190. Murder at the Open House - The Murder of Ashley Okland

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Hey everyone and welcome back to the Into The Dark Podcast. I'm your host, Payton Moreland. Thank you so much for being here, for clicking on today's episode. Whether you're watching or listening, I am just so grateful you are here. If you don't know, Into The Dark is a true crime podcast that also ventures into all things spooky, creepy, dark, Okay, we're willing to cover it all over here, but majority of it is true crime for my OG true crime listeners. Now, before we get into the show, we need to start with my 10 seconds. Garrett, my husband, actually had a little bump on his forearm. That we found, and he said that it had been there for like a monthish, but in the past couple days or so, it got significantly larger. and more painful. And so I felt it, and you could definitely feel like a lump or like a ball underneath his forearm. And so we went to a dermatologist appointment yesterday, and we walk in and we're like, oh, has this bump, blah, blah, blah. And the doctor's like, well, I obviously don't know what it is until we remove it. Like I can't tell you what it is for sure. So let's just remove it. And Garrett was like, right now? And they were like, yep, today. So they geared up, they numbed his arm up, and I got to watch the entire procedure of them removing this bump. They literally cut a hole into his skin, took a piece of his skin out, and then removed it. And I thought for a second it would be like a lipome assist. Like that's what I initially thought before we went. And I guess it still could be. It kind of looked like a little brain, like a little brain came out. So it could be assist, but it was a lot more bumpy than a lipoma. But I also looked it up, and apparently like fatty tissue can sometimes attach. So maybe the bumps I saw were just like actual fatty tissue, and the lipoma was underneath. I'm honestly not sure. Neither was the doctor. He wasn't quite sure. So obviously they sent it out for testing. It was like 1.5 centimeters long. It was a lot bigger. That doesn't sound big, but it was a lot bigger than I thought it would be based just like on the bump on his arm, because it wasn't super big. But whatever it was, the cyst, the growth, was actually a lot deeper in the skin. And so the doctor ended up having to like, you know, cut around the sack or whatever it was attached to, and he was like pretty deep in there. And I was like, oh my gosh, like, this is not just a simple removal procedure. Like, this is a full grown taking a cyst out or something.

But it was so cool to watch. Garrett still hasn't seen it. He wouldn't even look at what came out.

But yeah, so I think we get answers in like 10 days. They ended up having to put like eight stitches in him, because it went so deep and he bled so much. So we have to go get those removed. But yeah, it was pretty crazy. His arm's super sore today.

You know, and like last night we're in bed and he's just like, how am I gonna sleep? Like I have this stitched up owie in my arm and I'm just sitting here pregnant as all get out. Like it takes all my energy just to roll over in bed and it's extremely painful. Like extremely painful. I have like severe pelvic floor pain and like girdle pain. And he's like, oh, it's wrapped up arm. He's like, oh, it's just like, I don't know how I'm gonna sleep. And I'm just like, I haven't slept in eight months. But also I know it's hurting, obviously, like I watched the procedure. It was deep. I was like, it's gonna be bruised. But then I'm also just like, oh my gosh, I just don't think a lot of boys could ever be pregnant. Because it's constant discomfort. And they're just not used to discomfort at all. I think women are not always, but usually are more used to living in discomfort because we shave, we put makeup on our face, we wear tight clothing, we wear bras that constrict our lungs. I feel like we're just constantly used to slight discomfort. I mean, periods in general, like once a month, that's incredibly uncomfortable, and we all just do it. And so pregnancy is like 24-7 discomfort for eight months, and sometimes worse than discomfort. It's painful, like extremely painful for some women. You're sick all the time, that sucks.