5-TIME CANCER SURVIVOR CONQUERS COVID
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
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🗓️ 12 December 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I found out that a really good friend of mine, in fact, one of the people responsible for |
| 0:06.1 | getting me involved in Vax, which has put me on this journey, actually contracted COVID-19. |
| 0:13.3 | It was very serious. |
| 0:14.5 | Why was it serious? |
| 0:16.0 | Because she probably represents the greatest at-risk group there is. |
| 0:21.2 | So why wanna bring in my friend, five-time cancer survivor, Kelly Gallagher joins me now. |
| 0:28.7 | Really, we happen to just be catching up and you shared with me that you actually got |
| 0:35.8 | really sick. |
| 0:36.8 | But first of all, when we hear about that group, that high-risk group that have other |
| 0:43.7 | comorbidities, you deal with a lot. |
| 0:47.3 | On a constant basis in your life, just give me a sense of where what you deal with with |
| 0:51.8 | your health and what you've gone through through the years. |
| 0:54.0 | Of course, celebrating all the holistic approaches you've used in doctors that have kept |
| 0:58.4 | you alive this long. |
| 0:59.6 | But for a sense of what it means to be high-risk, what does that mean to you? |
| 1:04.4 | Well, thanks for having me on Dell. |
| 1:07.2 | As you know, I'm a five-time cancer survivor and I never expected to live this long. |
| 1:11.9 | So now I'm powered by my six-pacemaker and the Newhart Valve. |
| 1:17.1 | I had had 48 radiation treatments, 120 blood transfusions that led to iron poisoning |
| 1:24.5 | or hemacromatosis, and also lymphedema. |
| 1:27.6 | So and I had two lung operations that came when I had my heart surgery because my heart |
| 1:32.5 | bled into my lungs. |
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