Adam Blake (H2O)- keeping the PMA with PNH

One Life One Chance with Toby Morse

Toby Morse

Music, Onelifeonechancepmatobymorseh2o, Society & Culture

4.8 • 923 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this short episode, we get an update as Toby talks to longtime friend and band member Adam Blake about his condition called PNH (Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria), his day to day routine, the love and support of fans and keeping the PMA while dealing with this rare condition. If you want to give Adam a shout or have questions, hit him up on Instagram @adamblake007

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0:00.0	Welcome to the One Life One Chance podcast. I'm your host Toby with the Horse Horse. I just got back from Tor a few days ago and I wanted to emergency podcast because as people know Adam Blake has not been with us on the Persistence tour and as people know I made this t-shirt and we put
0:15.2	it out there raised money for Adam but some people don't really understand what's wrong
0:18.6	with Adam so I thought be important for Adam to tell you what's wrong with him because
0:21.9	it's really perfect to me.
0:23.5	But ladies and gentlemen welcome to the podcast Mr. Adam Blake.
0:26.5	Well hello everybody.
0:27.5	How are you?
0:28.5	How are you?
0:29.5	I'm doing a lot better, yeah.
0:31.1	So I want to take, I know you have P&H but before we get to that I want to take
0:34.1	you back to getting diagnosed that one show you couldn't play with us stuff that
0:38.6	people didn't know about before the internet. All right so we're going back to like early 2000s yeah I was on tour in Europe and I peed blood and at the
0:50.5	time I was like drinking a lot and partying so I just kind of chalked it up to that.
0:54.8	Yeah. But it just kept happening. So when we got back to United States I went and saw a doctor.
1:00.7	The doctor didn't know what the hell was going on so he he sent me to see another doctor, and finally they sent me to see a specialist, a hematologist. And the hematologist did a bunch of tests and comb back and told me that I had a condition called
1:14.7	paroxysol nocturnal hemoglobinaria or P&H for sure. And I had no idea what this was.
1:19.6	And at the time, you know, like a lot of musicians musicians I didn't have medical insurance yeah and you know I'm
1:25.2	kind of living that like you know fancy free partying lifestyle so I was like you know
1:30.0	whatever happens happens right yeah and I didn't really take it seriously.
1:34.0	They told me that my blood would occasionally
1:38.0	basically break down and I would pee it out
1:40.0	and I would get fatigued.
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