(Meeting notes)
Mike: This morning SB whatever was taken off the table. We have a place in Madera we are going to be staying tomorrow. Sunday dinner in Marysville then staying at local racetrack.
Nice secluded area.
MTW will be active. Tues will be a big day. Votes on some of the worst bills on Tuesday. Be diligent watch your surroundings there. Sacramento is where the action takes place. It should be a good rally. Dr. Lock'em up (Alexander) is speaking. Besides we have a fire truck.
It has been a week here. People thought it was wasted time. but we have passed out thousands of pamphlets and have had thousands donated.
Brian's story: He lives close to Tulsa. He was driving truck delivering tear drop campers around the US. He noticed himself slowing down - his heart and breathing, but he is in his upper 70s and thought it was age. Had to put his tractor in the shop for a while because parts were on back order. He noticed he was having more trouble breathing around the house.
When his daughter found he was falling down, she called 911. They brought him to the hospital and he spent 12 days there. They did tests and scheduled him for surgery. The Doctor convinced his daughter that he needed the vax to have surgery, so he did get the 2 shots.
His breathing got more difficult and they told him he had problems with his heart and lungs and a clot in his lungs. They determined they couldn't do surgery on any of it. They said that would kill him. At this point, he wanted to die and was trying to get them to do the surgery anyway, but they sent him home.
The family and he decided to go on hospice. He got so tired of the docs doing things to him. He wanted to die. They put him back in the hospital in Sept. When people said they would pray for him, he asked them not to as he did not want to be healed. The only healing he wanted was to get back in his truck and drive. He didn't want to sit on the porch the rest of his life.
Oct, Nov went by and they put him back in hospice. In mid-Dec he started feeling better. My daughter and I went to Branson, Missouri. He went to his seat in the theater and told his daughter he felt faint. He went down and his daughter couldn't find a pulse. She called 911 and they told her he was gone. They used a fibrillator on him and had taken it off.
One of the nurses in the ambulance thought they should try it one more time. They did and it brought him back. They took him to the hospital and he died again. They used the fibrillator again and it brought him back. Later on the Dr. told him he had 2 choices: (1) get admitted and go through all the testing; (2) get released. Th Dr. told him that in his opinion, if he did that he would be dead in 3 days - 3 weeks. He said, the third time, they won't be able to resuscitate you.
He went home miserable and somebody got him started on youtube. He watched the Canada truckers then the People's Convoy and got addicted to it. I watched it 24/7 and got addicted to the people. I had always been a loner and I had never seen people of every color, religion, ethnicity be so loving to each other. It built him up and brought him hope. He still wanted to dies, but he kept getting better.
The Hospice Superintendent came in and told him, "Brian, if you're not going to die, we're going to release you."
He kept getting better while watching the convoy. When they announced they were going back to CA, he told his children he sure would like to join them in Texas, but couldn't afford it. When Mike came on and said they were going to cover the convoy's fuel costs, he told his daughter to get his truck back, he's going to CA.
His friend told him he didn't die because God still had plans for him. He figured if he could get to Texas, that would give the convoy one more truck.
He is tickled to be here. People watch over him here. He hopes to go to Sacramento and back to DC. He can honestly say when people tell him they love him here, that he loves them back.
Mike: The convoy heals what ails you. Thank you Brian for being here.