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Lauren Wasser

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“Also, my foot was questionable, so I'm having to go to wound care. I'm having to go to hyperbaric every day. My whole entire world shattered and I'm just sitting there with the pieces. And then I'm just an excruciating pain. I mean, the pain that I lived with for even seven years before I made the decision to amputate my second leg, I had, because I was so young, my body was overproducing so much calcium that my bones, even though I didn't have toes anymore, my bones were literally protruding out my skin, like pushing and trying to basically fix the damage by like growing new toes, but it's impossible.”
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
“Because I didn't want to see outside because I couldn't go outside. I used to look at people with legs and be so pissed because I'm like, why do they have their legs and I don't? You're so depressed and so just in this zone of you don't want to live anymore, let alone you're angry at the world because just of life because you can't live it the way that you used to and Yeah, you just, it was just a really dark time of trying to figure out again why am I here? What am I doing? Is there a place for me? I didn't think I would ever be accepted by the modeling world at all, let alone looked at, let alone find love, genuine love. I Again, I didn't even think of life. I just thought of how can I get out of this misery? And that's why I was like just contemplating suicide daily. Every day I was just like, how can I do this?”
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 hid myself. I didn't even like. Yeah, maybe just like. Some might get my dog outside. My mama kind of forced me, but I wouldn't. I would just definitely want to stay in my own little world as dark as possible and just hide.”
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 how strong you have to be and what it takes every day to face a world you know that isn't really made for you or accepting of you or you know just because you you look a certain way you're immediately judged or or just seen as you can't do it and that's not true”
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
“People with disabilities in general, I think it's just like there's just stigma of incapable. Because you maybe look a certain way, or because you're confined in a certain space, or the world is not built for that. The world is built for, you know, run in, walk stairs, you know. Shower, even just step like people forget that there are people who can't do those things, and there are a lot of the time left out. And in those moments, I've learned that because I've faced it myself I think in my journey it's interesting because I've had to face so many different Parts of life and lived so many lives, for maybe shorts upon time, but at least in those moments I've been able to relate and to live with maybe something that someone does have to live with forever.”
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
“Just things that we as people who are able to just be able bodied or have prosthetics or move or whatever, how that challenges them, you know, and then face a world that kind of just looks at them and kind of doesn't in a way. It's hard. Like, I don't think if I had to be in a wheelchair, would I be that strong mentally? It takes a really strong person mentally to be. Live that type of life. And I hold the utmost respect for anyone that has to live in a wheelchair or be in a wheelchair because you're fucking a rock star and so strong. And for those eight months, I was just like, there's no way I can live my life like this. There's no way I can. It is not accessible. The world is not accessible. I learned that it's just not. And then you just look down upon. Which is just crazy because you're really so strong. Have to”
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 didn't have one. I definitely I think that's also why I was so suicidal is because I had this life you know I had everything at my fingertips I was able to do everything and anything and there were so many goals that I wanted to achieve and to I just wanted to live my life. I just thought like Had so many hopes and dreams that in that moment sitting in my darkest room because I didn't want to see the world. I had it like completely blacked out. Having to sit with myself and like seeing myself. A wheelchair. I mean, people who are in wheelchairs are my heroes because I don't know how they face the world that's not meant for them. It's hard. It's so hard to go outside and to go and just do”
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 like, I think, too, it's like to see me in such a place now where I'm okay. I think a lot of people forget, like. That I went through that too. They just see me now and like everything's great. And I see myself now and everything's great. But again, I'm at a different place when a lot of people still have to maybe sit with the things that I maybe wasn't aware of I was in a coma or what, you know, the decisions and the talks that happened when, you know, it was. My well-being even if I was going to survive or not.”
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
“No, so let alone my fourteen, fifteen year old brother who is having to see, you know, their sister in this state, you know, and then having to be so depressed and so angry and just pushing and punching everything away from me as far as I could because I didn't want to be here anymore. And him having to experience that I'm sure has taken a toll. It makes me sad because it just this whole thing is just so dark. It just goes back to, yeah, it just affects everyone differently. And I'm lucky that I've been able to get to this place because. I've done a lot of the work. I've had to actually sit with myself and deal with it, but. It's hard to go there, it's hard to dig deep and to have to face the reality of what you faced, especially in those moments. And who knows when that will be and if that will ever be, 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
“I can't even imagine. I mean, I think that's also why there's a lot of. I think it's hard. I've realized in my situation that everyone that was with me in those moments, it was so heavy and dark for such a long period of time again, like you said prior, it's not just about me going through the situation. It affects every single person. It's like a domino effect, and everyone's going to deal with it differently. And a lot of people, especially then being so young, you know, just have to go through even that with me, not even experiencing firsthand, was traumatic.”
