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Lauren Wasser

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“You've done You've set out to do what you've chosen and wanted to do and you didn't stop no matter how hard things got, no matter how many no's you got, no matter how big the world got or how high up that you couldn't see how you were ever going to get past what was in front of you, but you did it and you never gave up and you saw everything as a challenge. And hopefully in that moment I'll know that I've changed lives, saved lives, changed the world for the generations to come and know that my work is done. And I think that's just pure beauty.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Could be bigger than any achievement you could ever imagine is because a human life and what that person is and what they could be to the world is so much more than just a cover or a, you know, fancy car or it's like it's so surface. There's no fulfillment. What are those things going to do when you die? Nothing. But you can die knowing that you've changed the world or you've changed someone's life for the better. And that to me is so powerful.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I think that's where the piece, and maybe. You know that the breath of I can relax and really just let that part of life go because I know that my voice has been heard and I know that change has been done. I don't know. I just think the purpose of it of being able to leave a legacy of like where you're actually impacting something for people to say for when you're not here, that's where I feel like that's where I want to be. I want to be in that. Changing the world factor of how either people see themselves and love themselves changing the fashion industry, changing feminine hydrogen products, making sure that we're all protected and safe. And I think that's so much bigger. And if I can save a life, I mean, that's bigger than anything.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Meaning that we as women are protected, that we are given things that are not going to kill us for something that we inherently have to do every month. And that's a basic necessity for life. You know what I mean? We can't do anything without having something that's going to help us get through our days to be able to be the bosses that we are, you know, and hopefully, you know, knocking down these doors and making people wake up and realize like this is a huge problem. And hopefully getting these companies or a company to make something to where we can go about our lives and live just like everyone else and not have to worry if our tampon is going to kill us. I think that will. Be the day where I can be like, wow, I know that we're safe. I know that whatever happened to me will never happen to someone else ever again.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, the only time I got it emotional is when I speak about my brother or my mom and killing myself and them finding me. I don't cry about what happened to me. And maybe that's because I just suppressed everything, and it's this trauma that I haven't really addressed. I know enough to know that like I'm okay. And my God's got me, and God's always had me. And, like, I'm living proof of that. I'm living proof of, you know, there's someone definitely directing my steps. Like, I should not be here and have what I have and have been able to be above and beyond blessed that I forget my trauma. I forget the darkness because I have so much such a beautiful life to live.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It can't but it is. I mean, in a way it is. It's because I'm okay with who I am and where I've come and knowing that that's part of what allowed me to be this person right now. You know, and having to go through all of that.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I need to be vulnerable, to showcase that part of my journey in my life, to remind people of why I am the girl with the golden legs.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You can see images and this, that and the other, but unless you see me and you hear me in that state, will you ever be able to put someone you love in that position to be like wow, what is going on? Why is this happening? I never want my daughter my sister, my cousin, my wife, you know, to ever use a tampon again. You know what I'm saying? Like someone has to see Me fighting for my life. to be able to put themselves in a position to be protective. Of the ones they love. And I always say this too, like, I'm so lucky that I look the way I do. Right? Because again, it matters. And I think that is too why I got so much attention is because I am what I look like and how did that happen to her? Why has this happened Decades. Yeah, I think it's just my duty that I feel in my heart that like when I see a little girl.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely not. You told me tomorrow that I could wake up and have my life back, I wouldn't take it. Because what I'm doing is, like you said, it's fulfillment. It's the fact that I know that I'm doing something that needs to be done. I'm fighting for. Life for people to be able to live their lives, to be able to, you know, like Go about their days and live out whatever it is they want to achieve and know that it's, you know. I don't know. I just feel like. That's my job. My job isn't done by any means. And I'm making a documentary right now or going to, but There was no reason why I should share anything with anyone because I don't need to. Is horrific what I went through, and it's hard to even imagine, but I can be on a million covers. I can do a million interviews.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Forgiveness for who? For the companies that know that they're killing people now. It's just greed. Forgiveness, I don't even know what I would forgive other than. I don't even know if there is forgiveness. I think there's just anger. There's just this fight. There's just this unjust that sits within me to know that when I see a little girl walking down the street, I see myself. And I see her little feet, I see her little legs, I see her whole spirit, and to know that that was me. Not ever wanting that to ever happen to another soul. And I think that that's like just my whole mindset of. There is always going to be unjust within myself if I don't live my truth by fighting for what I believe is right and what I believe is right is equality. And safe products.