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00:28 Welcome to Issues and Answers.
00:30 Today, our guest is Deia Davis William.
00:32 She's gonna be talking to us
00:34 about what is it like to have a life-changing experience
00:37 with your child.
00:38 Have any of you out there ever had a child that was sick,
00:42 or that became very ill, or had special needs?
00:46 That's what we're gonna talk about today.
00:48 What is it like to go through that experience
00:50 and how has God helped our dear precious Deia
00:53 to be able to overcome
00:55 and to be able to continue to live
00:57 and to be a mother,
00:58 oh, there are so many good things to talk about.
01:00 Thank you so much for joining with the program today, Deia.
01:03 You're welcome.
01:04 Thank you so much for coming all the way from California.
01:08 Tell us where does this all begin.
01:11 This began when Doug turned six.
01:12 Now first of all, let me say, you are a mother, a wife,
01:14 and a mother.
01:16 Yes.
01:17 And how many children do you have?
01:18 I have three children.
01:20 Three children. That I've birthed.
01:21 Okay.
01:22 Okay, that you've birthed, you're so funny.
01:24 Okay. Because I raised another child too.
01:25 Oh, my goodness, you did? Yeah.
01:27 So you have four? I have four.
01:29 Three that you've birthed and one...
01:30 And one that's 25 years old. And I know that.
01:32 Okay, wow, that's 25 years old?
01:35 Okay, so you are expert mother.
01:37 Yes, I think so.
01:38 I think so too.
01:40 And so, but everything was going pretty well.
01:44 Yeah. Until when?
01:46 She went to first grade
01:47 and the first few weeks of school
01:48 she wasn't doing well on her spelling test
01:50 and I said, "Well, maybe I should get a tutor
01:52 and let's get her eyes checked out,
01:54 'cause she started rubbing them a lot,
01:56 and we went to a tutor on a Thursday,
01:59 I took her after school,
02:01 and the tutor said there were some challenges
02:02 but nothing that was drastic,
02:04 and we went to the optician's office
02:06 on Friday, and she wanted to dilate her,
02:08 and I just had a gut feeling, so I called my husband,
02:12 I was like, "You need to come here,"
02:14 and he was like, you know, work really far.
02:15 I said, "You need to come now."
02:17 And when they dilated, dilated her
02:19 and two hours later, they gave us the bad news.
02:22 And that's when we first found out
02:25 there was something wrong with her sight.
02:27 Where were you involved when, personally, at that time?
02:30 Well, I was working at Chromo Justice of Phils
02:32 as a profiler,
02:33 and I loved every aspect about it,
02:35 but my life forever changed at that moment
02:37 because I realized that my priority was my child.
02:41 And I decided to change my career completely
02:44 so that I could be there for her.
02:45 Wow!
02:46 So, and when you say, "When 'we' got the diagnosis."
02:50 It sounded more than just her, it was the whole family.
02:53 The entire family. Wow!
02:55 So what did you...
02:57 So what happened next, after the diagnosis?
02:59 After the diagnosis...
03:01 How did that impact...
03:02 What was the diagnosis exactly?
03:03 What was it? They didn't have a name for it.
03:06 They didn't have a name for it? No.
03:07 And she developed a mass,
03:09 they weren't sure if it was a tumor
03:11 and they were like, you can go Loma Linda,
03:12 we can't help you.
03:14 Went over to Loma Linda, a couple of days later,
03:16 after the weekend was over,
03:17 and I was a little sticky at first,
03:19 trying to get in but after groveling...
03:22 Yeah.
03:24 For our kids.
03:25 Yes, on my hands, you know, crying.
03:27 They got me in the next day and I called my husband,
03:30 I was like, "You need to get off work.
03:31 We need to go to the appointment."
03:33 I called my parents, told them what was going on,
03:34 we called our in-laws,
03:36 and we just had a season of prayer,
03:39 and I knew in my gut that something was terribly wrong,
03:43 the date of appointment my mother asked me
03:44 to do a basic eye test, and I had a red wallet,
03:47 and I put it in front of my daughter's eyes
03:49 but she couldn't see it at all.
03:51 And I remember becoming unglued,
03:54 and on the floor,
03:55 crying like a baby at the Loma Linda cafeteria,
03:57 of all places.