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, why is it women are having to fight for everything, let alone what we do with our bodies, let alone with the products that we are given, for something that we are just naturally having to do every month for forty something years Why are we not a priority like why are we not? and upheld to the stature of men, where 50% of the population. And also we make life. We create life. It just seems so crazy to me. But again, we're in 2023, and those men are still making decisions about what women do with thought, their bodies, and their choices on how they, you know, approach what they want to do with themselves and their lives. It's crazy.”
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's just crazy that that is so powerful and toxic. And again, it's almost sad because, again, I'm the lucky one that I'm here being able to speak about this. But there are so many women that you'll never see, you'll never hear their stories, you'll never see their faces, you'll never hear the trauma they experience because they're no longer here. And so it's my duty to. Share my story, but B, inform the world that this is inhumane. And it's just, it could easily be prevented. Again, it's greed. It's cost efficiency. It's money Know it's, you know, I always say in my interviews if men's dicks were falling off tomorrow. Wouldn't happen”
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 back then I was so Concerned with every moment and surviving every moment and trying to just live? That I didn't really think of how fucked up this is. I'm doing a documentary. And so I have like 90 hours of footage that was filmed during this whole process because I was going to die, because of damages, because of the reality of just documenting everything that I had to go through and the trauma of it all. And when I look back on it and I see myself, my 24 year old self, especially in that state, it's really sad because I'm like, I was so innocent and I was so young and I had this entire life and journey ahead of me. And it was like, how did I deserve that? Just Crazy, like, I didn't do anything wrong. I was using the product as I should. I did everything I was supposed to. And, you know.”
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
“Having them have to live with that for the rest of their life. I think it really was like I couldn't do that. Obviously it never happened, but it was it was for sure that And every moment thought. Especially Just being in so much pain and like having every part of yourself removed. Sorry, I don't know why I am crying.”
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 obviously not pulling a trigger I didn't have a gun, but if I did have access to one I'm sure I probably wouldn't be here it was to that extent of like every day. Waking up and just couldn't even believe or even know how in the hell I got to where I was, you know, two hundred pounds head shaved one leg, another leg that's questionable, just excruciating pain that I was in. And just life continuously moving, right? Everything's happening and I'm just having to stand still, sit still and be present with this nothingness but just darkness and It was my mom and I and my little brother, and I just he would be the first one coming home every day. And every time I thought about killing myself, I always thought like, Would be the first one to find me. Not visiting my mom, too, but like not.”
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 my fope, my left foot was still questionable. I didn't have the right leg, but that's kind of just where I was after I left the hospital. But every day I would wheel myself into the shower, get myself on a stool, and just fucking scream and cry and just yell at God, and wanting to like think about ways I could kill myself and end my life that day. And every day that I did that, something inside was like just hold on. There was something that just like. In my soul, it was like, just hold on I mean, it all makes sense now, but. For those moments it was definitely like Yeah, and I entrusting the process and trusting and believing that like, you know, this madness is this temporary. This is it'll all just make sense just hold on kid. Just like don't pull the trigger.”
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 definitely was. I mean, I'm not You know, I just believe in a higher power. I believe in God. I believe that, you know, there's something definitely directing my steps. Like I would not be here if There wasn't. There's no way I would be alive if there wasn't a purpose for my life, and there is definitely, obviously now I can say that, but like going through all of that, I think there definitely was a moment when I was pissed at God and didn't understand why this had happened. But I know that in the process of like Going through depression and suicide and even having those thoughts Every morning when I'd get in the shower and I'd have to get on like a little stool in the shower, I'd wheel myself to the shower, which is another thing. I was in a wheelchair for eight months, which is. Crazy.”
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
“Staying alive and not like having my heart freak out, having another heart attack or whatever. I don't really remember the gist of it because clearly I was so not even really present. But when I heard those words, I was just like, what? So literally for 24 hours, they put me in my own little room. And I have felt every single thing that was done to me. throwing shit, I was screaming, I was crying. I felt like a shark had just fucking rip through my leg. Yeah, like, no, my mom couldn't be in the room. No one could be because I was just screaming and crying and just freaking out because not only was that traumatic enough having to have my leg chopped off, but then to have to. Really feel what was just done to me. And have like have to actually just deal with it was on another level.”