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, have that thing even in the same room as me, you know? Yeah, I can never, nor would I ever suggest anyone to. I mean, I get it. You have to, but again, that sucks because those are the only options we have. Even pads, you know, a lot of pads have synthetic fibers as well. You know. The issue is there actually is nothing safe for us that we can use and go through today and be like, oh, Just doing life, and there's no worries. It's like, no. You have to have that consciously on your mind of like, Yeah, like this thing could kill me, but I have to use it because I have track today or I have to go swimming or I have, you know what I'm saying?”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, that's why I fight so hard is because I need women to wake up and say, well, what is our alternative? What do we do? But we're only given what we're given and what we're given is shit and it's horrible and it kills us. That's why I say it doesn't make sense if this were happening to men, there would be a resolution tomorrow. Because a lot of these companies are male driven. There's a lot of men sitting in the seats that are making these decisions or have the power to, but they don't even know what it's like to have a period. They don't even know what it's like to Have to make a decision if they're going to keep it or not, you know. It's not anyone's decision, but the person that's going through it.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think just being aware of what you're putting inside of you, being aware of, you know, are you reading the box and seeing that it has all these chemicals? And, you know, do you really want that to be just being, I guess, more? Being more aware, not just thinking that it can't happen to you because it can happen to anyone at any time. It's not about. Anyone's off limits. No one is off limits. That's the scary part. Yeah, I mean, just be more aware, educate yourself.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A lot of the alternatives that women do have, they can still get TSS from. Like the cup, but that I've had women reach out to me, you know, their husband's writing me saying my wife of three kids is fighting for her life right now in the ICU. From using the cup, or, you know, a lot of women want to say like, I'm using organic tampons. It's like, okay, you're using organic, but it's still sprayed with pesticides. You're still putting poison inside of you.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Don and I meeting with the congresswoman, Carolyn Maloney in New York a few years ago, to try and get that bill reintroduced me sitting with a congresswoman and having the conversation about why is this still happening and if that bill had passed, this probably wouldn't have happened to me, and I had her speak to Don, the woman who lost her daughter, because I'm like, listen to this woman. Crying and screaming because she will never get to hear her daughter's voice again. See her daughter ever again because of this So it was just kind of getting this congresswoman to like realize Let's reintroduce this bill, but there's also so many things that we need to reintroduce and also address within Congress that has to change. So her and I have definitely joined forces and have kind of been putting together new bills and”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I've unfortunately and unfortunately I have been working with a mother who lost her teenage daughter toxic shock syndrome, I think when she was about eighteen. Madeline Masabi through the darkness and through the trauma of all of that we've really joined forces and wanting to change the world and wanting to advocate and wanting to pass these bills that are necessary for us to be protected. And it's taken a lot of time and a lot of energy. And she's doing a lot of the groundwork, like starting her foundation, don't shock me.org. There's bills that we are working on to pass. There was a bill called the Robin Danielson Act, which was named after a woman who died of toxic shocks over 1998. And that bill in itself got rejected by Congress ten times. And cut two.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, thousand percent. This shouldn't be happening. It doesn't need to be happening, but there's been no. You know no accountability. And that's why, you know, I'm having to. Be in this position where I can share my story, share the story of others, you know, work with this woman, trying to wake up Congress to like. Say, hey, why is this still happening? What's going on here?”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The development of the tamp on his net has actually never been changed. Tampon is the same as it's always been. The only thing that was changed is the advertising, the packaging, the commercials. I was always pissed at the commercials because I'm like, how is there a girl running on a beach going down a slide, running track, doing all this stuff? But there's no warning at the bottom of a tampon commercial of what that product can do to you, let alone you watch an Advoc commercial or a men's enhancement commercial. And if you're not looking at the commercial, you're hearing it. It's a medical device”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Infuriating because I'm just like, how is it? The thing is for me, it's about being transparent, right? Cigarettes. If you go to purchase cigarettes and you look, there's sometimes there's a picture that's uncomfortable to see, but at least that's your choice. You're making the choice to use that product. You're not giving women choices. You're not like being honest about what's going in your product and what it's going to do to us. If I use it for a day, a month, a year, what is that going to do to my body internally? What issues may I develop? You know, again, why also are we having to use products that are just Full of toxicity instead of using something that could easily be changed, but it's because it's money. It's easier for them to pay out lawsuits or to do all of that stuff than to change all the machines.