Hello everyone. Hi friends welcome back to Barb knows best the

podcast I'm your co-host Michelle Marros and today I'm deeply grateful to be sitting across the table from my mom Barb because

it's been a week. We both have been a little under the weather. We've tried to record this episode a handful of times at this

point. You'll probably hear a little bit of a change of our voices, but we're so

committed to the pod, the cause, you all were making it work today.

So, hi mom.

Hi, Michelle, very excited to be here today.

I think we sound a whole lot better than we did

the other few times we tried to record. You actually sound great. Oh, I'm glad. I'm glad it was

pretty, it did not sound great for a few times and we thought it was just way too

Distracting you know we figured you all probably would be able to

Listen past maybe raspier voices but you had a coughing fit the other other day and I'm like

I don't think they want to listen to us coughing to a mic for an hour so let's hit the

pause yeah I went to the doctor I just have a cold

test me for COVID and all the things and he said you just have a really really

bad cold he said take care of yourself because it could turn into bronchitis.

I was like, oh, now you really need to take care of yourself.

No, I know.

I knew that it was something that I had never experienced before because I don't get sick that often. No you really don't. But this

was the cough was more than I had ever in all of my years alive. I've never

experienced a cough like this for so many days and then the

sneezing and had some allergy attacks come on. So as Michelle said, it's been quite the week.

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