This is Ashley Stone and you're listening to the Comeback Podcast.

I'd love to just jump in and start from the beginning. First I'd like to hear a little

bit of background about you you know where you live maybe a a little bit, just of context.

So as you're telling your story, we kind of know who you are.

Okay, I am in Northern California.

I'm in Sacramento, and I've born and raised here all my families here. I haven't

really traveled too much. I've just been here. I work in a hospital in my scrubs right now

kind of just taking over a break room to do this real

quick. I am just turned 46 I I'm number six of seven kids. My parents were LDS. My mom was a member. Her family goes like, I mean all of her family history is done. My dad's a convert, so I'm like like I have to do all of his I was raised in the church I would

say I had a very good childhood my parents were awesome they were a really good

balance of like my mom pushing it and my dad like you know I don't have to do you know everything and so it was a good balance we we go to church every Sunday.

It was kind of just expected, you know, I mean,

if we were sick and stuff, we had to kind of prove it,

you know, just like, you better be sick for the day.

I really didn't go to seminary.

I think with the older kids,'s three older kids there's my middle

sister Amy and then there's the three younger kids which is my sister Jenny me and

Tara and I feel like meeting with the three older ones she probably pushed seminary and things like that a lot more because I think my oldest brother graduated from seminary and my other brother went on the mission and then I mean by child number six which was me she was probably like you know just do what you have to do.

It's hard. Yeah we had a great childhood my sister Amy who's the middle child in between that the sets of three. She had cancer when she was four, so that wasn't before I was born and it damaged the left side of her heart with radiation pretty bad.

So she was six years older than me, as I was growing up I knew that she

have limits. You know I always I never thought she wouldn't live a full life but I knew like she

couldn't run. We would kind of have to tailor what we did, you know, to make sure she'd be okay.

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