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🗓️ 30 August 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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0:00.0 | So Bella brings me the post and I'm like, oh no, this won't be good. I mean, it's a vet's bill. |
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0:28.2 | Conditions and exclusions apply. Hi, my name is Toby. I am better known in the media as the dog lady of |
0:36.4 | Lansing prison. You know, people get themselves in predicaments in life, but you really got yourself in |
0:43.0 | one. I did. I did. And you know, I was a perfectionist. I never did anything wrong. I never had a |
0:49.6 | speeding ticket. I never didn't stop and count for three seconds at a stop sign. And so I think I |
0:56.3 | just saved all my stuff up for just one thing. I mean, if you're going to go big, go big. I guess so. |
1:04.8 | Toby Doer was born in 1957. She got married when she was 20 and raised two boys. |
1:11.8 | In 2004, she was working at a veterinarian's office in Kansas City. She answered the phones |
1:18.0 | and scheduled appointments helped get the animals ready for procedures. She says she's always |
1:24.1 | loved animals. One day, she noticed a lump on the side of her neck. She asked the veterinarian at |
1:30.9 | the office to have a look at it. And she said, you need to go to a doctor right now. And so I did. |
1:39.2 | I made an appointment and they did a biopsy and discovered that it was thyroid cancer. And |
1:46.0 | you know, even though thyroid cancer is a very treatable cancer, still hearing your name after the |
1:52.1 | word cancer is devastating. And it kind of causes you to stop and take stock of your life. |
2:01.3 | And I realized that I could go at any minute. And I had not done anything that made my time here |
2:10.8 | worthwhile. And so I realized I didn't want to, you know, leave this earth and not have done anything |
2:20.0 | to have made it a better place because I was here. During her treatment, Toby didn't have much |
2:26.0 | energy at all. She says she could barely pick up a book. I mean, you were just like in this fog, |
2:31.8 | like you're moving through 50 feet of water just to do anything. And so I spent most of my time |
2:37.6 | in the recliner watching cell dogs on animal planet. What is cell dogs? I don't know the cell dogs |
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