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Everything, yeah, because everything has something in it. I think even with the food, you know, and the thing is these girls nowadays are getting their periods at such a young age, eight, nine, ten years old because of all the hormones in the food. So then they're using these products way sooner than we would when I was younger. And they don't even have the antibodies to fight the toxins and the tampons. So they're the ones that are more susceptible to even getting toxic shock syndrome. So, you know, and a lot of these young women nowadays are getting endometriosis, polyps, cis, cancer, you know, way earlier than ever, ever before, because they're using these products. Way before they probably should.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So basically, Tampon goes inside of us at a really delicate moment when our body We're trying to get that blood out, but yet we're putting something in us that's basically like a corkscrew. And all of that blood that needs to get out is stuck there, is creating this perfect storm along with the dioxin, the chlorine, the bleach, all of these chemicals that shouldn't be anywhere near us, let alone inside of us, and it creates the perfect storm. So once that even a sliver of that even gets in your system and your bloodstream, because it is like the mecca of everything, it can go straight to your heart and kill you. And, you know, that's basically what we're saying, why are you giving us something that is so toxic? All of these chemicals, even if it says it's organic, it's still sprayed with pesticides.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Where the mobility and flexibility is just like as if I had a foot, my blades are my running blades. They're like 125,000 dollars. And that's just to run. And I mean, these are expensive too. My legs are probably like $100,000, but these are just because the feet and then, you know, the technology that goes into them and then the whole leg or whatever, it's a process and it's also just sad that I'm lucky that someone can't just get back to their life. Like that's why this foundation called Challenged Athletes Foundation, CAF, and they work with getting their people their lives back by getting them legs that they need to get back to just living their everyday life.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, prosthetics are really expensive because. The feet are what allow you to do everything. And healthcare, like, God forbid someone goes and get hit by a car tomorrow they're just giving the basic needs that are going to be met, which is just like a peg leg that just gets you from point A to point B. Anything that's allowing you to basically get back to your livelihood, meaning running, biking, swimming, any of that stuff, going into the ocean even, that's a luxury considered. So healthcare doesn't really provide you with that option. I'm grateful that I'm sponsored by Oser, who's a prosthetic company out of Iceland, that they're so advanced and so ahead of the game that they've made my feet. Where it's like the blade is like an ankle.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and I think it's just about again finding and making it your own and figuring out what works for you and how like, you know, and I'm also that was 001% that is so lucky to be able to have the access to the prosthetics that allow me to move the way I do, that allow me to walk the way I do, you know, prosthetics are so expensive. And”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I love gold. I love gold jewelry. I have a grill too. I have so many different things, but my legs are my jewelry piece. They're like my trophies.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“golden legs. It was 2012 obsessed with Brianna. And the irony of Rihanna is that my mom had got me tickets to go see her, and I was so depressed and in a wheelchair and I was so embarrassed and I was like, I'm not going to go. So I didn't go, cut to, she hires me for Savage. And it was just so full circle moment for me, too, because I'm like Rihanna's hiring me for her brand. And I was so embarrassed to go to the concert. Just crazy life. But anyway, now she's Mary Dace or has babies with ASAP. And ASAP was the reason why I chose the golden legs because he had the golden grill. Like he was all about that, especially at that time. That was his thing, his gold teeth. And I was like, you know what? I may not have gold teeth right now, but I'm going to get some gold legs. Kind of just been my thing.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Don't ask, don't question. It should be like you should ask the question and you should wonder because that kid now is going to see someone like myself or just think that I'm the coolest thing on the planet. Instead of leaving thinking that there's something wrong or that I'm incapable or unable to do something. So I think it's just the perception of, I think how you just carry yourself is really important because you don't know who's watching. And it's usually the ones that are in the, you know, the little ones. And those are the ones that are this next generation or the generations to come.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I was just like, yeah, yeah, it's pretty cool, I must say. But again, that's just like, I've learned too, it's like in this journey that owning it and accepting it and being okay with it, it only attracts people's curiosity instead of shunning them away or making them feel like they shouldn't ask the questions, and especially with young kids, their brains are like sponges, and they're curious, and a lot of people, you know, that may look different. Their mothers or their parents are probably like, don't look, don't stare. And that's not what you should do. Let them ask the questions. Like I'm an open book, but like I think giving little kids that idea of there is something wrong”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And he literally sat on top of his suitcase, kept rolling up his pant leg looking at his leg, looking at me, looking at his leg, looking at me, and then I remember his mom was like, you know, can he ask you a question or something? I was like, of course. Like he came over and then he started to try to race me in the airport because he wanted to see how fast I was. And then he was like touching my leg and feeling it. I was like, I'm like a superhero. I'm like a robot. And he's like, yeah. And then at the end of it, he's like tugging on his mom's shirt. And he's like, it's like, mommy, mommy, I want a golden leg.