131: Not Our Normal

Lessons from going viral, Cadet’s graduation date, what to do if you’re overwhelmed with the state of the world, collective grief, lime washing, and diet culture reminders. Sign up for our NEWSLETTER HELLO NED DISCOUNT CODE JOY for 15% OFF www.joyandclaire.com Girls Gone Wod email: [email protected] Instagram: joyandclaire_ This is Joy & Claire Episode 131: Not Our Normal Episode Date: June 16, 2022 Transcription Completed: August 6, 2022 Audio Length: 53:32 minutes  Joy: Hey guys, this is Joy. Claire: And this is Claire. Joy: How do you like our new theme song, by the way? It’s really, really uppity. So we have to lift up our intros a little more. Claire: Which is hard sometimes. Like right now when it’s 8am on a Sunday morning, and my voice has not quite joined us yet. We’re recording this really early, like almost two weeks early. We always release on Thursdays. Normally we record that same week on Monday or even Tuesday. So our episodes are typically not recorded all that far in advance. But when life gets busy, we do batch them a little bit more. When you’re listening to this, these time frame statements will be out of date. But I am still a little bit in Covid recovery. I had Covid. I ended up testing positive for Covid for like 12 days. It was really pretty tough. I did not enjoy it. Zero out of ten. I have a little bit of asthma. For those of you who don’t know a fun fact about me is that I was born pretty prematurely. I was born at like 30 weeks or something and lived the first month of my life in an incubator. Joy: Do did I. I think that’s pretty common for twins. Claire: It’s pretty common for twins. Actually my mom had gone into labor at like 23 or 24 weeks. I’m going to tell this horror story. I think I’ve told it before. They sewed her cervix shut. And then finally at 30 weeks, my water broke. So I’m a twin. I have a fraternal twin brother. Two sacks, right. So my water broke. Well, this train is rolling, so they removed the stitches, but they missed one. Joy: Nope. Nope, nope, nope. You should have put a warning on that one. You should have put a warning on this one. Claire: So she was in labor with a stitch in her cervix, and she was like, “Something is wrong.” And they were like, “It’s supposed to hurt.” Because medical professionals gaslight women. She was like, “You will look again.” Joy: Go Carol. Claire: There was one in there. Anyway. So I was a preemie.  Joy: I think we have to sing from now on anything that’s horrific. Just sing it. Claire: Just sing it. The reason I bring this up is that when you are a fetus, one of the last things to develop are your lungs. So preemies tend to go on to have sensitive respiratory systems for the rest of their lives, and that is very much me. I’m the type of person that any time I get sick, I will have a cough for weeks. Even if it’s not really like a respiratory illness.