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to their late parents. Jay Van Andel is best known as the co-founder of Amway. The direct selling company, which provides over 1 million people with the opportunity to own their own business. but he also was the founder of a namesake medical research institute. And a dad.
Here are siblings Dave Van Andel and Barb Gaby on their parents. Jay and Betty. I had a front row seat. Very night. At the dinner table, With one half of a duo that was experiencing An incredible story in life.
Call the M way. You know, when I was born the year that Amway was founded.
So I knew nothing. else but the Amway story. But Every night at the dinner table we would hear about what happened. you know, at work and you know, inevitably there was always a lesson in there somewhere. As we got older, he began to bring those things home and then he would also challenge us.
Say, okay, you know, what would What would you do in a situation like this? A couple of us would chirp in and we'd debate that. And then you go, okay, here's what I did.
So you'd learn, and here's what happened because of that. He would do that. More often than not, and I got to see a front row seat of two entrepreneurs. going through and living this story real time. They didn't have all the answers.
They didn't even know half the questions. But they knew that they had the will, they had the drive, and they had the desire. to be able to see these things through. And as these Bumps in the road came along. took it in stride.
and kept moving forward. It was better than any graduate school you could ever go to. Uh One of the sticklers that my mom had Bless your heart. was that we would always eat dinner as a family. We may not eat breakfast together.
We certainly wouldn't eat lunch together because we'd all be in different places. But when dinner came around, we would always eat. And my dad always worked late.
So for us, typically we wouldn't get to dinner until 7.30 at night. Yeah. But it was that discipline that my mom had with us. That also taught us that family is important and. there has to be at least a touch point during the day.
That family's family. Everybody's together. You know, after that, okay, yeah, you go back and do whatever you got to do, but. We're together and that's when We'd all chirp in because he'd invariably, what'd you do today? What'd you do today?
All that kind of stuff. And I carried that forward even into our family when we were raising our kids to ask the kids every day. What did you do? And we talk about their day and all that kind of stuff. My dad was a very structured person.
He was always at work at nine. He would get home at six. He and my mom would sit together for about an hour before dinner and then we'd have dinner. And then he would go back to work. That was his discipline of his whole life.
He didn't go and watch TV. He was either reading, he was doing something for work. He would never go to bed until midnight, but when I was a little girl, four or five years old. Every night before I went to bed, I got to sit on his lap and he would either tell me a story or read me a story.
So I just remember that affection of a father who was very busy. I knew he was very busy. But he took the time to be with me in that very special way. And that meant a lot to me. Because at that time there was Almost a malaise within our country that free enterprise, capitalism were bad words, didn't work.
And the interesting thing he did that year Is he took us on, he called it around the world in 28 days. And it really was around the world in 28 days. But the Part of that trip that I remember the most, that impacted me the most. was he had a deep desire to go into communist Russia.
So we couldn't fly in there. We had gone to Scandinavia. And we drove a bus from Finland into The USSR. and we were going to what would then have been Leningrad. which was St.
Petersburg, you know, it had been renamed a couple times. First thing first. You get stopped, of course, at the border. Everybody comes off, all the suitcases come off, everything gets opened. Everything's open and the Russians are standing there at the border and doing all this.
and going through Everything. And my mother or my father had the Reader's Digest with him. And the Russian. Guy looks at that and he goes, What is this? That was a reader's digest.
You know, they go back and forth on this. And finally, My dad figured out, he goes, would you like it? You can have it. And the guy You know, kinda. Secretly stuffed it under it.
Back then, they never got anything from the outside. I mean, this was Russia in the heyday when everything was. Pretty well shut off. And so that was the first experience, getting in it.
So then, as we drive from the border into St. Petersburg. They have these towers along the highway. And they have it timed. That the bus needs to get to the next checkpoint at a certain time.
in order to be Considered okay, in that your time from checkpoint to checkpoint to checkpoint. until you get to your ultimate. destination.
So The fellow that was driving the bus, I I think I'm pretty sure he was Finnish. He's sweating a little bit because he knows he has to do this thing just right, or he's going to get in trouble. Long story short, no problem, we get there. And we're at this hotel. And There's one place that you could stay, one hotel you could stay in.
And there was nobody in the hotel. There was nobody. There were no people around. And we do this check-in experience. It's not what you would expect today.
Passports, paper, you know, papers. Everything has to go, luggage, all that kind of stuff. And then, you know, as you get assigned, they'll take you up. with your bag, with you, to your room. When you get off the elevator, There's another table there with two people sitting there.
And these are people checking. To see who you are, you gotta show your passport again, you gotta show your key, you gotta show all this kind of thing, you gotta prove that you're supposed to be there. And then they take you ultimately to your room. The beds that we slept in were actually hospital beds. That had like the big round open circle for operations.
It was just very strange. The Elevators? Didn't work half the time. It was you were halfway up a floor and it just stopped.
Well, my dad also knew that The rooms invariably were bugged. that, you know, they were listening.
So he said, look, Nobody talked any Weird stuff or anything like that, but just so you understand, this is happening.
Well, they had a um piano in one of the rooms. And I had been taking piano lessons for a while.
So Just as a point of fun. I decided to play the Battle Hymn of the Republic. in this Russian hotel on this, you know Crazy journey that we were on, and started singing at the top of my lungs this song. And invariably, my parents were laughing and giggling, and they were singing along, and all this kind of stuff, too. That was a little history lesson there.
So they took us to all The you had certain places that you could go. and you couldn't see anything else. And there was a woman. And She just said to me, Remember what you have. And I didn't know what that meant, but...
I thought, okay, it really just, it impacted me. Uh how Poor that country really was, and how There were no churches. People were not happy and they were hurting. And I think my dad really wanted me to see that. because he wanted me to understand what communism truly does.
And you're listening to Dave Van Andel and Barb Gaby pay tribute to their parents Jay and Betty Van Andel. And what things to teach young people. When we come back. More of the story on Our American Stories. Eczema.
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Tell your doctor if you have new or worsening eye problems. You should not receive a live vaccine when treated with EPGLIS. Before starting EBGLIS, tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection. Ask your doctor about EBGLIS and visit ebglis.lily.com or call 1-800-LILIRX or 1-800-545-5979. This is Julian Edelman from Games with Names.
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And we continue with our American stories and with a compelling tribute from two grown kids. to their late parents. Now let's return to Barb Gabe. Um My mom never knew I had children.
So I my uh my mom We first started to show the symptoms of Alzheimer's in about 1988. And my first daughter was born in 1991, and by that time. She did not. No. She knew who I was sometimes, but a lot of times she didn't, and she never knew I had any children.
And she She died in 2004. And so that that was That was very challenging. I missed that. I wish, but you know. I missed it, yes.
But the way she raised me and the way she raised us That was all the example I needed. I have a very clear memory of my mom. My bedroom was upstairs. Um And my mom had her little office area and sitting area kind of down on the bottom of the stairs. And I remember my mom.
When I would get up every morning getting ready for school I'd look down there. And She was reading her Bible. Hmm. and pray. And that's what she did for her family.
And I believe those prayers carried on long after she no longer was with us, and they still are there today. And That is something that she instilled into me. as a wife and a mother. is to do the exact same thing for my kids now. I just I just felt very um Convicted.
and compelled. Yeah. Let my parents know in whatever way I could how much I had loved and appreciated them. Were they perfect? Absolutely not.
But Were they committed? Absolutely. And I had you know, really lost. My mom had probably been about ten years into the um Alzheimer's. and she really wasn't communicating at all.
And I Basically Throat A letter to her telling her how much I loved her. How much I respected her as a woman. that I had learned how to be a mother. based on how she had been a mother to all of us. And then I just thanked her for showing me her faith through the years because it was by her example that I believe that I became a Christian.
And she did this most Amazing thing. She reached out and she looked at me. And she goes, my loving daughter. She had not said anything to me for over ten years. And she did that.
And it was A beautiful moment because I felt like I had maybe reached my mom in some way. And my dad thanked me as well for what I had read to him as well, and I said. You know, Dad, I just want you to know this. Because I think it's important to you to understand how deeply I love and respect you. and I had written the same thing, and my dad was not one for tears.
And he He was weeping at the end and he thanked me.
So I was really thankful that God had given me an opportunity to be able to do that. Mm. And um And then it was a few years after we got mom help that I noticed with dad that He wasn't doing.
Well, either. And um He He I think that the two most hideous diseases are Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. One of them steals your mind and one of them steals your body. My mother ended up with Alzheimer's. tore her away from us.
years before she passed away, You know, she was there, but For 15 years of decline, she wasn't there for 10 or 12 of them. And my dad, the opposite, Parkinson's, which ravaged the body's function. For a man who, and here's the other interesting thing: Parkinson's patience. Not always, but but typically do not have decline in acumen. The most frustrating thing I think about a Parkinson's patient is that their mind is just as sharp as it always was, but they're trapped in their body.
They can't express themselves. Yeah. It's uncomfortable for a lot of people to be around unless you understand it. Yeah. But it's frustrating.
for the patient too, because there's so many things they wish They could do. Hate that disease because it took away the time in his life that I would have loved. to have been able to have those conversations. Because now all of a sudden I'm at that stage. I am having kids.
I'm embarked on a career. I'm doing all those things. Yeah, we've had some of these conversations, but now I'm living it too, and I want to have more of those conversations, and I can't have it. My father's last public appearance, was at the dedication ceremony. for the Venianal Institute.
It was in May of 2000. And I'll never forget it. Uh And I knew that he wanted. To talk. I knew that he wanted to deliver a message.
And that I was going to do everything in my power to make sure that it happened.
So we'd had the then governor Engler, we had President Ford. come and they were going to help us do the ribbon cutting. We had done all that and we had gathered, you know. Five, six hundred people were outdoors. In my day it was his turn to speak.
I got him up to the lectern. And If you know a Parkinson's patient, you know that It takes some a certain amount of time Yeah. to make the connections to make all of that happen. And then when it starts, It just flows. But he was standing there and nothing was happening.
I had been hanging on to his arm a little bit. And people are getting a little uncomfortable in the audience. And Jerry Ford was going to step forward, and I just kind of touched him and said, no, just. Stay. He's going to be fine.
It'll happen. And then it started. You know, it was a long pause, but then it started, and then he delivered his message. And it probably went. Five, seven minutes.
Might have seemed a little longer than that. And because also It's so difficult for them to speak. They tend to choose their words very carefully. And so there's a lot of weight that's attached to each word that he uses. And he did just that, and he delivered.
in my opinion, one of the best. little speeches that he's ever delivered in his life. And that was the last time that I saw him speak. Publicly. on anything.
One of the things he also did Is he made sure that They both stayed together and they were both at home. Not putting her in the hallways, not doing any of that. We stay together. And I'm convinced because they died in less than a year apart from each other. that he willed himself to live to care for her.
I mean, that was that continuation of that great love story. No. Yeah. And you're listening to Dave Van Andel and Barb Gabe pay tribute to their parents, Jay. and Betty Van Andel were they perfect parents?
Absolutely not. Were they committed? Absolutely. And that's all kids could ever ask for in their lives, is committed parents. And we need more of them now than ever before.
We spend so much time on this on our show if you've got tributes like this for your parents. Share them with us at ouramericanstories.com. They are so moving, and we need to say these words to them. They can't live without recognition either. They need it.
They crave him. Dave Van Andel's story, Barb Gaby's story, in a way, J. and Betty Van Andel's story. Here on Our American Stories. Yeah.
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And most of those people maintain skin that's still more clear at one year with monthly dosing. EBGLIS, Libricizumab, LBKZ, a 250 milligram per 2 milliliter injection, is a prescription medicine used to treat adults and children 12 years of age and older who weigh at least 88 pounds or 40 kilograms with moderate to severe eczema. Also called atopic dermatitis that is not well controlled with prescription therapies used on the skin or topicals or who cannot use topical therapies. EBGLIS can be used with or without topical corticosteroids. Don't use if you're allergic to EBGLIS.
Allergic reactions can occur that can be severe. Eye problems can occur. Tell your doctor if you have new or worsening eye problems. You should not receive a live vaccine when treated with Epglis. Before starting EBGLIS, tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection.
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