00:00If I'd have been just another woman, there might have been some additional movements.
00:06I was stable.
00:07You know, I would wake.
00:08I was no longer on the ventilator.
00:10I was on 10 to 15 drips.
00:14I would wake up and somewhat communicate with my family, although there were some mental challenges.
00:20I could not count from 100 backwards and had no clue that I couldn't count from 100 backwards
00:26because they told my family not to react, right?
00:30And so I probably would have gone ahead and gotten on a machine that's used for people like me,
00:39and I might have been on that machine for approximately whatever number of years
00:46until they thought I was important enough to be brought up to that.
00:49And see, that's why black women average time to get a heart is eight years.
00:56White females, it's less than that.
00:59White male, even less than that.
01:02And unfortunately for our black brothers, particularly those at the VA hospital,
01:07it's longer than the eight years.
01:08So many people die.
01:10So many people die.
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