01.055 --> 00:01:02.919 I said I'd just die. NOTE Confidence: 0.05695107951760292 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:07.960 Yeah. NOTE Confidence: 0.6311066150665283 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:12.680 You're a firefighter. NOTE Confidence: 0.5745816230773926 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:13.160 I am. NOTE Confidence: 0.9406734108924866 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:16.200 This is tougher than that. NOTE Confidence: 0.8482914566993713 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:21.084 I mean, in a, in a world where you're, you're NOTE Confidence: 0.8482914566993713 00:01:21.160 --> 00:01:24.911 running into fires to save people and then all of NOTE Confidence: 0.8482914566993713 00:01:24.988 --> 00:01:28.509 a sudden you're willing to at a point say, I'd NOTE Confidence: 0.8482914566993713 00:01:28.585 --> 00:01:30.040 rather stop living. NOTE Confidence: 0.9561575055122375 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:36.720 I saw my father go through dialysis for 17 years. NOTE Confidence: 0.9698302745819092 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:37.800 And. NOTE Confidence: 0.9333482384681702 00:01:37.800 --> 00:01:40.665 I just didn't want that for my life, she told NOTE Confidence: 0.9333482384681702 00:01:40.728 --> 00:01:40.919 me. NOTE Confidence: 0.9714181423187256 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:42.920 Just trust me, do. NOTE Confidence: 0.97694331407547 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:43.000 You. NOTE Confidence: 0.9576653838157654 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:43.480 Trust me. NOTE Confidence: 0.9203469157218933 00:01:44.160 --> 00:01:46.520 I said yes I trust you but I still I NOTE Confidence: 0.9203469157218933 00:01:46.586 --> 00:01:49.537 can't do this and she said just trust me, try NOTE Confidence: 0.9203469157218933 00:01:49.603 --> 00:01:49.800 it. NOTE Confidence: 0.9465628266334534 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:54.072 The FA that I was training with, she introduced me NOTE Confidence: 0.9465628266334534 00:01:54.140 --> 00:01:56.040 to a wonderful nephrologist. NOTE Confidence: 0.8571029901504517 00:01:56.160 --> 00:01:58.400 And this nephrologist, he was so patient. NOTE Confidence: 0.9610757827758789 00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:00.720 It was amazing. NOTE Confidence: 0.8809535503387451 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:04.197 I, I, I hesitated to ask the nurse that was NOTE Confidence: 0.8809535503387451 00:02:04.271 --> 00:02:08.383 training me, have anybody ever told you they felt better NOTE Confidence: 0.8809535503387451 00:02:08.456 --> 00:02:10.879 after their very first treatment? NOTE Confidence: 0.9357829689979553 00:02:11.720 --> 00:02:15.523 And it's allowed me to continue to do everything I NOTE Confidence: 0.9357829689979553 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:16.359 was doing. NOTE Confidence: 0.9085569977760315 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:17.440 Never missed a beat. NOTE Confidence: 0.9752016067504883 00:02:18.160 --> 00:02:20.120 And I went right on back to work. NOTE Confidence: 0.7125332355499268 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:22.520 Like wasn't nothing going on and man, just sucks. NOTE Confidence: 0.7590635418891907 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:24.904 And I just got to feeling better and I could NOTE Confidence: 0.7590635418891907 00:02:24.958 --> 00:02:25.880 do things better. NOTE Confidence: 0.8765144348144531 00:02:25.880 --> 00:02:27.240 My body felt better. NOTE Confidence: 0.767100989818573 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:31.452 Dallas just kind of slowed us down and it made NOTE Confidence: 0.767100989818573 00:02:31.529 --> 00:02:33.679 us spend more time together. NOTE Confidence: 0.9248101711273193 00:02:34.480 --> 00:02:38.577 I mean, we started back eating dinner together, setting time NOTE Confidence: 0.9248101711273193 00:02:38.645 --> 00:02:40.079 aside to be together. NOTE Confidence: 0.9289868474006653 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:43.995 So it just changed how we did things as a NOTE Confidence: 0.9289868474006653 00:02:44.091 --> 00:02:44.759 couple. NOTE Confidence: 0.8572663068771362 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:50.309 I know you're now a home representative trying to educate NOTE Confidence: 0.8572663068771362 00:02:50.385 --> 00:02:50.920 people. NOTE Confidence: 0.9624825119972229 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:54.995 You continue to help firefighters and we are really happy NOTE Confidence: 0.9624825119972229 00:02:55.060 --> 00:02:56.560 that you chose to live. NOTE Confidence: 0.9608922004699707 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:00.320 And I heard that you're on a kidney transplant list. NOTE Confidence: 0.8509281873703003 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:03.400 The transplant centers that we deal with are amazing. NOTE Confidence: 0.8343247175216675 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:07.337 And so I think with getting the kidney, I'll be NOTE Confidence: 0.8343247175216675 00:03:07.402 --> 00:03:10.654 able to help even more in the community and across NOTE Confidence: 0.8343247175216675 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:11.759 the country, so. NOTE Confidence: 0.8713284134864807 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:16.297 And it sounds like you've got an amazing balance of NOTE Confidence: 0.8713284134864807 00:03:16.370 --> 00:03:20.474 both empathy, love and education, and just a reminder of NOTE Confidence: 0.8713284134864807 00:03:20.547 --> 00:03:22.159 how beautiful life is.