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think he's still really young, but it's interesting because for kids to see me kind of like a robot or like a superhero, you know, I walk out and I just see these gold legs and it's like, it's interesting because a lot of kids at first don't even notice them. And then when they do, then they're just fixated. Then they're just like staring. And then they're just like, it was just one little boy. I remember being in the Switzerland in the airport.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was hard. It was just like. Literally, it just amputated, so I was on crutches. I just bought a house, so I was like really wanting him to come over and see it. And, you know, I saw a voicemail that I missed his call and the voicemail was like, hey, let me know when I can come over and finally see, you know, the crib and check it out and blah, blah. And it was like, that was it. And then, like, I think a few days later he died. But it's just crazy because I know he's proud of me and I know that like I have so many angels that I carry with me and I just know that. He's along on this journey. I know he's super proud of me. So, if I can, you know, I live with that. And he has an amazing little son that's. Best as well, so he's still here in a lot of different ways.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, he was incredible. He was one of the biggest sports agents in the world for basketball. And he was just like 007, like so swaggy, so cool, like, you know, had to ask him, and he just lived this cool lifestyle and was just the coolest guy and was so smart and Loving and sweet, and yeah, just everything I didn't have within a fatherly figure. He definitely was my rock in that aspect of life up until, you know, the very end.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He was around but then shortly after he died in a horrific car accident. Which was really crazy because he literally sat with me every single day, you know, hoping and praying that I would survive, you know, playing Bob Marley's three little birds and singing to me, you know, and then cut to, he's killed. And I'm okay. So it's just like how that happened is insane, but.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I was just trying to still, I guess, live in this world that I thought was of that girl. But I was no longer that girl.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I didn't have toes, and then my heel was still just, it just would never be normal again. And it was just like, why am I going? This is not living. I'm just getting by. I'm just waking up and going to the doctor's or I'm not going and going for a run. I'm not going to go and play basketball. I'm not going to be able to just walk down the street comfortably. You know, I definitely, even like right in the beginning, like I would wear hoodies and sweatpants. I mean, you can see the heat wave here right now. That's kind of what I was in. But I was in like, you know, huge sweatshirt, huge sweatpants, making sure like no one could see that I didn't have a leg because I was so scared of what other people would think. I just was ashamed of myself. I was ashamed of what happened. I didn't know what was happening or what would happen next because it was so unknown.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I wanted my life back. I wanted my freedom. I was turning 30 and I was like, I want to be a mom. I'm an athlete. I want to just be able to run. I want to feel the wind in my hair, you know, the wind on my face. I just want to be able to move. Movement is so important. And I wasn't able to do that with that leg. It was holding me back. It was holding me back from living my truth. And I knew it was the best decision that I was going to make for myself. And it is. I never ever look back and say, oh, I shouldn't have done it. I more so look back and say I should have done it sooner. I wish I would have done it sooner, I guess.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, was also owning it, being able to be this is what it is. And patience and time. And once you understand that, you can't rush that, especially when something physical happens to you. You can't rush the human body to heal right away. It's impossible. So, I really had no choice. It was like I had to. Feel I had to sit with it. I had to use a wheelchair. I had to use a stool for a shower. I had to, you know, learn how to walk without a limp. I had to force myself to do the uncomfortable, but we only grow in the uncomfortable. If we're feeling fine and great and everything's dandy, we're not growing. We're just. Staying the”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Waking up the next day is a new day that you made it from that point. So it's just about gradually building on to that. Every little challenge is a success that you've overcome. and adds up over time, and then soon enough you'll be in a place where you're like looking back and being like, wow. And I think that's the beauty of life and the darkest times really mold us for the people that we're supposed to be”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think if anyone sees me, if I'm just getting out of my car, if I'm walking to get coffee, or I'm laughing, I'm hanging, whatever, you see me on the cover of something, you Google me, whatever, and you see that I didn't just wake up and get here. I too had all of those feelings which That depression, that state of mind of not wanting to be here, but not allowing that to define me and to divine the future that I knew that I could have for myself. You got to see that even though things were very small, those big celebrations of Just getting up the next day, even though you don't want to, or you know, facing something super hard or Pushing yourself out the door when you don't want to, or not taking the pills that are in front of you and ending it.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Every part has shaped me and molded me into who I am right now, and a lot of that had to do with me doing the work and processing and again seeing that our physical beings is nothing doesn't matter. It's like a shiny object. You made the most beautiful person, but you can be the most sad, unfulfilled, ugly person, you know? I mean, it just... It doesn't mean anything. It's about what you do on this planet, not just for yourself, but for others. How can you leave that impact? Know, and that's kind of like how I now live my life every day is because, again, everyone is fighting something every day. And a lot of those wounds you can't see. It's mental. It's trauma that you'll never speak about or talk about or whatever, but you are internally having to deal with and face on a daily basis. And”
