Machelle Wells
Yeah. And so, just a wild story, but I've been really sick for the last I think it was like seven months before I end up having surgery and they found out what was going on. But I had forty six fibroid tumors removed from my body and I still have it. I have a c section cut and it's still healing. I basically bled to death for the longest time not knowing that I was essentially dying. And then end up going to the hospital having four blood transfusions. And that's kind of when I found out like what was going on. I had a lot of internal bleeding. So I ended up scheduling a surgery within a couple of months after that, but still needing to preserve my life, going back and forth from home to hospital, staying at the hospital, getting hooked up to machines just to save my life. And so, even in the middle of all of this, I really felt in my heart that I that I needed to run for office. Because enough was enough. And if not me, then who? Yeah, I have a lot of tumors in my body and they need to come out. But I I came out of ICU swinging. And I will tell you this that whenever I was I was in there because surgery kinda took a turn for the worse, that's why I end up in ICU. I end up having to have more blood transfusions but I was getting text messages like, you know, you should just quit. This is maybe God's way of telling you to stop. But I will tell you, it was I remember it vividly. It was about three in the morning. The nurse came in to give me my second bag of blood. And I heard I heard in my spirit, run the race set before you. And I knew I can't quit. And it doesn't matter what it looks like. It doesn't matter that recovery is gonna take months. It doesn't matter any of that. I mean, I really just started campaigning maybe four weeks ago because I could barely even get out of bed. I mean, it was a struggle just to get down the city hall to Yeah.