03:59 And one of the school chaplains,
04:01 Del, came up and got me off the floor,
04:03 and just laid hands on me and prayed,
04:06 and I got myself together enough
04:07 to pick up my kids from school,
04:09 and we had an appointment the next day
04:10 but that was my first breaking moment,
04:13 and it was my last.
04:15 Wow!
04:16 Because I knew then
04:17 that I didn't have the time to breakdown anymore,
04:20 I needed to be strong and a warrior mom,
04:23 and I couldn't do that if I was in a fetal position
04:25 all the time crying.
04:26 Right.
04:28 But that must've just been, I can't imagine...
04:31 It was very horrific.
04:33 I can't imagine, so, so you got the diagnosis,
04:36 then what happened next after the diagnosis.
04:39 What were the next things that happened?
04:41 They decided that she needed to be patched
04:43 for 12-15 hours a day.
04:45 And what's, patched?
04:46 You have a black patch like,
04:48 say someone is a captain and has lose an eye,
04:50 so they put a black patch on the eye
04:52 that doesn't work
04:53 and you're forced to use the eye,
04:55 I'm sorry, and the patch,
04:56 it's put on the eye that does work,
04:58 so they're trying to force the eye to start working.
05:01 That was very hard
05:02 because she would get patched from the time she left school.
05:05 So she can do homework,
05:07 when doing homework work for it orally
05:08 while she's patched
05:10 and she could hear everything very well,
05:12 but she can't see.
05:13 She would cry, so we went through a lot of patches.
05:16 During the week, she got very creative,
05:18 she would try and take them off at night, so then, you know,
05:21 you're having to put gloves on her hands really tight
05:23 so she doesn't take them off.
05:25 Oh, my goodness.
05:26 And it was almost like having a infant.
05:29 I felt that because a lot of things
05:31 that she could do before, she couldn't.
05:33 You had to start taking her to the bathroom,
05:35 I had to start dressing her,
05:37 and she just stopped being a child,
05:40 and she would just stay in her room,
05:43 and the best part of her day was watching TV,
05:45 it was part of her therapy.
05:47 So my husband had to get a big TV
05:48 and he's really happy about that.
05:51 And she would be right in front of the TV like that
05:53 and still couldn't see.
05:54 Really?
05:56 And, yeah, she loved G.I. Joe, that was her favorite cartoon.
05:59 And she watched that for a little bit every day,
06:01 five days a week,
06:02 and we didn't see an improvement.
06:04 So, Deia, were you hopeful though
06:05 when they first gave the patch therapy,
06:08 were you thinking that,
06:09 "Okay, this is all going to go away...
06:11 Oh, yeah.
06:12 Her eyes are gonna be fine."
06:13 I felt that she was okay on healing.
06:15 I wasn't worried about it.
06:17 I was like, it's in God's hands,
06:18 I've been a good mother,
06:20 my husband's been a good father,
06:21 she's been on a good diet.
06:23 I said this is temporary and, whoops,
06:26 it didn't stay like that.
06:28 They said, we had surgery,
06:29 we went to St Louis Children's Hospital
06:31 in Missouri.
06:32 Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
06:33 You went from California to St Louis?
06:35 We did. How did that happen?
06:36 The doctor...
06:37 Was that a second opinion or what?
06:39 No, the doctor recommended that she have a lens transplant
06:42 and they felt that if she had a lens transplant,
06:44 she would get her sight back.
06:46 So we were ecstatic.
06:47 We were like our daughter is gonna see again.
06:49 It's going to happen.
06:50 I put a message on Facebook and it says,
06:53 'cause "If anyone lives in this area,
06:55 we need a place to stay
06:56 'cause we were going to be gone for three and a half weeks."
06:57 Wow!
06:59 And an old classmate of mine, I will never forget,
07:00 Dr. Aaron Aites, Facebook mate,
07:03 we used to be good friends at Oakwood
07:04 and he was like, "You can come crash in my house."
07:06 And then he called back,
07:07 "Oh, I better check with my wife first."
07:09 So we stayed with him for a little while and then,
07:11 of course, we got to surgery, you know, we stayed in a hotel,
07:14 and my parents came,
07:16 and a local Adventist pastor came,
07:17 and we met another young lady there,
07:19 and she had the surgery,
07:21 world renowned physician, and when she met kids
07:23 from Russia and Germany
07:25 who have the same surgeries there.