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“Know make it cool or make it me or make it, you know, something that I could feel like, all right, like this is my new self. This is my new chapter. This is my new beginning. It was more so like I needed to see it as a challenge first because that's how my mind operated of like Lauren, you have no other fucking choice. You're either going to be depressed and kill yourself and end it, or you're going to get the fuck up and figure out what you're going to have to do to survive and live the best life that you know you deserve. And it was just a slow process. I wish I could put fast forward and be like, what I know now, I knew it back then, but it's impossible. Every part of my journey and everything that I've been through has gotten me to this place.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You can't rush it no control over it. And I think that's when it's those moments when you have to sit in it, sit with it. Feel it, feel every part of it, and you have to figure out what are you going to do with what you have and what you've been given. And, you know. I had to do that. I didn't have a choice. I didn't want to be in a wheelchair. And I saw, you know, my only option was a prosthetic. But how was I going to”
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“But the common denominator when I look around the room is we didn't kill ourselves We are alive, we chose to live, and we all had that moment in our journeys however we lost our legs, to want to give up, to want to pull the trigger, to want to end it all, and we fought to be in that chair, and that was like it just came so first full circle for me. It was just like this beautiful kind of aha moment of like. Roll with the punches of life, regardless of how they come at you. It's about, you know, how you react to it. What's your choice going to be? To know that we all made that choice is like.”
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“But he's like the best in the world and literally an angel. I got recommended to go down to him because I'm an athlete and I, you know, I'm young and I'm active and I want to live my life and so he would be setting me up for that lifestyle that I'd want. And he's the guy to see. So I got recommended to go to him. But in that time period of having to sit kind of like this, but around a table in his office or his facility, he's dealing with a lot of the veterans and he's the one that gets them and fights the VA to get them taken care of. And it's just so interesting that I've had to sit in this chair amongst all these amazing individuals and hearing their stories and learning about the fight and just the resilience of them and finally seeing what everyone was kind of saying as far as the comparison or like you are just like them and me never understanding.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Thing, which is the irony of it all is like. Grandpa telling me about the veterans that come back and all this stuff and just me being like, no, no, no, I don't understand that. I don't understand that comparison. Then my therapist at the time was working at the VA and she was like, you know what, you should really come talk to some of these guys and see how they're living their lives. And I was just like, no, this is not the same. Cut to. My prosthetic eye of Peter Harsh, who's incredible, he's down in San Diego. He's an angel. Like, he's just the best at what he does. His name's Peter Hars He's my prosthetist.”
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“Yeah, definitely I had a lot of that. And it's interesting because during that process, obviously I was so dark and so just not wanting to be here. But the one”
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“I did it my face also knowing that I have this purpose that I have to scream out on the topest mountain that I possibly can find and yell and get people to I think realizing that I'm just a lucky one really gives me the fight for these next generations to come to not allow this to ever happen again to another soul, and to hopefully change the world where this is not an issue anymore. And it may take my entire life, but that is my purpose.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Advice in that moment of being just take them both because, yeah, I can sit here now and say that probably would have been the best answer, but what have I survived and not killed myself? I don't know. I think gradually doing one and learning how to live and to adapt and just how to have a prosthetic in general and to all the capabilities and things I can do, I had to kind of learn as a slow process in a way, I think.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I was just in so much pain because there was no fat pads even on the bottom of my where the toes would be. So I'm just on bone. So every time I'm stepping, I'm just like, it's just. excruciating pain It just felt like, you know, when you have a toothache. It's like that consistent throbbing pain that you can't get rid of obviously until you go to the dentist. But that was something that I lived with for seven years. Crazy. I don't know how I did it. I just thought that I had my whole leg and I just, I'm that type of person that needs to exhaust all of my options before I make a decision. And that's something that I just had to do. But in a way, I wish I would have taken my godfather's.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I would have to go in and they would have to amputate that. So I'd have to get that cut out of me as well. I had to do that surgery twice. I'd have to go to wound care every Monday, every other Monday. Because my heel was so badly damaged that, again, like I told you with the skin, there's no skin on this planet that's strong enough. So I had to do apple graphs, which is basically baby foreskin because that's the only skin that's tough enough. And they did two transplants of that on my heel and then hyperbaric to try to get, you know, everything to kind of come together. But even doing that, I would, my sweat glands were really damaged. So I would sweat and then they would just kind of get really hard and stay there and I'd have to surgically get them removed every Monday.”
2023-07-27 · The Diary of a CEO · Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning) - Lauren Wasser · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT