Death, Sex & Money - An Immunocompromised Love Story
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
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 amino suppressed already, I try not to touch door knobs and elevator buttons. |
| 0:08.4 | And to me, it's just second nature. |
| 0:12.1 | But yeah, after coronavirus really hit is when I started really paying attention. |
| 0:21.9 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:25.1 | Why not? |
| 0:25.8 | Because we never get six or get paid. |
| 0:27.8 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 0:31.5 | Ray, she's gotten her boobies. |
| 0:33.6 | And need to talk about more. |
| 0:35.4 | Don't do it again because I could die. |
| 0:37.8 | I'm Anna Salle. |
| 0:42.5 | Alana Duran was on our show a little more than two years ago, |
| 0:46.4 | talking about falling in love with and getting a kidney from her girlfriend, Lori Interlicio. |
| 0:52.2 | And just a bit, we're going to play that conversation again for you, |
| 0:55.3 | because it's a nice love story about taking care of each other. Alana has lupus. So we've |
| 1:01.6 | been thinking about her and wondering how she's coping right now as someone with a serious |
| 1:06.3 | underlying health condition. I called her in Washington, D.C., where she lives today. She's turning 30 this year. |
| 1:13.6 | Even though I look young and healthy from the normal eye, I am immunocompromised, am immunosuppressed. |
| 1:21.8 | I take medication that suppresses my immune system, and people with leopis are already at a higher risk of getting |
| 1:29.5 | viral and bacterial infections. So knowing that, if I were to get coronavirus, I don't think I would |
| 1:40.5 | make it. To protect her health, Alana decided three weeks ago to stop going into work. |
| 1:46.0 | When we talked on the show before, she was working in a biology lab, |
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