07:26 So this is a world renowned physician.
07:29 He's only two in the nation
07:30 that did this particular surgery.
07:32 Wow!
07:33 So the fact that we got in, we were very ecstatic.
07:35 How long did you have to wait
07:36 for when you are referred to actually going to St. Louis?
07:41 In the matter of eight weeks.
07:42 Well, that wasn't too bad.
07:43 No, not bad at all, not bad at all.
07:45 It was more insurance partake than anything else,
07:47 we would have gone sooner.
07:48 After we had the surgery,
07:50 it was just Delia and I,
07:52 in town, for a little while by ourselves
07:54 and we flew back home, Valentine's day.
07:57 How long was Delia in the hospital?
07:58 Just overnight.
08:00 No, she wasn't even overnight, more like 12-14 hours.
08:02 It was a day surgery.
08:04 Got in at 6 o'clock in the morning...
08:05 Was she in the surgery for 12-14 hours?
08:07 No, we checked in at 6:00
08:08 and we left about 8 o'clock that night
08:10 'cause we thought it was a little rough,
08:12 it's a little rough.
08:14 She was in pain?
08:15 Oh, man, I've never heard a scream like that in my life
08:18 and nothing will calm her down,
08:20 so the nurse literally had me to jump in
08:22 and look for her,
08:23 and they've given her pain meds
08:25 and she was just crying and screaming
08:27 to the top of her lungs.
08:28 And my heart was just aching for my child and it was,
08:31 I couldn't really touch her
08:33 because she has IVs running through her,
08:34 so if I try and touch her, it's just gonna make it worse
08:37 and I just started singing to her
08:39 because I didn't know what else to do and I started
08:41 rubbing her hand, and she didn't want that,
08:44 and the pain meds finally kicked in.
08:48 And she finally calmed down and went back to sleep,
08:51 and after a couple of hours they said,
08:53 you could take her back to the hotel,
08:55 come back in 24 hours,
08:57 and I took her to the hotel, gave her some meds,
08:59 and she went right to sleep.
09:01 Then woke up at 2 o'clock in the morning, really hungry.
09:03 Oh, good.
09:05 Wow!
09:07 What an experience and you're saying that,
09:08 you know, okay, this is it.
09:10 After all the pain, after, you know,
09:12 having to travel so far away, just the two of you,
09:15 the expense of getting plane, you know, airfare, and hotel,
09:19 and the stress of all of that, you're saying, okay,
09:22 this is it.
09:24 God's gonna answer this prayer for total and complete healing.
09:28 What happened then?
09:30 We went back to the doctor in California
09:32 'cause she was out of school for six weeks,
09:34 and it didn't work.
09:38 It didn't work.
09:39 How did you know it wasn't working?
09:42 Doctor told me. Doctor told me.
09:45 And...
09:46 What was that day like for you?
09:49 I felt like I was in hell.
09:51 'Cause I felt like I had prayed enough,
09:53 I had fasted that my child should have been healed,
09:56 I had been a good Christian,
09:57 that's just, that's just me talking.
09:59 Right.
10:00 And I was like,
10:02 "Man, I did everything right
10:03 and it was such hard being on diet."
10:04 We tried everything and, you know,
10:06 put her on herb and nothing was working
10:08 and I wasn't mad with God, but I was just frustrated
10:12 and all I could do was just fall to my knees
10:14 and I just cried.
10:16 I cried a lot and I just prayed in my closet
10:19 and it was just the best thing for me
10:21 and I never cried in front of my kids or my husband
10:24 because I had to deal with my agony with God myself.
10:26 And...
10:28 Must have been really hard.
10:29 It was very hard
10:31 and I think it would have been a little bit better
10:32 if Delia had gotten her sight back
10:34 but not necessarily,
10:35 because after she didn't get her sight back,
10:36 she developed glaucoma for the medication
10:39 she was getting.
10:40 Now what is glaucoma?
10:42 It's a disorder that can take your sight away,
10:44 it's like a cataract.
10:46 But in Delia's case, hers is medicine induced,
10:49 so you can't ever get rid of her glaucoma
10:51 and that's the worst part of glaucoma.
10:53 Most people, they can have their cataracts removed.
10:55 In my daughter's case, she can't.
10:57 So let's say her miracle came and her sight came back,
11:00 because of the glaucoma,
11:01 she will never see out of the eye again,
11:04 unless it is a miracle, so we got double whammy.
