Hey guys, welcome back to Thick and Thin with yours truly. My name is Katie Bilotti and I know

it has been a hot second since I've uploaded an episode and there is a legitimate reason for that.

I... Okay, someone's like having an issue outside with the taxi cab.

I don't know if you could hear that at all.

So there are a few updates I do want to just kind of fill you in on.

I'm not going to ramble on and on about this.

I have a whole YouTube video about it if you guys follow me on YouTube,

but basically I somehow living in Manhattan I don't even

know somehow contracted Lyme disease and this is actually new information for a while for

about two weeks I had absolutely no idea what was wrong with me.

Basically I woke up one day with completely almost completely numb limbs

from the waist down and I was like what the heck is going on long story short went to the hospital

they performed a procedure that went horribly wrong and it resulted in me having a hematoma bleed the size of something large like a pancake in my spine or in my

spinal region and so that resulted in a severe amount of pain which left me in the hospital without

you know the ability to really move for an extended period of time and

essentially it all relates back to me having Lyme disease because Lyme disease

essentially attacks your nervous system and so that's why I went numb and that is why everything

happened I guess some fricking tick that bit me at one point so that

was why I was out of commission for a while and I also in the process of all of that

somehow managed to move apartments so I'm actually filming or recording rather my very

first podcast right now in my new apartment in Greenwich Village as you guys know I lived in

Hell's Kitchen for a year and I did talk about this on a recent or more recent

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