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 won't look at my leg. I didn't. I probably didn't look at my leg for months. Like, I couldn't even acknowledge that that even happened. So I just remember sitting up and being like, not even acknowledging it. The doctors were coming in and talking to me and they're telling me that I had, you know, some sort of complication. And they're like, so Lauren, for the next 24 hours, we cannot give you any pain medicine. This is right after I had my leg amputated, like chopped off. He's like, I guess basically because of all the medicine and stuff, something about they couldn't. I don't know, it was about me.”
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 don't know how long I was in there, but I was in there for a while, and I just remember waking up and the doctor coming to me and he's like, Basically, my heart freaked out during the operation because I had two heart attacks when I first went into the hospital. So my heart was already kind of freaking out and not in the best state. And then through the operation, I think some complications or something happened. So I woke up and I'm sitting there”
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 it Just hard. I mean, I can't imagine. What she must have felt and seen and You know, it was hard. It was every day was like, are we going to make it? You know, it was a lot.”
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 it lives with her more so than me and it's sad because I hate that. I wish that she can just live her life and know that and live and know that I'm more than okay. My God's got me, and he's had me this whole time. Like, you don't have to worry. But I think as a mother and knowing the shit that I don't even fucking know, that she had to go through and decisions she had to make. I mean, she was like writing down everything, calling everyone, you know, making sure that I had the best of the best, making sure she like. The notes and the nurses and the doctors, and I mean, she was amazing. And so I know that she definitely saw and felt. Way more than I could even. Understand or gather from her. And I just hope that one day she can let it go because I have, you know, and I just want that freedom for her.”
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
“No, I mean it's sad because I feel like God has blessed me so much. I'm so lucky, not only to just be alive, but I have everything I can need and more and I forget every single day that I don't have legs. Like, I don't even think about it. The only time I think about it is when I got a pee in the middle of the night and like, you know, going in the ocean, like there's certain things I can't do to can't just run in there because, you know, I have metal and I have screws and I have bolts and so like rust. But like I don't even think about it. Never. And I don't even think about what happened, the trauma. And a lot of that, you know, maybe is true. Like I'm suppressed and I've just kind of moved on. But really, I'm just the happiest human. It is something where she is so fixated on the trauma, right, of what happened and what.”
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, as a mother, you know, your newborn baby, toes and feet and seeing, you know, you just never would think that that would ever happen. especially to your child or your loved one.”
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 love you, and she, I just remember her grabbing herself because she was obviously screaming and crying, but like trying to not hide it from me, but like she couldn't even look at me being wheeled back because she knew. Know, it was like she just had to like turn and just like cry and scream and hold it in as best she could to be strong. Me screaming for her obviously didn't help. And I just felt like there was no control. I couldn't even just get up and fucking run if I wanted to. That's the irony of it. I was literally physically stuck no matter what. And I was just having to do this. And it was, yeah, it was horrible”
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
“Completely broken, completely shattered, completely just. Believe that that was even what was happening. And it all happened so fast because obviously, you know, it's my livelihood. Am I going to survive this, let alone do I have time to make a decision based on, am I wanting to keep my leg or not? It wasn't even an option. It was chaos, it was complete chaos.”
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
“Go and then, you know, seeing it on my left leg of amputating my toes and debringing my heel It was, yeah, it was just a lot. I don't even think I really processed that. And then when they were wheeling me away, I just screamed from my mom to not let them take me in. That was”
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 was in so much pain. I was in so much pain I can't even tell you like I don't even know how I made it. Like, of course, I was drugged up so much and I think that was how obviously I got through it. But just to have to actually process what was about to happen, I don't think I fully even gathered until. I got down and they were like, I signed the papers, and they're like, all right, today's surgery day. And like wheeling me out of my room. Down to the floor, and like me holding like a stuffed animal and just screaming and crying and like feeling like I'm doomed. You know, and then my mom is like freaking out and everyone's crying and then they write on your legs like yes and no so like them writing yes in black marker on my leg that i knew that was gonna”
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, you know, then I had like people coming in with prosthetics and like showing me how they live their lives. And, you know, my God, my grandpa is from the Army. So he was like, you know, you're just like these guys that go and get blown up. And at that time, I was so depressed and it was such a dark time that I was like, I'm not. I didn't sign up for this. This is not what I asked for. Like I didn't sign something saying, okay, these are the possibilities I could die. I could lose limbs. I was like, this is This shouldn't have fucking happened, you know, let alone like I'm 24 years old. Now I'm having to lose a part of myself. Something I can never ever get back. I can never grow it back. I can't go to a surgeon to get it. This is going to change my life forever.”