11:07 How was your, how did your husband take it?
11:08 He didn't come to that appointment.
11:11 I really believe they just,
11:12 and they were just very hard and somebody had to work.
11:14 Right.
11:16 So he just went to work
11:17 and I did the rest of appointments myself,
11:19 by myself.
11:21 How did you, how did you manage to do that?
11:22 How did you, how did you get the strength to do that, Deia?
11:25 I had a college classmate from Oakwood
11:30 and we would talk and she was my sounding board
11:33 'cause she had a child with special needs
11:35 and she introduced me to another mom
11:37 who has special needs
11:38 and I would have to talk to them
11:40 before I went to the appointments,
11:42 after I went to appointments,
11:43 and I would call my Aunt Betty quite a bit
11:45 and, and my mother, and they just got me through,
11:50 and lots of prayer.
11:52 Lots of prayer.
11:53 So then you got the news about the glaucoma and,
11:57 so what kinds of treatment did you start doing with Delia?
12:01 We just did the patching again.
12:03 There was no other treatment that was available at the time
12:06 and she's still on the medication
12:08 for the glaucoma.
12:09 She started having some other health issues
12:11 where the pressure in the transferred eye
12:13 was getting very high
12:14 to the point that she could have a stroke,
12:17 and I'm at home one evening, the doctor calls and says,
12:19 "I need to see Delia first thing in the morning."
12:21 She started doing school visits.
12:23 The doctor?
12:24 The doctor did
12:26 because they couldn't get that pressure down,
12:28 so then I had to start praying about that,
12:29 because if your pressure gets too high,
12:31 then the transplant can reject,
12:33 and I just remember being on the floor,
12:36 and I was like, "Oh, my God,
12:38 please do not put my child back in the hospital,
12:40 in Missouri again."
12:42 And during this time period,
12:43 the insurance bills started coming in
12:45 and I realized the insurance is not gonna pay for anything.
12:50 Anything? Nothing? Anything.
12:52 And I was like, "Oh, my Lord,
12:54 how are we gonna get through this.
12:56 We can't afford to pay $200,000, $300,000, $400,000
12:59 for her surgery.
13:00 We got, we were gifted the plane tickets,
13:03 for two of us,
13:04 but we still had to pay for my husband to come,
13:06 her brother to come.
13:07 We had to pay for our hotel. We had to pay for our meals.
13:10 When we went into the hospital,
13:11 nothing was given to her for free.
13:13 So everything was out of pocket
13:15 and you're talking about a huge financial strain.
13:18 We had a child who was very normal
13:21 and within a snap of a finger, she was visually impaired,
13:25 and we weren't getting any type of services,
13:27 and so we weren't getting any type of financial help
13:30 or any other help available for her.
13:32 Or at her school?
13:34 At her school, and we were struggling financially
13:37 because of the surgery.
13:39 And I went into professional mode,
13:43 and I started making some calls
13:44 and found out there were services
13:46 through the state I could get for my daughter,
13:48 but she would have to attend public school.
13:51 And I made a call.
13:52 To take her out of her school.
13:53 I had to take her out of Adventist Christian Education
13:56 and put her into public school for her to get the services
13:58 that she needed in order to succeed in life.
14:00 Wow!
14:02 And that's where she will be
14:03 until she graduates from high school
14:05 unless something changes.
14:06 So what kind of services is she receiving at school now?
14:09 She gets Braille services.
14:11 They've taught her how to use her cane
14:13 which is a white thing with red strips on it.
14:15 She also has a CCTV machine
14:18 which is close-captioned television.
14:20 She has a Google Chrome book
14:21 and her class was outfitted with a life size board
14:25 and it allows her to see all of her teachers' work
14:28 in very large print.
14:29 All of her textbooks are online.
14:32 And she's able to enlarge them.
14:34 All of her State tests that she has to take,
14:36 they are very large print,
14:40 so everything is compatible for her now,
14:42 but I had to fight for that too,
14:44 it didn't happen very quickly.
14:45 So you had to go through the whole IEP,
14:47 The Individualized Education Program?
14:49 I had to get a IEP, I had to get an advocate,
14:51 and the advocate had to get a disability attorney,
14:55 and that's how we got the help that she needed.
14:58 Wow!
