4.6 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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We check in with Alana Duran, who has lupus and received a donor kidney several years ago from her new girlfriend at the time, Lori Interlicchio.
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0:00.0 | So for the most part, just being a mean of suppressed already, I try not to touch |
0:05.6 | door knobs and elevator buttons. And to me it's just second nature. The yeah, |
0:12.4 | after coronavirus really hit is when I started really paying attention. |
0:21.6 | This is Death, Sex and Money. Why not? Because we never get six-wheel-gipades. |
0:27.8 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
0:31.2 | Rain? She's gotten her boobies. |
0:33.4 | And need to talk about more. |
0:35.2 | Don't do it again because I could die. |
0:37.2 | I'm Anna Sael. |
0:42.4 | Alana Durand was on our show a little more than two years ago, talking about falling in love with |
0:48.0 | and getting a kidney from her girlfriend, Lori Interluchio. |
0:51.8 | And just a bit, we're gonna play that conversation again for you. |
0:55.2 | Because it's a nice love story about taking care of each other. |
0:59.0 | Alana has lupus. |
1:01.0 | So we've been thinking about her and wondering how she's coping right now as someone with a serious underlying health condition. |
1:08.0 | I called her in Washington, DC where she lives today. She's turning 30 this year. |
1:13.0 | Even though I look young and healthy from the normal eye, I am immunocompromised. |
1:20.0 | I mean, I'm surprised. |
1:22.0 | I take medication that's press-as-lining system. |
1:25.8 | And people with weep-as-as are already at a higher risk of getting viral and bacterial infections. |
1:32.8 | So knowing that, if I were to get coronavirus, I don't think I would make it. |
1:41.8 | To protect her health, Alana decided three weeks ago to stop going into work. |
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