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 was just like. Obviously, just a nightmare, like crying, screaming, freaking out. Know, especially when I'm presented with the papers to have, you know, them do the procedure, to take my life. I mean, my take my legs. And it felt like my life because that's all I knew of like being an athlete, you know, being a model, looking a certain way, everything I knew about myself was completely just out the door. I mean, I was 200 pounds. My head was shaved because my hair got matted because they were trying to save my life and obviously no one gives a shit about your hair when you're dying. Know here I am in a hospital room and being told that, you know, I'm going to enter this operating room and come out a completely different person and losing a part of myself. Just so surreal and so scary.”
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
“Just keep chucking. But, like, I couldn't even fathom what that looked like. I was like, There's no way there's no way. I was like, I have to do this slowly. I'll have to like maybe just do the one and then see what happens. But there was no way I could go in there definitively and be like, just take them”
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
“Able to take the beating that it takes on a daily basis, whether it's standing, running, the pressure, anything, that fat or that specific skin, you can't buy that on the market. There's nothing on the planet that can, you know, you can just grow it back or replace it or, you know, do a transplant or something of that sort. It doesn't exist. So that was a huge concern for the doctors. And as far as like me being able to go back to normal life and being able to just walk normally even if I didn't have toes, which is people can do, but the heel was a huge concern for theirs. And me personally, I was like, And God rest my godfather, I wish I would have listened to him, but he was like, you should probably just do both and move on with your life and just kind of like.”
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
“They were like, You have a 50 50 chance of walking again as far as keeping my left side because my toes would need to be amputated, my heel needed to be debrayed, and Knowing this now, but like your heel is probably the most important part of your entire body because there's nothing on this planet that is.”
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 was like cruising up my right leg, but it somewhat was starting in my left foot too. So my toes and my heel were really badly severely damaged. So from that, but then I had my hole left leg. But on my right side it was like slowly creeping to where I was turning purplish pink and yeah, they were like this is gonna move quick and it's gonna move to your heart and you're gonna be dead So I really didn't have an option. I didn't have an option”
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 had to do it like three times a day for hours on end. It was not just like one thing. It was just trying to see. Especially immediately, how my body was responding and if it was responding and if there was any way they can salvage anything. And at that point Gangrene had set into my right leg and it was moving really, really fast. So that's when they were like, we need to amputate like now.”
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's like going to the depths of the ocean, you know, they have to turn the thing and they can't open it for anything. Like otherwise, lungs would explode and it's like, it's pretty serious. And then having to see your feet slowly just mummify or your, you know, your toes turn black and this one doctor I remember she said something like Yeah, you can just go home and you know your toast will just fall off and like. This is before I got to the doctors that I needed, but that was like kind of the shit that I was presented with of like people coming in and saying like, oh, well, you know, this is just what's going to happen. And after that happens, then we'll figure it out. It's like, excuse me? And then, like, making a call and being like, this is absolutely insane. No ways, you know, that happening.”
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
“Just getting to UCLA and in there and getting a room and being able to like have that specific healthcare and that attention, especially when I needed it, was honestly heaven sent because I wouldn't have gotten what I got had I not been in connections with the people that I knew. BI just getting to you, CLA, and immediately getting into hyperbaric and trying to see the severity of the damage and if it was possible to even get any blood flow. But and it would be weird because I'd go into the hyperbaric chamber and it's like this huge, it's probably like the size of this room and you could probably pit like four or five people in it and they would just wheel me in and I'd probably have to take some of my crazy anti-anxiety medicine because it's like”
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 can look back and say, I'm grateful that I had health insurance, but also that I knew people, that I knew people in substantial places and places that could help me. But if I didn't know them, I wouldn't have been given those luxurious opportunities of even getting a bed in UCLA if my mom didn't know so-and-so, or if my godfather didn't make this call, or do you know what I mean? And it's like, that shouldn't even be a thing like everyone is a human being. Like there's no this or that for life. And that was kind of like really. After all of this, I was like, that's really sad that. I don't know, life is kind of picked apart like what matters and who matters and when it matters. What cards you can pull together?”