14:59 Well, if it's okay with you,
15:01 we would love to be able to meet little Delia.
15:04 Most definitely.
15:05 And to hear from her point of view what it's been like.
15:08 Okay.
15:09 Delia, she's gonna come on to the set right now.
15:12 So happy to have her.
15:16 Thrilled to have her come here from California.
15:18 Hey, pumpkin.
15:21 Yes, okay.
15:23 All right, my dear, are you comfortable?
15:26 Okay.
15:27 Matter of fact, I was thinking...
15:29 Deia? Yeah?
15:31 Can you trade places with her
15:32 so she can sit right here?
15:33 Oh, yeah, sure. We have to.
15:35 'Cause we like to hear from her point of view
15:37 and we're gonna kind of do things
15:39 where they're not nice mikes.
15:40 Here we go, this over.
15:43 We break that up. Are you comfortable?
15:45 Okay, great.
15:47 So tell me, what would you like other families
15:52 and people to know about a little girl from California
15:59 who is in the...
16:00 What grade are you in? Fourth.
16:02 Fourth grade.
16:04 So how has school been for you, like in kindergarten?
16:09 Did you go to kindergarten or first grade?
16:11 Yes. How was school for you?
16:15 At first, school is a little tough
16:16 but again it was fun.
16:18 It was...
16:19 Okay, and then your vision started to go away, right?
16:24 Okay, and how was that for a school,
16:28 were the teachers helpful to you?
16:29 Did you have some challenges with some of the classmates?
16:33 How was that?
16:36 Sometimes, my first grade teacher was always nice,
16:41 and I did have problem with one student in my class.
16:45 With one student?
16:46 How were the other students?
16:48 They were fine.
16:50 What would you want other fourth graders
16:53 to know about a young lady
16:55 who is having some challenges in seeing?
16:57 How would you want to be treated?
17:00 Like everybody else.
17:03 Like everybody else. That's right.
17:05 Wanna be treated like everybody else.
17:07 So when you grow up,
17:08 what would you like to do, Delia?
17:11 I would like to be a professional athlete.
17:14 A professional athlete.
17:15 What's your favorite sport?
17:17 Golf.
17:18 Golf?
17:20 You play golf?
17:21 I don't play golf.
17:23 You have your own, do you have your own iron in your own...
17:26 Yes.
17:28 You know, that's a great exercise.
17:31 So where do you play?
17:33 I play at the golf course
17:37 where we live and in my backyard.
17:39 In your backyard.
17:40 So wherever you find greens, okay, you're out there playing?
17:43 So, are you really good?
17:45 Mm-hm. You are?
17:47 Wow! That is really neat, that's really cool.
17:50 What do you like about school?
17:54 What's your favorite subject?
17:56 Science.
17:57 Science?
17:58 What do you like about science?
18:00 I like that it teaches us what, about things
18:05 and what happens when we mix things,
18:08 and I also like doing experiments.
18:11 What's your favorite experiment?
18:14 That would be volcanoes.
18:20 Volcanoes?
18:21 Did you make the volcano?
18:23 No. But you did it at school.
18:26 That's pretty cool, isn't it?
18:28 So how about the support that you get at school,
18:30 your mom said that you have...
18:32 What were some of the things that you said that she has?
18:33 She has a CCTV machine.
18:35 A CCTV...
18:36 Machine. What is that?
18:38 It's a very large TV that makes all of her school work.
18:40 How is that for you? It's very helpful.
18:44 Do you like having all those cool gadgets?
18:46 Yeah.
18:48 Yeah, that's nice and what else have you had to learn
18:50 to do to be able to read.
18:52 Were you reading,
18:53 you were reading before the fourth grade?
18:56 Okay. I learned how to read in Braille.
18:58 In Braille? How was that?
19:01 It's pretty cool.
19:02 Do they have books, lots of books
19:04 that are available to you in Braille?
19:08 Some of them but not all of them.
19:10 I mostly, I read my books on a computer.
19:15 On a computer?
19:17 And does it have audio as well?
19:19 Do you have any audio books
19:21 where you can listen to the books?
19:22 Yes. Okay, man, that's very cool.
19:25 What other learning,
19:27 what else helps you with school?
19:28 What are the things
19:30 that are helpful to you at school?
19:32 Large print paper. Large print paper.
19:35 How about...
