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Hysterectomies, Health Insurance, and Husbands: TFA Live-Call In #1

Thanks For Asking

Feelings & Co.

Personal Journals, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.713.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Nora started this show because she wants to talk to YOU, the listener, about what matters to you. So today, she talks to listeners about it all : getting a hysterectomy, a battle with cancer and health insurance companies (and how much we all hate health insurance companies!), and feeling invisible in a marriage.  Listen to the ad-free version on https://substack.com/inbox/post/171308128https://substack.com/inbox/post/171308128! If you’re interested in being part of the next call-in, leave us a text or voicemail at 612.568.4441. Follow our Youtube here  Geoffrey Lamar Wilson's album on Spotify and Apple! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Nora McNerney, and this is thanks for asking the call and show about what matters to you.

0:17.4

It's been a minute since we did calls. We took a few weeks off this summer.

0:23.5

We had a little bit of a summer break, but we are back. I'm back in the studio. I am back on the

0:28.7

phone and I am here to chat. So today we have several different calls, which I guess is the

0:37.0

plural of calls. They're going to be different if you have

0:38.8

several calls. But we have calls about health insurance. We have calls about invisible strings,

0:47.6

those connections from the beyond. And we have a caller with a question for you.

0:54.8

Specifically, if you are a Gen Xer, if you are a Gen Xer who is married or who has been married, our first caller has a very urgent question for you.

1:05.1

So listen and then please call in, give us your opinion.

1:10.3

Let us know what you think.

1:11.2

It's 612-568-441.

1:13.7

4-4-1.

1:15.7

Let's get to the calls.

1:16.5

Hi, Nora.

1:18.1

Oh, I guess I really do need to talk about this.

1:21.9

It's bothering me more than I thought.

1:24.1

I'm a 56-year-old woman whose body is a little bit out of control from the menopause, but, you know, overall, I'm healthy and I'm smart, and I'm a little rumpy, but I got sass, but I feel invisible.

1:37.2

Nobody looks at me.

1:38.7

And while I can accept being ignored by the bartender and the stock boy and the cashier and the flight attendant

1:45.3

is it's just killing me that my husband does too we've been married for 14 years

1:51.0

my second marriage and I really thought that at age 42 like I had my shit together and I

1:56.9

picked the right guy this is hitting hard as a 42 year old who also like like 42. I don't know. This is going to be the, I got my stuff together. Okay.

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