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
“Yes, she came running in and she was just like trying to calm me, but obviously it was she probably knew too, but it was just a shock. It was just like how I couldn't even comprehend what that even meant. So then they were like, we need to get you to UCLA as soon as possible. So we went to UCLA. And you know what's crazy? It's like our healthcare system is so backwards too. Like,”
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 too it's like Being able or just being a normal human being, you never even think about what that looks like, what that even entails of having to live with or having to even, you know. A leg like you just your mind doesn't even go there because why would it you know and so for me just knowing what that did look like and what I knew of people with you know prosthetics or Whatever, I just was like, this is not going to happen. Like, this cannot happen to me. This is not reality. This is like a fucking nightmare that I just really hope is going to end soon.”
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, it was like shocking. And then from there, I think I just was like, I'm fucking doomed. Being able to just walk and move and obviously being an athlete and not having your legs like I couldn't even wrap my head around that like what does that even look like”
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
“She's saying that I'm an amputation, like, and I just fucking started screaming. And I was screaming for my mom. I was screaming for my godfather. I was screaming for everyone. What is she saying? Like, tell her that's not true. Just completely unaware of the severity of the situation for myself. And Yeah, that was probably the first time where I even heard the word amputation.”
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 was gonna die. And I had no idea about any of that. So I'm laying there, my room is empty, and there is a nurse that comes in and she's on the other side of me behind a curtain, and I can hear the conversation. And she's saying, I have a young girl here who is 24 years old who's going to need a right leg below the knee amputation, and we need to get her in bed right away and into hyperbaric as soon as possible. So she's on the phone to UCLA to get me into UCLA because they have the best hyperbaric chambers there that basically it's like 200% oxygen that you go into and it basically just like gets everything moving and the blood floats everything and So they were trying to get me a room, and I just remember hearing around and being like, she's talking about me”
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
“For the first time I was alone in the ICU at St. John's, and it was just me sitting there and my feet were just constantly on fire. Like it literally felt as though someone was sitting there just lighting my foot on fire. Like the burning sensation was insane. And my right leg was worse than my left. My toes on my left side were turning purplish, pink, but my right side there was a lot more damage you could tell. And so then the concern came in of basically they needed to ambutate my right leg to save my 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
“While I was in the coma because they were discolored and, you know, turning kind of purplish pink and it was pretty crazy. Like if I would have woken up and had no arms and no legs, I definitely don't think I would be here. No way. I don't think I'm that strong. There's just no way. But the idea of that is just kind of crazy. And maybe it's because, you know, my arms are close to my heart and the blood flow came easier that way, but I think that's pretty crazy too.”
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, a lot of that damage was irreversible because I was, I don't know, on my bedroom floor alone dying for, I don't know, a couple hours, I guess, you know. And that time, a lot of that damage was done to my lower extremities, but also it was happening to my hands too. And so my hands were turning black too. And to this day, there's no reason why any medical physician can tell me why my hands came back and I didn't have to amputate. Like they were thinking about amputating my legs and my hands.”
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
“Again, I think when I first woke up, I was just pure shock. I didn't know why I was so big. I didn't know why I had the breathing tubes. And the crazy thing, too, is I guess during the whole time when I was in a coma, my feet were turning black slowly because a lot of the damage was done when my body was dying, so all the blood went to like my brain, my heart, my organs, and everything. And so your lower extremities or your extremities, if that don't really get the blood because you're dying. So they're going to preserve the goods first, if that makes sense.”
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 everyone was praying. It was really dark. It was a... I feel so bad for my mom because I can't even imagine to what degree she. Knowing me in that state, and then every moment is like, you know, this machine's going off, you know, she's literally sitting on a cot next to me just staring and hoping that I'd even come to, you know?”
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
“But the sad thing is a lot of it goes misdiagnosed a lot of the time and a lot of people just think it doesn't happen or it couldn't happen or You know, it was kind of swept under the rug by Tambon companies because it's a billion dollar industry. And, you know, no one ever saw someone like myself. Survive it and then being able to say, hey, this shouldn't be happening. Like this almost killed me. And that's why I even shared my story to begin with is because I wanted women and I wanted the world to be aware that this is something that we shouldn't be taking lightly and that we need to demand for safer products and also demand like why is this still happening? And, you know, obviously then it was 2012, but here we are 2023 and young women more than ever are in danger.”
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'm so grateful because that in itself is a miracle that there was someone that knows about toxic shock syndrome and, you know, understands the dangers and was there and saw, you know, the symptoms that I was obviously showing and had even the idea to ask or to look or to, you know. Say this could be it. This could probably be why this girl's literally dying right before us”
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