19:36 Do you have access to the Sabbath school lesson
19:38 in large print?
19:40 No. We've never been given one.
19:42 We need to see about that one.
19:44 Are you aware of...
19:46 There are some pretty cool resources
19:47 that the Adventist church has,
19:49 that is specifically for those that are visually impaired.
19:52 We're gonna make sure you get that.
19:53 Oh, thank you. We had--
19:54 Really?
19:56 Okay, well, I'm so glad you came today,
19:58 'cause we're gonna get you all of those things.
20:00 Oh, we're so excited. Yes, more books.
20:02 You like books?
20:03 Yes. Great, great.
20:05 I know that there is a beautiful program
20:07 that the church does have for the visually impaired
20:10 and I'll get that information, and for those of you at home,
20:14 I'll make sure we get that too.
20:15 Just visit our Dare to Dream website.
20:17 Matter of fact, let's look that up right now,
20:19 we don't want you to go another moment without that.
20:22 Okay, here we go right here, services.christianrecord.org.
20:28 It's a service from the Seventh-day Adventist church.
20:30 It's been around since 1899.
20:32 Here's all the cool things you can get.
20:35 Home services, Christmas specials,
20:37 lending library,
20:38 scholarships, audio magazines, large print,
20:42 subscription magazines, well, a whole host of cool things,
20:45 the SDA hymnal,
20:48 full vision books, a whole host of things.
20:51 So we'll look at this after the show for sure.
20:52 Oh, definitely.
20:54 And for those of you at home,
20:55 I hope you'll look at this website too.
20:56 So it should give you everything that you would like,
20:59 are these a whole lot more than what you already have?
21:02 So I hope you'd like to read, right, Delia?
21:04 Yes. You like to sing?
21:06 Yeah.
21:07 You sing.
21:08 What's your favorite song?
21:11 I don't have one.
21:13 You just like them all, okay, that works.
21:15 That's work.
21:16 So looking forward to you guys
21:18 being able to get more services,
21:19 something, that's something else, right,
21:20 that when you, when something happens for you
21:23 for the very first time, you don't necessarily know.
21:27 No.
21:28 About where to get.
21:30 You're not given a booklet.
21:31 I literally had to Google everything to find for her.
21:33 No one told me.
21:35 But God, God directed you.
21:37 Most definitely, it was all Him.
21:39 And you've got a smile in your face.
21:41 So tell me some more about golf.
21:44 I want to hear some more about your golf game.
21:46 Where do...
21:47 You said, you like to play out in your neighborhood,
21:50 in other places, have you had any pretty cool experiences?
21:54 Do you do miniature golf?
21:56 Yes, I do. Yeah.
21:58 Where is your favorite place to play?
22:04 That's a hard one.
22:05 The hard one, there's so many out there in California.
22:07 You got the castle,
22:09 you get some of those there in Loma Linda,
22:12 what's your favorite food that you like to eat?
22:14 Hamburgers.
22:15 Hamburgers, okay, that's great.
22:18 And what's your favorite thing to do, like on the weekends,
22:23 when you're not in school?
22:26 My favorite thing to do is to play sports.
22:32 Play sports.
22:33 What kind of sports do you like to play?
22:35 Basketball and golf. Basketball and golf.
22:40 Let me ask you, you carry a cane,
22:46 how was that for you when you first got that?
22:49 Did you get a class that taught you how to use it?
22:53 Nah, my mummy taught me how to use it.
22:55 You did?
22:57 Yeah, they gave me training
22:59 and I was able to teach her myself.
23:01 So are you able to get around pretty well with that?
23:03 Yes.
23:04 That's great, that's wonderful, that's absolutely marvelous.
23:09 What could you share with other little girls
23:12 that maybe have gotten sick
23:14 or that have had something that's happened to them
23:16 like losing their eyesight?
23:20 What do you think you could,
23:22 what's helpful for them to know?
23:25 To not be afraid.
23:27 To not be afraid.
23:30 What made you not be afraid?
23:33 My parents.
23:34 Your parents were supportive.
23:37 Do you know Jesus?
23:38 Yes. Has that helped you?
23:42 So that would be a big help if you know Jesus.
23:46 What kind of fun things do you like to do
23:47 when you're not playing sports and when you're not in school,
23:50 do you go places?
23:52 Where do you like to go?
23:55 Me and my mom sometimes,
24:00 hang out, and we have some fun,
24:03 we see a movie sometimes.
24:06 And sometimes, we go with our brother and sister
24:09 and go to the park.
24:11 To the park.
24:13 And you're in California, do you go to the beach?
24:14 Yes, I do.
24:16 You like to go swimming out there at the ocean?
24:19 Wow!
24:20 If there was some place
24:21 that you wanted to visit anywhere in the world,
24:23 where would that be?
24:26 Washington DC with Obama.
24:29 Wow!
24:31 That would be cool and what would you say to him
24:34 if you met him, President Obama,
24:36 what would you say?
24:38 It's nice to see you.
24:40 And let's play golf.
24:42 That's awesome.
24:43 Let's play golf.
24:44 Oh, play golf.
24:46 Also play golf. Wow!
24:48 Well, I really appreciate you coming to the program
24:50 and sharing with us about what it's been like.
24:57 As far as going to school, what would you,
25:00 you mentioned that you like to become a professional athlete
25:03 but do you have any desire to go on to high school
25:07 or into college or anything like that,
25:09 what would you like to do?
25:11 For college, I would like to get a degree,
25:17 before becoming an athlete,
25:19 I would like to become a publisher.
25:23 A publisher.
25:26 Okay, that's definitely advanced.
25:28 Okay, isn't that the kind of work that you do,
25:30 Deia, you do, you transferred from being a forensic profiler?
25:37 Yeah.
25:38 And now you have your own business which,
25:40 what's the name of your business?
25:41 Exquisite marketing. Exquisite marketing.
25:43 You have your own website? Yes.
25:45 Okay, and exquisitemarketing.com.
25:49 Exquisite is spelled with one "I," not two.
25:51 Okay.
25:52 One "I," okay.
25:54 And you do special events? I do.
25:57 I do special events and I also represent people
26:01 of different calibers nationwide
26:04 and I enjoy my job
26:06 because my new career gives me the opportunity
26:08 to be home with my children.
26:10 Oh, that's pretty cool.
26:11 And you only have one time to raise them.
26:12 Right.
26:14 And I don't like missing appointments for Delia,
26:16 I haven't missed one yet
26:19 because I schedule my work around her schedule,
26:22 that's just very important to me,
26:23 to be there for her.
26:25 So as a publisher, Delia, what would you be publishing?
26:31 Books.
26:33 Books, what kind of books?
26:36 Excitement, adventure, and mystery.
26:40 Love it, love it.
26:41 So you like to write?
26:43 Yes.
26:45 Oh, that is so cool, that is so cool.
26:47 Well, before we say goodbye
26:50 and let you guys get back on a plane
26:51 and head back to your family in California,
26:53 we would love to be able to pray with you guys,
26:56 pray with both of you beautiful ladies,
26:58 as well as those that may be facing some of the same things.
27:02 Can we offer a word of prayer?
27:03 Most definitely. Okay, if I do that?
27:05 Thank you, heavenly Father, for Your many blessings.
27:07 Thank you, for how You have brought Deia and Delia
27:10 through this challenge.
27:12 Lord, we know that You make everything beautiful
27:14 and we're praying a blessing upon little Delia's life,
27:17 the goals, the hopes, the dreams that she has,
27:21 Lord, please just bring those to fruition.
27:24 Lord, we just pray that You will provide everything,
27:27 You said, "My God will supply all of my needs."
27:30 Lord, Deia has talked about them,
27:34 the resources,
27:35 the financial resources that are needed in this,
27:37 that she and her husband are struggling
27:39 to still be able to meet.
27:41 Lord, we just pray a blessing upon the entire family
27:44 and especially upon little Delia.
27:46 Lord, that she will grow up to be the beautiful young lady
27:50 and fulfill the divine purpose that You have for her.
27:53 We pray these wonderful blessings
27:54 in the precious name of Jesus,
27:56 and for His name's sake.
27:57 Amen. Amen.
27:59 Thank you so much for coming to the program.
28:01 I wanna come over and give you a hug.
28:04 Thank you so much for coming.
28:06 Thank you, Deia, for coming. Most definitely.
28:08 And we pray that you guys have a safe trip back.
28:11 Thank you for joining us.
28:12 We hope the information that was shared with you today,
28:16 from this program,
28:17 will change your life for the better.
28:20 God bless.


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